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Rethinking fairness of business and human rights standards in times of challenge for climate protection: a new universal paradigm? [PDF]

open access: yesPresent Environment and Sustainable Development
Understanding the multivalent dimensions of the climate protection, including its ef¬fects on the rule of law, international and European intergovernmental organizations have de¬cided to act for rethinking the strategy of functioning business and human ...
Alina GENTIMIR, Ada-Iuliana POPESCU
doaj   +1 more source

War on Two Fronts : and the Scientists Who Shaped an Environmental Movement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the influence of scientists on the American environmental movement during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on distinct yet connected threads of social and political activism – beginning with the bestselling work of science writer ...
Bruce P. Bottorff
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Love the State, but Hate (Neo)Colonialism? Discussing Sacrifice Zones and (Green) Colonialism in Political Ecology

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.
Short Abstract By underwriting, or ignoring, the state's integral role within the colonial model, which continued to spread and consolidated through colonialism, academic production lends itself not only to facilitating extractivism, but to further the institutionalization of sacrifice areas.
Alexander A. Dunlap
wiley   +1 more source

A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 78-82, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
wiley   +1 more source

Ecocide is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace [PDF]

open access: yes
The term ecocide was used as early as 1970, when it was first recorded at the Conference on War and National Responsibility in Washington, where Professor Arthur W. Galston “proposed a new international agreement to ban ‘ecocide’”2. Ecocide as a term had
Gauger, Anja   +4 more
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Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
wiley   +1 more source

Free Trade Agreements, Private Courts and Environmental Exploitation: Disconnected Policies, Denials and Moral Disengagement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although there is strong scientific consensus that climate change and environmental degradation are occurring, there is also a significant body of opinion that is sceptical about, or denies the validity of, evidence for this. However it is not solely the
South, Nigel
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The fifth international crime?

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series
Ecocide, defined as the destruction of ecosystems with knowledge of its enduring effects, lacks recognition as an autonomous offence in international criminal law.
Fabio Calzolari
doaj   +1 more source

A Gap in Causation? Punishing Polluters for Contributing to Climate Change & Increasing Violent Crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Climate change will lead to an increase in violent crime. More rapes and violent felonies occur during the warm summer months than in cooler temperatures.
Pellegrino, Nicolette
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From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
wiley   +1 more source

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