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Environmental Security; The Outlook for the Position and Role of States in Global Governance [PDF]
دولتپژوهیResearch Problem and Background Contemporary environmental crises have precipitated unprecedented primary and secondary threats to humanity, placing these issues at the core of global politics.
Abbas Sarvestani, Mohammadreza Mohammadi
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A New Approach to Analyzing Ecological Problems: Planetary Boundaries
Coğrafya Dergisi, 2022 This research analyzes the planetary boundaries framework, which is a new approach to political ecology. Planetary boundaries examine environmental issues and climate change in a social context.
Mehmet Ali Çelik
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Ecology and theology together within African Pentecostals worship liturgy
Acta TheologicaThe African Pentecostal pneumatological experiences and the hesitancy to engage with the “other-worldly” (earth-based/earthly) matters have contributed to the slow uptake to contribute to the ecological crisis.
N. Sande
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Navigating Extinction: Zen Buddhism and Eco-Anarchism
Religions, 2022 What can esoteric knowledge and spiritual practices from the East teach us about the deep psychological roots of domination and hierarchy? In what ways have ancient Buddhist sages acted as anarchist exemplars and deep ecologists long before these ...
Kevin J. Holohan
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Living water in Ezekiel 47: How eco-hermeneutics raise climate awareness among Christian youth
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThis article examined the role of biblical interpretation amid the world’s water crisis. It aimed to make biblical texts accessible to non-specialist readers by using several methods of interpretation.
Geke van Vliet
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Doing Academia Differently: Taking Care of Humans, Technologies and Environments in the Digital Age
SOTL in the South, 2023 In this SoTL undertaking, we reflect on two of the most prominent issues of our time: new algorithmic ecologies and the ecological crisis. In particular, we are interested in what these mean for teaching, and teaching differently.
Delphi Carstens, Chantelle Gray
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The physical dimensions and shape of bacterial cells define the surface area available to acquire nutrients and the volume available for synthesizing proteins and DNA. Here, we use computational systems biology to decode the importance of cell geometry as a major determinant of prokaryotic phenotype, including growth rate and metabolic efficiency. This
Ross P. Carlson +6 more
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Trends in Ecology & EvolutionWe live in a time of ecological crisis, with natural systems widely depauperated, biodiversity indicators in ongoing decline, and concerns that environmental tipping points are being approached or crossed. Given the scale of these challenges and the limited resource brought to bear on addressing them, it seems reasonable to argue that in response the ...
Kevin J. Gaston, Nathalie Pettorelli
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa +2 more
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Challenges, 2019 I have been involved in studying and working within what is now called the Anthropocene for almost 50 years, and in all that time, not only have we failed to make much progress, but the state of the Earth’s ecosystems has generally worsened.
Trevor Hancock
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