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Not all Humans, Radical Criticism of the Anthropocene Narrative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Earth scientists have declared that we are living in “the Anthropocene,” but radical critics object to the implicit attribution of responsibility for climate disruption to all of humanity. They are right to object.
Sharp, Hasana
core  

Metal–Organic Frameworks for Gaseous Pollutant Management: From Capture to Neutralization and Reutilization

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review maps how MOFs can manage hazardous gases by combining adsorption, neutralization, and reutilization, enabling sustainable air‐pollution control. Covering chemical warfare agent simulants, SO2, NOx, NH3, H2S, and volatile organic compounds, it highlights structure‐guided strategies that boost selectivity, water tolerance, and cycling ...
Yuanmeng Tian   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feng Shui and Theory of Place: Navigating Chinese Traditional Cosmology in Modern Ecology

open access: yesMandarinable
This article is a theoretical review on Feng Shui in ecological discourse. Even though Feng Shui has always been about environmentalism, nature, and the harmonisation of humans with their environment, discussions of Feng Shui in the context of modern ...
Refan Aditya
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Dual Impact of Nanotechnologies on Health and Environment Through Alternative Bridging Models

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores how alternative invertebrate and small‐vertebrate models advance the evaluation of nanomaterials across medicine and environmental science. By bridging cellular and organismal levels, these models enable integrated assessment of toxicity, biodistribution, and therapeutic performance.
Marie Celine Lefevre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The discourse of ecological proximity in The Famished Road and Wizard of the Crow: A postcolonial ecocritical analysis

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
This study explicates the discourse of ecological proximity embedded in two postcolonial African novels. It employed ecocritical theory informed by posthumanism, ‘aesthetics of proximity’ (Iheka, 2018) and postcolonial ecocriticism as critical venture to
Koang Gach Keat, Ashenafi B. Adugna
doaj   +1 more source

Dispersants and Risk Communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Risk communications is a research area of the social sciences which is closely associated with human dimensions and external communications. External communications, traditionally in the purview of public affairs, may have multiple purposes including ...
Levine, Ed, Picou, J. Steven
core   +1 more source

Is resilience a normative concept? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper, we engage with the question of the normative content of the resilience concept. The issues are approached in two consecutive steps. First, we proceed from a narrow construal of the resilience concept – as the ability of a system to absorb ...
Bird A.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding ‘Environmental’ Discourse: a Linguistic Approach to Improving Education for Sustainable Development

open access: yesForum Pedagogiczne
In the face of accelerating ecological degradation, and in line with interdisciplinary efforts to enhance the quality of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), we propose that this field ought to evolve not only in content but also in language ...
Michał Stefan Rutkowski   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS)?

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
The development, diffusion, and adoption of new ICTs doesn’t automatically result in ecological sustainability, it poses both new opportunities and risks. Embedded into the antagonism between capital and economy it seems like the logical of profitability
Christian Fuchs
doaj   +1 more source

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