Down-to-earth economy: the discursive contribution of sustainable consumption and production debate [PDF]
, 2009 Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is a topical concept as national SCP programmes have been drafted by several countries around Europe. This discourse analysis, based on interviews with Finnish SCP committee members, suggests that sustainable ...
Berg, Annukka
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Is resilience a normative concept? [PDF]
, 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
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash +10 more
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Linguistic-Pragmatic Organization of English Language Ecological Internet Discourse
Научный диалог, 2019 The presents an analysis of linguopragmatics of ecological Internet discourse based on studying the content of English websites of the most well-known international environmental organizations.
E. B. Pavlova
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Resilience: an all-encompassing solution to global problems? A biopolitical analysis of resilience in the policies of EC, FEMA, UNDP, USAID, WB, and WEF [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis examines the use of resilience in international policy-making. A concept that originally meant an ability of ecosystems to absorb disturbance has not only been welcomed in many disciplines outside ecology, but lately become popular in the ...
Jakola, Iiris
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Balancing Electrons to Break the Activity‐Selectivity Trade‐Off in H2O2 Electrosynthesis
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Carrier‐concentration balancing in CuS is achieved by coupling cobalt dopants with cobalt vacancies, converting CuS from p‐ to n‐type to accelerate 2e− ORR while withdrawing excess carriers to optimize *OOH binding for H2O2 desorption. The catalyst reaches 8.14 mol g−1 h−1 with >84% selectivity in 1.0 M KOH and drives robust electro‐Fenton dye ...
Hangning Liu +11 more
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Ecological Discourses in Indian English Fiction
, 2019 This research paper aims to learn the ecocritical aspects in the ction of Indian authors like Bhabani Bhattacharya, Kamala Markandaya, Amitav Ghosh, Raja Rao, R.K.Narayan, Ruskin Bond, and Anita Desai. Since ages literature is well known for sparkly society, current issues and human activities.
T. Thenmozhi, T.S.Geetha
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The transitions discourse in the ecological modernisation of the Netherlands [PDF]
Discourse analysis, socio-technical transitions, ecological ...
Adrian Smith, Florian Kern
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Sustainability in the theology curriculum [PDF]
, 2010 This is the author's PDF version of a book chapter available in Sustainability education: Perspectives and practice across higher education. Edited by Paula Jones, David Selby, and Stephen Sterling. London: Earthscan, 2010.
O'Loughlin, Rebecca +2 more
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Framing effectiveness in impact assessment: Discourse accommodation in controversial infrastructure development [PDF]
, 2015 There is ongoing debate about the effectiveness of impact assessment tools, which matters both because of the threat to future practice of the tools which are frequently perceived to be ineffective, and because of the disillusionment that can ensue, and ...
Bond, Alan, Rozema, Jaap G.
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