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Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint

Science, 2014
Within the context of Earth’s limited natural resources and assimilation capacity, the current environmental footprint of humankind is not sustainable. Assessing land, water, energy, material, and other footprints along supply chains is paramount in understanding the sustainability, efficiency, and equity of resource use from the perspective of ...
Hoekstra, Arjen Ysbert   +1 more
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Environmental Humanities and Italy

2023
Does something like “Italian environmental humanities” exist? If so, what makes an Italian approach to this multifaceted field of inquiry so different from the more consolidated Anglo-American tradition? At least until the early 21st century, Italian academic institutions have maintained established disciplinary boundaries and have ...
CESARETTI, Enrico   +2 more
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Environmental plutonium in humans

Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 1995
Although the current world inventory of plutonium is overwhelmingly man-made, it is important to recognize that 244Pu was a primeval radioelement and that 239Pu is formed continuously by spontaneous fission of 238U; the atom ratio U:Pu being about 10(11):1. It has been calculated that the human body has always carried a base load of, perhaps 10(3)-10(5)
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Humanism and Environmentalism

2020
Abstract Humanists, affirming that humanity is a “part of nature,” have urged responsible action on such problems as overpopulation and global warming since humanist organizations were created in the middle of the twentieth century. Many leading environmentalists, including Worldwatch founder Lester Brown, biologist E. O.
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Environmental Human Rights

2016
In recent public and activist debates, threats to the sustainability of the global ecosystem, such as climate change, have increasingly been posed in terms that link the impact on human well-being to questions of rights. Environmental human rights are emerging in national and international legal practice and have been invoked by environmental political
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Environmental Human Rights

Human rights are necessary for the prosperity of every individual, irrespective of their country or any other status. There are several agreements to safeguard human rights on a global scale; however, complete protection is still missing. Modern environmental ethicists believe that assigning human traits to the environment, which sustains our existence,
Driss Ed Daran, Malik Zia-ud Din
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Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2020
Shumon T Hussain, Felix Riede
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