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Political Ecology in Latin America: the Social Re-Appropriation of Nature, the Reinvention of Territories and the Construction of an Environmental Rationality

open access: yesDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2015
Political ecology is the disciplinary and political field regarding the encountering of different rationalities for the social appropriation of nature and the construction of a sustainable future.
Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves   +1 more
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Environmental Rationality: The Social Re- Appropriation of Nature

open access: yesAlternautas, 2014
The environmental crisis emerges like a civilizational crisis: a crisis of Western culture; of modern rationality; of the globalized world-economy. It is neither an ecological catastrophe, nor a simple imbalance in the economy.
Enrique Leff   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Making the business case? Intercultural differences in framing economic rationality related to environmental issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions prominent in the Anglo-American context that the objective of a business is to increase its profits or/and that managers have to make 'the business case' in order to implement ...
Molthan-Hill, P
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Modeling rationality to control self-organization of crowds: An environmental approach [PDF]

open access: yesSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2015
In this paper we propose a classification of crowd models in built environments based on the assumed pedestrian ability to foresee the movements of other walkers.
Cristiani, Emiliano   +2 more
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An evaluation of the spatial rationality of provincial territory: a case study of Gansu Province

open access: yesEnvironmental science and pollution research international, 2022
In China, utilization and evaluation of territorial space have become national strategic issues. Evaluating the rationality of urban, ecological, and agricultural space is significant in the development of territorial space and provides a theoretical ...
Jinxiang Wang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political Ecology: a Latin American Perspective

open access: yesDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2015
Political ecology is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future founded on the potentialities of ...
Enrique Leff
doaj   +1 more source

Studies in Ecological Rationality

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, 2021
Ecological rationality represents an alternative to classic frameworks of rationality. Extending on Herbert Simon's concept of bounded rationality, it holds that cognitive processes, including simple heuristics, are not per se rational or irrational, but
R. Hertwig   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Framework for Stabilizing the Person-Organization Relationship [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, 2022
In many organizational interactions,the employee and the organization have different understandings of the obligations of each party and how to fulfill their obligations.Divergence of these perceptions can lead to misunderstandings,conflicts and even ...
Gholam Reza Tavakoli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Racionalidade Ambiental: possibilidades para a Educação Profissional Environmental Rationality: possibilities for Professional EducationRacionalidad Ambiental: posibilidades para la Educación Profesional

open access: yesREMEA - Revista Eletrônica do Mestrado em Educação Ambiental, 2018
O texto ressalta as contribuições da Racionalidade Ambiental para a Educação Profissional pautada na ética e na horizontalidade de saberes. A Racionalidade Ambiental torna-se necessária diante da crise ambiental baseada na apropriação da natureza, na ...
Márcia Madeira Malta, V. Pereira
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Enactive-Ecological Approach to Information and Uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Information is a central notion for cognitive sciences and neurosciences, but there is no agreement on what it means for a cognitive system to acquire information about its surroundings.
Carvalho, Eros Moreira de   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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