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Political Ecology: a Latin American Perspective
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
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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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Diversidade cultural e preservação das identidades dos povos são fundamentais para viabilizar o desenvolvimento sustentável em escala local e global. Estilos étnicos organizam as práticas de uso da natureza e das populações indígenas e das sociedades ...
Enrique LEFF
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A Framework for Stabilizing the Person-Organization Relationship [PDF]
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
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Environmental Rationality: The Social Re- Appropriation of Nature
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
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Human rationality, environmental challenges and evolutionary game theory
In recent years, game theory is more often applied to analyse several sustainable development issues such as climate change and biological diversity, but the explanations generally remain within a non-cooperative setting.
Andrea Karcagi-Kovács
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A Critique of Rational Choice from the Viewpoint of Competing Approaches: Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Brain Sciences [PDF]
The starting point of economic analyses undoubtedly is homo economicus, whose fundamental characteristic is rationality. In recent decades, the notion of rationality has been the subject of debates in social sciences, particularly economics. Conventional
Ebad Teimouri +2 more
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The Role of Compensatory Beliefs in Rationalizing Environmentally Detrimental Behaviors [PDF]
Compensatory green beliefs (CGBs) reflect the idea that a pro-environmental behavior (e.g., recycling) can off-set the negative effects of an environmentally detrimental behavior (e.g., driving). It is thought that CGBs might help explain why people act in ways that appear to contradict their pro-environmental intentions, and inconsistently engage in ...
Hope, A. +4 more
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The ecosocial paradigma and the emergence of a new rationality
In this article, the potential of critical theory of society is articulated through elements that seek to demonstrate the paradigmatic emergence of communication rationality.
Maria Fernanda Segantin Prestupa
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The evolution of forecasting for decision-making in dynamic environments
Climate change and technological advances are reshaping ecosystems and societies. Strategic choices that were best yesterday may be sub-optimal tomorrow; and environmental conditions that were once taken for granted may soon cease to exist.
Andrew R Tilman +3 more
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