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La peste, il Covid e l'Umanità di fronte alla Natura. Rilettura semiotica dei capitoli XXXI e XXXII dei Promessi sposi

Ocula, 2022
The article is a semiotic re-reading of chapters XXXI and XXXII of the Betrothed on the plague in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first part I focus on the lexical and semantic aspects of the plague's description, with comparative references to
Stefano Traini
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Fatwas on Boosting Environmental Conservation in Indonesia

Religions, 2019
Concern about the importance of getting Muslims involved in the movement for a better environment in Indonesia has existed since the 1980s, since the involvement of the Islamic boarding school leaders in triggering their community and the involvement of ...
Fachruddin Majeri Mangunjaya, Gugah Praharawati   +1 more
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NGOs and the search for Chinese civil society environmental non-governmental organisations in the Nujiang campaign [PDF]

voluntary organizations; nonprofit organizations; grass roots groups; environmentalism; civil society; advocacy; China;
Büsgen, M.
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Is Labor Green? [PDF]

, 2019
In this article, we assess whether unionization of national workforces influences growth in national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita. Political-economic theories in environmental sociology propose that labor unions have the potential to affect ...
Alvarez, Camila Huerta, McGee, Julius Alexander, York, Richard   +2 more
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Evaluating the use of “free market” policies to protect the environment in Peru: plastic bags, civil liability, and urban planning

Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo
This paper discusses the concept of free-market environmentalism and its implementation in Peru. The article starts by explaining the two competing ways of understanding humanity's role in preserving the environment-the Malthusian and Promethean ...
Oscar Augusto Sumar Albujar, Andrés Dulanto Tello, Julio Cesar Orellana Presentación   +2 more
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"Penang Rejects Reclamation": Pre-capitalist worldviews and post-development ideals within a Malaysian environmental movement

Journal of Political Ecology
Malaysia's indigenous and rural communities have played a vital role in the growth of the country's environmental movement. Yet, the ways in which their cultures and ancestral attachments to territory come to underpin their activism has remained ...
Daniele Speziale
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In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence

, 2016
In this paper, I argue that Indian independent filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar\u27s documentary In God’s Land (2012) blends animation and live-action to illuminate the destructive nuances of postcolonial literary scholar, Rob Nixon\u27s notion of slow ...
Monani, Salma
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Environmental tracers

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1991
Several naturally occurring tracers of water in natural systems (for example, stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen) are being widely used to determine the flow paths that water takes through a catchment. These chart the course of water from when it lands on the soil surface as rain or snow until it flows out of the catchment as streamflow. Tracing of
openaire   +1 more source

Environmental Science or Environmental Activism? [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2020
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Minnesota Wild [PDF]

, 2003
In these remarks I am going to tell two stories and then add - to the growing list compiled so far in this Symposium - two new quasi-religious, metaphorical figures.
Heinzerling, Lisa
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