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Multi‐Objective Optimization of the Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus Problem: A Review of the Key Concepts and Emerging Opportunities in Objective Functions, Decision Variables, and Optimization Techniques

open access: yesEarth's Future
Food, energy, and water are basic needs that are quite important in livelihood sustainability. In most situations, their interactions make trade‐offs between these key areas of need challenging to attain.
Isaac Okola   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Despite growing scholarly interest in aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a lack of literature expressly engaging with the methodological mechanics of 'doing aesthetics research'. This article addresses that gap.
Alfonso, Ana-Isobel   +31 more
core   +1 more source

A Study of High‐Emission Industries: How Policy, Strategy, and Technology Shape Corporate Social Responsibility Toward Carbon Neutrality

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The extant carbon neutrality (CN) literature largely offers macro‐ or meso‐level analyses, providing limited insights into implementation experiences that could inform granular policymaking and industry strategies. To address this gap, we examine the lived CN experiences of firms in the transportation, energy, manufacturing, and construction ...
Adeel Luqman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance of the table: Regulation of food and eating practices in residential care for young people

open access: yesAdministration, 2016
This paper explores how food and eating practices are governed in residential care for young people and who or what governs the table in residential care centres.
Byrne Deirdre
doaj   +1 more source

Getting the Lead Out: Urban Chicken Keeping as Transformative Neo-Agrarianism

open access: yesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2017
This ethnographic study explores how the discovery of lead contamination in urban chicken flocks in the Boston area unsettles postindustrial optimism and neo-agrarian romanticism, producing new openings for multispecies relationships.
Sydney Giacalone
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Retrospect and Prospect. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
It is accepted that British rural geography has actively engaged with the ‘cultural turn’, leading to a resurgence of research within the sub-discipline. However, a reading of recent reviews suggests that the cultural turn has largely, if not completely,
Arensberg   +133 more
core   +2 more sources

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

"We produce under this sky": making organic wine in a material world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis explores the role of living and non-living materials as active agents in the processes of making and marketising organic wines in Northern Italy.
Krzywoszynska, Anna
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Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Consumed by the real: A conceptual framework of abjective consumption and its freaky vicissitudes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose – This paper furnishes an inaugural reading of abjective consumption by drawing on Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory of abjection within the wider terrain of consumer cultural research.
Rossolatos, George
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