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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
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Women´s organized resistance against extractivism : A systematic review
In parallel with the exponential increase in extractivism around the world, comes social movements resisting such processes and advocating for alternative forms of development.
Ramasar, Vasna +6 more
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The Political Economy of Universal Pensions in Bolivia
sozialpolitik.ch, 2016 Während nicht beitragsfinanzierte Renten eine weltweite Konjunktur erleben, ist Bolivien nach wie vor das einzige lateinamerikanische Land mit einer universellen Altersrente, obwohl diese bereits vor zwanzig Jahren entwickelt wurde.
Katharina Müller
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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Extractivism, forced gendered migration and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
, 2022 The objective of this chapter is to analyse the relationship between extractivism, forced displacement, gender and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Apart from this introduction, the text is divided into two parts.
Echart Muñoz, Enara +1 more
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La agroecología como opción política para la paz en Colombia
Ciencia Política, 2016 Este artículo aporta elementos para visibilizar la agroecología como opción política para la construcción de paz en Colombia, en el marco de los acuerdos de tierras y desarrollo rural que se adelantan en La Habana, Cuba. A partir del uso de documentos de
Laura Mateus Moreno
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Global Value Chain Participation and Inequality in Agro‐food Industries in the Global South
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, global value chains have been a central vehicle for development strategies in Global South countries, driving their integration into the global economy. Much critical scholarship has highlighted the adverse social and environmental costs, the asymmetries of power in inter‐firm relations, and the unfair distribution of benefits
Stefano Ponte, Juliane Lang
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Commodities from Amazon Biome: A Guide to Choosing Sustainable Paths
CommoditiesThe exploitation of the Amazon biome in search of net profit, specifically in the production of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and açaí (Euterpe oleracea), has caused deforestation, degradation of natural resources, and high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
Richard Luan Silva Machado +7 more
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