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Social, Technological, Economic, and Policy Factors in the Circular Economy Transition in Brazil

Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 4683-4703, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A well‐functioning circular economy (CE) integrates resilience across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. This study identifies key drivers and barriers to Brazil's CE transition through 20 semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders. Major sociocultural barriers include inadequate education and limited CE awareness, while growing
Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid, Ana Belén Guerrero, Ricardo Rebolledo‐Leiva, Alvaro Elorrieta‐Mendoza, Denisse Milagros Paredes Cotohuanca, Raphael Ricardo Zepon Tarpani, Rodrigo Salvador, Murillo Vetroni Barros, Claudia E. Henninger, Leonardo Vásquez‐Ibarra   +9 more
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Golpe militar e remoções das favelas cariocas: revisitando um passado ainda atual

Acervo, 2014
Além de analisar a participação ativa das políticas empreendidas pelo regime civil-militar em prol das remoções de favelas no Rio de Janeiro, o presente artigo pretende se centrar nas medidas repressivas utilizadas na época, tendo como foco de análise o ...
Rafael Soares Gonçalves, Mauro Amoroso
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Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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“Caught in a Trap”: Everyday Peace and the Dilemma of Representation in Rio de Janeiro

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Urban security interventions often seek legitimacy by changing how places associated with violence are publicly represented. Less attention has been paid to how grassroots organizations navigate these representational pressures as they pursue everyday peace.
Henry Staples, Sarah Vogelsanger
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Associations Between Severe Food Insecurity and Food Addiction in Brazilian Low‐Income Women

European Eating Disorders Review, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1111-1120, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective The present study aims to assess the distribution of food addiction (FA) across different levels of food insecurity (FI) in Brazilian women of reproductive age living in poverty, and to investigate the association between FA and FI. Method This is a cross‐sectional study conducted between October 2020 and May 2021 in 40 urban favelas
Amanda Ribeiro Berta, Luiz Gonzaga Ribeiro Silva‐Neto, Juliana Souza Oliveira, Nassib Bezerra Bueno, Telma Maria de Menezes Toledo Florêncio, Ana Paula Grotti Clemente, Giovana Longo‐Silva, Risia Cristina Egito de Menezes   +7 more
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Digital Inclusion in Public Spaces of Access to Information Technology and Communication: The Voice of Community Telecenters in Recife's City

THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Volume 92, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how community telecenters operate as public spaces for digital inclusion within e‐government initiatives in Recife, Brazil. Although Community Technology Centers (CTCs) are frequently promoted in ICT4D policies as mechanisms for expanding digital citizenship and access to public services, less is known about how these ...
Nelson Tomé Cossa, Tiago de Sousa Ribeiro, Antonio Reinaldo Silva Neto, Jairo Simião Dornelas   +3 more
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When Food Becomes a Public Issue: Policy Trajectories and the Public Arena of Food Security in Belo Horizonte

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how food insecurity became established as a public problem in Belo Horizonte by tracing the actors, disputes, and framings shaping this arena over time. Drawing on historical sources and 37 key‐informant interviews (2024–2025), it adopts a public‐arena approach understanding public problems as being constituted through ...
Lucas Barbi, Waleska Caiaffa, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Helen Pineo, Elis Borde   +4 more
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FAVELAS EM CIDADES MÉDIAS: ALGUMAS CONSIDERAÇÕES

Caminhos de Geografia, 2010
Percebe-se que a crescente formação de favelas não é uma característica apenas das cidades grandes, haja vista que nos últimos anos tem ocorrido um crescimento deste tipo de assentamento humano em cidade média.
Marcos Esdras Leite
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Leaf Fungal Microbiome Is Modulated by Interspecific Hybridization Events Between Coffea Species

Physiologia Plantarum, Volume 178, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Increasing attention has been given to the host phylogeny and domestication roles in shaping plant‐associated microbiomes. However, the interspecific effects of hybridization on microbial communities remain poorly understood. We investigated the effects of interspecific hybridization on the composition, diversity, ecological organization, and ...
Leandro Pio de Sousa, Ludmila dos Passos e Silva, Matheus Pena Passos, Juliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, Marcelo Mendes Brandão, Oliveiro Guerreiro‐Filho, Jorge Maurício Costa Mondego   +6 more
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‘O morro está na calmaria’: Mídia impressa e o repertório da paz no contexto da pacificação

Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 2015
O artigo discute, usando matérias do jornal O Globo publicadas entre novembro de 2008 e fevereiro de 2009, que significados o termo “paz” e seus correlatos adquirem no contexto da instalação de Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs) em duas favelas ...
Lia de Mattos Rocha, Luís Claudio Palermo   +1 more
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