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Beyond Digital Flexibility

Clinical Sociology Review
This qualitative study explores the experiences of food-delivery couriers employed by UberEats, MrDFood and BoltFood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through in-depth interviews with Black African male migrant food delivery couriers from Zimbabwe, Malawi ...
David du Toit, Ngubeni Phumzile
doaj   +1 more source

Some love them, others hate them: Understanding farmers' tree planting decisions in Scotland

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural land use system with potential to sequester carbon, create and repair habitats, enhance biodiversity and offer environmental and socio‐economic benefits, including improved agricultural productivity.
Albert Mvula, Katrin Prager, Josie Geris
wiley   +1 more source

Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a strategy for addressing landscape degradation. In contexts where ecological degradation overlaps with the deterioration of social cohesion, restoration must also contribute to rebuilding social ties alongside restoring ecosystems.
Valery Ndagijimana, Michael Weinhardt, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remaking place relations for social‐ecological restoration: Reflections on placemaking in South Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers, Karen J. Esler, Jessica Cockburn, Marja Spierenburg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food

, 2010
The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena.
Walters, Reece, Walters, Reece,
core   +1 more source

When alien plants become health hazards: An applied study on toxic and allergenic risks in Italy

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Alien plants are often studied for their ecological harm, but their risks to human and animal health remain poorly documented. This study provides the first comprehensive catalogue of poisonous and allergenic alien plants in Italy, identifying which species are dangerous, where they grow and who is most at risk—from children in city parks to pets and ...
Giulio Barone, Gianniantonio Domina, Giuseppe Venturella, Emilio Di Gristina   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Payments and Crime [PDF]

This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of welfare payments affects criminal activity. Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This
C. Fritz Foley
core  

Influencer Credibility and Responsible Tourism: A Study of Ecotourists' Economic, Socio‐Cultural, and Environmental Responsible Behaviors in Sarawak

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The tourism sector faces pressing sustainability challenges, especially during crises. The rural communities reliant on ecotourism remain vulnerable, highlighting the need for responsible tourism. This study integrates social cognitive theory (SCT) and the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) to examine how self‐efficacy and outcome expectation ...
Wei Chiang Chan, Chee Hua Chin, Winnie Poh Ming Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source