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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions.
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomic reassessment of Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Azores and Madeira archipelagos with description of new species

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Tolpis (Asteraceae) is a recently diversified genus of flowering plants, centered in the Macaronesian region, where it exhibits striking morphological variation and high levels of endemism. In this study, we focus on the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores (Portugal).
Lurdes Borges Silva   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revitalizing Traditional Tank Systems: Case Study Insights From Sri Lanka's Village Tank Cascade Systems for Climate Resilience and Water Governance

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Village tank cascade systems (VTCS) are a long‐established form of water management in Sri Lanka's dry zone. However, their role in groundwater recharge, climate adaptation, and water governance remains insufficiently recognized in policy and planning.
Ananthini Nanthakumaran   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Análisis de la hidroestrategia y el derecho humano al agua en Colombia

open access: yesRevista Científica General José María Córdova, 2022
La importancia de los recursos naturales en Colombia determina su integración institucional en el Estado desde los intereses nacionales, en pro de su preservación ante eventuales amenazas.
Paola Alexandra Sierra-Zamora   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Crisis to Resilience: Rethinking Urban Flooding and Groundwater Recharge in Bengaluru City, India

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Bengaluru, a primary metropolitan centre in India, is currently grappling with the dual crises of urban flooding and severe groundwater depletion. These challenges are driven by rapid urbanization, which has seen built‐up areas increase from 42% to 86% over two decades, resulting in a dramatic loss of vegetation and wetlands.
S. Biswas, S. V. B. Patel, B. Maheshwari
wiley   +1 more source

OBJETIVOS DE CALIDAD DEL AGUA EN CUENCAS HIDROGRAFICAS: PERSPECTIVAS, DESAFIOS E INSTRUMENTOS DE GESTION

open access: yesRevista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío, 2010
El continuo e implacable vertido de aguas residuales generados por la mayoría de los usos del agua en  cuencas hidrográficas conlleva a la degradación de los ríos en muchas cuencas en el mundo.
Gabriel Lozano-Sandoval   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaboration in Cross‐Jurisdictional Water Quality Governance: A Novel Framework and Case Study

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Collaborative governance is often employed to address the inherent complexity of surface water quality governance and provides a structure for cooperation across federal, tribal, state, and local boundaries. However, although guidance exists for assessing specific dimensions of collaborative governance, tools to comprehensively evaluate the ...
Kinsey Ayers, Julie Padowski
wiley   +1 more source

Network modularity analysis reveals strategies for strengthening forest resistance, recovery and resilience to disturbances

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 8, August 2026.
Our findings highlight the need to jointly consider resistance, recovery and resilience when conceptualizing or implementing forest management strategies. Our network approach identifies the bundles of manageable predictors most consistently associated with forest resistance and resilience, providing a basis for developing management strategies, while ...
Pilar Hurtado   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structured machine learning modeling to support conservation of deep‐sea benthic biodiversity

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Biodiversity monitoring programs need to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable predictions. To establish a predictive monitoring program for deep‐sea benthos of the Santos Basin, Brazil, we developed a two‐stage structured model that allowed comparison of biodiversity predictions obtained from environmental simulations (2M‐Sim).
Gustavo Fonseca   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

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