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Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment
This article analyses the impact of the war in Ukraine on air quality and heating practices in Polish cities. In this case, it does not focus on the direct impact of military activities, but on various social and political decisions, as well as changes ...
Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk
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Participation, complexity and the practice of education change. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Educ
Medical Education, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 221-223, March 2026.
Tam H.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Conceptualizing the commercial determinants of dietary behaviors associated with obesity: A systematic review using principles from critical interpretative synthesis. [PDF]

open access: yesObes Sci Pract, 2021
Abstract Introduction Unhealthy diet is an important preventable risk factor for overweight and obesity. Identifying the key drivers of an unhealthy diet is an important public health aim. “Big Food” has been identified as an influential factor shaping dietary behavior and obesity, and their practices have broadly been labeled as the “commercial ...
Chavez-Ugalde Y   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Reconciling the tension between the 'global' and the 'local' in medical education. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Educ
Medical Education, Volume 59, Issue 9, Page 898-900, September 2025.
Fruhstorfer BH, Macdougall CF.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 23, Issue 4, Page 811-843, October 2023., 2023
Abstract A global transition towards diets increasingly dominated by ultra‐processed foods (UPFs) has occurred in recent decades to the detriment of public health and the environment. This study aimed to examine long‐term trends in the structure and market dynamics of the global UPF manufacturing industry as part of broader efforts to understand the ...
Benjamin Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The road to “local green recovery”: Signposts from COVID‐19 lockdown life in the UK

open access: yesArea, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 451-459, September 2022., 2022
This paper articulates a series of interlinked research agendas united by a focus on what a “green recovery” might involve at a local scale within the context of the United Kingdom. We argue that geography as a discipline is particularly well placed to contribute to theoretical and practical framings of “green recovery” as manifested at and through a ...
Rebecca Collins, Katharine Welsh
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse markers and world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 482-487, December 2021., 2021
Abstract In this introduction to the special issue Discourse markers and world Englishes, we briefly introduce our definition of discourse‐pragmatic markers (by all means contentious items to define) and give a short overview of previous research on discourse markers in world Englishes. As the main bulk of previous research in this field has been based
Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger
wiley   +1 more source

Transcultural Flow of Demure Aesthetics: Examining Cultural Globalisation through Gothic & Lolita Fashion

open access: yesNew Voices, 2008
The process of cultural globalisation does not always imply cultural homogenisation. Rather, it can be seen as a process of cultural ‘glocalisation’ and hybridisation where cultures continuously interact with and interpret each other to engender a hybrid
Masafumi Monden
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Le rap des steppes

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2006
Originated in New York city in the seventies, the hip-hop movement has known a diffusion at the world scale. Two steps are distinguished in what can be considered as a process of glocalization.
Patrick Rérat
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