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Sustainable consumption and the Global South: A conceptual exposition

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Although deliberations around the idea of sustainable consumption have triggered pro-environmental consumption behaviors, empirical works show such consumption choices hardly manage to lower the overall environmental impacts of their total consumption ...
Soumyajit Bhar
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Building the bridge between Protected Needs and consumption corridors

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2021
The concept of consumption corridors (CC) provides a fundament for developing sustainable consumption policies. It suggests to determine minima and maxima of consumption.
Antonietta Di Giulio, Rico Defila
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De-politicising youth suicide prevention.

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2013
Despite a large volume of research literature on suicide, the approach to suicide prevention is still firmly based on a medical model. Recently, the Chief Coroner in New Zealand expressed the view that current techniques have failed to reduce the suicide
Said eShahtahmasebi
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Pesticides et reconfigurations du « bien vivre » au Chiapas, Mexique

open access: yesVertigO, 2021
Based on ethnographic research with organizations working on environmental protection and women’s rights as well as traditional midwives in the State of Chiapas, this paper analyzes the ongoing metaphor of life and death in discussions on pesticides and ...
Mounia El Kotni
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Being Good, Moral and Rational in a Context of Climate Change

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2016
Climate change has become a popular topic with a strong presence in media, political, scientific and ethical debates. This raises a question as to why we are not acting in accordance with our knowledge and are unable to do enough to protect our future ...
Piotr Rosół
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An Infectious Silver Lining: Is There a Positive Relationship Between Recovering From a COVID Infection and Psychological Richness of Life?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This paper draws from the recent literature on psychological richness of life (PRL), conceptualized as a third dimension of a good life which would be particularly desirable when happiness or meaning in life cannot be satisfactory attained, to ...
Micael Dahlen, Helge Thorbjørnsen
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The Good Life: A Holistic Approach to the Health of the Population

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2006
The idea of a holistic approach towards public health planning presented itself through a food-related and trivial curiosity. It is, however, emphasized that food and nutrition are only one aspect of public health.
Said Shahtahmasebi
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Suicide in New Zealand

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2005
This paper explores and questions some of the notions associated with suicide including mental illness. On average, about two-thirds of suicide cases do not come into contact with mental health services, therefore, we have no objective assessment of ...
Said Shahtahmasebi
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Is the concept of personality capacious enough to incorporate virtues?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
We will consider four answers to the question about whether the concept of personality is capacious enough to incorporate virtues. The simplest is that the concept of personality encompasses all individual variations in persons.
Blaine J. Fowers   +3 more
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Suicide Research and Adolescent Suicide Trends in New Zealand

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2008
In recent years, there have been a number of claims and counterclaims from suicide research using time series and longitudinal data; in particular, the linkage of increased antidepressant prescriptions to a decrease in suicide rates.
Said Shahtahmasebi
doaj   +1 more source

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