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Urban morphology repertoire for the good living [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Cities face social, environmental and infrastructure challenges that interfere with their ability to provide Good Living for the citizens. The Good Living concept originated from the original Andean and Amazonian peoples' Dear Life idea, which ...
Rutkowski, Emilia Wanda   +2 more
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Considering people living with dementia when designing interfaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Dementia is an escalating problem which is estimated to affect 35.6 million people worldwide. In an environment which is becoming increasingly dependent on technology, the interaction needs of people living with dementia is being ignored by interface ...
Good, Alice   +3 more
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Hacia un abordaje multidimensional y multiescalar de la cuestión ecológica: La perspectiva del buen vivir

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2015
This article proposes to replenish the multidimensional and multi-scale character of the ecological issue embodied in the “good living” proposals of Ecuador and Bolivia by focusing on three aspects: i) the multiple meanings of nature that coexist in the ...
Victoria Haidar, María Valeria Berros
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Six Open Debates on Sumak Kawsay

open access: yesÍconos, 2014
This essay tries to shed light on six open debates about sumak kawsay, its meaning, translation, origin, cultural referent, relation with development, and destination. Such debates are analyzed from the premise that the authors who participate in them do
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán   +1 more
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Living Actively for Good Health

open access: yesEDIS, 2002
This publication is FCS8755-Eng, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida.
Jennifer Hillan, Anne Kendall
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Amazonia. Violencias, resistencias, propuestas

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2015
The Amazon, that huge South American territory which accommodates two main dichotomies, abundance and violence, is permanently struggling between life and death.
Alberto Acosta
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Cultural Models of Well-Being Implicit in Four Ghanaian Languages

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This contribution to the collection of articles on “African Cultural Models” considers the topic of well-being. Reflecting modern individualist selfways of North American and European worlds, normative conceptions of well-being in hegemonic psychological
Annabella Osei-Tutu   +6 more
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El buen y mal vivir del bienestar/desarrollo en Alemania y Ecuador. Reflexiones a partir del análisis del tiempo

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2020
The framework of analysis for “buen vivir” (good living) requires new metrics that fit this theoretical perspective and its social mandates. Following Ramírez’s conceptual-methodological proposal (2012, 2019), it will be argued that studying “good living”
René Ramírez Gallegos   +2 more
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Finding Worlds Worth Living in

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter discusses diverse views of worlds worth living in, as described by different groups of students, young people, and adults. It also high-lights how the project of research and writing that produced this volume is an example of critical praxis:
Mahon, Kathleen,   +3 more
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Development and Environment in Latin America: The Struggle over a Hegemonic Discourse

open access: yesDiálogos, 2020
During the last decades of the twentieth century, increasing social environmental awareness added up to the gradual penetration of environmental thinking into the Latin American states’ developmental policymaking.
Pedro Alarcon
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