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Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

open access: yesRevista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
doaj   +1 more source

From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 743-755, May 2026.
ABSTRACT We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against our inner strength, a fierce belief in connection and community, and a commitment to harnessing the power of transformation.
Amy L. Kenworthy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Good: Tracing the semiotics of justification in mineral exploration and mining

open access: yesValuation Studies
What does it mean for a business or industry to be and do good? And who can count themselves within the good economy? This article investigates the justification of goodness in mineral exploration and mining and uses the entwinement between value ...
Tobias Olofsson
doaj   +1 more source

Free Trade Agreements, Private Courts and Environmental Exploitation: Disconnected Policies, Denials and Moral Disengagement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Although there is strong scientific consensus that climate change and environmental degradation are occurring, there is also a significant body of opinion that is sceptical about, or denies the validity of, evidence for this. However it is not solely the
South, Nigel
core   +4 more sources

Re-establishing an Ecological Discourse in the Policy Debate over How to Value Ecosystems and Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we explore the discourses of ecology, environmental economics, new environmental pragmatism and social ecological economics as they relate to the value of ecosystems and biodiversity.
Aslaksen, Iulie, Spash, Clive L.
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Climate and water policy integration in Brazil's semiarid region: insights from an ACF perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Climate change introduces an additional concern to the semi-arid Northeast Brazil region, which already faces water scarcity challenges. This study analyzes water use and climate adaptation strategies and policy integration in the Petrolina and Juazeiro ...
Le Coq, Jean-François   +3 more
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Partnerships for Sustainable Forest Management: Lessons from the Ecuadorian Choco [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyses comparatively the development of two coalitions for the sustainable forest management of remaining portions of the Ecuadorian Chocó owned by indigenous communities.
Laura Rival (QEH)
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Family farming work organization of agro-extractivist communities in the region of Mambaí, Goias State, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Located in the center of Brazil, the Cerrado biome is the most diverse savanna in the world and covers about a quarter of the country area. However, since the 1960s, an ongoing agricultural expansion has led to profound transformations of the natural ...
Aveline, Igor Amaury   +4 more
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Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change.
Benno Fladvad   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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