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Pioneering political ecology: perceptions of nature, Indigenous practices and power relations during Alexander von Humboldt's travels in Latin America

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2021
This article is an attempt to discuss the image of Alexander von Humboldt as a pure natural scientist with a humanist ethos, and to highlight that he was in fact one of the first thinkers who anticipated positions known today as political ecology.
Joachim Eibach, Tobias Haller
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Assessment of the potential responses of ecosystem services to anthropogenic threats in the Eten wetland, Peru

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability, 2021
Introduction: Coastal wetlands are currently threatened by human drivers, such as agriculture, infrastructure development, and urban sprawl. Pressures on these ecosystems disturb their morphology and biogeochemical cycles, resulting in the degradation of
Tania V. Rojas   +2 more
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The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium?

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Under present environmental conditions, the Nile Valley acts as a ‘natural’ route between Africa and Eurasia, and is often considered as a corridor for dispersals out of and back into Africa in the past. This review aims to address the role played by the
Alice Leplongeon, Alice Leplongeon
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Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match ...
Johanna Coenen   +14 more
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Telecoupling visualizations through a network lens: a systematic review

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
Telecoupling is an integrative social-ecological framework that has made important contributions to understanding land change processes in a hyperconnected world.
Gabi Sonderegger   +4 more
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Interactions between environment, wild animals and human leptospirosis

open access: yesJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2011
Leptospirosis, a worldwide distributed zoononis caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira (antigenically classified into serovars), may be direct or indirectly transmitted through infected urine or environment.
LS Ullmann, H Langoni
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GEOSPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS FOR SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021
Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a global concern that requires geospatial data collection, analysis and geovisualization for decision support and mitigation.
M. Madden   +5 more
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Contracts or scripts? A critical review of the application of institutional theories to the study of environmental change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The impact of new institutionalism on the study of human environment interactions has been meaningful. Institutional perspectives have further shaped and modified the field problems of common pool resources, environmental hazards, and risk and ...
Bond, Alan   +2 more
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Biodynamic Interfaces Are Essential for Human–Environment Interactions

open access: yesBioEssays, 2020
AbstractThe environment impacts human health in profound ways, yet few theories define the form of the relationship between human physiology and the environment. It is conjectured that such complex systems cannot interact directly, but rather their interaction requires the formation of an intermediary “interface.” This position contrasts with current ...
Manish Arora   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Determinants of access patterns to goods and services from wetlands in Tanzania and the impact on sustainable wetland management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Wetlands perform vital role in providing useful goods and services to mankind. Because of their importance, human beings interactions with the wetlands’ physical environment have caused some of them to be highly degraded.
Hella, Joseph   +4 more
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