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Locusts on the Arabian Oil Commodity Frontier: Space, Territory and Ecology in the Extractive Zone

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In 1943, British authorities launched a major operation in Arabia against the desert locust. Considered a threat to food security, teams of troops patrolled the desert to search for the insect and lay poison. Based on British archive documents, I argue that these patrols played a role in the territorialisation of the oil commodity frontier as ...
Christian Henderson
wiley   +1 more source

Does Believing Alcohol Causes Cancer Moderate the Relationship Between Consumer Awareness of the Alcohol–Cancer Link and Support for Alcohol Policies? Findings From a Canadian Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Extending research observing an association between awareness that alcohol causes cancer and support for alcohol policies, this study examined if believing or accepting alcohol causes cancer moderates the relationship between awareness of alcohol as a carcinogen and policy support.
Ashini Weerasinghe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the Myth: Land Sparing and Deforestation in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The land sparing model, that is, the idea that agricultural intensification fosters environmental protection, lacks empirical validation. In Brazil, sustainable intensification through the conversion of degraded pastures into agricultural areas became a promising and widespread solution to deforestation. We investigate the mismatch between the
Ludivine Eloy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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