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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Derecho indígena en Colombia: avances, principios y retos hacia la protección de los derechos culturales y territoriales

Revista Jurídica Mario Alario D'filippo
La Constitución Política de Colombia reconoce y protege la diversidad étnica y cultural de la nación. No obstante, en la práctica existe un precario cumplimiento material de ese deber.
Jose David Guerra Bonet, Katherine Lidys Ospina Vellojín, Solvey Lorena Estrada Arrieta   +2 more
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Los estudios de impacto socioambiental en Colombia: ¿Una forma de salvaguarda a la autodeterminación y subsistencia de los pueblos indígenas?

Jangwa Pana, 2018
En el presente artículo se desarrollará el problema jurídico planteado, que busca determinar si la regulación de los estudios de impacto socioambiental en Colombia otorgan una protección efectiva a los derechos de los pueblos indígenas tal como lo ...
Hirán David Ramírez-Monroy, Margarita Rosa Piraquive-Aldana   +1 more
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Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Digitalising biodiversity: Exploring perceptions on risks and opportunities

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1366-1377, July 2026.
Digitalisation is transforming biodiversity conservation, offering new opportunities for research, governance and public engagement. Herbarium digitisation, for example, enables large‐scale access to plant data, supporting conservation, restoration and sustainable use.
Björn‐Ola Linnér, Juliana Porsani, Bwalya Chibwe, Alva Linnér, Carlo Navarra, Maria Jernnäs, Marie Francisco, Tina‐Simone Neset, Alexandre Antonelli, Victoria Wibeck   +9 more
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1629-1640, June 2026.
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Jesica López, Karolin Obert, Juan A. Samper, Ana Maria Vargas   +5 more
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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“Humanizar”: aprendizajes sobre alteridad, salud y futuro en una experiencia de investigación compartida

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The visit to Bogotá of a fééeneminaa (Muinane) friend, Célimo Nejedeka Jifichíu, and in particular, his work in researching and transmitting traditional health knowledge, offer the pretext to navigate the relationship between elements that at first glance seem distant from each other: indigenous imaginaries about otherness, their visions of ...
Giovanna Micarelli
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From maps to mandates: Multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to evaluate environmental judicial decisions

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 886-903, April 2026.
Abstract This study examines the use of multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to assess the ecological effectiveness of judicial decisions that recognize the rights of nature, using Colombia's 2016 T‐622 decision on the Atrato River as a case study.
Juan Camilo Ríos‐Orjuela, Ana María Medina‐Sánchez, William Gonzalez‐Daza, Francisco Villa‐Rojas, Mauricio Madrigal‐Pérez   +4 more
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Descolonizando Decolonizing Linguistics, or the Perils of Refusing Pero no Mucho

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 198-206, April 2026.
Kakaretso Tshekatsheko eno e e tseneletseng ya Decolonizing Linguistics e baya kgatiso eno mo gare ga dikganetsano tsa Amerika Borwa ka ga sekolone go botsolotsa melelwane ya dipuisano tsa segompieno tsa go tlosa bokolone mo thutapuong ya Seesemane. Ke ikaegile ka tshekatsheko ya ga Cusicanqui ya mogopolo wa go ganetsa sekolone, le mogopolo wa ga Bispo,
Rodrigo Borba
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