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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotics of making: beginnings of a theoretical frame

open access: yesEnquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research, 2008
The contemporary problem of semiotics in architecture is an inherited struggle, not a chosen one. We consider the question of architectural communication because we inevitably recognize its centrality to the problem ofarchitecture itself.
Christopher Monson
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics and science in brazilian legal discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 declares Brazil as a Democratic State of Law. This formally democratic legal status has been facing difficulties when it comes to its material implementation.
Cota Marçal, Antônio   +1 more
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Improving Understanding of the Dynamics of Biodiversity Generation in Agricultural Areas Through Participatory Systems Mapping

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how Participatory System Mapping (PSM), implemented through multiple parallel stakeholder workshops, can uncover interacting factors and feedback structures shaping ditch biodiversity, stimulate systemic learning and generate actionable insights for biodiversity governance.
Wouter Spekkink   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guide to the Networked Minds Social Presence Inventory v. 1.2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This document introduces the Networked\ud Minds Social Presence Inventory. The\ud inventory is a self-report measure of social\ud presence, which is commonly defined as the\ud sense of being together with another in a\ud mediated environment.
Biocca, Professor Frank   +1 more
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Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Inference, Perception, and Recognition: Kaśmīr Śaivism and the Problem of Other Minds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper will explore competing intuitions behind the problem of other minds. On the one hand, consciousness is strictly a self-manifest, first-person phenomenon: subjectivity is in each case one’s own. On the other hand, it is obvious, on the basis of
STOLL, Joshua
core   +1 more source

Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Face‐to‐face interaction is a foundational concept in microsociology. This article surveys the social experiences of autistic people, who are commonly known for having a strained relationship with interactions face to face. By interpretively reviewing and synthesizing the broader literature on “autistic sociality,” the article provides a nuanced ...
Lars E. F. Johannessen
wiley   +1 more source

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