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Using anticipation to unveil drivers of local livelihoods in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: A call for more environmental justice

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 726-741, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Calling on the concept of environmental justice in its distributive, procedural and recognition dimensions, we implemented a coelaborative scenario building approach to explore sustainable livelihoods pathways in four sites belonging to two Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa.
Robin Bourgeois   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitics of the Li‐ion battery value chain and the Lithium Triangle in South America

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 22-45, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Climate change and the low‐carbon transition are drastically changing the energy paradigm. A critical aspect is the burgeoning demand for lithium‐ion batteries and the massive amount of minerals and metals that will be required to create them.
Maria Daniela Sanchez‐Lopez
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods for land‐use‐change modeling in a deforestation frontier

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 6, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Development and implementation of effective protected area management to reduce deforestation depend in part on identifying factors contributing to forest loss and areas at risk of conversion, but standard land‐use‐change modeling may not fully capture contextual factors that are not easily quantified.
Katherine Siegel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

The Roles of Experts and Expert‐Based Information in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations Based on the Acid Mine Drainage Case Study in Gauteng, South Africa

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 785-810, August 2021., 2021
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) remains one of the leading conceptual models in the policy sciences because it continues to be revised and updated as required. A focus area of the ACF that requires further theorization is the roles of experts and expert‐based information in influencing policy problem contexts.
Nikki Funke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 447-458, January 2021., 2021
The relative effects of litter traits and climate on decomposition depend on the ranges in climate and litter traits considered and change with time. Our study emphasizes the critical role of representative ranges in climate and functional trait values for understanding the drivers of litter decomposition and for improving predictions of climate‐change
Rafaella Canessa   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Revised German Raw Materials Strategy in the Light of Global Political and Market Developments

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 49-75, January 2021., 2021
Abstract Raw material markets have proven to be challenging in recent years. The so‐called critical raw materials (CRMs), which are required for green technology, have particularly high environmental and supply risks. The revised German raw materials strategy attempts to address challenges of production and supply of CRMs and other mineral‐based raw ...
Marc Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 1172-1195, December 2020., 2020
Abstract Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the researchers who participated in the scenarios and models expert group of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy ...
Laura M. Pereira   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

China as Exemplar: Justin Lin, New Structural Economics, and the Unorthodox Orthodoxy of the China Model

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 815-835, October 2020., 2020
Despite vociferous disagreement by scholars and ambivalence by China over a “China Model” of development, China is still held up as an exemplar of development. Nowhere is this clearer than in the theory of New Structural Economics (NSE) promulgated by the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Justin Lin.
John H. S. Åberg, Derick Becker
wiley   +1 more source

The American cocoa pod borer, Carmenta foraseminis, an emerging pest of cocoa: A review El barrenador americano de la mazorca de cacao, Carmenta foraseminis, una plaga emergente del cacao: una revisión

open access: yesAgricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 340-356, August 2025.
Abstract This review provides a synthesis of the available knowledge on Carmenta foraseminis, an emerging cocoa pest in northern South America. This moth was first described in 1995 in Panama, and its proliferation across the Amazon basin is currently threatening the production of cocoa in the region and may endanger the sector's sustainability. Hence,
Mónica Arias   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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