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Domestic cats and their impacts on biodiversity: A blind spot in the application of nature conservation law

People and Nature, Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 235-250, March 2020., 2020
Abstract Free‐ranging domestic cats Felis catus, from owned pets to feral cats, impact biodiversity through predation, fear effects, competition, disease and hybridization. Scientific knowledge regarding these impacts has recently increased, making it timely to assess the role of nature conservation legislation in this connection.
Arie Trouwborst, Phillipa C. McCormack, Elvira Martínez Camacho, Juliette Young   +3 more
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From maps to mandates: Multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to evaluate environmental judicial decisions

People and Nature, EarlyView.
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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From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
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Downlisting and recovery of species assessed by the IUCN

Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2025.
Abstract Despite the increasing number of species assessed for extinction risk by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (163,040 species as of 2024), only about 1 in 1,000 have been downlisted due to genuine population improvement. Although this rare conservation achievement has been widely celebrated in several recent cases, some ...
Mu‐Ming Lin, Richard A. Fuller, In‐Ki Kwon, Kisup Lee, Simba Chan, Wangwang Qiu, Yat‐Tung Yu, Chi‐Yeung Choi   +7 more
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Social protection and resilience in protracted crises

International Social Security Review, Volume 78, Issue 2-3, Page 173-190, April-September 2025.
Abstract This article critically examines perspectives on social protection’s role in strengthening resilience capacities in protracted crises – contexts where conflict and displacement persist for five years or longer. These crises shape how stakeholders navigate their mandates to provide support, while influencing how affected communities seek to ...
Carolina Holland‐Szyp, Jeremy Lind
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Naturaleza jurídica de las Declaraciones Internacionales sobre Bioética

Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2016
Para los juristas resulta imprescindible establecer la naturaleza jurídica de las instituciones que investigan, toda vez que de ellas se derivan una serie de efectos jurídicos inequívocos que le son propios. En esta línea, las declaraciones bioéticas, al
María Isabel Cornejo Plaza
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La sombra alargada del patrón: Gamonalismo y hábitos hacendatarios en Chimborazo tras la reforma agraria

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 352-363, December 2024.
Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Algunos aspectos del leasing inmobiliario: especialmente enfocados con relación al orden jurídico uruguayo, y particularmente a la Ley 16.072, de 9 de octubre de 1989, que reglamenta el contrato de crédito de uso, modificada por la Ley 16.205 de 6 de seti

Revista de la Facultad de Derecho, 2005
Contenido: Introducción. Concepto y modalidades del leasing. Naturaleza jurídica del leasing financiero. Consideraciones sobre la ley uruguaya de "leasing financiero". La naturaleza jurídica del leasing inmobiliario.
Carlos López Fernández, Teresita Mercader Pizzorno   +1 more
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Responsabilidad extracontractual del estado en la defensa civil colombiana [PDF]

, 2013
El presente artículo tiene como objeto de estudio la responsabilidad civil extracontractual de la Defensa Civil Colombiana a través de lineamientos sustraídos de la casuística, para llegar a conclusiones generales, usando una metodología dogmática de la ...
Horta Tovar, Carlos Arturo, Álvarez González, Alejandro   +1 more
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Rights of nature in the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Understanding the ecocentric approach to the right to a healthy environment

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 521-535, November 2024.
Abstract The recognition of the right to a healthy environment as an autonomous and justiciable right in Advisory Opinion OC‐23/17 represents the turning point of the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights towards the adoption of an ecocentric approach.
Patricio Trincado Vera
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