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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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Environmental Justice in the Brazilian Coastal Food Systems: Policies, Institutions, and Knowledges on Small‐Scale Fishers and Energy Development

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores environmental justice issues in coastal food systems, focusing on conflicts between small‐scale fisheries and the energy sector due to differing goals in managing food and energy sources. It does so by examining the interdependence between institutions, policies, and different types of knowledge; key elements in building ...
Mateus Henrique Amaral, Lira Luz Benites Lazaro, Rosie Day, Lindsay C. Stringer, Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Leandro Luiz Giatti   +6 more
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Addressing the Right to Food Through Food Expenditure Burdens: Distributional Evidence Among Low‐Income Farming Families in Brazil (2012–2023)

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Household food expenditure continues to be a key factor in ensuring the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food. Particularly in Brazil, access to food can be limited by economic constraints in vulnerable families, especially among farming families, who have been more vulnerable to food insecurity in recent years in the country.
Lucas de Almeida Moura, Flávia Mori Sarti, Carolina Ribeiro Xavier, Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni   +3 more
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Social policies for the homeless population [PDF]

, 2023
Silva, Poliana Einsfeld da, Dias, Míriam Thaís Guterres   +1 more
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The Making of the Right to Food: Tracing Food Policy Conflict and Negotiated Outcomes in Colombia

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT The 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla group marked a historic step toward ending more than five decades of armed conflict. It also reshaped national food policy with lasting implications. During the negotiations, deep ideological divisions emerged between food sovereignty and food security, and these ...
Felipe Roa‐Clavijo
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Does the Adoption of Improved Cassava Varieties Boost Productivity in Ghana? The Role of Technology, Management, and Structural Gaps

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Agricultural development initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa have emphasized improved crop varieties as a pathway to food security, resilience, and rural poverty reduction. However, empirical evidence often focuses narrowly on plot‐level outcomes and overlooks whole‐farm effects and the substantial heterogeneity in farmers' management practices,
Kodjo Kondo, Renato A. Villano, Oscar Cacho, Omphile Temoso, Stephen Prah   +4 more
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Integrating Human Rights Into Food Systems Policy to Progress the Fulfillment of the Right to Adequate Food—Enablers, Barriers, and Windows of Opportunity

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Prevailing levels of hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity—driven by conflict, global economic crises, and ecological destruction—are threatening fulfillment of the right to adequate food. The integration of human rights in food systems policies can address these challenges; however, progress in the adoption of human rights–based ...
Ellen Johnson, Jody Harris, Nick Nisbett, Sophie Chao, Anne Marie Thow   +4 more
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Adding the Farmer Domain to Aquifer Recharge: Insights From Smallholder Farmers' Natural Water Retention Measures in the Danube–Tisza Interfluve, Hungary

World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper describes and analyzes recharge practices in Bács‐Kiskun County, Hungary, within what can be categorized as the farmer domain. Such locally embedded aquifer recharge practices remain underexplored in Hungary. Current research and funding largely focus on large‐scale Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) interventions emphasizing intended ...
Helen Sundberg, Michael Gilek
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Decarbonization and the Rescaling of Water–Energy Bargaining: How Renewable Expansion Is Reshaping Iran–Iraq–Türkiye Transboundary Water Politics

World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how renewable‐energy expansion is changing water–energy bargaining among Iran, Iraq, and Türkiye in the Tigris–Euphrates basin. Much of the existing literature on transboundary water politics focuses on territorial control, upstream–downstream power asymmetries, legal rules, and hydro‐hegemony but gives less attention to ...
Umud Shokri
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Evolving Contexts and Diverging Strategies: Federalism and the Politics of Immigrant Welfare Exclusion in the US

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT The intersection of immigration and welfare has taken a central stage in the politics of social policy and garnered increasing scholarly attention in welfare politics research. While prior research has examined how immigration affects welfare support and welfare generosity in the US, less is known about the determinants of immigrant‐related ...
Ping Xu, Ling Zhu, Sebastian Ege
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