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Trends and Current Situation of China's Meat Sector

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the world's largest meat producer, consumer, and importer, China's meat sector has undergone profound transformation over the past decade, driven by biological crises (e.g., African Swine Fever), environmental policies, and global market integration. This study analyzes the sector's production restructuring, consumption diversification, and
Zengyong Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Automated Feature Extraction and Classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets in the Puck Lagoon via Multisensor Remote Sensing

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a strong framework for the detection and classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets (SCHA) in shallow marine environments using the integration of multibeam echosounder and airborne LiDAR bathymetry with object‐based image analysis and fuzzy logic–based classification.
Łukasz Janowski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-arid Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Does water scarcity induce conflict? And who would engage in a water scarcity conflict? In this paper we look for evidence of the relation between water scarcity and conflictive behavior.
D'Exelle, Ben   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically evaluating GenAI in their research. Drawing on an
Rongqian Ma, Meredith Dedema, Andrew Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Food waste: a political ecology approach

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2018
Food waste is the loss of perfectly edible food products. It is a wide-ranging phenomenon: a substantial part of agricultural production is never consumed.
Jordi Gascón
doaj   +1 more source

More inter- and transdisciplinary research needed in agroecology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Agroecology embraces a collection of different disciplinary fields, ranging from agriculture and ecology to political theory. A stronger recognition of agroecology in agricultural research, which often has a strong production focus, could help to achieve
Biber-Freudenberger, Lisa   +2 more
core  

Disentangling scale approaches in governance research: comparing monocentric, multilevel, and adaptive governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The question of how to govern the multiscale problems in today’s network society is an important topic in the fields of public administration, political sciences, and environmental sciences.
Dewulf, A.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Beautiful We Were: A Resistance Narrative Uncovering Political Ecology in Postcolonial Eco- Fiction

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Poetics
This paper explores the intersection of political ecology and resistance narrative in Imbolo Mbue’s novel How Beautiful We Were (2021). I argue that political ecology is shaped by neoliberal policies such as slow violence and oil politics.
Sarah Ahsan
doaj   +1 more source

Political Ecology: a Latin American Perspective

open access: yesDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2015
Political ecology is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future founded on the potentialities of ...
Enrique Leff
doaj   +1 more source

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