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Scientists’ warning on the global destruction of rock outcrop ecosystems
Abstract Rock outcrops are geological formations that harbor a highly specialized biota adapted to harsh environmental conditions that differ from their surrounding landscapes. They are globally distributed, especially in old, highly weathered landscapes, and can function as habitat islands containing high levels of endemism and distinct evolutionary ...
Luiza F. A. de Paula +19 more
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman +1 more
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ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Para Enrique Dussel el proyecto mundial de liberación debe tomar como punto de partida la deconstrucción del mito de la modernidad. Por esta razón se debe dejar a un lado el proyecto de realización habermasiano y se debe emprender un camino hacia la ...
Sergio Ángel Baquero
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ABSTRACT China's poverty alleviation campaign is significant. Over the past four decades, the number of people in China living below the international extreme‐poverty line fell by close to 800 million, accounting for nearly three‐quarters of the global reduction in extreme poverty.
Zhiqi Xu, Wil Hout
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El proyecto político indígena ecuatoriano.
This paper addresses the contradictions between the indigenous political project in Ecuador and of those projects of both the central government and the external actors.
Julie Massal.
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Epistemic opacity in Antarctic science: Unknowing the last frontier
Abstract Antarctica is facing intensifying pressures from climate change, industrial fishing, tourism and renewed geopolitical competition, even as scientific activity on the continent reaches unprecedented levels. We argue that this proliferation of research often fails to deliver the integrated, policy‐relevant knowledge needed for precautionary ...
Virginia Morandini, Álvaro Soutullo
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LA CRISIS EN LA EUROPA MEDITERRÁNEA: NOTAS PARA UNA VISIÓN DE CONJUNTO
La Europa mediterránea condensa todas las tensiones políticas y sociales de la crisis. Las políticas de austeridad implican un proyecto de reorganización del modelo social y comportan de facto una trasformación del régimen político y la implosión de los
Josep Antentas
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El proceso de transformación del Oriente antioqueño y su configuración como espacio de la globalización permite entenderlo hoy como una suma de recortes espaciales cruzados por una superposición de territorialidades, que tensionan el uso y apropiación de
Hernán Dario Pineda Gómez
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