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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Rock and Mineral Materials. [PDF]

open access: yesMaterials (Basel)
Žibret G, Ducman V, Žibret L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the anisotropy of rammed earth

Construction and Building Materials, 2009
Rammed earth construction is an ancient technique that is attracting renewed interest throughout the world today. Since it is carried out by stacking layers of rammed earth, it is possible that the rammed earth material is anisotropic. This paper presents the first study of this anisotropy, carried out on two scales.
Quoc-Bao Bui, Jean-Claude Morel
exaly   +2 more sources

Modern Rammed Earth in Earth Architecture

Advanced Materials Research, 2012
Rammed earth is a technique for building walls using the raw materials of earth, chalk, lime and gravel. Rammed earth is a structural wall system built of natural mineral soils compacted in thin layers within sturdy formwork. People have been using various forms of earth to build structures for centuries.
Hamed Niroumand   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Durability of Rammed Earth Materials

International Journal of Geomechanics, 2020
Abstract Rammed earth (RE) is a low-embodied-energy construction technique that attracted the attention of engineers in recent years.
Saeid Ghasemalizadeh, Vahab Toufigh
openaire   +1 more source

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