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Mining and territory: theoretical approaches to the field of environmental history through a case study

open access: yesRegión y Sociedad, 2018
This article aims to outline an epistemological framework for placing the field of environmental history in the context of the current endeavor of social sciences and humanities. The methodology used is defined here as “metabolic landmarks” because it is
Francesco Panico
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Unequal carbon tax impacts on 38 million German households: assessing spatial and socio-economic hotspots

open access: yesEnvironmental Research: Climate, 2023
Carbon pricing is a core climate policy in many countries. However, the distribution of impacts is highly unequal across income brackets, but also across household types and regions.
Johannes Többen   +6 more
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Relationship between Maternal Mood Disorders and Dietary Intake of 3-Year-Olds

open access: yesJournal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2021
Maternal depression affects parenting and children’s early development, but its effect on dietary intake is unknown. While husbands’ involvement in parenting and having friends to talk to may reduce childcare stress, this has not been thoroughly studied.
Minatsu Kobayashi   +5 more
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Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2009
This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social "transitions": the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach.
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jan Rotmans
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The energy and carbon inequality corridor for a 1.5 °C compatible and just Europe

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well and, collectively, not exceed the source and sink capacity of the biosphere to sustain human societies.
Ingram S Jaccard   +3 more
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More than energy transformations: a historical transition from organic to industrialized farm systems in a Mediterranean village (Les Oluges, Catalonia, 1860–1959–1999)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2018
The analysis of energy efficiency of agroecosystems from a sociometabolic perspective is a useful way to assess the sustainability of farm systems. In this paper we examine the transition of a Mediterranean agroecosystem from an organic farm system in ...
Lucía Díez   +7 more
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Exploitation des ressources naturelles et échange écologique inégal : une approche globale de la dette écologique

open access: yesVertigO, 2016
The point here is to contextualize the problem of ecological debt, to demonstrate that it appears within the framework of a world system characterized by an international division of labour.
Boris Schmitt
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Pursuing More Sustainable Consumption by Analyzing Household Metabolism in European Countries and Cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Bringing about more sustainable consumption patterns is an important challenge for society and science. In this article the concept of household metabolism is applied to analyzing consumption patterns and to identifying possibilities for the development ...
Clark, Charlotte,   +24 more
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Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among Iranian older adults: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
There is limited data on the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in the older population. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among a sample of Iranian older adults.
Maryam Mirahmad   +15 more
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Advantages of integrated and sustainability based assessment for metabolism based strategic planning of urban water systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Behzadian, Kourosh, Kapelan, Zoran
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