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The Myth of Karl Marx's Prometheanism: Analysis and Criticism [PDF]

Антиномии, 2022
The article deals with the destruction of the widespread myth about Karl Marx as a “Promethean thinker”. Under Prometheism/Prometheanism is the point of view according to which nature is considered as a quantitatively “inexhaustible storehouse ...
Pyotr N. Kondrashov
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Agrarian Metabolism and Socio-ecological Transitions to Agroecology Landscapes

, 2023
AbstractJoan Martínez Alier has made relevant contributions to the agrarian question by treating the southwestern Spanish latifundio and Latin American hacienda systems as capitalist ways of exploiting land and labour, not as backward feudal remnants. He has also invoked the resistance of Latin American tenant-labourers and other smallholder peasants ...
Enric Tello, Manuel González de Molina
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Dall’egologico al geologico: l’ecologia come filosofia trascendentale

Philosophy Kitchen, 2021
The paper argues that ecology should not be understood as a sectoral issue, i.e. as the object of specific scientific disciplines such as environmental sociology, geology or biology; on the contrary, it is by very nature that ecology should be regarded ...
Simone Aurora
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L’adaptation urbaine à la rareté de l’eau à Phoenix et à Tucson (Arizona) : une approche de political ecology

Cybergeo, 2022
This paper focuses on the management of scarce water resources in two metropolises of the arid West of the United States facing intensifying droughts and increased water stress.
Anne-Lise Boyer, Yves-François Le Lay, Pascal Marty   +2 more
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How hibernation in frogs drives brain and reproductive evolution in opposite directions

eLife, 2023
Environmental seasonality can promote the evolution of larger brains through cognitive and behavioral flexibility but can also hamper it when temporary food shortage is buffered by stored energy.
Wenbo Liao, Ying Jiang, Long Jin, Stefan Lüpold   +3 more
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River basins as social-ecological systems: linking levels of societal and ecosystem water metabolism in a semiarid watershed

Ecology and Society, 2015
River basin modeling under complexity requires analytical frameworks capable of dealing with the multiple scales and dimensions of environmental problems as well as uncertainty in the evolution of social systems.
Violeta Cabello, Barbara A. Willaarts, Monica Aguilar, Leandro del Moral Ituarte   +3 more
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Ecological network analysis of a metabolic urban system based on input–output tables: Model development and case study for the city of Vienna

Cleaner Production Letters, 2022
The rapid economic growth accompanied by health concerns and other global environmental problems in cities and regions has boosted the popularity of the ‘urban metabolism’ topic among academics and policymakers. Currently, 56.2% of the world's population
O. Galychyn, B.D. Fath, E. Buonocore, P.P. Franzese   +3 more
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Ecologia política, economia ecológica e saúde coletiva: interfaces para a sustentabilidade do desenvolvimento e para a promoção da saúde Political ecology, ecological economics, and public health: interfaces for the sustainability of development and health promotion

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007
Este trabalho busca trazer para o campo da Saúde Coletiva as contribuições da ecologia política e da economia ecológica, visando a integrar as discussões em torno da promoção da saúde, da sustentabilidade sócio-ambiental e dos processos de ...
Marcelo Firpo Porto, Joan Martinez-Alier
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An Exploration of Capitalism's Metabolism with Nature and its Current Socio-Ecological Crisis [PDF]

Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum, 2013
Based on a dialectical-materialist methodology transcending the traditional Cartesian dualism, this assay sets out to explore the metabolic relationship between society and nature. Starting from an abstractive level concerning all societies, irrespective of the particular form of production, we proceed to more specifically examine this relationship ...
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The fishing footprint of a tourism-based economy: displacing seafood consumption from local to distant waters in the Balearic Islands

Journal of Political Ecology, 2015
Since the Balearics are one of the key tourism destinations in Europe, the tourism industry has entailed a radical transformation of coastal life on the islands.
Ivan Murray Mas
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