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The Virocene Epoch: the vulnerability nexus of viruses, capitalism and racism

Journal of Political Ecology, 2020
COVID-19 has ushered in a new planetary epoch—the Virocene. In doing so, it has laid bare the limits of humanity's power over nature, exposing the vulnerability of 'normal' ways of living and their moral and pragmatic bankruptcy in coping with those ...
Jude L Fernando
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Collaborative survival in the city: Envisioning alternative urban futures through Black agrarian praxis

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Urban inhabitants exist within hybrid spaces of continual transformation and metabolism where human labor is woven into the work of the trees, the grass, the water cycle.
Justine Lindemann
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Exploitation des ressources naturelles et échange écologique inégal : une approche globale de la dette écologique

VertigO, 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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The adaptive strategies of yaks to live in the Asian highlands

Animal Nutrition, 2022
The yak (Bos grunniens), an indigenous herbivore raised at altitudes between 3,000 and 5,000 m above sea level, is closely linked to more than 40 ethnic communities and plays a vital role in the ecological stability, livelihood security, socio-economic ...
Xiaoping Jing, Luming Ding, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaodan Huang, Allan Degen, Ruijun Long   +5 more
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Applying societal metabolism to characterize water availability, requirement, and scarcity in agriculture. A case study of Mexico

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Given the environmental challenges of soil depletion, water scarcity, and resource competition, the agricultural products market demands a continuous increase in annual crop productivity.
Enrique Zunzunegui Escamilla, Gonzalo Ángeles Ordoñez, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Maribel A. Caballero Castrillo, Miguel A. Morales Mora, Miguel A. Morales Mora   +5 more
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Differential Inclusion and the Socio‐Ecological Superdiversification of Tokyo

Urban Planning
While the Chicago School laid the groundwork for conceiving cities as ecological systems, contemporary socio‐ecological urban studies offer a more nuanced, sustainability‐oriented framework that incorporates critical perspectives on migration, inequality,
Sakura Yamamura
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Eco-social innovation for efficient urban metabolisms

Techne, 2017
The paper reports the results of a research Project intended to promote socio-ecological effect in the urban renewal projects of deteriorated Mediterranean metropolitan suburbs.
Alessandro Sgobbo
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Thirty years of nitrogen dynamics in European agri-food systems: a territorial metabolic perspective

Environmental Research Letters
European agri-food systems face the dual challenge of reducing their environmental footprint, particularly nitrogen losses, while meeting the demands for both food and non-food biomass.
Ludovic Harter, Rasmus Einarsson, Jean-Christophe Lata, Julia Le Noë   +3 more
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ISSUES OF FORMING THE SCIENCE OF ANTHROPOCENE

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2016
Objective: to study the issues of anthropocene formation as a scientific concept. Methods: dialectical method of cognition, detailization, logical generalization.
N. N. Drozdov, L. P. Kurakov, S. M. Pyastolov, A. L. Kurakov   +3 more
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Circular transition: scenarios for the future of design

Techne, 2021
The 22nd issue of TECHNE, which deals with the theme of circular transition and design, stems from the planning and scientific-cultural orientations developed with the Direction and Editorial Board for the period 2017-2021.
Mario Losasso
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