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Prosociality: Against Consequentialism and Towards Relationality

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Prosocial behaviour is a topic of concern within sociology and the social sciences more broadly. Though defined in various ways, the dominant theme of existing definitions of prosociality centres the causal power of an act in producing real or intended benefits for some other agents, at a cost to the agent that performed the act.
Maurice Bokanga
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Street Dust-Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in a Saudi Coastal City: Status, Profile, Sources, and Human Health Risk Assessment. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2018
Shabbaj II, Alghamdi MA, Alghamdi MA, Khoder MI.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences ...
Anna Papoutsi, Antonis Vradis
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Spatial distribution, pollution level and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in urban street dust at neighbourhood scale. [PDF]

Int J Biometeorol
Isinkaralar O, Isinkaralar K, Nguyen TNT.   +2 more
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Source identification of total petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM₁₀ and street dust of a hot spot for petrochemical production: Asaluyeh County, Iran. [PDF]

Sustain Cities Soc, 2019
Abbasi S, Keshavarzi B.
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Geography and ‘The New’

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all practices of knowledge generation. Newness, whether it be an empirical finding, an idea, a concept or an approach, can fuel the interest, wonder ...
Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme   +7 more
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Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter in Regional Environments of Bangladesh and Its Effects on Respiratory Health: A Narrative Review

Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Air pollution represents a critical public health crisis in Bangladesh, driven by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and widespread emissions from brick kilns, traffic, and biomass burning. Elevated levels of fine particulate matter and toxic gases across both urban and rural regions contributes to significant reductions in life
K. M. Ferdousul Haque, Mohammad A Rashid, Mohammad Sharifur Rahman, Md. Khalid Hossain, Md. Shafiul Hossen   +4 more
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Ecological pollution features and health risk exposure to heavy metals via street dust and topsoil from Nkpor and Onitsha in Anambra, Nigeria. [PDF]

Environ Anal Health Toxicol
Nduka JK, Umeh TC, Kelle HI, Okeke FC, Iloka GC, Okafor PC.   +5 more
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Comparison of two methods for indirect measurement of atmospheric dust deposition: Street-dust composition and vegetation-health status derived from hyperspectral image data. [PDF]

Ambio, 2019
Žibret G, Kopačková V.
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Comparative Study of Expected Ecosystem Services and Tree Species Diversity in Residential Plots of Polluted and Unpolluted Neighborhoods in the Copper City of Lubumbashi

Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Natural ecosystem loss and deterioration in the quality of the urban environment due to rapid urbanization associated with soil pollution by mining activity have become a huge dilemma in the mining city of Lubumbashi (DR Congo). This study aimed to assess the importance attributed to trees through the expected services, species choice and ...
Jacques Kilela Mwanasomwe, Serge Langunu, Franck Mpetemba wa Kalala, Gilles Colinet, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha   +4 more
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