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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain and Food Trust: Will Consumers Pay More?

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain is increasingly used in agri‐food supply chains to make products more transparent and trustworthy. Yet, in countries like Italy, where certifications such as PDO, PGI, and organic labels already shape consumer confidence, its added value is still unclear.
Federico Modica   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Circular Economy Principles to Power Generation: Extending the Life of A Hydropower Plant by Pumped Hydro Energy Storage

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The application of circular economy, which aims to maximize efficiency and reduce waste, to renewable energy sources necessitates, given the intermittent nature of the latter, robust energy storage solutions to ensure grid stability and avoid wasting energy.
Ó. Martín‐Llorente   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

A Review on the Development and Key Technologies of Embodied Intelligent Industrial Robots in Smart Manufacturing

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Conventional industrial robots rely on predefined workflows and struggle to adapt to changing tasks and uncertain manufacturing environments. This review examines the development and key technologies of embodied intelligent industrial robots (EIIRs), highlighting a closed‐loop architecture that integrates human and industrial inputs, embodied ...
Jie Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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