Housing materials and methods for tropical Africa [PDF]
Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, 1976 How traditional, and some new, resources are used and might economically be used in future — as seen from the National Housing and Building Research Unit in Tanzania.
J. P. Moriarty, T. I. Svare
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Evolutionary optimization of material properties of a tropical seed [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2011 Here, we show how the mechanical properties of a thick-shelled tropical seed are adapted to permit them to germinate while preventing their predation. The seed has evolved a complex heterogeneous microstructure resulting in hardness, stiffness and fracture toughness values that place the structure at the intersection of these competing selective ...
Peter W, Lucas +6 more
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"We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes": Connecting the Environment, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2019 York University ...
del Socorro Cruz Centenno, Lidieth +1 more
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Recycling of Tropical Natural Fibers in Building Materials
, 2022 This chapter deals with the reuse and recycling of tropical natural fibers and their potential valorization in construction materials in a context of circular economy and sustainable development. These fibers constitute large volumes of fibrous waste resulting from various agro-food industries worldwide.
Huyen, Bui, +2 more
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Investigation of recycled materials for radiative cooling under tropical climate
Nanophotonics, 2023 Abstract As a sustainable alternative to using virgin polymer, we propose the use of recycled polymer for the fabrication of passive radiative cooling materials to tackle both the increasing demand for cooling systems and to upcycle plastic waste.
Di Han +4 more
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En el trasfondo de nuestra cultura: la tradición racionalista y el problema del dualismo ontológico [PDF]
, 2013 El presente texto desarrolla una lectura de la tradición racionalista occidental (cartesiana, abstracta) a partir del marco fenomenológico de la cognición y la computación propuesto por Maturana, Varela, y Flores.
Arturo Escobar
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Composing postcolonial geographies: Postconstructivism, ecology and overcoming ontologies of critique [PDF]
, 2014 This paper seeks to bridge postcolonialism's turn to the environment with postconstructivist ecology and political ontology. Recent critiques by Chakrabarty, Spivak, and associated postcolonial theorists seek to expand the remit of postcolonialism and ...
Jackson, Mark S
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Into the Woods: Toward a Material Poetics of the Tropical Forest in Philippine Literature [PDF]
, 2022 This study considers how the tropical forest as a material and discursive space mediates the ways in which history is imagined in Philippine literary texts and literary production. Mobilizing ideas from new materialism, material poetics, and tropicality,
Diaz, Glenn L
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Vernacular Virtual: Toward a Philippine New Materialist Poetics Authors [PDF]
, 2022 This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order to open up the possibility of a new materialist regard of literature, one that specifically stems from the Philippine tropics.
Benitez, Christian Jil R
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Spiritual Materialism/ Material Spiritualism: Shakta Tantric Approaches to Matter
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 In opposition to ontological discourses that denigrate matter and uphold the superiority of the spirit, one can foreground the Shakta Tantric conceptualization of matter and spirit as interchangeable forces that inform the dynamics of the universe ...
Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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