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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of Vinciane Despret\u27s What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right ...
Tebokkel, Nathan
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Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions

open access: yesReviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract The increasing threat of soil degradation presents significant challenges to soil health, especially within agroecosystems that are vital for food security, climate regulation, and economic stability. This growing concern arises from intricate interactions between land use practices and climatic conditions, which, if not addressed, could ...
Nima Shokri   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nicchie ecologiche e nicchia ontologica. Una riflessione tra le teorie della niche construction e la Lichtung di Peter Sloterdijk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper aims to examine in depth and to compare some latest developments in the field of Biological Sciences and Philosophy about the concept of “Space”. In particular it reports the theories of niche construction by F. J. Odling-Smee, K. N.
Massimiliano Latina
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A Global Perspective on River Alkalinity: Drivers and Implications for Coastal Ocean Carbonate Chemistry

open access: yesGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract The chemical nature of river water significantly influences the coastal carbonate system, contributing to coastal acidification and creating suboptimal conditions for marine calcifiers. While several regional efforts have assessed observationally based riverine concentrations and fluxes of total alkalinity (TA) and dissolved inorganic carbon ...
Fei Da   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science as systems learning. Some reflections on the cognitive and communicational aspects of science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper undertakes a theoretical investigation of the 'learning' aspect of science as opposed to the 'knowledge' aspect. The practical background of the paper is in agricultural systems research – an area of science that can be characterised as ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted
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Vitalism as Pathos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper addresses the remarkable longevity (in spite of numerous ‘refutations’) of the idea of vitalism in the biological sciences and beyond. If there is to be a renewed vitalism today, however, we need to ask – on what kind of original conception of
Osborne, Thomas S D
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Money, Debt, People and Planet

open access: yesCadmus, 2012
The widespread failure to understand money creation plays a key role in the current policy impasse. In a world ruled by money, this failure disempowers and prevents serious consideration of alternatives.
Jakob von Uexkull
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Effects of liming on soil physical and chemical properties in Europe and North America: A review

open access: yesAgrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract Soil acidity is one of the major constraints limiting crop production worldwide. About 50% of the global arable land is acidic. Liming remains an effective strategy for soil acidity amelioration and improvement of soil fertility. The objective of this review was to summarize information on liming effects on soil physical and chemical ...
Priscillar Wenyika   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soggetto vivente. Un confronto con la “filosofia dell’animalità” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In his book Felice Cimatti suggests a research of “man’s animality” based on a particular concept of “subjectivity”: accordingly to Heidegger and the greatest part of the western thought, only human being is a subject; so animal isn’t a subject and seems
Rasini, Vallori
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VON UEXKÜLL, Jacob Johann: Cartas Biológicas a una dama

open access: yesDaimon, 2016
Se trata de un pequeño texto de reciente traducción al español en el que puede darse cuenta de lo interesante y original de las ideas de Uexküll, al que algunos declaran como el pionero de la ecología y de la biosemiótica. Las páginas de este texto, sin
María Belén Campero
doaj   +1 more source

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