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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Climatology in Arab and Western Civilization

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات
This research focuses on the stages of development of Applied Climatology, where Greek scientists such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Ptolemy referred to the first ideas of this science, as they focus on the relationship between the changes of the seasons ...
Salar Ali Khidher
doaj   +1 more source

Islam sebagai Agama dan Peradaban

open access: yesTsaqafah, 2015
Islam and civilization can not be separated. Since its presence, Islam has brought the concept and mission of civilization that is inherent in it. Islamic civilization sourced from dîn (religion) which came from the revelation of Allah.
Qosim Nursheha Dzulhadi
doaj   +1 more source

Saving civilization from itself

open access: yes, 2013
In his recent lecture series, Guilt about the Past, Bernard Schlink observes, "What is both historically unique and persistently disturbing about the Holocaust is that Germany, with its cultural heritage and place among civilized nations, was capable of ...
Bowden, Brett (R15141)
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Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa A.D. 843 to circa 1715 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Syllabus for Western Civilization course on Medieval and Early Modern Europe taught at UCLA in Spring ...
Jesse Sadler
core   +1 more source

Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

The confrontation of savageness and civilization in Joe Abercrombie’s fantasy Western Red Country [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
In the novel Red Country the famous British author Joe Abercrombie carries out a genre experiment combining in one book the features of such distant and incongruous genres as fantasy and Western.
Ivanova, Elizaveta Andreevna
doaj   +1 more source

The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change: Rethinking Justice, Responsibility, and Collective Obligation

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

The courtiers of civilization a study of diplomacy

open access: yes, 2013
"Comprehensive study of the diplomat and the diplomatic mission in western civilization"--Provided by ...
Sofer, Sasson
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Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
wiley   +1 more source

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