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The World Ecology of Desalination

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2020
World-systems scholars are increasingly engaged in issues at the intersection of ecological and economic concerns since the proliferation of debates on the Anthropocene.
Brian F O'Neill
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The World Within Wikipedia: An Ecology of Mind [PDF]

open access: goldInformation, 2012
Human beings inherit an informational culture transmitted through spoken and written language. A growing body of empirical work supports the mutual influence between language and categorization, suggesting that our cognitive-linguistic environment both ...
Andrew M. Olney   +2 more
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The "Microplastome" - A Holistic Perspective to Capture the Real-World Ecology of Microplastics. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Sci Technol
Microplastic pollution, an emerging pollution issue, has become a significant environmental concern globally due to its ubiquitous, persistent, complex, toxic, and ever-increasing nature. As a multifaceted and diverse suite of small plastic particles with different physicochemical properties and associated matters such as absorbed chemicals and ...
Li C   +15 more
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The relationship between naturalized alien and native plant species: insights from oceanic islands of the south-east Pacific over the last 200 years [PDF]

open access: yesNeoBiota, 2023
Aim: The relationship between native and naturalized alien species has been widely studied, particularly across large geographic scales. However, our knowledge of the spatial and temporal variations of their relationships is still limited, particularly ...
Luis Cáceres-Polgrossi   +5 more
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Capitalizing on Green Debt

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2021
Green bonds represent an increasingly popular way to match “environmental sustainability,” growth, and the aspirations of global financial capital. In this article, we leverage a world-ecology approach to unpack and make sense of green bonds as public ...
Tomaso Ferrando   +5 more
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Title: Green bonds in the world-ecology: capital, nature and power in the financialized expansion of the forestry industry in Brazil

open access: yesRelaciones Internacionales, 2021
The 2008 financial crisis opened the doors of green capitalism as a financially sound approach to saving the planet from the worst effects of the climate emergency.
Iagê Miola   +5 more
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Ecología-mundo, un nuevo paradigma para el estudio de las migraciones internacionales

open access: yesEMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2020
A lo largo del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI la comunidad académica ha desarrollado numerosas teorías para explicar el fenómeno de las migraciones internacionales, tal como Massey et al. (1998) recogieron en su famoso libro “Worlds in motion”. Sin embargo,
Yoan Molinero Gerbeau, Gennaro Avallone
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Land, sheep, and market: how dependency on global commodity chains changed relations between pastoralists and nature

open access: yesRelaciones Internacionales, 2021
In this article, we present a historical analysis on how Sardinian pastoralism has become an integrated activity in global capitalism, oriented to the production of cheap milk, through the extraction of ecological surplus from the exploitation of nature ...
Domenica Farinella   +2 more
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Assessing soil and land health across two landscapes in eastern Rwanda to inform restoration activities [PDF]

open access: yesSOIL, 2021
Land degradation negatively impacts water, food, and nutrition security and is leading to increased competition for resources. While landscape restoration has the potential to restore ecosystem function, understanding the drivers of degradation is ...
L. A. Winowiecki   +7 more
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Dall’ecologia politica attraverso il Capitalocene per una società ecologica

open access: yesGeography Notebooks, 2020
In the context of Political Ecology, this paper traces the main interpretations that have emphasized the need to rethink the relationship between nature and society in order to find new solutions to the ecological crisis.
Gioacchino Piras
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