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Impact of a livelihood promotion program on income generation and food consumption among ultra-poor households in rural Bangladesh

Global Health Action, 2022
Background Bangladesh has achieved notable economic progress in recent decades while economic inequality increased. Special attention is warranted on the ultra-poor population of the country.
Paige Volpenhein, Hee Sun Kim, Yunjeong Kim, MD. Iqbal Hussein, Jaganmay Biswas, Sunwoo Byun, Yunhee Kang   +6 more
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“The earth seemed unearthly”: capital, world-ecology, and enchanted nature in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness [PDF]

, 2018
This essay reads Heart of Darkness as a world-ecological text, examining themes of socioecological violence, waste, and exhaustion as theorized by the world-ecology paradigm.
Vandertop, Caitlin
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Gut microbiome composition associated with Plasmodium infection in the Eurasian tree sparrow

Journal of Avian Biology, 2023
Recent expansion of microbiome research has uncovered connections between resident microbial communities and blood parasite risk, establishing the potential for microbial disease treatments such as probiotics in the future.
Sage D. Rohrer, Briana Q. Robertson, Lon M. Chubiz, Patricia G. Parker   +3 more
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Pastoral practices, pressures, and human-wildlife relations in high altitude rangelands of eastern Himalaya: A case study of the Dokpa pastoralists of North Sikkim

Pastoralism, 2022
The pastoral practices of the Dokpa herders of North Sikkim have been transforming in response to the geo-political and socio-economic changes in the region.
Nisam Mang Luxom, Rashmi Singh, Laktsheden Theengh, Priyadarshinee Shrestha, Rishi Kumar Sharma   +4 more
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Composition and function of the Galapagos penguin gut microbiome vary with age, location, and a putative bacterial pathogen

Scientific Reports, 2023
Microbial colonization plays a direct role in host health. Understanding the ecology of the resident microbial community for a given host species is thus an important step for detecting population vulnerabilities like disease.
Sage D. Rohrer, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Patricia G. Parker, Lon M. Chubiz   +3 more
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Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets [PDF]

, 2012
Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy. Since the Kyoto Protocol in
Abate R. S., Arrighi G., Bernstein S., Bond P., Bruno K., Bueno F. M., Chatterjee P., De Angelis M., Foster J. B., Foster J. B., Foster J. B., Ghosh S., Giddens A., Gilbertson T., Grubb M., Guha R., Haque U., Harvey D., Harvey D., Heartfield J., Korten D., Lohmann L., Marini R. M., Marx K., Marx K., Marx K., Marx K., Moyo S., O’Connor J., Porter M. E., Pouchepadass J., Schlup M., Tietenberg T. H., UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), World Commission on Environment and Development, Yamin F.   +36 more
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Consideration of genetic variation and evolutionary history in future conservation of Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background The extant members of the Asian rhinos have experienced severe population and range declines since Pleistocene through a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors.
Tista Ghosh, Shrewshree Kumar, Kirtika Sharma, Parikshit Kakati, Amit Sharma, Samrat Mondol   +5 more
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Sustainability analysis of Chinese transport policy [PDF]

, 2001
Whilst the world economy is developed, the life and development of human beings have been threatened by the imbalance among environmental and ecological aspects. Thus sustainability is becoming increasingly the focus of various social fields. For most
Chen, H., Mao, B.
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Precarity in the Capitalocene:

Crossings, 2023
This paper, mapping the trajectory of migrant workers’ lives in Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island, locates precarity in the nexus of capitalism and climate change and identifies the latter as a new determinant of precarity.
S.A.M. Raihanur Rahman
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Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative-Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology [PDF]

, 2015
Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an astonishing historical capacity to produce, locate, and occupy cheap natures ...
Jason W. Moore
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