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The Nexus among Water, Soil, Food, Biodiversity and Energy Security
Human well-being, human development and peaceful coexistence require healthy ecosystems and ecosystem services. However, humankind has produced...
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Fighting Science with Science: Counter-Expertise Production in Anti-Shale Gas Mobilizations in France and Poland
Between the second half of the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s, the prospect of shale gas extraction in Europe at first prompted fervent...
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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration With a Foreword by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and a Preface by Hans Günter Brauch
Earth at Risk in the 21st Centuryoffers critical interdisciplinary reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the environment,...
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Energy Security: Policies and Potentials in Mexico
Since 2015, the drop in global oil pricesOil prices has affected government spending in Mexico. During the years of high international oil pricesOil...
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Contextualisation on Gender, Peace, Security and Environment
These texts on gender, peace, security and environmental problems were written based on my concern about an unequalUnequal and unsustainable...
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A New World (1979–1994)
This chapter examines the swee** changes in water and salinity management in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) during the late 1970s until the...
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The Social Conundrum of Eco-Centric Activism Against Oceanic Minerals
Extractive industries have caused immense social and environmental impact and yet remain the foundation of modern society. Minerals are the ultimate...
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Women, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa has been identified as the most vulnerable part of the develo** world to climate change impact (CCI) with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) regarded...
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Ahimsa and Human Development: A Different Paradigm for Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Entering soon the third decade of the new millennium, and facing changes on a global scale, a distinct geopolitical order has emerged in which the...
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Rights-Based Resistance of Dissident Labor and Land Activists
“The Vietnamese Law is interpreted like poetry”, says democracy activist Kiều, by which she describes her perception of how Vietnam’s officially...
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Community Activism (1966–1988)
This chapter examines the emergence and activities of a rural environmental movement in the Goulburn–Murray Irrigation District (GMID). Rooted in the...
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A New Order? Constituting Health and Safety
This chapter examines four core components of the constitutional legitimacy of health and safety, relating to the legal and political bases on which...
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‘Thorns in the Spirit’: Traumatic Narratives
I borrow the idea of cultural trauma to apply it to a specific case: the local memory in Belene, a small town on the Danube, where the largest and...
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The Porous Prison: Commerce, Culture and Escape
This chapter is concerned with Dartmoor’s economy, both licit and illicit. A key theme running through the chapter is that of “porosity”, with the...
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A Decade of Revolution: 1986, 1990, 1995
This chapter gives an account of the decade of changes which followed from the removal from office of the PNM in 1986 by the multi-racial coalition,...
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1400 TO 1600–RENAISSANCE AND OTHERWISE
The period from 1350 to 1600 is often referred to as “the Renaissance”. It should be kept in mind, however, that the Renaissance was rather a...
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Drivers, trends and scenarios for the future of health in Europe. Impressions from the FRESHER project
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardio-vascular problems, diabetes, cancer, multi-skeletal disorders, depression, neurologic disorders and...
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Globalization of the Nigerian State and Economy
One of the striking realities of Nigeria is the devastating effect that the globalization of the state and economy has on the oil sector. Thus, the...