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Becoming Soil
This chapter continues develo** Indigeneity. It does so by develo** what has become known as the ontopolitics of ‘becoming indigenous.’ I also...
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Agroecological management of spontaneous vegetation in Bachajón’s Tseltal Maya milpa: a preventive focus
In recent years, a great deal of evidence has accumulated on the health risks and environmental impacts of some herbicides. Both conventional...
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Observing farm plots to increase attentiveness and cooperation with nature: a case study in Belgium
In intensive European agricultural areas, the control of weeds and wildlife within plots is of great importance. Yet, we can observe in many farming...
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Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized crop** systems in Georgia (U.S.)
Since the introduction and widespread adoption of chemical herbicides, “weed management” has become almost synonymous with “herbicide management.”...
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Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield
It remains at best controversial to claim, non-figuratively, that plants are cognitive agents. At the same time, it is taken as trivially true that...
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Chickens, weeds, and the production of green middle-class identity through urban agriculture in deindustrial Michigan, USA
In recent decades, urban agriculture has drawn practitioners seeking ways to increase both environmental sustainability and social equity in their...
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The Ethical Implications of Enlightenment in Dōgen’s Philosophy of Compassion
What is the role of feelings (jō) in Dōgen’s Buddhist thought? Throughout the Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, it is clear that Dōgen has a negative view of...
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Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism
According to the no-miracle argument, scientific realism is the only view that does not render the predictive success of scientific theories...
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Knowledge and Employability: The Futility of Rote Education
Our future employability and survivability will depend on our ability to competitively coexist with AI-embedded machines in the job market. We have...
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Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective
A recent idea of “ecosystem health” was introduced in the 1970s and 1980s to draws attention to the fact that ecosystems can become ill because of a...
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Are Animals Needed for Food Supply, Efficient Resource Use, and Sustainable Crop** Systems? An Argumentation Analysis Regarding Livestock Farming
It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would...
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Improving conservation outcomes in agricultural landscapes: farmer perceptions of native vegetation on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
With agriculture the primary driver of biodiversity loss, farmers are increasingly expected to produce environmental outcomes and protect...
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Intra-Acting Food Citizenship in Community-Supported Agriculture in Finland
Citizens are called upon to become active participants in creating a more sustainable food system. As food citizens, people participate in defining...
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Superweed amaranth: metaphor and the power of a threatening discourse
This paper analyses the use of metaphor in discourses around the “superweed” Palmer amaranth. Most weed scientists associated with the US public...
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An Ecological Context
Literary formalism, incorporating structuralist ideas developed by the Prague Linguistics Circle, proposes that literature is not the effect of an...
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Nenad Miščević Stays True to Himself!
This is a contribution to a symposium about a book on thought experiments by Nenad Miščević. I argue that it is the first monograph dedicated to a...
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Role of Artificial Intelligence in Advancing Sustainable Development Goals in the Agriculture Sector
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the algorithms designed to make decisions, often using big real-time data to perform activities that at times go...
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Sincerity as the Supreme Ultimate: The Philosophy of Zhou Dunyi
Zhou Dunyi (周敦颐), courtesy name Mao Shu (茂叔), was born in the first year of the Tianxi era (天禧元年, 1017 A.D.) of Emperor Zhen Zong (真宗) of the...