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Metamorphoses of Political Neoliberalism
AbstractThe phenomenon of political liberalism and its genesis and evolution are explored. This phenomenon is studied using interrelated...
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Revisiting Keynes in the Light of the Transition to Circular Economy
The study briefly recalls the evolution and crisis of the theory and thought of John Maynard Keynes with the rise and progressive dominance of the...
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Understanding the bioeconomy through its instruments: standardizing sustainability, neoliberalizing bioeconomies?
Sustainability standards have been one of the hopefuls for decades when it comes to ensuring the sustainability of biomass for the bioeconomy,...
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Forest frontiers out of control: The long-term effects of discourses, policies, and markets on conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon
With the Brazilian military governments of the 1960s, systematic economic development of the Amazon began. Social and environmental concerns have...
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GO-NGO Partnership and Sustainability of Climate Change Adaptation
Sustainability of climate change adaptation is currently the core point in climate-vulnerable countries like Bangladesh. The policies in adaptation...
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Urbanisation and Urban Villages: An Overview of Slum Communities in India
In 2011, over 65 million people lived in slumsSlums in urban IndiaUrban India. A slumSlums is an informal settlementInformal Settlement that largely...
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Hydrocarbons and other risks in a beekee** area of México: the precautionary principle for prevention and biotechnology for remediation
The Yucatan Peninsula is the most important beekee** region. However, the presence of hydrocarbons and pesticides violates the human right to a...
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Responding to Climate Change: Why Does It Matter? The Impacts of Climate Change
This chapter provides an overview of the factors that drive Indigenous experience with climate change to explain why it matters. We provide examples...
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Citizen participation through volunteered geographic information as equipment for a smart city to monitor urban decay
One of the issues brought on by rapid urbanization is the loss of livability owing to poor waste management, a lack of resources, air pollution,...
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Unemployment and Decent Work in Nigeria
The craving for decent jobs in develo** countries has posed a serious threat to employment which is an important challenge in attaining decent work...
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The Anthropocene: Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?
As we have seen in Chaps. 1 and 2 of this book, despite being...
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Solidarity Economy in Brazil: Towards Institutionalization of Sharing and Agroecological Practices
Solidarity economy is often focused on autonomous initiatives outside the regular market system. In Brazil, the leftist national government during...
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Let Earth Rebound! Conservation’s New Imperative
The status quo of a human-possessed and humanized ecosphere might be viewed as a shared “blueprint” in being widely regarded as given, normal, and...
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Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development
This chapter gives short description of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development “Transforming our world”, 17 goals, and the Global Sustainable...
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Sustainability and the common good: Catholic Social Teaching and ‘Integral Ecology’ as contributions to a framework of social values for sustainability transitions
It is widely acknowledged that the large-scale and long-term transitions needed to mitigate climate change and to implement policies for sustainable...
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Introduction: Fisheries, Quota Management, Quota Transfer and Bio-economic Rationalization
Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) were heralded in the 1980s as a market-based solution to the problem of overfishing and were adopted around the...
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Agroecology in Post-development
The fifth chapter focuses on popular organization, which has been growing due to the contradictions of the system itself. Specifically, I discuss the...
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Respect the Waters of Life
Water covers nearly 70 percent of the globe, and makes up almost 99 percent of the human body. Essential to life, it is also a powerful force of...