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The map of conflicts related to environmental injustice and health in Brazil
Diogo Ferreira da Rocha,Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto,Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto,Tania Pacheco,Jean Pierre Leroy +4 more
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The Map of Environmental Injustice and Health in Brazil as mentioned in this paper has 570 emblematic environmental conflicts in all regions of Brazil, including mining expansion, oil and gas extractions, infrastructure (roads, mega-dams), agribusiness, and pesticide pollution.Citations
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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?
Geordan Shannon,Melanie Jansen,Kate Williams,Carlos F. Caceres,Angélica Motta,Aloyce Odhiambo,Alie Eleveld,Jenevieve Mannell +7 more
TL;DR: This Review presents a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender Equality in these fields matters in terms of health and social outcomes, and reflect on strategies to promote change.
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The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability
TL;DR: The Global Atlas of Environmental Justice as discussed by the authors is a unique global inventory of cases of socio-environmental conflicts built through a collaborative process between academics and activist groups which includes both qualitative and quantitative data on thousands of conflictive projects as well as on the social response.
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Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework.
TL;DR: A conceptual framework is presented that schematically maps out the linkages between patterns of (unsustainable) social metabolism, the emergence of ecological distribution conflicts, the rise of environmental justice movements, and their potential contributions for sustainability transitions.
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Inter-Philosophies Dialogue: Creating a Paradigm for Global Health Ethics
TL;DR: The inter-philosophies methodology provides the potential to construct a new, shared paradigm for global health ethics, thereby increasing the capacity for solidarity and shared decision-making in global health research and practice.
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Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the social-ecological systems framework (SESF) and collective action theory to diagnose challenges for management in the Caete-Teperacu marine RESEX near Braganca, Brazil, a multiuse mangrove estuary supporting a small-scale crab fishery.
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Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality
TL;DR: The Environmental Justice Movement: Survey Results as mentioned in this paper showed that 80% of the participants believed that environmental justice should be a priority issue in government policy making, and 75% of those believed that government should take environmental justice into account.
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The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation
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The environmentalism of the poor : a study of ecological conflicts and valuation
TL;DR: Martinez-Alier as mentioned in this paper analyzed several manifestations of the growing environmental justice system, and also of popular environmentalism and the "environmentalism of the poor", which will be seen in the coming decades as driving forces in the process to achieve an ecologically sustainable society.
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Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges
TL;DR: Boaventura de Sousa Santos as discussed by the authors is a sociologist at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
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Degrowth : a vocabulary for a new era
TL;DR: The Degrowth Vocabulary for a New Era as mentioned in this paper ) is the first English language book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning literature on degrowth, which brings together the top scholars writing in the field with young researchers who cultivate the research frontier and activists who practice degrowth on the ground.