Synthesis, part of a special feature on Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods ABSTRACT Attention to environmental caretaking practices of Indigenous, traditional, and rural societies is an important strategy for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, as well as for greater ecological sustainability and resilience. Rural practices of caring for the eco-social commons in Himalayan Bhutan
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25 January 2023
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan
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24 January 2023
On International Day of Education, We Must Prioritize Girls in Humanitarian Crisis
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Credit: UNICEF/2022/Adebayo By Yasmine Sherif and Stephen OmolloNEW YORK, Jan 24 2023 (IPS) “Is it a sin to be a girl? We don’t want to be at home and illiterate. We want to go to school, study and be intelligent.” In just a few words, this plea for education from a young Afghan girl has
24 January 2023
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc
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By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders,
23 January 2023
Ukraine: No Peace Without a Military Victory
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Destroyed Residential Building in Dnipro, Ukraine. Credit: WFP/Viktor Pesenti By Jana PuglierinBERLIN, Jan 23 2023 (IPS) Russia has been at war with Ukraine for more than 10 months, with no end in sight and with just as little prospect for direct negotiations between the warring parties. These were last broken off mutually on 17 May
23 January 2023
‘No chance’ of global heating below 1.5C but nuclear tech ‘promising’ in climate crisis, Bill Gates says
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Billionaire and founder of Microsoft tells Sydney audience it is ‘great to have Australia on board on climate’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The world will be lucky to avoid 2.5C of heating, but emerging technology may help avert even worse, Bill Gates has told a Sydney
22 January 2023
Climate crisis and neglect threaten Spain’s saffron crop
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Growers fear a perfect storm for a tradition that has long bound rural communities together A sharp wind shunts clouds across the low and endless skies of La Mancha as Carlos Fernández stoops to pluck the last mauve flowers of the season from the cold earth. Their petals, which stain his index finger and thumb
22 January 2023
Impact of livelihood strategies and capitals on rangeland sustainability and nomads’ poverty: A counterfactual analysis in Southwest Iran
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Publication date: April 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 206 Author(s): Samane Ghazali, Mansour Zibaei, Hossein Azadi
22 January 2023
Is it time to turn western Sydney into a city of fountains? It might help beat the heat
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A combination of water technologies and cool building materials are more effective at tackling urban heat than greenery, a study has found Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The secret to more livable, cooler Australian cities may lie with the ancient Romans and a network of fountains like
20 January 2023
US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
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War damage in Borodianka, Kyiv Oblast. Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine By Baher KamalMADRID, Jan 20 2023 (IPS) As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new,
19 January 2023
A place to belong: creating an urban, Indian, women-led land trust in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Synthesis, part of a special feature on Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods ABSTRACT When grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, land trust structures provide an effective, inclusive vehicle to enact community and landscape care in the face of colonial disruptions. The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust in Lisjan (Ohlone) homelands in the San Francisco East Bay