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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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Would you buy my deconstructed house?

HumanNature

2016) The topic of deconstruction concerns various stakeholders including the general contractors, the recycling or deconstruction subcontractors and the government, both local and federal, who develop standards that are in place for recycling and re-use of materials. (Paruszkiewicz et al., Integrated Waste Management: Volume I.

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How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities

HumanNature

Third, these lower incomes and high-risk jobs leave rural areas dependent on government subsidies. As climate change continues to increase the cost of living in rural regions, these areas will continue to be vulnerable if government support cannot account for imbalances in increasing costs. This map shows projected changes in U.S.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The program, which launched in 2011, is a 25-year effort to install stormwater runoff-absorbing green infrastructure and improve traditional infrastructure, easing the burden on our combined sewer system and reducing combined sewer overflows.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. Therefore, these are the things we have to mobilize for and make so much noise that governments cannot avoid it.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

Cases have targeted the federal government for failure to contain a surge in deforestation and the federal environmental agency for easing timber exportation requirements. hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018.