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Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature – the … Continue reading
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Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition
The basic pattern found in the evolution of cognition is a pattern in which individual organisms derive an advantage from cognitive capacities in their attempts to deal with problems and opportunities posed by environmental complexity of various kinds. Cognitive capacities … Continue reading
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Divided Socio-natures – co-Construction of Science, Society and Environment
This thesis deals, in a variety of ways, with one overarching analytical question: how to analyze, from a sociological point of view, the importance of scientific knowledge in contemporary disputes on the fate of threatened nature in ‘world risk society’? … Continue reading
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Systems Intelligent Environmental Leadership
As a result of increased human impact, environmental problems and challenges are becoming more and more commonplace worldwide. Many of these problems are large and complex, transcend national boundaries and involve many different stakeholder groups. New environmental leadership is needed … Continue reading
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Brain and Socio-Cultural Environment
The human brain is currently studied as a natural object working in a world of natural stimuli. Brain functional organization depending on the socio-cultural environment is not sufficiently considered. Research perspectives are outlined in order to verify the hypothesis of … Continue reading
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Toward fostering Environmental Political Participation: framing an agenda for Environmental Education Research
Scholars of environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) have been among the environmental leaders calling for individuals to become increasingly engaged in political action aimed at addressing environmental and sustainability issues. Few, however, have studied how educational … Continue reading
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An Evolutionary Model of the Environmental Conditions that Shape the Development of Prosociality
The current review presents a model for how prosocial development is driven by socio-cognitive mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection to translate critical environmental factors into locally adaptive levels of prosociality. This is done through a synthesis of … Continue reading
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Winning games
The games we play have been played under the assumption that the unit of survival is the individual, a team of people or a company. However, the reality is that the unit of survival is the players in the game … Continue reading
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