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Modeling Sustainability of Water, Environment, Livelihood, and Culture in Traditional Irrigation Communities and Their Linked Watersheds

Fernald, Alexander; Tidwell, Vincent; Rivera, José; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2998-3022

Water scarcity, land use conversion and cultural and ecosystem changes threaten the way of life for traditional irrigation communities of the semi-arid southwestern United States. Traditions are strong, yet potential upheaval is great in these communities that rely on acequia irrigation...

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Monocropping Cultures into Ruin: The Loss of Food Varieties and Cultural Diversity

Jacques, Peter J.; Jacques, Jessica Racine - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 11, pp. 2970-2997

The loss of genetic diversity of thousands of plants and crops has been well documented at least since the 1970s, and has been understood as a result of epistemological and political economic conditions of the Green Revolution. The political economic arrangement of the Green Revolution,...

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Worlds Apart: A Social Theoretical Exploration of Local Networks, Natural Actors, and Practitioners of Rural Development in Southern Honduras

Gareau, Brian J. - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 7, pp. 1596-1618

networks. Actor-network theory breaks down the nature-culture dichotomy of actor-oriented theory, so that nature becomes as …

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Resilience of Outdoor Spaces in an Era of Climate Change: The Problem of Developing Countries

Hatuka, Tali; Saaroni, Hadas - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 1, pp. 90-99

This paper recommends expanding research on the interrelations between climate change, cities, culture and the way …

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Making Migrants Visible in Post-MDG Debates

Thieme, Susan; Ghimire, Anita - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 1, pp. 399-415

While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework …, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We … remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification services, the …

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Museums, Diasporas and the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 2178-2190

This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas … to the intangible cultural heritage of migration to Europe and argue that by recording, documenting, safeguarding and …

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Gendered Morality and Development Narratives: The Case of Female Labor Migration from Indonesia

Chan, Carol - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6949-6972

they experience the risks and promises of transnational labor migration in gendered and culturally specific ways. …

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Migration, Social Demands and Environmental Change amongst the Frafra of Northern Ghana and the Biali in Northern Benin

Sow, Papa; Adaawen, Stephen A.; Scheffran, Jürgen - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 1, pp. 375-398

The impacts of environmental change and degradation on human populations, including the possibility of sharp increases in the number of people considered “environmental migrants” have gained considerable attention. Migrating communities may try to distribute their members along particular...

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Residential Tourism and Multiple Mobilities: Local Citizenship and Community Fragmentation in Costa Rica

Noorloos, Femke van - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 2, pp. 570-589

Current patterns of “move-in move-out” hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by residential tourism: the temporary or permanent mobility of relatively well-to-do citizens from mostly western countries to a variety of tourist destinations, where they buy property. The mobility of...

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Globalization, Latin American Migration and Catalan: Closing the Ring

Garzón, Luis - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2498-2512

This article examines the effects of globalization dynamics on the use of Catalan among Latin American migrants living in Catalonia. The globalization process pushes towards an increasing mobility of workers and companies. Barcelona is one of the cities where this dynamic has been more evident...

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