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The end of the experiment? The energy crisis, neoliberal energy, and the limits to a socio-ecological fix 实验结束了吗?能源危机，新自由主义能源，以及社会生态修复的局限性

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-05-07 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231172844

Gareth Fearn

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Social representations on the environment and socio-metabolic regimes: The case of the Spanish state 环境与社会代谢制度的社会表征:以西班牙为例

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231169208

Marina Requena-i-Mora

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Introduction: Accumulation by restoration and political ecologies of repair 绪论:修复积累与修复的政治生态

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231168393

A. Huff, Andrea Brock

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Deviant accumulation at farmed animal sanctuaries 养殖动物保护区异常堆积

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231167870

Heather L. Rosenfeld

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Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa 多物种共存的复杂性:非洲南部野生动物-牲畜界面的动物疾病和不同的排序模式

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231160637

Arvid van Dam, Wisse van Engelen, Detlef Müller-Mahn, Sheila Agha, S. Junglen, C. Borgemeister, M. Bollig

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Mapping the catastrophic imaginaryThe organisation of environmental politics through climate change 描绘灾难性的想象通过气候变化组织环境政治

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231168395

Nicholas Beuret

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Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics 主题议题简介:印度身份政治中的物种转向

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231167867

Y. Narayanan, K. Srinivasan

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Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of ‘agential cuts’ and ‘method assemblages’ in ontological politics – an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District 解开水世界:“代理削减”和“方法组合”在本体论政治中的作用——以英国湖区洛斯沃特为例

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-06 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231165441

Judith Tsouvalis

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Humane dog food? caring and killing in the certified humane dog food value chain 人道的狗粮?人道认证的狗粮价值链中的关怀和杀戮

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231165457

Carly Baker

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Deadwood: People, place, and neoliberal forest policy in British Columbia, Canada 朽木:加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的人、地方和新自由主义森林政策

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Environment and Planning. E, Nature and Space Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/25148486231165447

S. Earley

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