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Degrowth and diverse economies: Shared perspectives and productive tensions 去增长与多样化经济：共同的观点与生产性紧张关系

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104128

Thomas S.J. Smith

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“Our town is dying:“ Exploring utility-scale and rooftop solar energy injustices in Southeastern California "我们的小镇正在消亡："探索加利福尼亚东南部公用事业规模和屋顶太阳能的不公正现象

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104120

Alexander A. Dunlap , Benjamin K. Sovacool , Bojana Novakovic

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Dismantling displacement and de-tenanting—Toward a feminist legal geography perspective on the housing crisis and eviction court cases in Germany 拆解流离失所和去租户化--从女性主义法律地理学角度看德国的住房危机和驱逐法庭案件

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104126

Sarah Klosterkamp

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Contours of collaboration: Understanding emerging communities of practice in economic development 合作的轮廓：了解经济发展中的新兴实践社区

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104113

Joel Jennings

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Stealing the seabed. The Canadian State and the question of Rights and Title over submerged lands 偷窃海床。加拿大国家与水下土地的权利和所有权问题

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104108

Rosanna Carver , Erika Gavenus , J.J. Manson

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Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature: The case of Northwest Ecuador 采掘业引发新形式的自然权利治理：厄瓜多尔西北部案例

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104111

Claudia Coral , Tobias Plieninger , Stefan Sieber , Valerie Graw

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Care narratives: Babassu breakers and mother palm trees 关爱叙事：巴巴苏断裂带和棕榈树妈妈

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104109

Adriana Ressiore C. , Carmen Lúcia Silva Lima , Esther Turnhout

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The corporate food regime in conflict zones: Armed violence and agriculture in the Zona de Reserva Campesina-Valle del Río Cimitarra, Colombia 冲突地区的企业粮食制度：哥伦比亚 Zona de Reserva Campesina-Valle del Río Cimitarra 的武装暴力与农业

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104112

Jaskiran Kaur Chohan

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Neoliberal necropolitics and the global competition for urban dominance 新自由主义死亡政治学与全球城市主导权竞争

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104107

Richard Kirk

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Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 纠缠不清的领土争议：危地马拉克萨尔特南戈的采矿、领土秩序和权力之争

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110

Hannah Porada , Rutgerd Boelens , Barbara Hogenboom

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