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Climate emergency: how the inequality crisis is dynamically linked to the sociogenesis of climate change 气候紧急情况:不平等危机如何与气候变化的社会成因动态联系起来

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/mepz5639

M. Harvey

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Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship for a civilisation in distress: questions for and from the Global South 一个处于困境的文明的跨学科和跨学科的学术研究:来自全球南方的问题

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/lbeq6699

Marcel Bursztyn, S. Purushothaman

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引用次数: 2

Local approaches to climate-sensitive peacebuilding: lessons from Afghanistan 气候敏感型建设和平的地方方法:来自阿富汗的经验教训

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/uoqe8930

A. Abdenur, Siddharth Tripathi

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