Mistaken Worlds: When “Abundance” and “Scarcity” Collide in the Colombian Amazon by Gerard Verschoor, Camilo Torres

“…Employing a perspective that rejects cultural uniqueness, this study examines the multiplicity of practices and realities in which the different actors confront dilemmas around the use of common pool resources. …”
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La innovación como eje clave del desarrollo local by María Liliana Quintero

“…La innovación constituye una de las fuerzas motoras del desarrollo a escala global y local, siendo fundamental las estrategias que adopten las empresas para adquirir competencias tecnológicas e innovadoras en general, en interacción con los demás actores involucrados a fin de mejorar las desigualdades territoriales. …”
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How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness by Jeni Whalan by Umair Khalid Ameen

“… This book review examines an insightful study on peace operations, focusing on their power, legitimacy, and effectiveness in influencing local actors. The author explores the moral and ethical debates surrounding international interventions, referencing key scholarly works on sovereignty, state-building, and conflict resolution. …”
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Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil's Constitutional Blueprint by Marina Baptista-Rosa

“…Among these countries, Brazil stands out as the sole nation where the constitutional provision is directly applicable and supported by an extensive standing regime that enables diverse actors to invoke this protection in manifold judicial proceedings. …”
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La régulation des goûts by Christian Barrère

“…Firms play on tastes to increase the value of their capital but encounter many other actors (the State, the consumers and their communities) in a world of competing powers and counter-powers.…”
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Changement climatique et développement des territoires de montagne : quelles connaissances pour quelles pistes d’action ? by Didier Richard, Emmanuelle George-Marcelpoil, Vincent Boudières

“…Its durability and vitality undoubtedly constitute a priority for local actors. It is not surprising therefore that the latter have set up strategies for adapting to climate change. …”
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The Duchess of Malfi de John Webster ou le corps dans tous ses états: « Some said he was an hermaphrodite, for he could not abide a woman » (3. 2. 217-218) by Laetitia Coussement-Boillot

“…It seems therefore that Webster willingly foregrounds the body’s physicality, all the more so as his medium, drama, relies on the physical presence of the actors on stage. In his play, the suffering body is omnipresent, yet one also notices an ambivalent perspective focusing both on the body as womb and as tomb, and even, at times, on the body as the meeting-point between the masculine and the feminine, reminding us of the figure of the hermaphrodite. …”
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Les investissements dans l'environnement des acteurs des circuits courts de proximité agroalimentaires by Sophie Rétif, Marius Chevallier

“…Our analysis is mainly based upon 40 interviews with various participants in the SFSC in the Limousin region (agricultural producers, consumers, intermediaries, local government actors, etc.) and twenty analytical forms of collective SFSC organizations. …”
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Les récits de la bioéconomie comme grille de lecture des tensions sur les transformations écologiques du capitalisme by Nicolas Béfort, Pascal Grouiez, Romain Debref, Franck-Dominique Vivien

“…We adopt a meso-regulation approach and propose to think of the patterns of ecological transition as the outcome of a confrontation among heterogeneous groups of actors. We focus on the case of the bioeconomy, whose specific feature lies in its capacity to question the institutionalization of some material and energy flows. …”
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Participación y percepción de la CONAIE en el Ecuador plurinacional by Jorge Resina De la Fuente

“…Su concreción en instituciones, políticas públicas y mecanismos de participación está generando un contexto de fuertes tensiones al interior del sistema, principalmente, entre dos actores que en un inicio se presentaban como aliados naturales: el Gobierno de Rafael Correa y la principal organización indígena del país, la CONAIE. …”
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Yasuní en el siglo XXI. El Estado ecuatoriano y la conservación de la Amazonía de Guillaume Fontaine e Iván Narváez (editores) by Francisco Neira

“…Sugieren entonces considerar una forma de gobernanza ambiental que convoque a la diversidad de actores involucrados en su manejo. En este sentido, ven al modelo de Reservas de la Biosfera como una herramienta que podría viabilizar la gestión ambiental en el PNY, una de las “joyas de la corona” de las áreas protegidas de uno de los 12 países mega-diversos del mundo. …”
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Les alpinistes et les limites terrestres du vivant : une contribution atypique à la connaissance scientifique by Cédric Dentant, Pascal Mao, Sébastien Lavergne, Philippe Bourdeau.

“…Until the emergence of a new scientific assemblage, involving new actors from conservation biology. Mountaineers have thus mutated from collector bodies to co-producers of science.…”
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El proceso de extracción y comercialización del musgo (Thuidium delicatulum) en el Estado de México by Nancy Diana Anastacio Martínez, Sergio Franco-Maass, Esteban Valtierra Pacheco, Gabino Nava Bernal

“…Se pretende caracterizar la forma en que los actores sociales intervienen en el aprovechamiento del musgo en una región de alta montaña del centro de México. …”
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Migratory trajectory and recomposing of Alpine societies by Thierry Amrein

“…On the one hand, we questioned the motivations behind the ever-increasing number of migrants settling over the past two or three decades in 14 villages situated in the Bagnes and Entremont valleys, as well as a commune in the Rhône plain, and the way in which they have managed to become “social actors” and put down roots in their respective communities. …”
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Las nuevas violencias en la crisis global by José María Tortosa

“… El artículo parte de la constatación de la complejidad que aqueja al fenómeno de las violencias, sea por sus muy diversos actores como por la heterogeneidad de los factores que inciden en ella, pasa luego a describir someramente el conjunto de crisis (económica, medioambiental, alimentaria y energética) que atraviesan al sistema mundial en la actualidad. …”
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Les déterminants des compétences sociales des élèves de cycle III by Agathe Fanchini

“…This scientific field is under construction but social skills still become a "must" for actors of the school system and for Educational Sciences. …”
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Parasismique, oser éprouver l’acceptabilité sociale by Stéphane Cartier, Cloé Vallette

“…These four situations of moderate seismic exposition illustrate how some changes in the seismic zonation and building codes oblige local actors to appreciate the modalities of common control and the definition of the solidity of buildings. …”
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Avaliação dos fatores que influenciam na percepção de risco de inundação: uma revisão sistemática de pesquisas empíricas by Murilo Noli da Fonseca, Carlos Mello Garcias, Luciene Pimentel da Silva

“…Knowing the main factors that influence the degree of flood risk perception of the various actors of an urban system is fundamental to enable behavioral changes and the development of more effective measures to reduce risk and preparedness in the face of the occurrence of a flood. …”
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Development Education in European Rural Areas: The Work Done by NGODs by Martínez-Scott, S., Monjas-Aguado, R., Torrego-Egido, L.

“…Non-governmental organisations for development (NGODs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) are key actors to the development of solidarity, a priority goal in European Union policies. …”
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Digital marketing: does it impact on increasing the profit of MSMEs in Aceh? by Marjulin Marjulin

“…This research method wants to get general answers about cause and effect by analyzing the factors causing phenomena in the concepts raised in this study; data will be collected by distributing questionnaires to MSME actors in the field. To obtain the results of this study, the data will be processed using statistical tools, namely simple linear regression. …”
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