Search Results - "Acosta, Nicolás"

The coloniality of power on the green frontier: commodities and violent territorialisation in Colombia’s Amazon by Acosta García, Nicolás., Fold, Niels

“…•Since 1850, Caquetá has had multiple boom-and-bust cycles of commodity production.•The general mechanisms behind frontier-making are theorised.•The success of…”
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Can direct democracy deliver an alternative to extractivism? An essay on popular consultations by Acosta García, Nicolás

“…Between 2013 and 2018, ten different municipalities in Colombia held popular consultations in which people were asked to decide whether they wanted or not…”
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Take back your fish: questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia by Acosta García, Nicolás, Fold, Niels

“…Could aquaculture lift farmers out of poverty and provide stability and an alternative livelihood to coca farming? Currently, aquaculture is pursued on a…”
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The role of external forces in the adoption of aquaculture innovations: An ex-ante case study of fish farming in Colombia's southern Amazonian region by Quevedo Cascante, Mónica, Acosta García, Nicolás, Fold, Niels

“…•We analyzed the ex-ante adoption of aquaponics in two fish-farming production systems.•Increased drought and rainfall patterns negatively affect fish farming…”
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Merging social equity and conservation goals in IPBES by Sarkki, Simo, Acosta García, Nicolás

“…Article impact statement: Social equity can be enhanced in IPBES work to promote its positive impacts on conservation and local people…”
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Oil and water: unlikely alliances in the opposition to extractive industries during popular consultations in Colombia by Acosta García, Nicolás, López Vega, Fernando

“…In 2017, 97,61% of the people of Cumaral, Colombia, voted in a popular consultation against having the oil industry in their municipality. However, this…”
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The relationship between online searches and suicide by Acosta-González, Nicolás, Gallegos, Francisco, Mosquera, Diana

“…Aims: In this study, we examined the relationship between 131 suicide related Google search terms, grouped into nine categories, and the number of suicide…”
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Crafting electricity through social protest: Afro-descendant and indigenous Embera communities protesting for hydroelectric infrastructure in Utría National Park, Colombia by Acosta García, Nicolás, Farrell, Katharine N

“…Development infrastructure is often discussed in terms of opposition by local and indigenous communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we present the case…”
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Catching the White Fish: gossip and cocaine on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast by Acosta García, Nicolás

“…What is life like after drift‐cocaine arrives in a village on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast? Drift‐cocaine is a side‐effect of the interdiction of drug…”
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The Role of the AEC Principle and Tests in a Dynamic and Workable Effects-Based Approach to Abuse of Dominance by Barbera, Adriano, Acosta, Nicolás Fajardo, Klein, Timo

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Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood by Sarkki, Simo, Komu, Teresa, Heikkinen, Hannu I., García, Nicolás Acosta, Lépy, Élise, Herva, Vesa-Pekka

“…Reindeer herding is an emblematic livelihood for Northern Finland, culturally important for local people and valuable in tourism marketing. We examine the…”
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What drives unhappiness? A cross‐country analysis by Acosta‐González, H. Nicolás, Marcenaro‐Gutiérrez, Oscar D.

“…We study the sources of misery (lowest level of life satisfaction) using the European Quality of Life 2016, a cross‐sectional survey for 28 European Union…”
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Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: a response to Bodin (2021) by Acosta García, Nicolás, Boyd, Eric, Gillette, Maris Boyd, Rask, Nanna, Saldert, Hannah, Singleton, Benedict Esmond

“…In a recent opinion article, sustainability researcher Örjan Bodin claims that a shift leftward in sustainability science has rendered certain topics and…”
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Temporalities and Rhythms of Living in Utría National Park, Colombia by Acosta García, Nicolás

“…This photo essay investigates the political ecology of living in and around Utría National Park, in Colombia's Pacific coast region of Chocó. This area is home…”
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A Teleological Approach to the Wicked Problem of Managing Utría National Park by Acosta García, Nicolás, Farrell, Katharine N., Heikkinen, Hannu I., Sarkki, Simo

“…Utría National Park is a remote biodiversity hotspot in Colombia. It encompasses ancestral territories of the Embera indigenous peoples and borders territories…”
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Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in Ecuador: Formal, semi-formal and informal firms by Bastidas, Rafaela, Acosta, Nicolás

“…Resource misallocation can lower the aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro-data on manufacturing establishments from the Instituto…”
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Lectio Praecursoria: Chocó Challenges: Communities Negotiating Matters of Concern and Care on Colombia’s Margin by Acosta García, Nicolás

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Femicide in Latin America: An economic approach by Álvarez-Garavito, Carolina, Hugo Nicolás Acosta-González

“…Justification: The rising cases of femicide across Latin America have pushed governments to enact specific laws criminalizing this gender-based murder to deter…”
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Contemporary World as a Massive Design Failure: A Way Out? by Acosta García, Nicolás

“…Book Review of Escobar, Arturo. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds…”
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Nicotine Differentially Modulates Emotional-Locomotor Interactions for Adult or Adolescent Rats by Novoa, Carlos, Solano, José L., Ballesteros-Acosta, Hans Nicolás, Lamprea, Marisol R., Ortega, Leonardo A.

“…Previous research has shown that exposure to nicotine and other drugs of abuse stimulate dopaminergic neurons in the mesolimbic circuit. Sustained activation…”
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