Dennis Aviles

University of Bonn | Uni Bonn · ZEF A - Department of Political and Cultural Change

The world is witnessing an increase in environmental conflicts (ECs) caused by the overexploitation and pollution of natural resources. We argue that addressing the unsustainable and vicious cycle of most contemporary human-nature interactions fuelling these conflicts requires a shift towards inter- and transdisciplinary research. Through critical...

This article summarises the main ideas behind the realisation and organisation of the “International Symposium on Environmental Thinking and Alternatives to Development from a South-South and South-North Perspective”, which is the subject of this special issue. Based on our reading, the epistemologies and environmental thoughts of the Global South...

One would not have expected a vicious virus causing a respiratory disease to discriminate in its life-threatening passage. Yet, according to conventional wisdom, inequalities are revealed when disaster or crisis strike. Moreover, misfortunes do not happen in a social vacuum, but find different expressions in specific contexts and groups of people....

(Espanol) Este libro rescata los pensamientos más valiosos, analiza y debate el Desarrollo Rural Agroalimentario en Bolivia, su proceso, problemática y sobretodo, plantea las mejores perspectivas, con el único objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo de todos los bolivianos y bolivianas, especialmente del área rural. A lo largo del libro se responden 2...