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Latin America exhibits one of the highest rates of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) loss worldwide along with a remarkable asymmetry in the access to ES benefits (ecosystem services inequality, ESI hereafter). Th...

This article offers a normative defence of using neighbourhood demographic quotas to deconcentrate residential clusters of advantage. It develops the case by detailing problems of inequality that arise from this kind of ...

IntroductionThis study attempted to explore the perception and experiences of facilitators and challenges in the implementation of modular, adaptive, and decentralized water infrastructure in the community. It also aimed...

Rabindranath Tagore’s poems “Where the Mind is Without Fear” and “Freedom” interrogate freedom not merely as political independence but as a radical reimagining of human consciousness. While rooted in the anti-...

Background: The world is experiencing overlapping crises of climate breakdown, ecosystem degradation, rising inequality, and conflict. Traditional evaluation criteria inadequately address equity and environmental sustai...

Structure-oriented or system-oriented movements will be more advanced than ordinary movements without relying on a system (normative). Structural legal aid is included in the movement of non-governmental organizations wh...

Abstract Purpose This study examines the demographic, spatial, and economic determinants of household access to electricity in Nigeria, a country characterized by persistent energy poverty and pronounced infrastructure i...

Though the extent of wealth inequality across many nations is now well attested, along with the social and political challenges this might entail, there appears to be relatively little popular support for increased taxat...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

Latin America and the Caribbean is known worldwide as the most unequal region on the planet. However, all the academic attention given to its levels of poverty and income distribution has not been matched by the study of...

El acelerado crecimiento de la población adulta mayor, debe ser considerado prioridad por las organizaciones responsables de este sector social. Envejecer es un proceso natural, el cual las personas deben afrontar, así...

Fil: Hidalgo López Chávez, Vilma. Universidad de La Habana. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales; Cuba. La equidad y la justicia social declaradas como principios rectores de la política social de Cuba han ac...

Resumen Ante las necesidades de salud de nuestros pueblos, el limitado acceso a los servicios privados y la crisis que presenciamos en la prestación de servicios de salud por parte del Estado, es urgente buscar polític...

Less inequality is necessary for sustainable development andstable democracies. States play an important role in reducinginequality. They do so through pro-poor spending andregulation, but also through taxes. On the othe...

Una característica inherente a todo proceso de desarrollo la constituye el objetivo, implícito o declarado, de mejoramiento de la distribución del ingreso, tanto desde el punto de vista funcional como personal. Tal co...

Materias / palabras clave: sustainability, food systems, environmental health, climate change, inequality and justice, resilience; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences