As part of a chorological and eco-biological study carried out in La Gomera with the nine species, two subspecies, and two varieties that make up the genera Aeonium and Greenovia, seven new hybrids were discovered. These add to the ten hybrids previously described by other authors on the island. The botanical descriptions of five new hybrids are pr...
En este artículo se plantea la fertilidad del pensamiento marxista de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (1915-2011) al abordar los desafíos inherentes al desarrollo tecnológico. Se busca ofrecer una aproximación al pensamiento del autor acerca de la tecnología, temática tratada de manera implícita a lo largo de su obra. De esta manera, se aborda una cuestión ...
Andrés Jaque, arquitecto fundador de Office for Political Innovation (Offpolin) pertenece a un grupo de arquitectos que desde que abandonaron la escuela de Madrid, intentan transformar la manera de pensar la arquitectura. Frases como la arquitectura es la sociedad en sí misma o todo es proyecto son dos de las muchos pensamientos compartidos en las ...
The unique colour patterns of the hermit crab species inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula and geographically close areas are studied based on colour patterns observed in live specimens either in the field or live in the laboratory. Live colour patterns are shown to be useful for differentiating species in the Paguroidea from Iberian waters. Colour inf...
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana var. mangostana) is a popular tropical fruit, yet many aspects of its biology and evolutionary history are little known. Its origin remains contentious, although recent findings suggest G. mangostana L. var. malaccensis (Hook. f.) Nazre (synonym: G. malaccensis Hook. f.) as the sole progenitor. We review hypotheses o...
Los paisajes de una exposición universal nunca ofrecen una visión neutral y objetiva de la naturaleza circundante. Para convertirse en paisaje, los políticos, arquitectos, urbanistas y paisajistas descomponen y luego recomponen el medio deformando y traduciendo una civilización según sus propios criterios estéticos; y lo hacen a través de las palab...
Dietary diversity is an established public health principle, and its measurement is essential for studies of diet quality and food security. However, conventional between food group scores fail to capture the nutritional variability and ecosystem services delivered by dietary richness and dissimilarity within food groups, or the relative distributi...
We can find multiple social movements in the 70s. In these years ecofeminism appears as a meeting point between environmentalism and feminism. Fifty years later, ecofeminism is the order of the day, with a youth especially concerned about making a more sustainable world and involved in the feminist movement. Society demands a change, which can and ...
La ecología estudia las relaciones entre los seres vivos, ambiente, distribución, abundancia, y cómo esas propiedades son afectadas por la interacción entre los organismos y el medio ambiente en el que viven (hábitat), así como la influencia que cada uno de los seres vivos tiene sobre el medio ambiente. Los métodos estadísticos son fundamentales pa...
On November 5 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, owned by Samarco (Vale SA/BHP Billiton), broke leaving nineteen dead, thousands of people affected, and a trail of destruction along the Doce River basin. This article aims to understand the connection between the dam ̓s collapse and the rise of disaster capitalism in Brazil. Data was collected from prim...
