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Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...
Jared Diamond was influential in the resurgence of environmental determinism due to the popularity of his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, which addresses the geographic origins of state formation prior to 1500 A.D. [26] Neo-environmental determinism scholars debate how much the physical environment shapes economic and political institutions.
The theory is based on the concept of dynamic equilibrium in which streamforms balance between physical parameters, such as width, depth, velocity, and sediment load, also taking into account biological factors. [2] It offers an introduction to map out biological communities and also an explanation for their sequence in individual sections of ...
Atropia is a 2025 American war satire film written and directed by Hailey Gates in her feature length debut, and starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner. It is produced by Luca Guadagnino . It had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, where it received mixed reviews from critics.
Rhodes’ Risk Environment Framework explains substance use harms as results of reciprocal relationships between human behavior and predominantly four environmental aspects: Physical (e.g. locations of use), Economical (e.g. health budget strains), Social (e.g. intergenerational trauma), and Political (eg. health care legislations).
The application of social ecological theories and models focus on several goals: to explain the person-environment interaction, to improve people-environment transactions, to nurture human growth and development in particular environments, and to improve environments so they support expression of individual's system's dispositions.
The book is one of the earliest works to document the effects of human action on the environment, and it helped to launch the modern conservation movement. Marsh is remembered by scholars as a profound and observant student of men, books and nature, with a wide range of interests ranging from history to poetry and literature. His wide array of ...
Soil is made up of a multitude of physical, chemical, and biological entities, with many interactions occurring among them. It is a heterogenous mixture of minerals and organic matter with variations in moisture, temperature and nutrients.