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Paper · Semantic Scholar
Natural fibers in sustainable materials: extraction technologies, fiber modification, and performance–sustainability relationshipsNatural fibers have emerged as sustainable alternatives to synthetic materials in textile applications due to their biodegradability, renewability, and diverse functional properties. Derived from plant, animal, and mineral sources, fibers such as cotton, jute, hemp, flax, silk, and bamboo demonstrate excellent physical and mechanical characteristics suitable for apparel, home furnishing, and industrial textiles. The…
Reference · Wikidata
Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesiascientific article
Book · DOAB
Living on a Time BombProviding a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The b…
Image · DPLA
Winter 2019 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University.