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There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) views power as crucial in policy processes, but the nature of coalition power, its determinants, and how to empirically measure it remain understudied. In this article, we use a mixed method approach and social network analysis to explore power relationships in the biodiversity policy subsystem in ...
Alix d'Agostino, Jascha Egli, Daniel Kübler   +2 more
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Compliance in Regulatory Gray Areas: The Case of the Organic Seed Standard

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adaptive regulations, designed to balance flexibility with accountability, can embed provisions that unintentionally leave room for firms to shirk on their responsibilities by exploiting flexibility. We call these provisions “regulatory gray areas,” and ask: how should we understand (non‐)compliance in adaptive regulatory settings?
Liza Wood, Jared Zystro, Kristina Hubbard, Francesca Pia Vantaggiato   +3 more
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Análisis de la sequía meteorológica en cuatro localidades agrícolas de Venezuela mediante la combinación de métodos multivariados

Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2018
A escala global, la agricultura es considerada la actividad más vulnerable a la sequía, representando una de las amenazas climáticas más devastadoras. Es por ello que, el objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la ocurrencia de la sequía meteorológica por ...
Barlin Orlando Olivares, M. L. Zingaretti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

RIESGO DE EROSIÓN EÓLICA EN DIFERENTES SISTEMAS PRODUCTIVOS DEL SUR DE CÓRDOBA [PDF]

Ciencia del Suelo, 2023
RESUMEN En el sur de Córdoba la simplificación en los sistemas de producción ha incrementado el riesgo a la erosión eólica, debido a los cambios en la dinámica de la cobertura vegetal y la remoción de suelo.
Juan Cruz Colazo, Eric Scherger, Rodolfo Torregrosa, Cristián Álvarez, Suyai Almirón   +4 more
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Individual and combined effects of shading and habitat complexity on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a mesocosm stream experiment (São Paulo, Brazil)

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Agricultural activities are a major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in subtropical streams, often altering macroinvertebrate community structure and associated ecosystem functions. Although restoration strategies increasingly target these impacts, the relative importance of riparian shading and in‐stream ...
Mariana Morilla, Karoline V. Serpa, Matheus E. K. Ogasawara, Jeremy J. Piggott, Marcin Penk, Marcelo S. Moretti, Christoph D. Matthaei, Silvio F. B. Ferraz, Ricardo H. Taniwaki   +8 more
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Evaluación de propiedades hidrofísicas de suelos bajo diversas estrategias de manejo y conservación en Aipe, Huila, Colombia, entre 2023 y 2024

Revista de Investigación Agraria y Ambiental
Contextualización: la agricultura ha enfrentado importantes desafíos relacionados con la conservación del suelo y la calidad ambiental, debido a las actividades humanas y al cambio climático.
Heider Fernando Losada Losada, Juan Guillermo Popayán-Hernández   +1 more
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Integrating food systems into the international climate law and policy framework

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract While responsible for nearly one‐third of global greenhouse gas emissions, food systems long remained peripheral to the legal and political architecture of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This article outlines the policy shifts that have led food systems to become increasingly central to the UNFCCC and its ...
Enrico Mezzacapo, Josephine van Zeben
wiley   +1 more source

“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Comércio internacional, agricultura e meio ambiente: teorias, evidências e controvérsias empíricas

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2010
Este artigo constitui uma revisão das principais questões teóricas e empíricas atinentes às interfaces econômicas entre agricultura, meio ambiente e comércio, em geral, e para o Brasil em particular.
Rodrigo Daniel Feix, Silvia Helena Galvão de Miranda, Geraldo Sant'Ana de Camargo Barros   +2 more
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source