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Speculative Political Ecologies: (re)imagining urban futures of climate extremes

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2023
What role can a speculative political ecology play in (re)imaging urban futures of climate extremes? In recent years, narratives of dystopian futures of climate extremes have proliferated in geosciences, and across the media and creative arts.
Elisa Savelli   +3 more
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Peripheral Visions of Alternative Futures: Feminist Techno-imaginaries [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Editorial: Peripheral Visions of Alternative Futures: Feminist Techno ...
Katja Čičigoj   +2 more
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Alternative futures of food consumption in Tehran metropolis [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2021
Geographical studies on food categorized in five scales; global and transnational, national and regional, urban, rural and agricultural, domestic scales of food consumption and the individual as a consumer. Based on this categorization, the present study
Farshid Azizkhani   +3 more
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Wheat Futures Prices Prediction in China: A Hybrid Approach

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021
Stocks markets play their financial roles of price shocks and hedging just when they are proficient. The imperative highlights of productive market are that one cannot make extraordinary profit from the stocks markets.
Yunpeng Sun   +3 more
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Commodity futures markets: are they an effective price risk management tool for the European wheat supply chain?

open access: yesBio-based and Applied Economics, 2013
The instability of commodity prices and the hypothesis that speculative behaviour was one of its causes has brought renewed interest in futures markets.
Cesar Revoredo-Giha, Marco Zuppiroli
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Anticipating Alternative Futures for the Platform Economy

open access: yesTechnology Innovation Management Review, 2017
Despite the considerable hype around platforms, our understanding of what the platform economy means and what drivers will define future development trajectories is limited.
Mikko Dufva   +3 more
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Another world is possible? – Climate movements’ bounded politicization between science and politics

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
How we have come to think about climate futures has predominantly been shaped by science- and expert-driven assessments. As research turns to the role of future visions as a driver of social change and overcoming political gridlock, political struggles ...
Christopher N. Pavenstädt
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Alternative Futures for the EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations [PDF]

open access: yesCentral European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2013
This work proposes a simple two-period interaction model to study EU-Turkey accession negotiations. Turkey perceives the EU as composed of two distinct groups with respect to its accession: traditional supporters and objectors.
Serdar Ş. Güner
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The Castle and The Paths: A Story with Two Endings

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Education, 2021
The future of higher education is imagined here in the form of a parable. The reader is challenged to rethink the role and purpose of higher education and the potential paths for evolution in the future.
A. Michael Berman
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Forecasting Commodity Prices Using Futures: The Case of Copper

open access: yesRisks
This paper analyzes three forecasting methods for commodity spot prices and applies them to copper prices. The first method uses futures prices from either LME or COMEX. The second method uses analysts’ consensus expectations, reported by Bloomberg.
Gonzalo Cortazar   +2 more
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