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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Providing synthetic substitutes is a widely promoted strategy to shift consumer demand away from wildlife products derived from threatened species. Yet, there is little evidence on whether product substitution prevents illegal or unsustainable harvesting and contributes to the recovery of threatened populations.
Aditya Shekhar Malgaonkar, Gareth Whittington‐Jones, Tristan Dickerson, Maswabi Lishandu, Sarah Davies, Zoe Woodgate, Xia Stevens, Choolwe Mulenga, Gift Mulenga, Mathew Phiri, Lucky Mulenga, Manyando Mukela, Gryton Kasamu, Willem A. Nieman, Gareth Mann, Abishek Harihar, Diogo Veríssimo, Rob Pickles   +17 more
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Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues

Journal of Government and Economics
It has often been argued that countries that produce natural resources mobilize less non-resource tax revenues than other countries. In this paper, we exploit the exogenous variation in the timing of giant oilfield discoveries to estimate the causal ...
Abraham Lartey
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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Corporate taxation in Spain: analyzing efficiency and revenue potential

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of Spain’s corporate tax system through the lens of the Laffer curve and Buoyancy index, assessing its efficiency in generating revenue. The study finds that Spain is nearing the Laffer curve’s optimal tax rate,
Manuela Ortega-Gil, Fernando Pinto, Alfredo Cabezas Ares, Isabel Rodríguez-Iglesias   +3 more
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Imagined Integration: The Logics of Japanese Immigrant Integration Policy

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As governments develop immigrant integration policies, they draw on and express conceptions about what successful integration looks like—what we call “imagined integration.” Yet this imagination likely displays variation that matters for implementation: integration policymaking is increasingly multilevel as it involves subnational layers of ...
Mariri Niino, William L. Allen
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La felicidad de los jóvenes

Papers, 2011
El bienestar subjetivo de los jóvenes es diferente del de otros colectivos debido a las distintas circunstancias que se dan a lo largo del ciclo vital. Este trabajo contribuye a dar a conocer cuáles son las dimensiones específicas y objetivas del grado ...
Francisco Mochón Morcillo, Namkee Ahn, Rebeca de Juan   +2 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Quién es quién en la investigación sobre Reestructuración de la Cartera de Negocios: La estructura intelectual

Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 2017
Son pocos los estudios que aplican métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos extensivos para abordar la investigación sobre Reestructuración de la Cartera de Negocio (RCN).
Angélica María Sánchez-Riofrío, Luis Ángel Guerras-Martín, Francisco Javier Forcadell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1345-1356, July 2026.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
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Participatory fuzzy cognitive modelling reveals leverage points for agroecological adoption in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1817-1831, June 2026.
Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia, Quetzalcóatl Orozco‐Ramírez, Ximena de la Mora Bakjejian, Reyna Domínguez Yescas, Emilio Hernández Martínez, Patricia Balvanera   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source