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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina, Vuong Kha Tu, Tran Kim Bao, Ly Quoc Dang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ATT FÖRMEDLA VÄRDERINGAR : Boomerangs utveckling av Boomerang Effekten [PDF]

, 2012
År 2008 presenterades Boomerang Effekten på den svenska marknaden av klädföretaget Boomerang. Boomerang Effekten startades för att företaget ville bidra till en mera hållbar värld. Konceptet går ut på att plaggen återvinns och återanvänds. Målsättningen
Högstedt, Sofia
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Norm From The Top: A Social Norm Nudge To Promote Low-Practiced Behaviors Without Boomerang Effect [PDF]

SocioEconomic Challenges
Social norms are an essential determinant of conformity in decision-making, a powerful nudge for helping people adopt prosocial behavior. Informing people that most of their peers behave virtuously encourages them to improve their own behavior ...
Alix Rouillé
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Mobilisation and the Law of Consultation in Peru: A Boomerang Pattern?

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2014
Prior to 2009, it was difficult to speak of a national level Indigenous movement in Peru with an impact on national politics. However, the situation changed after the tragic events known as the Baguazo.
Claire Wright
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The boomerang affect of the war on terror

Historia Actual On-Line, 2010
Este artículo escruta las reacciones legislativas a los atentados en la ciudad de Oklahoma y los de Londres en 2005 para intentar descifrar como la legislación antiterrorista ha sustancialmente bloqueado estos ataques. Se intenta mostrar como la resistencia de los gobiernos y los ejecutivos aprueba índices críticos en las leyes antiterroristas.
openaire   +4 more sources

Black Accountants' Pursuit of Partnership La quête de l'accession au statut d'associé des comptables de race noire

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent AICPA surveys indicate disproportionate attrition among Black professionals attaining partnership in US public accounting firms, underscoring the need to better understand their experiences. Despite repeated calls for examination, understanding of these experiences remains limited, partly due to the difficulty in accessing the few Black
Jennifer Joe, Eldar Maksymov, Kerri‐Ann Sanderson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boomerang attacks

, 2022
In 2020 Dunkelman et al. introduced the Retracing Boomerang Attack as an extension of the Boomerang attack introduced in 1999 by Wagner. Both of these attacks are presented in this thesis.
Procházka, Martin
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(Un)globalising civil society: the cases of women’s rights in Burundi and Liberia

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014
This article examines the evolution of the internal battles between activists in the transnational campaign for the implementa­tion of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and subse­quent resolutions from a poststructuralist ...
María Martín de Almagro Iniesta
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Latinos mobilizing beyond threats: The role of fear and hope in issue activism

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest groups intent on spurring political participation often highlight potential threats to galvanize audiences into action. However, while loss aversion is typically seen as a strong motivator, it is important not to neglect the motivational effect of hope and reward‐seeking behavior as people navigate their political landscape.
Vanessa Cruz Nichols
wiley   +1 more source