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Information and communication technology and climate change adaptation: Evidence from selected mining companies in South Africa

open access: yesJàmbá, 2016
The mining sector is a significant contributor to the gross domestic product of many global economies. Given the increasing trends in climate-induced disasters and the growing desire to find lasting solutions, information and communication technology ...
Bartholomew I. Aleke, Godwell Nhamo
doaj   +1 more source

How Responsible Leadership Motivates Employees to Engage in Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment: A Double-Mediation Model

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
By collecting and analyzing sample from 384 employees in China, this study explored relationship between responsible leadership and organization citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) with structural equation model (SEM).
Zhiyong Han, Qun Wang, Xiang Yan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate change perceptions and experiences from tourists visiting popular destinations in South Africa

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
Popular tourism destinations are not insulated from climate change variability and vulnerability. Conversely, these destinations also contribute to climate change. Although several studies have investigated the climate change-tourism nexus, there remains
Lazarus Chapungu   +4 more
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Social Engagement among Migrant Youth: Attitudes and Meanings

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2014
This article explores migrant young people’s engagement, participation and involvement in socially meaningful activities, events and experiences. This type of social participation is approached in the social inclusion literature using the notions of ...
Liudmila Kirpitchenko, Fethi Mansouri
doaj   +1 more source

The transformative value of liberating Mars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Humanity has the knowledge to solve its problems but lacks the moral insight to implement these ideas on a global scale. New moral insight can be obtained through transformative experiences that allow us to examine and refine our underlying preferences, and the eventual landing of humans on Mars will be of tremendous transformative value.
arxiv   +1 more source

Global citizenship education in school curricula. A Polish perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The purpose of this study is to present global citizenship education from a Polish perspective. Analyzing the issue, the first part of this paper presents the development of citizenship education, followed by the current status of global citizenship ...
Leek, Joanna
core   +1 more source

“I have some wishes, which are actually demands.” A qualitative mixed methods study on the impact of consumerism on the therapeutic relationship in mental healthcare

open access: yesFrontiers in Health Services
IntroductionAlongside the logic of care, many Western welfare states have introduced market elements or a logic of choice in their healthcare systems, which has led to consumerist behavior in patients.
L. T. E. Krikken Mulders   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeo-Astronomy in Society: Supporting Citizenship in Schools Across Europe [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Science in Society 2 (2011) 153-164, 2010
The interdisciplinary topic of archaeo-astronomy links science subjects such as astronomy with archaeology and sociology to explore how ancient societies perceived the heavens above. This is achieved by analysing ancient sites such as megalithic monuments (e.g.
arxiv  

Strategy For Strengthening Political Literacy of Youth Through Political Education Based on Social Media [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
The aim of this article is to analyses strategies for strengthening youth political literacy through improving social media-based political education and examining supporting and inhibiting factors for strengthening youth political literacy through ...
Mawarti Rista Ayu   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Theory and Practice of Corporate Citizenship in Nigeria: A Petroleum Industry Beneficiary Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
With the aid of ethnographic data obtained in Nigeria's oil and gas region (the Niger Delta), and relevant secondary data, this article makes a case for a beneficiary-centred approach to corporate citizenship analysis, and thus urges a shift from the ...
Wilson Akpan
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