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Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of sustainable practices in key sectors of human societies is a global concern, posing threats for the whole planet. This paper provides the first review of ontologies for sustainability efforts, outlining their roles in assessing and advancing such efforts. Section 2 outlines three major challenges associated with sustainability: (1)
Giorgio A. Ubbiali +2 more
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Homophily and social influence as mechanisms of loneliness clustering in social networks
Scientific ReportsLoneliness, a pervasive mental health concern, is often misconstrued as an individual pathology, limiting our understanding of social effects via peer-to-peer interactions.
B. D. L. Châtel +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how 14 sustainable consumption and production (SCP) factors interact across four service categories—Mass Service, Professional Service, Service Factory, and Service Shop—using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). ISM enables the identification and hierarchical classification of interdependencies among SCP factors in ...
Amanda Duarte Feitosa +4 more
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Reviewing agent-based modelling of socio-ecosystems: a methodology for the analysis of climate change adaptation and sustainability [PDF]
The integrated - environmental, economic and social - analysis of climate change calls for a paradigm shift as it is fundamentally a problem of complex, bottom-up and multi-agent human behaviour.
Carlo Giupponi, Stefano Balbi
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The Nexus Between Circular Economy and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: PRISMA Methodology
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The intersection of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and circular economy (CE) has attracted increasing academic and practical attention, emphasizing the need for integrated sustainability approaches. This study employs the PRISMA protocol and conceptualizes the CE–SSCM relationship as a dynamic system in which internal capabilities,
Feriel Barkaoui, Khaled Ben abdallah
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The World of Shakespeare and Company: An Introduction
Journal of Cultural AnalyticsWhat's left to learn about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris? This introduction addresses this question by discussing the eight articles collected in the special cluster, "The World of Shakespeare and ...
Joshua Kotin, Rebecca Sutton Koeser
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Emergence and Communication in Computational Sociology
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2012 AbstractComputational sociology models social phenomena using the concepts of emergence and downward causation. However, the theoretical status of these concepts is ambiguous; they suppose too much ontology and are invoked by two opposed sociological interpretations of social reality: the individualistic and the holistic.
Salgado, M, Gilbert, N
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study pursues a dual objective. First, it investigates the unconditional impact of anti‐globalization on structural transformation in Africa. Second, it explores how environmental degradation interacts with anti‐globalization to influence structural transformation. The analysis focuses on 52 African countries over the period 2005–2023. To
Simplice A. Asongu, Ekene ThankGod Emeka
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Efficient allocation of financial resources through policy interventions is vital for fostering grassroots sports and promoting preventive health measures. However, the intricacies of impact‐oriented grassroots sports subsidies are shaped by factors within a specific funding cascade and the broader societal context.
Liliya Satalkina +2 more
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