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Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Warren Court and the Concept of a Right [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The Warren Court is dead. None of its Justices remain on the benchindeed, only Justice White survives-and the recent history of the Supreme Court has been in large part a history of repudiating controversial Warren Court doctrines.
Luban, David
core   +1 more source

From maps to mandates: Multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to evaluate environmental judicial decisions

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the use of multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to assess the ecological effectiveness of judicial decisions that recognize the rights of nature, using Colombia's 2016 T‐622 decision on the Atrato River as a case study.
Juan Camilo Ríos‐Orjuela   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tom Paine\u27s Constitution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In Common Sense, our brief for the American Revolution, the pamphleteer Tom Paine famously declared that “in America the law is king.” What, precisely, is the “law” that Paine declared to have dethroned the king?
West, Robin
core   +1 more source

Disentangling conservation asymmetries through socio‐economic transboundary factors across the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecoregions are often defined based on homogeneous biophysical and ecological conditions and are optimal spatial units for designing conservation strategies. However, transboundary ecoregions such as the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest (APAF) experience asymmetrical conservation outcomes, understood here as cross‐border differences, resulting from ...
Lía Montti   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

POLITICAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF STATES

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2019
The article presents an analysis of the political value and social purpose of constitutions as a result of the historical evolution of states and a method of fixing the prospects for political and social development.
Evgeniya Yurtaeva
doaj   +4 more sources

FIQH SIYASAH REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT'S STANCE REGARDING THE PARLIAMENTARY THRESHOLD

open access: yesJurnal Al-Dustur
The purpose of this research is to analyze fiqh siyasah on the decision of the Constitutional Court Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023 on Parliamentary Threshold.
Fakhri Muhammad Davil Oswan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: The Debate Over Independent Agencies in Light of Empirical Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Constitutional theory has rediscovered the problem of governmental structure. As the rights revolution has matured and entered the mainstream, the debate is returning to the question that preoccupied the Founding Fathers: what organization of government ...
Miller, Geoffrey P.
core   +1 more source

Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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