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‘Should’ and ‘can’ active restoration be used in biodiversity offsets? Stakeholder perspectives from New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite their controversial nature, biodiversity offsets are often used as a regulatory tool to counterbalance the impacts of land clearing on biodiversity. Offsets usually aim to achieve no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity through protection and/or restoration of habitat.
Laure‐Elise Ruoso   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim consumption and anti-consumption in Malaysia

open access: yesTidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to further our understanding of the transformation of Muslim consumption and anti-consumption by an empirical case study of Malaysia.
Johan Fischer
doaj   +1 more source

Standing on Unstable Grounds: A Reexamination of the WLBT-TV Case

open access: yes, 1994
In 1962, the Jackson Nonviolent Movement began to change business as usual in Mississippi. The upstart organization, comprised largely of local teens, targeted prominent Jackson businesses, demanding that basic employment and consumer rights be ...
Classen, Steven
core  

From ESG to Sustainable Development: A Path Designed for the Triple Helix Spheres

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This work examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives and sustainable development (SD), highlighting a scientific gap in their effective connection. It aims to propose a framework with recommendations for promoting SD through ESG, considering the governmental, business, and academic spheres from ...
Elen Cristina Bravos Giupponi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mathematicians take a stand

open access: yes, 2012
We survey the reasons for the ongoing boycott of the publisher Elsevier. We examine Elsevier's pricing and bundling policies, restrictions on dissemination by authors, and lapses in ethics and peer review, and we conclude with thoughts about the future ...
Arnold, Douglas N., Cohn, Henry
core   +1 more source

Activism risk and corporate self‐regulation: Investigating how anti‐SLAPP laws impact firms' institutional corporate social performance

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This research investigates how firms attempt to preempt activism before it mobilizes into an active threat. Employing a difference‐in‐differences design, we examine the quasi‐exogenous enactments of laws that prevent Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (anti‐SLAPP laws) in the United States.
Zhiyan Wu, Garry Bruton, Ryan Krause
wiley   +1 more source

PERSPECTIVES OF ETHICAL CONSUMPTION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2014
Universal principles of ethical consumption are lightened. Five main principles are definite, in particular: principle of caring treatment to environment, principle of human rights keeping, principle of human treatment to animals, principle of domestic ...
O. Yevtushevska
doaj   +1 more source

Boycotting a dictatorship: who does it really hurt? [PDF]

open access: yes
Consumer boycotts and international economic sanctions represent a frequent tool to protest against countries for their violation of human rights. This paper questions if such a kind of action hurts more the populations it is supposed to defend than ...
Philippe Delacote
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The Pressure is On: Organizing Without the NLRB [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
[Excerpt] Ask the typical union organizer to define success and he or she will probably say, Winning elections. Many labor organizations, including ours, have found out that winning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election does not mean that ...
Crump, Joe
core   +1 more source

Sweatshops and Consumer Choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We consider a case where consumers are faced with a choice between sweatshop-produced clothing and identical clothing produced in high-income countries. We argue that it is morally better for consumers to purchase clothing produced in sweatshops and then
Ferguson, Benjamin, Ostmann, Florian
core   +3 more sources

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