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Circularity Before Strategy: Translating the Circular Economy for Environmental Policy and Governance in Emerging Economies

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is now a cornerstone of global environmental policy. However, current debates often frame CE as a future‐oriented strategy to be adopted or scaled, implicitly assuming that emerging economies and the Global South are starting from strictly linear conditions. Drawing on practice‐oriented and institutional perspectives,
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Cali Nuur
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Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
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Evaluation for Learning in Primary Health Care Organizations: Aspirations, Realities and Lessons From Australia

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines tensions between the accountability and learning functions of evaluation through a case study of an evaluation capacity building (ECB) initiative undertaken in an Australian primary health care setting. We describe the ECB approach and strategies and identify enablers and barriers influencing their implementation and ...
Brad Astbury, Lucio Naccarella
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Mentoring in Evaluation and Communication: Lessons From Action‐Research

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reviews the main elements of the Designing Evaluation and Communication for Impact (DECI) project approach to enhancing the learning function of evaluation. A capacity development project that provided mentoring in utilization‐focused evaluation and research communication, the DECI project incorporated a dual role as service ...
Ricardo Ramírez, Julius Nyabuto Nyangaga, Wendy Quarry, Dal Brodhead   +3 more
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Use of quantitative methods in the study of cultural goods consumption in popular sectors within the city of Mexicali, B.C.

Estudios Fronterizos, 2007
In this work, a brief of the methodology used in the study of cultural goods consumption among popular sector of Mexicali is presented. It includes three phases: a survey (quantitative method), a typology established from a multivariate analysis (data ...
Luz María Ortega Villa
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Two‐Way Learning Through Evaluation: The Story of an Innovative Australian Aboriginal‐Led Initiative Strengthening Good Governance at the Cultural Interface

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we share our story of using a developmental evaluation approach over seven years to facilitate two‐way learning between Yapa (Warlpiri language for Indigenous people from the Australian Western Desert region) and Kardiya (Warlpiri language for non‐Indigenous people).
Samantha Jayne Togni, Robyn Napurrurla Lawson, Roger Japaljarri Jurrah, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Cyril Japanangka Tasman, Natalie Napurrurla Morton, David Japanangka McCormack, Belinda Napaljarri Wayne, Karina Menkhorst, Peter Marin   +9 more
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Leisure, consumption and sport between the upper strata: Contributions to the development of a problematic field

Educación Física y Ciencia, 2010
The purpose of this article is to deal with various problems concerned with the social productivity of the spaces and practices of leisure, consumption and sport, particularly referring to the upper strata and their sociability.
Rodolfo Iuliano
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Pandoro and Gen Z: Narration and Perception of Christmas Consumption on TikTok Platform by Visual Sociology

Gastronomy
Drawing upon the TikTok platform, this study analyzes the media consumption of content dedicated to “Pandoro,” a typical sweet from Verona, Italy, identifying the most successful categories through a visual sociology approach.
Massimiliano Moschin
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Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We synthesize insights from seven cases to interrogate a central assumption of the learning function of evaluation: Learning can be strengthened through better design, integration, or alignment with accountability systems. Taking the issue's conceptual framework seriously, the essay reflects what the cases reveal about the nature of learning ...
Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Jill Anne Chouinard
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EL CONSUMO COMO INVERSIÓN IDENTITARIA EN LA CIUDAD: ENTREVISTA CON JOEL STILLERMAN

Materia Arquitectura
Joel Stillerman es profesor de Sociología en la Grand Valley State University. Autor de The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach (Polity, 2015) e Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile (Stanford ...
Liliana De Simone
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