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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler +6 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan +2 more
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STREETWALKING BEYOND THE STOA: DIOGENES THE CYNIC, MARÍA LUGONES, AND A TENTATIVE COSMOPOLITANISM
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and InnovationIn this essay I argue that we should consider Diogenes the Cynic’s claim to be cosmopolitan in light of his homelessness as a spatial and material reality.
ERIK BORMANIS
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2017 This essay explores the similarities and differences between the ideas of cosmopolitanism of José Ortega y Gasset and Alfonso Reyes. These ideas are studied in the more general context of their views on the historical significance of Europe and America ...
Rodrigo Díaz Maldonado
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Evolving Paradigms of Sustainability in Luxury Fashion: Evidence From an Emerging Market
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global fashion industry is both an economic driver and a major contributor of environmental and social challenges. This research examines how sustainable luxury fashion is constructed and adopted within an emerging market context by integrating perspectives from entrepreneurs, industry managers, and consumers.
Sandipan Sen +4 more
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Ideology of cosmopolitanism in the modern information society
Векторы благополучия: экономика и социумThe paper examines the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism in the modern world. The article presents the work of various theorists and political philosophers to develop the author's terminology for each of these concepts and integrate the subjectivist approach
V.A. Terletsky
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Goldsmith's Cosmopolitanism [PDF]
Eighteenth-Century Life, 2006 [First Paragraph] Although imaginary travelers and voyages date back at least as far as the work of Lucian, the figure of the fictional oriental traveler seems to belong primarily to the eighteenth century. Following the great success of Giovanni Marana’s Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, first published in Paris in 1684, a wide range of European writers ...
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Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis aims to explore how the Chinese urban young generation experience different forms of cultural cosmopolitanism through the consumption of growing flows of de-territorialized media products – mainly, but not solely, US-led Western media ...
Tang, T.
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