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Enhancing Circular Economic Activities of e‐Waste Pickers in South Africa: Using Korten's Four Generations Strategies as Framework

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT E‐waste pickers play a valuable role in the circular economy and divert waste from landfills. Despite their contributions to the economy, informal e‐waste pickers work in very adverse conditions. With a view to improving their livelihoods and working conditions and possibly increasing their integration, Korten's four generations framework is ...
Takunda Y. Chitaka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways to Achieving Sustainable Development and Green Governance in Chinese Companies

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Under the objectives of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, green and low‐carbon development has become a guiding principle for social and economic process. The new Company Law explicitly stipulates the company's obligation to protect the ecological environment, which is also the legislative embodiment of the green principle enshrined in ...
Hua Li, Qin Xia
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Teacher Training in Cantabria (Spain): Towards an Ecosocial and Sustainable Education in Response to Ecosocial Challenges

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spain is currently in an initial phase of revision of teacher training curricula. Given the pressing ecosocial challenges of the present, the fundamental question arises as to what teachers should be like and the contribution that teacher education can make to this important collective challenge. In this context, this research, framed within a
Ángela Saiz‐Linares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

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