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Five Lessons From a Decade of Sustainable Development Goals Policy Traction
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda deadline looms, the gap between political commitments and operational outcomes is widening. While previous studies offer fragmented diagnoses, holistic lessons derived from a decade of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation remain lacking. To address this gap, we examine 60 countries'
Volkan Göçoğlu +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
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Affordable and Clean Energy: CO2 Emissions, Resilience and Inequality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development means building the resilience of both people and the planet. It includes implementing strategies which reduce emissions while also enabling more vulnerable households to transition to clean and affordable energy. This paper examines household CO2 emissions in Ireland to highlight those who emit most and least in key ...
Nessa Winston +2 more
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Navigating Classical and Nonclassical Realms of Nucleation and Crystallization
Small, EarlyView.Classical nucleation and growth theories have long been foundational, yet recent nonclassical concepts have challenged and refined our understanding of solid‐state genesis. This paradigm shift introduced new, often ambiguous vocabulary. Here, we clarify key concepts, correct common misconceptions, and provide a terminological field guide across systems,
Stephan E. Wolf, Peter G. Vekilov
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study addresses the limitations of reductionist approaches to citizens' proenvironmental behaviour (PEB) by adopting a systems thinking perspective. Using qualitative system dynamics, it develops a causal loop diagram for proenvironmental behaviour (CLD‐PEB) that conceptualizes PEB as a dynamic system generated through interacting ...
Doyeon Ko +2 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.In the winter of 2021/2022, a winter track survey revealed 43–46 tigers (without cubs) in 5.4 thousand km2 of suitable habitats in the Southwest Primorsky Province of Russia. In the same period, a network of camera traps registered 54 adult/subadult tigers here.
Yury Darman, Dina Matiukhina
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Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng +10 more
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Tourism as a driver of economic and social development in underdeveloped regions
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Cross‐border cooperations have been usually approached by developing trade agreements between international regions to upgrade their socioeconomic conditions and promote international tourism flows in territories. However, little attention has been paid to the role that tourist companies play in underprivileged territories highly dependent on ...
Rafael Robina‐Ramírez +3 more
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