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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios +7 more
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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A Method for Assessing the Risks to Sustainability Posed by Process Operations
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present a framework for assessing the risks to sustainability posed by any given set of processes. The objective is to improve sustainability by enabling better decision‐making in policy and business contexts. The framework can be applied to any system of processes where available information supports discovery and quantification of ...
Richard C. Darton, Colin J. Axon
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement
Big Data & SocietyIn 2022, immigration advocates filed a lawsuit against commercial data broker LexisNexis (“Lexis”) for its role in facilitating unwarranted surveillance of immigrants and political activists critical of U.S. immigration policy ( Castellanos et al.
Jessica P. Needle, Alan Rubel
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah +1 more
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
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Public trust is earned: Historical discrimination, carceral violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Health Serv Res, 2023 Anderson A +4 more
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