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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
wiley   +1 more source

Governing the circular–digital transition: Comparative legal‐institutional analysis of smart waste strategies in Spain and Portugal

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 388-400, July 2026.
Abstract This article analyses how regulatory and governance frameworks influence the implementation of smart waste strategies in the context of the EU's circular and digital transitions. Focusing on Spain and Portugal—two EU Member States subject to shared supranational obligations but marked by divergent legal traditions and administrative structures—
Itziar Sobrino‐García
wiley   +1 more source

The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1629-1640, June 2026.
Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Cycles, Electricity Policy, and Mexico's Economy

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Electricity reform in Mexico should stimulate economic growth, improve energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This article evaluates the successes and failures of reform and draws lessons across political cycles by analyzing changes in political dynamics—often tied to policy reversals—and the legal framework during the pro ...
David Bonilla
wiley   +1 more source

Libertad y políticas pública en materia de cultura

open access: yesThēmis, 2004
El autor realiza en el presente artículo un interesante desarrollo de la problemática relacionada no sólo con quién debe fomentarla cultura en la sociedad, sino también sobre quién debe elegir qué arte es el que se debe promover.
Andrés Roemer
doaj  

Extending Q-Learning for Economic Modelling: A Design Framework with Equilibrium Benchmarks

open access: yesComputation
This paper proposes a methodological architecture to integrate Q-learning into economic modelling systematically. It addresses a common gap: the lack of a shared framework linking economic foundations to Reinforcement Learning components.
Jorge Moya Velasco   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sistemas electorales parlamentarios y modelos de representación política: efecto de los distritos electorales, la fórmula electoral y el tamaño del congreso [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Electoral, 2015
El trabajo analiza los sistemas electorales contemporáneos de América Latina para las elecciones parlamentarias desde una perspectiva comparada. Se analizan los elementos constitutivos del sistema electoral (fórmula electoral, magnitud promedio de las ...
José Enrique Molina Vega
doaj  

Risk Is Not Equal to Impact: The Challenges of Developing a Traffic Light System to Regulate Farmed Salmon Production on an Ecosystem Scale

open access: yesReviews in Aquaculture, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We review information on salmon farming production, environmental and climatic variables covering all salmon farming areas in the Patagonia marine ecosystems over a 10‐year period in Chile. With this information, we develop a semi‐quantitative Environmental and Productive Risk Assessment (RA) model as a guide for the design of a Traffic Light ...
Doris Soto   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Model Estimates of Atmospheric Al, Ca, Fe, Si, and Ti From Dust and Non‐Dust Aerosols Informed by EMIT Surface Mineralogy and Evaluated Against Observations

open access: yesGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 40, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Atmospheric deposition of micro‐nutrients like Fe has been shown to be important for ocean biogeochemistry. The largest source of atmospheric Fe and other elements (e.g., Ca, Al, Si, and Ti) is desert dust, although there are significant non‐dust sources in some regions (e.g., combustion, sea salts, volcanoes). However, past estimates of these
Natalie M. Mahowald   +61 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las estrategias polarizantes del populismo español

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Político
Tras las crisis que se han ido sucediendo en España y la gestión que los diferentes gobiernos del sistema bipartidista han hecho de las mismas, el panorama político ha ido cambiado a través de la entrada de nuevos partidos que, a través de un discurso ...
Manuel Cabanas Veiga
doaj   +1 more source

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