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ABSTRACT Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16) emphasizes peace, justice, and strong institutions as essential foundations for sustainable development. This study adopts a desktop‐based qualitative research approach to examine how institutional quality and governance systems influence progress toward SDG 16 and broader development outcomes.
Maryem Souiai +8 more
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Tourism Specialisation and Sustainable Development Performance in Spanish Cities
ABSTRACT Tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance are key dimensions of urban sustainability debates. This study investigates the association between tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance, operationalised through the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in Spanish cities.
Ana‐María Ríos +2 more
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ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
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ABSTRACT By the mid‐21st century, the global economic system had not yet fully solved the problem of hunger. Therefore, achieving SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is crucial. This study therefore aims to examine the factors that may lead to hunger in seven selected Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh ...
Ali Çelik +3 more
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ABSTRACT Countries around the world have committed to a range of sustainable development initiatives aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting the circular economy. However, the implementation of these sustainability initiatives entails substantial costs and resource requirements which may result in potential trade‐offs.
Jeremy Galbreath +3 more
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
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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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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From Map Follower to Navigator: Archetypes of Environmental Impact Assessment
ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) scholarship is commonly framed as a tension between efficiency and comprehensiveness paradigms. These paradigms describe a persistent tension but cannot explain how EIA operates through it. Drawing on social systems theory, this analysis traces that operation.
Kenneth Kang
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ABSTRACT This article advances a systems‐theoretical framework for understanding reform dissipation in politically governed complex adaptive systems. Rather than treating failure as deviation from intended design, the framework conceptualises reform dissipation as recursive regulation within threshold‐sensitive attractor landscapes—a reframing with ...
Clas Mellby
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