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Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beginning Scottish geography teachers' perceptions of education for sustainable development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
At the start of the 21st century the global pace of change and challenge continues unabated (Cullingford and Gunn, 2005). Increasingly individuals need to be equipped with the skills to manage and navigate uncertain futures (Irving, 1999).
Munro, R.K., Reid, Ashley
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Introducing Energy Citizenship

open access: yes
AbstractThe first chapter introduces the concept of energy citizenship and the innovative approach this book has adopted to investigate it, as well as provides a road map for the remaining chapters. Specifically, the chapter discusses the origins of the concept of energy citizenship and the many forms in which it exists.
Frances Fahy, Edina Vadovics, Bonno Pel
openaire   +2 more sources

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Citizenship Contract and European cities transition

open access: yesAgathón
The latest IPCC reports highlight the slow progress of energy and environmental transition, as well as the limited involvement of citizens in the European Green Deal; however, many cities are divided between the need to accelerate the transition process
Andrea Boeri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Desining an Expert System for Analyzing the Energy Consumption Behavior of Employees in Organizations Using Rough Set Theory [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Information Technology Management, 2015
Understanding and changing the energy consumption behavior requires extensive knowledge about the motives of behavior. In this research, Rough Set Theory is used to investigate the energy consumption behavior of employees in organizations.
Tooraj Karimi
doaj   +1 more source

Energy Citizenship Country Profiles: Bulgaria

open access: yes, 2022
This report was prepared as part of the ‘mapping of energy citizenship in Europe’ task within the EnergyPROSPECTS project. As part of the energy citizenship mapping task, a methodology was developed for pursuing the overall project aim of identifying the diversity of types and empirical manifestations of energy citizenship.
Ispyridou, Myrto   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

The Theory and Practice of Corporate Citizenship in Nigeria: A Petroleum Industry Beneficiary Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
With the aid of ethnographic data obtained in Nigeria's oil and gas region (the Niger Delta), and relevant secondary data, this article makes a case for a beneficiary-centred approach to corporate citizenship analysis, and thus urges a shift from the ...
Wilson Akpan
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Local, National and Global Citizenship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t725445575~db=all Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/03004270385200361This paper puts local, national and global citizenship into context post 11.9 ...
Bloomfield, P.
core   +1 more source

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