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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable 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
wiley   +1 more source

Crossing geographical, legal and moral boundaries: the Belgian cigarette black market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Objectives: To describe and analyse the cigarette smuggling trade in Belgium and its role in the international cigarette black market. Design: Analysis of Belgian customs and prosecution files concerning the cigarette smuggling trade in the period 2000 ...
Balcaen, Annelies   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Facing Obsolescence: Component Repair and Collaboration in the Independent ICT Commercial Repair Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Repairs are becoming more difficult to perform due to multiple factors, including obsolescence, complexity of designs, technological change and lack of information and spare parts. This underlines a conflict between repair and technological designs driven by accumulation logics that require increasing growth rates.
Francisco López‐Bermúdez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EU’s Trifecta Mechanisms: Analysis of EU’s Response to the Challenges to the Rule of Law and Corruption

open access: yesKyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 2019
The following paper examines the envisaged framework and effectiveness of the triangulation of mechanisms currently planned at the EU level: the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), proceedings under Article 7 of the Treaty on
Stoyan Panov
doaj   +1 more source

Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Words or deeds - what matters? Experience of recentralization in Russian security agencies [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper discusses the relative importance of the 'real' political actions versus the changes of symbolic nature in the bargaining over devolution, studying the case of personnel decentralization in security agencies in Russia in 2000-2007. While in the
Libman, Alexander
core   +3 more sources

Protection of EU financial interests: EPPO’s cooperation with non-EU states [PDF]

open access: yesRevija za kriminologiju i krivično pravo
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EEPO) is a cornerstone institution in the EU’s efforts to combat financial crimes and protect its financial interests.
Marina Matić Bošković
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional Uncertainties of the Rule of Law – The Public Prosecutor’s Office Between the Executive and the Judiciary

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2009
The Romanian society, the state, the administration and the judiciary are facing several essential challenges of the contemporary world, and these challenges have to be addressed as soon as possible.
Mihaela CĂRĂUŞAN
doaj  

What Role for Legal Certainty in Criminal Law Within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the EU?

open access: yesBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2014
The article analyses the current position of legal certainty within the area of freedom, security and justice, and more specifically in EU criminal law. The current legal status of EU criminal law is first briefly presented.
Annika Elisabet Suominen
doaj   +1 more source

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