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Biodiversity Strategies in Action—Empirical Evidence From the Food Value Chain

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for better understanding of firm activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation. Panwar, Ober, and Pinkse offer a valuable typology of corporate biodiversity protection strategies based on temporal and spatial dimensions, namely, the preloss (proactive) strategies of conservation and compensation, and the ...
Joanna Scott‐Kennel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mariposa Folk Festival Souvenir Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 1970
Item consists of a 29 page festival program for the Mariposa Folk Festival of 1970, which ran from 24 - 26 July, 1970. Program designers were Frank Perold and Dick Flohil with the centre spread design by Murray McLauchlan.
Flohil, Dick, Perold, Frank
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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Recycling Illusion: How the Mobius Loop Fuels Greenwashing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally used labelling systems regulated by governments can inadvertently greenwash packaging. We show that the Mobius loop and plastic resin identification numbers are misleading consumers about recyclability. This is because not all plastic packaging can be recycled.
Micael‐Lee Johnstone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual Territoriality: Boundary Setting and Place-Claiming in Burial Site Folk Stories — A Qualitative Study

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
Place-lore has been gathered and recorded by Estonian researchers since the end of the 19th century, among which are a host of accounts relating to interactions with human spirits.
Kristo Villem
doaj   +1 more source

What Makes a Contemporary Werewolf? The Semiological Analysis of Articles about the “Werewolf of Tamnava County”

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2012
The paper offers a semiological analysis of narratives about the “werewolf of Tamnava County” which were published in Serbian daily newspapers in June 2005.
Sonja Žakula
doaj   +1 more source

Cursed sites and cursed practices, treasure hunting at haunted places: A case study from Greece [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2007
The aim of this paper is to explain why such a widespread practice as treasure hunting is related to narratives of cursed and haunted places. The reasons are many: a) the intermingling of official and folk religious elements in Orthodox Christian ...
Koumarianou Maria
doaj   +1 more source

Folk Music Committees

open access: yes, 2021
This document discusses the development of a national folk circuit in an attempt to keep up with the international folk ...
Marks, David
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source

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