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Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? [PDF]
Third World Quarterly, 2016 The global commons, comprising the areas and resources beyond the sovereignty of any state, build upon the heritage of Grotius’s idea of mare liberum – an idea that aimed to preserve the freedom of access for the benefit of all. However, the old mare liberum idea digressed into ‘first come, first served’ advantages for industrialised countries ...
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Integrating outer space as a global commons with private property rights to outer space resources
Frontiers in Space TechnologiesInspired by the US government’s denial that outer space is a global commons, and the heated discussion in China regarding property rights in outer space resources, this article looks at this controversial term: “global commons”.
Di Mei
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Scientific Data, 2023 Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy ...
Nikola Milojevic-Dupont +10 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2021 ABSTRACTLand is becoming increasingly scarce relative to the demands of the global economy; a problem significantly exacerbated by climate change. In response, some have suggested that land should be conceptualised as a global commons. This framing might seem like an appealing way to promote sustainable and equitable land use. However, it is a poor fit
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Finance-based accounting of coal emissions
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Most new coal-fired power plants are currently being constructed in Asia. These plants are financed by banks and investors, which in many instances reside elsewhere.
Niccolò Manych +2 more
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 A variety of agricultural, industrial, and consumer technologies have been adopted over the past century and can provide insight into the scale-up of emerging technologies, such as carbon removal.
Gregory Nemet +3 more
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Statistical stopping criteria for automated screening in systematic reviews
Systematic Reviews, 2020 Active learning for systematic review screening promises to reduce the human effort required to identify relevant documents for a systematic review. Machines and humans work together, with humans providing training data, and the machine optimising the ...
Max W Callaghan, Finn Müller-Hansen
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On the use of computer‐assistance to facilitate systematic mapping
Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2020 The volume of published academic research is growing rapidly and this new era of “big literature” poses new challenges to evidence synthesis, pushing traditional, manual methods of evidence synthesis to their limits.
Neal R. Haddaway +6 more
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Double progressivity of infrastructure financing through carbon pricing — Insights from Nigeria
World Development Sustainability, 2022 Carbon taxes and fossil fuel subsidy reforms have been recognized as an efficient means to mobilize substantive domestic resources for sustainable development.
Ira Irina Dorband +3 more
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European Journal of International Law, 2016 ‘The tragedy of the commons’ and ‘the common heritage of mankind’ are concepts that dominate the legal discourse on governing global commons, including spaces beyond national jurisdictions, essential resources, and concerns such as biodiversity conservation and climate change. This paper offers a critical account of their origins.
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