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Grassroots waste picker organizations addressing the UN sustainable development goals

open access: yes, 2021
Worldwide waste pickers work under deplorable conditions and are not recognized for their environmental and community services, by recovering and diverting recyclable materials from waste.
J. Gutberlet
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Current situation and countermeasures of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction work in cities and counties under the large emergency system:Taking Ma’anshan as an example

open access: yes地震科学进展, 2023
This paper focuses on the situation of earthquake organizational reforms in cities and counties in Anhui Province, with a specific analysis of the work status, characteristics, and problems of grassroots earthquake prevention and disaster reduction ...
Mingwang Yuan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Administrative Ethics Conflict and Governance of Grassroots Government Staff Under the Human Relationship Society

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The conflict of administrative morality among civil servants at the grassroots level arises from the background of China’s long-standing traditional culture, and the current administrative system cannot keep up with the pace of economic development.
Yue Yin, Taotao Li, Fan Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Reclaim Conservation: Conservation Discourse and Initiatives of the Rondas Campesinas, North-Eastern Peru

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2019
Global conservation fails to stop or, as in most cases, even reduce the rapidly intensifying extinction crisis. Hence, alternatives to current dominant conservation ideologies and practices need to be explored.
Noga Shanee
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„YOU DO IT QUIETLY, YOU HELP AND THAT'S IT.” THE EXPERIENCE OF VOLUNTEERING THROUGH A CASE EXAMPLE

open access: yesKülönleges Bánásmód, 2022
The largest population movement in the history of Europe since the Second World War has been the migration process of recent years, which also appeared in Hungary in 2015.
Nelli Ujhelyi
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Cross the river by feeling the stones: How did nonlocal grassroots nonprofits overcome administrative barriers to provide quick responses to COVID‐19?

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, 2021
This field report explores how nonlocal grassroots organizations provided effective and quick responses during the initial stage of the COVID‐19 outbreak in Wuhan and surrounding regions.
Xiaoyun Wang, Y. Cheng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unity Starts with U: A Case Study of a Counter-Hate Campaign Through the Use of Social Media Platforms

open access: yesJournal of Hate Studies, 2020
Hate has been a growing concern with hate-groups and individuals using the Internet, or more specifically, social media platforms, to globalize hate.
Candace Leung, Richard Frank
doaj   +1 more source

Governmentality, the Local State, and the Commons: An Analysis of Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
This article deploys the Foucauldian concept of governmentality to study the political tensions that may unfold when commons are enacted through hybrid institutional configurations.
Marina Pera, Iolanda Bianchi
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News Media Framing of Grassroots Innovations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden

open access: yesEnvironmental Communication, 2021
This paper explores how grassroots innovations are being framed in the news media in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. By using framing analysis of newspaper items in the three countries, based on 30 cases, we identify that compared to literature on ...
Dick Magnusson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bottom-up versus Top-down Campaigning at the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 saw one of the longest political campaigns in modern UK politics. The referendum saw the formation of a hybrid Yes campaign that combined modern campaigning techniques with a large, activist grassroots that ...
Peter Lynch
doaj   +1 more source

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