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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Episodic evolution of a protracted convergent margin revealed by detrital zircon geochronology in the Greater Caucasus

open access: yes, 2023
Convergent margins play a fundamental role in the construction and modification of Earth's lithosphere and are characterized by poorly understood episodic processes that occur during the progression from subduction to terminal collision.
Vasey, Dylan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Global HRM and Transnational Networks: Unpacking the Micro‐Behavioral Process Supporting Global HRM Integration Using a Quantitative Multi‐Source, Multi‐Level Design

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration.
Olga Tregaskis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of forest ecosystems in the mountainous regions of Azerbaijan: Formation, degradation and restoration under climate change [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
This study examines the present state of forest ecosystems in the mountainous regions of Azerbaijan, with particular emphasis on the Greater Caucasus, and the natural and anthropogenic factors that govern their formation and restoration potential ...
Baghirov Hussein
doaj   +1 more source

Child‐Risk Discourses in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood: Place‐Based Classifications, Moral Regulation and the Organization of Everyday Parenting

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The professional practice category of ‘children at risk’ serves as a central framework within contemporary child welfare systems, guiding the identification of children, the assessment of their circumstances and decisions regarding intervention and support.
Lital Yona
wiley   +1 more source

Glacial geomorphology of the Notsarula and Chanchakhi river valleys, Georgian Caucasus

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2023
Detailed glacial geomorphological maps are valuable for identifying target sites for palaeoglaciological reconstructions and thus for palaeoclimate inferences.
Levan G. Tielidze   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biotope Types of the Treeline of the Central Greater Caucasus

open access: yes, 2007
Some characteristics (habitat, distribution, characteristic species, ecological importance, practical use and danger factors) are given of 17 typical treeline biotopes in the Kazbegi region, situated on the north-facing macro slope of the central part of the Main Watershed Range of the Greater Caucasus.
George Nakhutsrishvili   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Testing the morphology‐ and intuition‐based taxonomic hypotheses using integrative approach: unexpected discovery of triplet of sibling species within a widespread Eurasian butterfly, Hyponephele lycaon

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract In well‐studied groups of organisms, the taxonomic landscape can be very complex, with several alternative classifications describing diversity within the same set of populations. For example, three hypotheses have previously been proposed to describe the taxonomy of the common and widespread Eurasian Dusky Meadow Brown butterfly, Hyponephele ...
Elena A. Pazhenkova   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Astronomy & Astrophysics (CAUCASUS)-VOLUME 3

open access: yes, 2020
The III volume of Journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics (Caucasus)” was dedicated to the 110th Anniversary of Academician Eugene Kharadze. Academician Evgene Kharadze Vice - President of International Union of Astronomy (1976-82) I would like to give you
(Caucasus)”, Astronomy & Astrophysics
core   +1 more source

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