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Urban green grabbing

In the movement towards building greener and more sustainable cities, real estate developers are increasingly embracing not only green building construction but broader strategies and action related to urban greening. To date, their motivations and role in this broader urban greening dynamic remains underexplored, yet essential to dissect how greening ...
García-Lamarca, Melissa||, Anguelovski, Isabelle||, Cole, Helen||, Connolly, James J. T.||, Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen||, Shokry, Galia||, Triguero-Mas, Margarita||   +6 more
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Ocean Governance and Marine Conservation: Institutional Work as a Lever for Ocean Sustainability

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ocean governance presents one of the most complex environmental policy challenges of our time, requiring coordinated action across multiple scales, sectors and stakeholder groups. This paper applies institutional work theory to systematically examine how actors create, maintain and disrupt the governance arrangements underpinning ocean ...
Kedar Uttam, Kristjan Jespersen, Paige Olmsted, Katryn Pasaribu   +3 more
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Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen, Paul K. Bergmann, Vladimira Čavojová, Jakub Šrol   +3 more
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Displacement Estimation of Structures With Flag‐Shaped Hysteresis Loops

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Time‐history analyses were conducted on single‐degree‐of‐freedom (SDOF) systems with flag‐shaped hysteresis loops using a far‐field ground motion suite to estimate peak displacements, Δp, and equivalent deformation cycles, Nc, associated with cumulative displacement demands.
Yudi Zhang, Gregory A. MacRae, Geoffrey W. Rodgers, Shahab Ramhormozian, Charles Clifton, Masoumeh Farshbaf   +5 more
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Influence of Visual Quality and Cultural Background on Consumer Apple Preferences: An Eye-Tracking Study with Chinese and Hungarian Consumers

Applied Sciences
Using eye-tracking technology, the proposed study investigates how customers visually evaluate apples varieties and apple defects and how these evaluations affect their purchasing decisions.
Xu Cao, Zsuzsanna Horváth-Mezőfi, Zoltán Sasvár, Gergő Szabó, Attila Gere, Géza Hitka, Dalma Radványi   +6 more
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Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Panacea Plants for Environment and Humanity: Caper and Ritha [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, 2015
Caper and Ritha are plants which have very important effects on both living beings and natural habitat. They are used in many areas like medicine, pharmacy, cosmetics and agriculture because of their positive features.
Fadim YEMİŞ, Nilgün YENİL
doaj  

An Investigation of the Relationship Between Central Bank Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bitcoin Activity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates whether the unconventional monetary policy (UMP) measures pursued by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) are associated with an appetite for cryptocurrency.
Niamh Wylie, Martha O'Hagan‐Luff
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of the World Wide Fund for Nature as a Hegemonic Actor in Global Conservation Governance and Its Impact on the Baka Community

Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik
This study examines the evolution of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and its influence on global environmental governance, focusing on the case of the Baka Indigenous people in Cameroon.
Zamharirah Sang Putri, Bright Malenga
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The Relationship Among Climate Policy Uncertainty and Energy Markets: Fossil Versus Renewable and Low‐Carbon Assets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the intricate relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and energy market dynamics, focusing on fossil‐based and renewable/low‐carbon energy assets. Utilising a comprehensive dataset spanning from April 1987 to December 2023, comprising monthly observations of CPU, stock market returns, spot oil prices and ...
Dimitrios Asteriou, Anastasia Dimiski
wiley   +1 more source