Results 81 to 90 of about 490,085 (364)

How green was my valley? Urban history in Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The history of Latin America has been dominated by ideas of order and progress. Unfortunately those ideas have not always been of regional origin. In the colonial era the conquest and conversion of the native peoples was seen as progress by the Europeans.
Derham, Michael
core   +1 more source

Review: Energy and Civilization: A History [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Green Journal, 2019
Review:  Energy and Civilization: A ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Credit Risk Assessment From a Strategic Sustainability Perspective: The Case of the Nordic Banking Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial sector plays an important yet ambivalent role in society's sustainability transition. Credit decisions have a substantial impact as they determine the allocation of large amounts of financial resources. This study applies the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development as a lens to review literature and investigate practices ...
Jesko Schulte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Analysis of Fashion and Sustainability: An Umbrella Review From a Decolonial Approach

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry is currently associated with numerous socio‐environmental impacts. Various efforts have emerged to explore pathways toward more sustainable fashion. This study aims to conduct an umbrella review to understand the prevailing perspectives and to identify the proposed paths toward fashion, sustainability, and a decolonial ...
Patrícia Muniz dos Santos Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reinventing the coexistence of multiculturalism in Hong Kong: the role of Kowloon Mosque

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This paper seeks to explore the significance of Kowloon Mosque (or Masjid Kowloon) in demonstrating cultural coexistence within Hong Kong. In this cultural study, along with incorporating a sociological perspective, the aim is to explore the connections ...
Chun-Leung Jacky Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

History, tradition and the China dream: socialist modernization in the world of great harmony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How will China influence world politics in the twenty-first century? Many people answer this question by looking to Chinese history, and particularly to traditional models of Chinese world order.
Callahan, William A.
core   +2 more sources

Nonconventional Techniques in Plant Alkaloid Extraction: A Decade of Progress (2014–2023)

open access: yesChemistry &Biodiversity, EarlyView.
This figure seeks to represent the evolution of the different unconventional approaches that were adopted for the extraction of plant‐derived alkaloids during the decade from 2014 to 2023. ABSTRACT Plant metabolism encompasses primary and secondary pathways, with secondary metabolism yielding diverse natural products crucial for plant adaptation and ...
Victor Menezes Sipoloni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Race Factor and Trial By Jury [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The institution of trial by jury in criminal cases, one of the great achievements in the history of civilization and a principal foundation of our federal constitutional order, is to day under challenge by two different by interrelated developments in ...
Conboy, Kenneth
core   +2 more sources

Выставка «Архитектура США» в Советском Союзе периода холодной войны: опыт коммуникативного анализа

open access: yesQuaestio Rossica, 2015
Американские выставки в СССР традиционно расцениваются в историографии как американская пропаганда и часть холодной войны за сердца и умы советских граждан.
Olga Yakushenko
doaj   +1 more source

Tocqueville's Christian Citzen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Tocqueville's Christian Citizen Marinus Ossewaarde Introduction Alexis De Tocqueville is well known for his critique of democracy. A French statesman, he was left with the legacy of the French Revolution that had torn his fatherland and had changed the ...
Ossewaarde, Marinus
core   +3 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy