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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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Waves of Uncertainty: Crude Oil Under Geopolitical, Economic, and ESG Turbulence

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Dynamic copula and wavelet coherence reveal that geopolitical, economic, and sustainability uncertainties significantly shape crude oil price co‐movements. Long‐term coherence, especially post‐2015, highlights the growing role of ESG risks alongside geopolitical shocks and economic crises in global energy risk transmission.
Sana Braiek, Naif Alsagr, Aamir Aijaz Syed, Ahmed Jeribi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Relinquishing and Governing the Volatile: The Many Afghanistans and Critical Research Agendas of NATO's Governance [PDF]

, 2013
This article invites academics and policy analysts to examine the mechanisms and legacy of NATO's security and development governance of Afghan social spaces by using critical theory concepts.
Abbaszadeh Nima, Barthes Roland., Buddenberg Doris, CALL (Center for Army Lessons Learned), Cordesman Anthony H., Cordesman Anthony H., Cordesman Anthony H., Eide Kai., Felbab-Brown Vanda., Foucault Michel., Foucault Michel., GAO (United States Government Accountability Office), Gauster Marcus., Gregory Derek., Jones Seth G., Katzman Kenneth., Lefebvre Henri., McCain John., Mitchell Timothy., Morris Sharon, Perito Robert M., Rynning Sten., Szanya Thomas S., US Department of Defense   +23 more
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Still Shortchanged: Some Observations About the New Army/Marine Corps COIN Doctrine [PDF]

, 2014
Evaluation of complex systems is as necessary now as ever.To conduct a successful evaluation, in other words an evaluationthat shows something interesting and perhaps unknownabout the system, one should be structured and planwell.
Dunlap, Charles J., Jr.
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Setting the record straight on the Malayan counterinsurgency strategy: interview with Karl Hack [PDF]

, 2011
You are a long time researcher and observer of the Malayan Emergency. What were the core key ingredients that broke the back of the communist insurgents in the Malayan Emergency? The primary cause for putting the campaign on a firmly winning path?
Hack, Karl
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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source