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Fulfilling and desperately needed: Australian media representations of responses to homelessness

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 783-797, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Homelessness is a significant social issue that continues to confront Australian society, despite burgeoning public and policy responses to the issue. Existing scholarship demonstrates the important role the media can play in shaping such responses by framing homelessness – and the people who experience it – in particular ways.
Laura Simpson Reeves, Andrew Clarke, Ella Kuskoff, Cameron Parsell   +3 more
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities: An exploratory qualitative study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 880-897, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are ...
Mandy Truong, Mienah Sharif, Anna Olsen, Dave Pasalich, Bianca Calabria, Naomi Priest   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Insights for Indigenous employment into a case study of unconscious bias in the Australian Public Service

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 898-919, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Drawing on a case study of unconscious bias levels in the Australian Public Service (APS), findings suggest gender equality remains a concern for career prospects for women, particularly for Indigenous women when two‐thirds of Indigenous employees in the APS are women.
Craig Leon
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing the homeless: How revisiting the 1940s assists the struggle

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 798-811, December 2022., 2022
Abstract A major obstacle in the political work of housing the homeless is convincing voters and lawmakers that housing is a right and should be available to all without conditions. This paper seeks to assist that project by showing that the tension between rights and conditions has a history. It focusses on the pivotal 1940s, which saw the first major
Anne O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the dynamics of support seeking in women with lived experience of non‐physical intimate partner violence (IPV) and the service responses—A qualitative study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 861-879, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Non‐physical abuse is a form of intimate partner violence (IPV), which negatively impacts physical and mental well‐being. The study objectives were to understand the process of support seeking amongst women who experience non‐physical IPV. Interviews were conducted with women who have experience of non‐physical IPV and support workers.
Karishma Doolabh, Colleen Fisher, Melissa O'Donnell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of advanced dressings in preventing surgical site infections compared to that of standard dressings in gastrointestinal surgery: A systematic review and meta‐analysis for guideline revision by the Japanese Society for Surgical Infection

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This is a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the efficacy of wound coverage using advanced dressings specifically for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSI) in gastrointestinal surgery. We found that the use of advanced dressings for primary wounds in gastrointestinal surgery was associated with a significantly lower risk of SSI than that
Keita Kouzu, Hironori Tsujimoto, Seiichi Shinji, Hiroji Shinkawa, Koji Tamura, Yukio Sato, Koji Munakata, Yasunari Fukuda, Daisuke Koike, Hiromu Miyake, Yohei Hosoda, Motoi Uchino, Hiroki Ohge, Junzo Shimizu, Seiji Haji, Yasuhiko Mohri, Chizuru Yamashita, Yuichi Kitagawa, Motomu Kobayashi, Yuki Hanai, Hiroshi Nobuhara, Masahiro Yoshida, Toru Mizuguchi, Toshihiko Mayumi, Yuko Kitagawa   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source