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Tinkering Towards Sustainability: Bundling Innovations to Electrify the Fossil‐Dependent Process Industry

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions, such as electrifying the process industry, require a bundle of related innovations to make meaningful progress. Drawing on literature on innovation through tinkering, that is, adaptive, typically small‐scale experimentation with various forms of innovation, and applying a micropolitical perspective, this qualitative
Karin Wigger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

We Guide Them to Independence. Experiences of Professionals Involved in the Transition to Adulthood of Unaccompanied Refugee Adolescents

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the experiences of professionals who support unaccompanied refugee adolescents in the Netherlands as they transition to adulthood. This study highlights a crucial yet understudied period for these young people, many of whom arrive at the age of 16 or older and have only a short period of time to become self‐sufficient before
L. N. Hacquebord   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformative Learning and Participatory Approaches With Youth: A Discussion on Distinctions

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, participatory approaches have been regarded as effective and ethical in research and policy work involving children and youth. Recently, the term ‘transformation’ has gained traction in Childhood Studies. This article explores Transformative Learning (TL) methodology, which was introduced in the 1970s for adult education but ...
Irene Bisasso Hoem, Marit Ursin
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Child Activism: Civil Society Organisations' Practices, Challenges, and Transformative Approaches

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines how civil society organisations (CSOs), particularly development and humanitarian non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), shape children's and young people's activism as represented in the scholarly literature. Drawing on a transdisciplinary literature review informed by reflexive professional insights, the paper ...
Samira Abou Alfa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of the International Phytosanitary Standard ISPM No. 15 on reducing wood borer infestation rates in wood packaging material entering the United States. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2014
Haack RA   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Harnessing social media data to track species range shifts

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity monitoring programs and citizen science data remain heavily biased toward the Global North. Especially in megadiverse countries with limited biodiversity records, incorporating social media data can help address existing data gaps.
Shawan Chowdhury   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxing windfall money: A quasi‐experimental study

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines individuals' reaction to windfall income taxation. We take advantage of similar tax reforms on lottery winnings in Portugal and Spain in 2013 to study effects on lottery participation in both countries. Using a Synthetic Difference in Differences approach on a database of 348 draws from EuroMillions, our results indicate ...
Álvaro Muñiz‐Fernández, Levi Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

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