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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the use of multitemporal vegetation cover analysis as a tool to assess the ecological effectiveness of judicial decisions that recognize the rights of nature, using Colombia's 2016 T‐622 decision on the Atrato River as a case study.
Juan Camilo Ríos‐Orjuela +4 more
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Tax Avoidance: A Literature Review on Contextual Factors
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As empirical research on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance has stressed heterogeneous results, this literature review focuses on contextual factors of this dynamic link. Seventy‐three peer‐reviewed archival studies on that topic are identified, leading to either a positive or a negative impact of ...
Patrick Velte
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Revista de Administração Pública, 2013 Este estudo analisa os resultados da mudança na estrutura de regulação do serviço público de energia elétrica, implementada, no âmbito da Reforma do Estado, no final dos anos 1990.
Maurílio de Abreu Monteiro +2 more
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Anthropology and law: dialogue for otherness [PDF]
, 2012 To become self-reflexive, Jurisprudence must to establish a dialogue: the human sciences should lose their exotic character in the eyes of Legal Science.
Leite Corrêa da Costa, Mila Batista
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how home‐ and host‐country institutions jointly shape the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firms' climate action commitments (CAC) in emerging markets. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and Varieties of Capitalism, we conceptualize FDI as a mechanism of institutional transmission through which multinational
Jose Pla‐Barber, David Tobón‐Orozco
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De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-too-flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution [PDF]
, 2017 This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the
Zenker, Olaf
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Psicologia & Sociedade, 2012 Ao longo do século XX as referências legais tornaram-se a grande esperança de ver o mundo mudar, transformando as relações formais e cotidianas em tribunais de execução legal.
Estela Scheinvar
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