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COMMUNITIES’ ROLE IN SECURING CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE IN ZAMBIA
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2018 Community land and natural resources lie at the heart of social, political and economic life in much of rural Africa. While the Zambian government acknowledges customary tenure, it has not established required legislation needed to secure it and support to communities in their efforts to protect their lands.
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Transforming Discourse, Transforming Practice: The Self‐Assessment Tool for Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Community college faculty remain largely invisible in national data and in tools designed for four‐year institutions. This study uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how a faculty diversity self‐assessment tool, originally built on Griffin's Institutional Model for Increasing Faculty Diversity for four‐year universities, was ...
Lorenzo Baber +3 more
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesThis paper examined the relations between informal documentations and land tenure security on change in land use/cover. Using Chamuka land registration, the paper focuses on caused of land use /cover change and how informal documents-based land dealings
Dinah Mwanza
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Enhancing security of land tenure for IDPs
Forced Migration Review, 2014 "The case of Maslakh in western Afghanistan is an example of translating Afghanistan’s new IDP Policy into reality. If successful the project will ensure security of land tenure for IDPs in urban settings and set a precedent for local integration of IDPs across Afghanistan, a highly contentious and politicised issue thus far."
Rao, S, Turkstra, J
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ESG practices offer various benefits for family firms; however, there has been limited focus on how these practices can specifically advantage the owning family. To address this gap, we conduct a multiple‐case study of six Italian family firms.
Rafaela Gjergji +4 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
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Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey +2 more
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Justice for biodiversity: an X‐curve transformation pathway for a sustainable future
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Decades of conservation action have failed to stem biodiversity loss, stimulating heated debates over which conservation strategies are the most effective. Do we focus on preserving sufficient wilderness, maintaining services from nature for societal well‐being, or protecting vulnerable socioecologies from injustice?
Camille PA Venier‐Cambron
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