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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM OF HOUSING CONTROL IN URBAN SETTLEMENTS

open access: yesВестник университета, 2019
The article analyses the existing system of housing control, reveals modern problems and peculiarities of state supervision and municipal control in the housing sector of urban settlements, proposed measures for further development of the system of ...
M. Stadolin
doaj  

Stratégies locatives et ascension sociale des propriétaires-bailleurs à Horch el-Qatil, banlieue sud de Beyrouth

open access: yesCybergeo, 2021
The massive arrival of Syrian refugees to Lebanon since 2011 is generating an informal rental market throughout Lebanon. Rentals for vulnerable migrants are concentrated in the Beqaa region and in the capital’s suburbs.
Rouba Kaedbey
doaj   +1 more source

Soil Carbon Markets in the Making: Power Relations and Matters of Concern in Offsetting and Insetting

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates emerging soil carbon markets and seeks to identify the groups of actors and power relations that constitute their structure and function. Voluntary soil carbon markets (VSCMs) are emerging globally as a key mechanism for generating carbon removals as part of climate mitigation efforts.
Philippa Simmonds   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La vulgarisation d’un droit d’application quotidienne

open access: yesCahiers Jean Moulin, 2019
The conclusion of a lease is a transaction of daily legal life. It is practiced to a large extent by laypersons, that is to say people who are neither lawyers nor real estate specialists.
Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas
doaj   +1 more source

Some love them, others hate them: Understanding farmers' tree planting decisions in Scotland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural land use system with potential to sequester carbon, create and repair habitats, enhance biodiversity and offer environmental and socio‐economic benefits, including improved agricultural productivity.
Albert Mvula, Katrin Prager, Josie Geris
wiley   +1 more source

Buying and Selling: Exploring Residential Landlords’ Acquisition and Disposition Decisions

open access: yesJournal of Real Estate Practice and Education
We examine rental landlords’ decisions to buy and sell investment properties. We use the results of a new survey of owners of rental properties in nine major US cities, focusing on a subset of rental investors who own properties themselves, where we ask ...
Daniel Kuhlmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Was a lease effective as a weapon of lordship? The use of documents in the principality of Salerno (10th-11th Century)

open access: yesReti Medievali Rivista, 2017
This paper attempts to examine the strategic use of the agrarian contracts by the landlords of the principality of Salerno in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Yoshiya Nishimura
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Disputes and Politics; Socio-Political Context of the Tenant-Protection Schemes in Southeast and East-Central Europe, 1918–1928 [PDF]

open access: yesТокови историје, 2016
This comparative study analyses a specific socio-political context of the processes that came with the implementation of a housing rent control system in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland during the first interwar decade.
Aleksandar R. Miletić
doaj   +1 more source

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

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