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The competitive impact of hypermarket retailers on gasoline prices [PDF]

open access: yes
Hypermarkets are large retail suppliers of general merchandise or grocery items that also sell gasoline, often at very low margins. Using panel data for 1998-2002, this paper estimates the impact of hypermarkets on average state-level retail gasoline ...
Zimmerman, Paul R.
core   +1 more source

Gender and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN): Evaluating Nigeria's Legislative Framework for Achieving Gender‐Equitable LDN Outcomes

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Legislative frameworks that support gender equality are crucial for addressing structural inequalities, protecting women's rights, and achieving gender‐equitable land degradation neutrality (LDN) outcomes. This study examines the extent to which national‐level policies and legislation governing LDN and related sectors incorporate gender ...
Cynthia Nneka Olumba   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS THE LEASING COMPANY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ISLAMIC BANKING

open access: yesВестник университета, 2019
This article discusses of the problem transferring of the leasing company of the Russian Federation of equipment for use in accordance with the Islamic banking, the study of traditional financial leasing in comparison with the Islamic leasing (Ijarah ...
A. A. Al-Azzawi
doaj  

Harmonizing corporate carbon footprints. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun, 2021
Klaaßen L, Stoll C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in Istanbul

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the ...
Ebru Ertugal, Faik Gür, İnan Sevinç
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Agricultural Sector: Proposed Accounting and Reporting Steps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Suggests GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard-based procedures to help form a consensus on best practices for inventorying agricultural emissions, including separately reporting mechanical and non-mechanical sources of GHG ...
Stephen Russell
core  

Policy Capacity for Novel Technology Adoption: Developmental Insights From Singapore's AI Adoption in Long‐Term Care

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Worldwide, artificial intelligence‐driven technologies, including robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), are adopted to address manpower shortages in long‐term care. However, their effective use requires a reasonable degree of policy capacity across individual‐, organisational‐ and system‐levels.
Si Ying Tan, Lili Li, Araz Taeihagh
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding contingency in wolf‐mediated livestock predation across a mosaic of land uses: An agent‐based modelling approach

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The return of grey wolves to multi‐use landscapes in North America and Europe raises concerns over accompanying risks of livestock predation. While local‐level risk factors have received attention, it is difficult to explore the role that landscape‐scale variables, such as landscape connectivity, play in driving livestock losses.
Vivian F. Hawkinson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Game meat contributes to human nutrition, food security and sociocultural practices around the world. Game meat also comes with risks, including overharvesting and zoonotic and food‐borne disease. These may be pronounced where game meat travels along complex value chains from rural to urban areas.
Brock Bersaglio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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