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Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically
Sharon Hunter   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the challenges facing the transboundary fossil Saq–Disi Aquifer System (SDAS) in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, towards sustainability

open access: yesDiscover Geoscience
As a result of overexploitation by humans, more than 8% of the world transboundary aquifer systems are under significant stress, leading to rapid groundwater depletion.
Hilmi S. Salem, Yohannes Yihdego
doaj   +1 more source

Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

High vs. Low AGI: Ontology and Conceptual Taxonomy for Geopolitical Coherence

open access: yes
The rapid progression of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research demands conceptual tools capable of distinguishing between systems developed for open, commercial integration and those destined for sovereign, securitized deployments. Without such distinctions, risk assessments and regulatory debates collapse AGI into legacy dual-use frameworks ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geo-economics and geopolitics in Europe from the aspect of a centre-periphery divide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper gives a comprehensive geo-economic analysis of Europe, providing a new, distance-based definition of core (360 km), centre (720 km), semi-periphery (1440 km) and periphery (over 1440 km), which is also relevant for other, non-European economies.
Tibor, Fehér, Fehér, Tibor
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitics and its Impact on the Pace and Trajectory of the Energy Transition [PDF]

open access: yes
This thesis explores the intricate relationship between geopolitics and the renewable energy transition, emphasising the urgent need for a shift towards a low-carbon future amidst the chaos of the current environmental and geopolitical landscape.
Lexau, Sander, Kvaleberg, Ola
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Sustainability Challenges to the Steel Industry in a Developing Country: Sanctions and Security Issues at the Forefront

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to sustainability research by investigating the complex, geopolitically induced challenges faced by industrial supply chains under international sanctions. Using Iran's steel industry as a case, it examines sustainability barriers through the lens of stakeholder theory. A mixed methods approach was employed.
Seyed Hamed Moosavirad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low-carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective draws on the European Commission‘s funded project MILESECURE-2050. It considers low-carbon energy security and energy geopolitics in Europe, with a focus on four thematic clusters: challenging the ...
Gruenig, Max   +2 more
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