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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Integration of AI, Blockchain and IoT for the Sustainable Development of the Logistics Service Industry: Insights From a PRISMA‐Based Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an analysis of the literature on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and internet of things (IoT) for the sustainable development of the service industry of freight transport and logistics service providers (LSPs).
Roberto Cerchione, Renato Passaro, Matteo Tavano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Growth: Governance and Education as Drivers of Environmental Health in an EKC‐Based PLS‐SEM Framework

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Isolating environmental issues from their broader social and political context limits understanding of their true drivers. In this sense, factors such as governance and education can be powerful determinants of environmental performance. This research examines the factors influencing the Environmental Health component of the Environmental ...
Zübeyde Çiçek, Özer Arabacı
wiley   +1 more source

Do digital platforms create entrepreneurial opportunities? Evidence from marginal areas

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This article enters the debate on the effects of digital platforms on entrepreneurial opportunities by estimating whether the entry of a home‐sharing platform shapes entrepreneurial decisions in marginal areas. We add a novel perspective to the literature, as we contend that when economic conditions are unfavorable, digital ...
Francesco Luigi Milone, Emilio Paolucci, Elisabetta Raguseo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Families in venture capital

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This exploratory paper introduces a new type of family business by studying the investment strategies of family‐managed venture capital funds (“Family VCs”) across a multi‐country setting. It shows that Family VCs are more likely to invest in (syndicate with) geographically proximate startups (investors), indicating a ...
Valerio Pelucco
wiley   +1 more source

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Pittman‐Robertson and Dingell‐Johnson: A Congressional endorsement of state supremacy over wildlife?

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pittman–Robertson Act of 1937 (PR) and the Dingell–Johnson Act of 1950 (DJ) provide states with substantial capacity to manage fish and wildlife by directing revenue from federal excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment to states. The precise scope of state and federal wildlife management authority has been a topic of debate among ...
J. Vaughan Branch, Jonathan G. Karlen, Joshua J. Millspaugh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme flood events as a neglected natural hazard for marginalized Roma communities on the periphery and outside the municipalities of Slovakia

Abstract Marginalized Roma communities (MRC) located in flood prone areas represent a very current research challenge. With the incentive to reduce their flood exposure, this article sets out the following objectives: I) creation of a geodatabase of Slovak MRCs; ii) morphometric assessment of MRCs iii) flood hazard index calculation for ...
Marián Jančovič, Anna Kidová, Lukáš Michaleje   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source