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Restoring Trust: Rebuilding the Forest Carbon Credit System Through Scientific Rigor
Biological Diversity, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As pivotal nature‐based climate solutions (NbCS), forests are increasingly recognized for their climate mitigation potential. However, this potential is undermined by fundamental flaws in current carbon credit systems. Our analysis identifies four interconnected systemic challenges: (1) subjective additionality assessments arising from ...
Xiaoqian Chen, Shaokun Li
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Contemporary Social Sciences, 2020 Fei Xiaotong’s (Fei Hsiao-tung) works on rural economies and societies written in the 1940s were deeply affected by British economic historian R. H. Tawney. Through comparison, this article reveals at least two connections between their works.
Yang Qingmei
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui +4 more
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Social History and Historical Sociology [PDF]
Historická sociologie, 2013 This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American trends in historical sociology ...
Wolfgang Knöbl
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The Politics of Modernization and the Misleading Approaches to Development
World Review of Political Economy, 2016 This article deconstructs the theory of modernization and argues that the theory is a political propaganda to mislead the people of Third World countries; the social transformation the theory advocates is not for the development of Third World countries.
Ndinawe Byekwaso
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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Contemporary Southeastern EuropeIt has been postulated that encouraging the financial recovery of Bosnia and Herzegovinawill promote the easing of its ethnic polarization. However, when juxtaposing the resultsof Bosnian parliamentary elections from 2002 to 2022 with the country’s ...
Merlino, Benedetta +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
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The Germans of St. Petersburg from the 1860s to 1914: Number, Distribution, and Economic Activities
RUDN Journal of Russian HistoryThe authors examine the situation of the German community in St. Petersburg in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. The research is based on the published materials of the urban population censuses of 1869 and 1900 and the First General Census ...
Vladimir N. Shaidurov, Nikita A. Osipov
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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