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Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator‐follower dynamics in social groups
Oikos, EarlyView.Deciding when and where to move is a challenge for group‐living animals as differences in preferences must be resolved for the group to maintain cohesion. In many species, consensus is reached through shared decision‐making, whereby group members initiate group movements by stopping foraging and making directed movements away from a feeding source. Yet,
Damien R. Farine +2 more
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Monopoly, Multi-Product Quality, Consumer Heterogeneity, and Market Segmentation
GamesThis paper introduces a novel ratio-based framework for analyzing how consumer heterogeneity translates into product differentiation in vertically structured monopoly markets. We consider a monopolist facing a continuum of consumers and a strictly convex
Amit Gayer
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In defense of monopoly: how market power fosters creative production [PDF]
, 2008 Lee, Dwight R., McKenzie, Richard B.
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Oikos, EarlyView.The ability of plants to attract pollinators is context‐dependent, influenced by floral traits, abundance, and resources from the plant community. Indirect interactions through shared pollinators, from competition to facilitation, may lead to varied reproductive outputs in plants, and the mechanisms behind these interactions remain to be fully ...
Marsal D. De Amorim +6 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
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Toward Sustainable Development in the Ocean: A Framework for Blue Economy Marine Spatial Planning
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Blue Economy (BE) has emerged as a prominent concept that emphasizes the integration of environmental, economic, and social factors for the sustainable utilization of marine resources. Effective planning through Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) seeks to harmonize traditional and emerging marine industries, thereby mitigating conflicts and ...
Jen‐Han Yang, Jen‐Yu Yang, Yi Chang
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How did policy actors use the European Union's (EU's) political system to achieve policy changes in regulating the sustainability and legality of transnational forest and agricultural commodity supply chains? We qualitatively analysed the development of the new EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free products (EUDR) from actor‐centred and ...
Laila Berning +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of constitutional power concentration on adaptation to climate change in 113 countries observed between 1995 and 2023 using the quantile regression method. The results reveal that the concentration of constitutional power hinders countries' adaptation to climate change through inequalities ...
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
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A Method for Assessing the Risks to Sustainability Posed by Process Operations
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present a framework for assessing the risks to sustainability posed by any given set of processes. The objective is to improve sustainability by enabling better decision‐making in policy and business contexts. The framework can be applied to any system of processes where available information supports discovery and quantification of ...
Richard C. Darton, Colin J. Axon
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