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What Are the Challenges of Increasing the Sustainability of Urban Livelihoods? [PDF]
, 2009 . This article places the challenge of rapid urbanisation throughout the world into a perspective that acknowledges inequalities due to economic history.
Whittingham, N. (Neil)
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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing
Advanced Science, EarlyView.As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Moral Necessity, Possibility, and Impossibility from Leibniz to Kant
Lexicon PhilosophicumIn all three of his major works on moral philosophy, Kant conceives of moral obligation, moral permissibility, and moral impermissibility in modal terms, namely in terms of moral necessity, moral possibility, and moral impossibility respectively.
Michael Walschots
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Just Say No (For Now): The Ethics of Illegal Drug Use
Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2018 The war on drugs is widely criticized as unjust. The idea that the laws prohibiting drugs are unjust can easily lead to the conclusion that those laws do not deserve our respect, so that our only moral reason to obey them flows from a general moral ...
Mathieu Doucet
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Why genomics researchers are sometimes morally required to hunt for secondary findings
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Genomic research can reveal ‘unsolicited’ or ‘incidental’ findings that are of potential health or reproductive significance to participants.
Julian J. Koplin +2 more
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ESHRE task force on ethics and law 15: Cross-border reproductive care [PDF]
, 2008 This paper analyses the ethical aspects of cross-border reproductive care. Ethical questions are raised by some of the main reasons of cross-border travelling, i.e. law evasion and unequal access to treatment.
Cohen, J. +5 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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Political Obligation: An Introduction to moral principles of the Interrelations between the Individual and state [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2006 Each one of us is lelong to the special political society. The nature of our polity and its laws, institutions, and values, as well as type character of the interrelations between us with the political institutions specially the state has naturally a ...
Siavash Jafari
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Material‐Based Intelligence: Autonomous Adaptation and Embodied Computation in Physical Substrates
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This perspective formulates a unifying framework for Material‐Based Intelligence (MBI), defining the physical requirements for materials to achieve embodied action, active memory and embodied information processing through intrinsic nonequilibrium dynamics. The design of intelligent materials often draws parallels with the complex adaptive behaviors of
Vladimir A. Baulin +4 more
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