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Maximizing the Economic, Environmental, and Social Impact of the Metaverse
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The metaverse is a transformative digital ecosystem with the potential to redefine economic, environmental, and social systems. This qualitative study examines how the metaverse and its enabling technologies—such as AR/VR, blockchain, and AI—might evolve to influence sustainability. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with global experts and
Alessandro Lanteri +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Waste‐to‐biofuel (WTB) programs have gained popularity as a municipal circular economy and an emissions reduction strategy. The upgrading of biofuels to renewable natural gas (RNG) has drawn particular interest, as RNG can displace conventional fossil fuels in any existing natural gas end use and be delivered through existing pipeline ...
Taylor Davey
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Understanding Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Purchase Motivations [PDF]
, 2022 The growing popularity of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has created a new digital collectibles asset class and market. NFTs are unique digital tokens built on blockchain technology that can represent anything from art, property rights, certificates of ...
Haried, Peter, Murray, James
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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NFT UNDER CONDITIONS OF CRITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE DIGITAL ASSET MARKET
Baltic Journal of Economic StudiesThe integration of information technologies into all spheres of human activity, the proliferation of online communities, and the expansion of the virtual world have precipitated a transformation in consumer needs and an influence on their preferences ...
Svitlana Volosovych +2 more
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Le NFT : de l'œuvre d'art à l'instrument financier
sui-generis, 2023 Depuis quelques années, les Non-Fungible Tokens font l'objet d'un intérêt croissant notamment sur le marché de l'art. Ils suscitent des opérations spéculatives importantes, mais ne sont appréhendés juridiquement que de manière lacunaire.
Enzo Bastian
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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2022 The combination of non-fungible token (NFT) with paintings, music, games, videos and other forms of creative content is an innovation to protect the copyright of authors. It digitizes physical works with unique labels.
Daqing He +3 more
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Sustainable Development Report: Blockchain, the Web3 & the SDGs [PDF]
, 2019 This is an output paper of the applied research that was conducted between July 2018 - October 2019 funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and conducted by the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and ...
Novakovic, Tatjana +3 more
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SASI, 2022 Introduction: E-commerce transactions that develop, of course, bring changes to agreements that have been carried out conventionally, the digital era has finally brought about a new world called the metaverse with a number of assets in the form of ...
Ronald Fadly Sopamena
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