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Rustbelt Radicalism: A Decade of Food Systems Planning Practice in Buffalo, New York (USA)
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Pressure is increasing from nongovernmental actors to incorporate food more concretely into municipal policies and plans. A qualitative case study of Buffalo, New York (USA), demonstrates that incremental, persistent food systems practice and advocacy by
Samina Raja +3 more
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Rural Development Through Non-State Actors in Highlands of Pakistan
SAGE Open, 2021 We explored the contribution and effectiveness of state and non-state institutions in rural development efforts in highlands (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [KPK] province) of Pakistan.
Muhammad Luqman +4 more
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Московский журнал международного права, 2012 The article deals with theoretical and practical aspеcts of defining subjects of international law, characterizing main and secondary subjects of international law. The article considers issues of legal personality of states, nonstate actors, individuals
S. A. Gureev
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The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors
Ecology and Society, 2014 Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has gained increasing global attention because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions and improve forest governance.
Thuy T. Pham +4 more
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Journal of Strategic Security, 2014 The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background.
Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels
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The Dark And Bright Sides Of Non-State Actors: An Evaluation [PDF]
Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2011 Non-state actors occupy an irreplaceable position in the current global system. Over the past decades they have become so influential that any analysis of international relations is impossible without their characterisation.
Radana Makariusová
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Offshore companies as non-state actors of World Politics
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013 Different types of non-governmental financial organizations influence onto states and world politics is being investigated in the article. Structure of contemporary international financial systems is shown and specificity of their influence onto real ...
I. V. Krasavin
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
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