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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Why Are Complementary Currency Systems Difficult to Grasp within Conventional Economics?
Revue Interventions ÉconomiquesComplementary currency system (CCS) complements the official currency, with a view to accounting for and regulating exchanges of goods and services in a local space.
Marie Fare, Pepita Ould Ahmed
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Factors of determinism, uncertainty and stochasticity in stock and commodity markets [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 One of the main methodological principles of modern economics is the separation of the positive and normative study area. Traditionally, the dominant regulatory approach is associated with a "pre-scientific" era - with the economic views of antiquity and
Safiullin Nail +2 more
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Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its relationship to values and identities.
Michael Tomlinson, Manuel Souto‐Otero
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Vulnerability mapping as a tool to manage the environmental impacts of oil and gas extraction [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Various biophysical and socio-economic impacts may be associated with unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction. A vulnerability map may assist governments during environmental assessments, spatial planning and the regulation of UOG extraction, as well
Surina Esterhuyse +10 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize a rich dataset of manufacturing firms to investigate the heterogeneous effects of ISO 14001 on the financial performance of certified firms. We employ machine learning techniques, specifically causal tree and causal forest, to uncover these effects. Our findings reveal consistently positive average effects of ISO 14001 certification
Xiaoliu Xu, Abdoul G. Sam
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Legal Reasons Underlying Demonopolization by State-Owned Enterprises in Indonesia
Sriwijaya Law Review, 2019 Demonopolization policy towards PT. PLN (Persero) and PT. Pelindo (Persero) conducted by the Indonesian government is aimed at enhancing efficiency, the effectiveness of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as well as global competitiveness.
Putu Samawati Saleh
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The Relevance of Board Diversity Features in a Weak Institutional Business Environment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The board diversity literature continues to advance a simplistic but empirically unsubstantiated rhetoric of the board diversity accountability, economic benefits and its relationship with other firm characteristics. Yet, less is understood about which board diversity features actually matter for business decision‐making, especially in weak ...
Folajimi Ashiru +4 more
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THE INSTITUTION OF LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE. AN OVERVIEW OF THE TIMEFRAME 2010-2014 [PDF]
CES Working Papers, 2015 According to the Romanian Constitution (Art. 115, paragraph 1), the Government, as a body of the Executive Power, is endowed with attributions belonging to the Legislative function, specific to the Parliament. Thus, we are dealing with what the juridical
Ionel BOSTAN
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