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Agribusiness Supply Chains: From Green to Regenerative
ABSTRACT Supply chain management has traditionally prioritized maximizing profits, creating persistent tensions with social‐ecological systems (SES) despite sustainability efforts. Regeneration offers an alternative, ecocentric approach, yet it remains unclear how supply chains can operate within SES boundaries.
Diana Trujillo +2 more
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ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi +3 more
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This paper examines the possibilities for transformation of a climate-change hot spot - the coal-producing Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia - using complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory. It uses CAS theory to understand the role of coal in the
Geoffrey R. Evans
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ABSTRACT Logistics service providers (LSPs) can support the transition to a circular economy (CE) through their visibility over and facilitation of resource flows between supply chain (SC) actors. However, the proliferation of CE‐related terms, compounded by a manufacturer‐centric focus on CE culminating in knowledge siloes that result in an overall ...
Orsolya‐Anna Mate +3 more
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The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The Circus as a Model for Viewing Identity, Change, and Chaos
Resilience, adaptability, and transformability are all tightly linked to the notion of change, whether in respect to coping with, adapting to, or harnessing it. But in order to understand these forces of change, we first need to recognize its counterpart:
Philip A. Loring
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Short Abstract Fire regimes across savanna‐dominated conservation areas in East African are symptomatic of joint processes of ecological and biocultural hysteresis, perpetuated by colonially inherited fire suppression policies and exclusionary governance arrangements that overlook local stewardship and pyrodiversity.
A. R. Croker, R. Stafford, Y. Kountouris
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Strategies aimed at understanding contemporary South African water supply and sanitation problems require a broad view of factors such as migration, urbanisation and climate change.
Johann Tempelhoff
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This paper advances a framework for complexity‐informed action research as a mode of governance for addressing the contemporary polycrisis in socio‐ecological systems. It argues that knowledge is not merely representational but possesses causal power in shaping future system trajectories and that research and governance are inseparable, recursive ...
David S. Byrne +3 more
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Revealing the Organization of Complex Adaptive Systems through Multivariate Time Series Modeling
Revealing the adaptive responses of ecological, social, and economic systems to a transforming biosphere is crucial for understanding system resilience and preventing collapse.
David G. Angeler +2 more
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Path Dependence as an Example of a Dysfunctional Panarchy
Jack Mathias
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