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Don’t Just Make Redistricters More Accountable to the People, Make Them the People [PDF]

, 2010
This thesis investigated the heat transfer of internally oil cooled rotors in permanent magnet electric machines which are, among other things, used in hybrid vehicles or zero emission vehicles.
Huefner, Steven F.
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Integrating Digital Technologies Into Biochemistry Education: A Decade of Efforts, Pandemic Impacts, and Emerging Insights

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review critically examines the integration of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) in biochemistry education over the past decade, highlighting both the benefits and challenges from a critical theoretical perspective. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant literature, followed by thematic analysis and
Francis Pereira‐Dias, Marina Bazzo de Espíndola   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences in “Letting the Public in”: Tentative Conclusions on the Administration-Public Tango for Co-Responsible Local Governance

Changing Societies & Personalities
Governance and citizenship issues are more complex, and communities recognize the need for a new approach to mobilization, participation in creation and welfare, and a joint responsibility for the implementation of public life management principles.
Mariana Cernicova-Buca
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Public ethics and local government in a context of economic crisis / Ética pública y gobierno local en un contexto de crisis económica

Barataria, 2013
The fall in public revenue by local governments, as a consequence of the finance dependence on the real estate sector, is combined with a process of fiscal adjustment and a growing demand for social services, which is result of rising socioeconomic ...
Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comunità, partecipazione e democrazia deliberativa: un’esperienza italiana

Quaderni di Sociologia, 2015
There is little doubt that deliberative democracy represents the most important innovation in the democratic debate and practices of recent decades. In the 1990s, after the pioneering phase, scholars progressively elaborated on both the conceptual and ...
Luigi Pellizzoni
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Environmental Taxes and Subsidies for Sustainability: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Preferences for Business Strategy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular textile management is essential to achieving sustainable consumption, as outlined in SDG 12, but consumer behavior and economic factors often hinder its adoption. This study investigates how environmental policies, such as carbon taxes and subsidies, influence consumer choices in the fast fashion sector by examining purchasing ...
Alessandro Cascavilla, Idiano D'Adamo, Simona Desideri, Martina Iannilli   +3 more
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Forms of Participatory Democracy: An Analytical Framework Based on the Experiences of Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia [PDF]

Based on the experiences of Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, the paper proposes a general analytical framework for participatory mechanisms. The analysis is oriented to detect the incentives in each system and the ethics and behavior sustaining them.
Carlos Eduardo Sepúlveda, Clemente Forero   +1 more
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou, Erik‐Jan Hultink, Nancy M. P. Bocken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Giving or Greening? Stakeholder Dynamics and Ex‐Military Executives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms increasingly face competing demands from different stakeholder groups, yet little is known about how these demands interact and generate strategic trade‐offs. Drawing on stakeholder theory and upper echelons theory, we investigate whether an overemphasis on philanthropic initiatives can detract from investments in green innovation, and ...
Hyeyoun Park, Jiangtao Xie, Tao Chen, Taewoo Roh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source