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Forming European Political Awareness and Facilitating Civic Engagement? Mainstream Europarties in Social Media

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how mainstream Europarties utilise social media to communicate with the public. According to EU law, Europarties are expected to strengthen the EU's legitimacy, mainly by fostering European political awareness and facilitating civic engagement.
Stefano Greco, Tapio Raunio
wiley   +1 more source

NextGenerationEU Landing: Assessing the Territorial Allocation of Italy's Recovery and Resilience Facility Funding

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the COVID‐19 crisis, the European Union introduced NextGenerationEU, its largest stimulus package to date. We focus on Italy, the program's largest beneficiary, and analyse the territorial distribution of funds. Although centrally coordinated, most expenditures were awarded through calls and implemented by local governments ...
Francesco Scotti, Carlo Caporali, Davide Luca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Effects of a Minimalist Deliberative Framework on the Willingness to Participate in a Payment for Ecosystem Services Program

Resources, 2019
When compared with other stated preference valuation methodologies, deliberative valuation gives participants more time and information, potentially resulting in more valid and reliable estimations and higher participant confidence.
Brian Witt
doaj   +1 more source

Payments, ecosystems and development: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in the Mexican Lacandona rainforest

, 2018
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) emerged as a popular forest conservation policy across the Global South since the 1990s, first in Latin America and then elsewhere. PES aim to reduce deforestation and degradation by providing payments to participants conditional on forest protection.
openaire   +2 more sources

Preserving balance in the EU digital single market: How Like Company could reframe copyright and innovation in the generative AI era

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e., Case C‐250/25 Like Company v. Google, which interrogates whether the generation of chatbot summaries of press articles infringes the press publishers' right under Article 15 CDSM Directive and the reproduction and ...
Enrico Bonadio, Giancarlo Frosio, Christophe Geiger, Andres Guadamuz, Stavroula Karapapa, Irini Stamatoudi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Ecology and Society, 2014
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have increasingly been implemented to protect and restore ecosystems worldwide. The effectiveness of conservation investments in PES may differ under alternative policy scenarios and may not be sustainable because of
Xiaodong Chen, Andrés Viña, Ashton Shortridge, Li An, Jianguo Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topsoil removal increases native forb and grass recovery in a southern Australian urban temperate grassland

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Native temperate grasslands are globally threatened, biodiversity‐rich ecosystems. In urban post‐agricultural grasslands, restoration often achieves reestablishment of grass species‐dominated communities, yet associated forb recovery remains limited by non‐native seedbanks and nutrient‐enriched soils.
Maximilian McQuillan, Ren Ryba, Tarryn Davies, Heidi Rogers, Caleb Lilley, Ronald J. Smernik, Scott Hawken, Martin F. Breed   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The quiet struggle: How vulnerable youth succeed with the right support

Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract Educational inequality remains a pervasive and deeply entrenched global issue, with youth from vulnerable and marginalised backgrounds disproportionately affected. Despite the significant challenges that hinder the academic progress of many young people, often reinforcing cycles of social exclusion and economic vulnerability, some students ...
Sarah Gardezi, Martin Brown, Aideen Cassidy, Gerry McNamara, Joe O'Hara, Michael McNamara   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overview of Payments for Environmental Services scientific publications in Brazil [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
The Payment for Environmental Services (PES) has become a territorial management and nature conservation tool increasingly applied in Brazilian context. Thus, this article aimed to analyze and systematize information about the evolution of PES scientific
Bartira Rodrigues Guerra, Stella Verdasca, Maria Rita Raimundo e Almeida, Victor Eduardo Lima Ranieri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source