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ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers
Abstract Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research ...
Stephen McConnachie +7 more
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[Introduction] Ludwik Fleck’s contribution to the sociology and philosophy of science has gone almost unnoticed to the present day (see Sady 2017). Although his ideas about the development of scientific knowledge as a collective effort organised in ‘thought collectives’ (‘Denkkollektive’) based on shared ‘thought styles’ (‘Denkstile’) may have been ...
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
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Expanding the life framework of values
Abstract Conceptualising and organising the range of value orientations and worldviews underpinning human–nature relationships is useful for understanding different, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives on how nature should be managed and working towards just and equitable policies.
Kyle Jewell +8 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the ...
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices influence the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide. Drawing inspiration from Adam Smith's perspectives on moral sentiments and institutional cohesion, the research examines whether strategic integration of ESG dimensions can ...
Shamsuddin Ahamad +6 more
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Precis of <i>Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences</i>. [PDF]
Shan Y, Williamson J.
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Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry.
Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou +8 more
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