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Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
wiley   +1 more source

Bond, tension‐stiffening, and cracking in multi‐generational recycled aggregate concrete subjected to shrinkage strains

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The concrete industry is responsible for a significant portion of global waste production and multi‐generation recycled aggregate concrete (MGRAC) is a means to allow the sector to transition to a circular economy framework. To predict the behavior of MGRAC at the member level there is a need to understand the underlying mechanics of bond ...
Lloyd Dadd, Phillip Visintin, Bree Bennett, Tianyu Xie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Role of funders in embedding tests in conservation practice

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective conservation practice requires decisions based on reliable and relevant evidence, but significant gaps in the evidence base exist. Incorporating well‐designed tests of the effectiveness of interventions for biodiversity in conservation projects is one of the best ways to scale up the rate of evidence generation.
Rebecca K. Smith, Nancy Ockendon, Nida Al‐Fulaij, Alessandro Badalotti, Rachel Beattie, James Byrne, Sophia Cooke, Tiago de Zoeten, Winifred F. Frick, Stephan M. Funk, Douglas Gibbs, Lauren Gupta, Tatiana Hendrix, Becky Holmes, Nicola Johnstone, James Kinghorn, Simon Mickleburgh, Florence Miller, Matthew Muir, Jacob R. Owens, Danni Parks, Victoria Reilly‐Pinion, Hannah Reid, Kevin Seely, Julien Semelin, Taylor Shaw, Ruth D. Swetnam, Lisa Wheeler, William J. Sutherland   +28 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck, Guillaume Daudin, Gerhard de Kok, David Richardson, Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing, Peter Triantafillou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Actuation Strategies for Underwater Jet‐Propelled Soft Robots

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 6, Page 3868-3892, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This review article examines jet‐propulsion mechanisms in underwater soft robotic systems, focusing exclusively on physically fabricated and experimentally validated robots. Covering research published from 2013 to 2025, this study classifies and evaluates jet‐propulsion robots based on their actuation mechanisms.
Angel Kitone, Mohammed Anteet, Pawandeep S. Matharu, Yara Almubarak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Mutual Relation Between Contact Ratio and Crack Propagation in the Tooth Root of Spur Gears

Fatigue &Fracture of Engineering Materials &Structures, Volume 49, Issue 9, Page 3896-3908, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This work investigates the mutual relationship between contact ratio and tooth root crack propagation in spur gears, with particular focus on the influence of meshing stiffness and load sharing on the tooth root lifetime. An experimental case study originally reported by Rettig, in which SN curves of gears with similar geometry but different ...
Lorenzo Valsecchi, Luca Bonaiti, Daniele Maffeis, Michael Geitner, Carlo Gorla, Karsten Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Greatest Mystery of Futures Studies

FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Futures studies has long lived with a puzzle: every domain the field investigates is already studied by some special science. Three familiar replies—that futures studies extracts insights, takes a longer view, or includes lay perspectives—each capture something real but do not, on closer inspection, individuate the field at the level of its ...
Veli Virmajoki
wiley   +1 more source