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Sense-making Analysis: A Framework for Multi-Strategy and Cross-Country Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
While sense-making is a frequently used concept in everyday discourse and in several social science research areas, discussions about how the concept translates into methodology are currently scarce.
Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér
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Women online: A study of Common Service Centres in India using a capability approach

open access: yesAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2022
Income‐generating activities by women are an effective means of reducing gender‐based deprivation and disparities. In the constrained familial and community settings of developing economies, online platforms can be an appropriate means for women to carry
Meenakshi Rajeev, Supriya Bhandarkar
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Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts

open access: yesNature Communications, 2018
Climate impact assessments usually rely on modeling approaches that are either comprehensive but inflexible and inefficient, or lacking sufficient detail.
Erwan Monier   +15 more
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Scrutinizing Virtual Citizen Involvement in Planning: Ten Applications of an Online Participatory Tool

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2018
How to organize citizen participation in planning is continuously debated. The amount of Online Participatory Tools (OPTs) to facilitate inclusive and efficient participation has increased.
Mattias Hjerpe   +2 more
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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Snow Reliability, Snowmaking Capacities, and Wind Conditions of Ski Resorts in Northeast Turkey: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2016
Many ski resorts worldwide are going through deteriorating snow cover conditions due to anthropogenic warming trends. As the natural and the artificially supported, i.e., technical, snow reliability of ski resorts diminish, the industry approaches a ...
Osman Cenk Demiroglu   +3 more
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Probabilistic projections of 21st century climate change over Northern Eurasia

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2013
We present probabilistic projections of 21st century climate change over Northern Eurasia using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), an integrated assessment model that couples an Earth system model of ...
Erwan Monier   +4 more
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Agriculture in the climate change negotiations; ensuring that food production is not threatened

open access: yesAnimal, 2013
With the human population predicted to reach nine billion by 2050, demand for food is predicted to more than double over this time period, a trend which will lead to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture.
J. Muldowney, J. Mounsey, L. Kinsella
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The strategy of venue creation: Explaining health policy change in Greece

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2022
How do policy entrepreneurs affect policy change in environments of institutional instability? The literature has predominantly explored policy entrepreneur strategizing in contexts with established institutional settings.
Maria Mavrikou   +2 more
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Regional financial performance evaluation in the Indonesian fiscal decentralization era

open access: yesJurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah, 2018
Under the decentralization policy, regions have the rights and obligations in arranging of themselves. Then many studies showed positive and negative impacts of fiscal decentralization in Indonesia.
Joko Tri Haryanto
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Understanding the complexity of provincial-level elite sport policy change: The case of Shanghai municipality

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The analysis of elite sport policy changes at the provincial level remains relatively uncharted territory despite the substantial contributions of provincial-level elite sport to national elite sport success.
Yang Ma
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