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Implementing the Circular Economy in the European Union and Spain: Links to the Low-Carbon Transition

open access: yesEnergies
This paper reviews and analyzes the process of the implementation of the circular economy in the European Union (EU) and Spain, and its links to the low-carbon transition. The EU implementation of the circular economy went through several stages.
Maria del P. Pablo-Romero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting Boundaries of Control: The Quebec and Vermont-New York Border in the Trump Era and Beyond

open access: yesNorteamérica, 2023
This article reviews the shifting practices of control along the border New York–Vermont bor-der in the United States and Quebec in Canada during and since the election of the Trump admin-istration in the United States.
Laura MacDonald, Jeffrey Ayres
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Sustainable Batteries

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective examines sustainability across the entire battery lifecycle, from mining and manufacturing to use and end of life. Twelve principles for ‘green’ batteries are outlined, and it is argued that joint industrial, academic, and policy efforts are essential to building a truly sustainable energy future. Abstract Batteries will play a pivotal
Heather Au   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural problems of mining region innovative development (Kuzbass, Western Siberia)

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2017
At present, the issues of overcoming the negative structural shift in Russian economy, accelerating economic growth, reducing technological and social- and-economic gap between Russia and the developed countries are strategically important.
Dotsenko Elena, Ezdina Natalya
doaj   +1 more source

Political economy of love: nurturance gap, disembedded economy and freedom constraints within neoliberal capitalism [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2014
This article critically evaluates the forms of love capital being accumulated by people in capitalist economies, through the lens of some of the core general principles of heterodox political economy (HPE).
O’Hara Phillip Anthony
doaj   +1 more source

Competitive Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Energy Storage

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Growing energy demands and the associated increase in renewable energy production require robust, sustainable, and cost‐effective energy storage, in particular for large‐scale stationary applications. This review evaluates zinc‐based batteries as alternatives to lithium‐ion and vanadium redox flow systems by emphasizing zinc's accessibility ...
Janik Ruppert   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving population health by reducing poverty: New York’s Earned Income Tax Credit

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2017
Despite the established relationship between adverse health outcomes and low socioeconomic status, researchers rarely test the link between health improvements and poverty-alleviating economic policies.
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Peter S. Arno
doaj   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Warfare [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain little materially and may lose much more. This paper presents a model of warfare as the result of domestic political calculations.
openaire   +2 more sources

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Protection [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
International trade theory has traditionally examined protection from a normative perspective: What are its consequences and when is it justified from the point of view of national welfare? Beginning in the 1980s increasing attention has been paid to analyzing protection from a positive perspective: What actually determines it? These two approaches are
openaire   +3 more sources

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