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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Morals, Markets, and Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The relation between Culture and Business has caught researchers’ attention long ago; itis not hard to find studies relating to these topics. According to Hofstede et al. (2010, p.18), Hampden-Turner and Trompenaars (2012, p. 8), and Erez and Gati (2004,
Monast, Jonas J.   +2 more
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Groaning with Creation: ecological spirituality in Laudato Sì [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this sequel to his overview of Pope Francis’ second encyclical in the August issue of Open House, an environmental engineer reflects on the spirituality it ...
Younger, Paul L.
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The Unity of the Virtues in a Missionary Key [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The thesis of the unity of the virtues—one must possess all of the virtues to possess even one of them—was upheld in different forms by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.
Kim, Andrew J.
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

The Conjugal communio amoris in the Apostolic Exhortations "Familiaris Consortio" and "Amoris Laetitia"

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2022
The concept of marital communio amoris expressed in the apostolic exhortations Familiaris Consortio of John Paul II and Amoris Laetitia of Pope Francis is the subject of this paper.
Sławomir Bukalski, Adam Falewicz
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: A note on Papal Mathematics [PDF]

open access: yesNotes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics
Many recent media claims that Pope Leo XIV, Robert F. Prevost, born in the USA and elected in 2025 in succession to Pope Francis, is the first mathematician to become the Pope of the Catholic Church are questionable. That honour probably belongs to Pope
Anthony G. Shannon
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Laudato Si’ and ecological education: implications for Catholic education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis has offered a ‘position paper’ on care for the common good. Chapter Six ‘Ecological Education and Spirituality’ is especially relevant for those overseeing the operation of Catholic schools.
Franchi, Leonardo
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