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Understanding Among Societal Groups as a Prerequisite for Constructive Conflict Handling in Sustainable Land Use Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the other's point of view is key to expanding sustainable agriculture beyond its current niche status in the context of climate change mitigation. This paper aims to identify societal groups based on their understanding of the agriculturally shaped environment and investigates associations between sociodemographic characteristics
Judith‐Maria Maruschke   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Infrastructure in Southern Europe: A Diagnostic Tool for Socio‐Territorial Vulnerability in Public Policies

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dominant neoliberal management model in major European cities has led to a growing trend toward socio‐economic inequality, with its spatial dimensions highlighting clear contradictions. These social contradictions affect over a quarter of the Spanish population, particularly in the region of Andalusia (Southern Spain), with certain ...
Ricardo Iglesias‐Pascual   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imaginary populations [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Biodiversity and Conservationa, 2010
A few years ago, Camus & Lima (2002) wrote an essay to stimulate ecologists to think about how we define and use a fundamental concept in ecology: the population. They concluded, concurring with Berryman (2002), that a population is ‘a group of individuals of the same species that live together in an area of sufficient size to permit normal ...
openaire   +6 more sources

International institutions and firms' assessment of the domestic institutional environment: Evidence from the investor‐state dispute settlement system

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary How do firms assess their institutional environments? Beyond domestic cues, we examine the role of international institutions. In the global investment treaty regime, foreign firms can bring legal claims against sovereign states in international venues for alleged property rights violations.
Si Cheng, Srividya Jandhyala
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring populism worldwide

open access: yesParty Politics, 2020
Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party values be measured in consistent, valid, and reliable ways, facilitating identification of varieties of populism in ...
P. Norris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

International contraction for the sake of international expansion

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We present novel theoretical arguments suggesting that the contraction of international market presence does not only allow firms to expand their presence into new business domains, but also to resume their international market presence in the long term.
Niron Hashai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective Population Size of Korean Populations [PDF]

open access: yesGenomics & Informatics, 2014
Recently, new methods have been developed for estimating the current and recent changes in effective population sizes. Based on the methods, the effective population sizes of Korean populations were estimated using data from the Korean Association Resource (KARE) project. The overall changes in the population sizes of the total populations were similar
openaire   +4 more sources

Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Do Affective Polarization and Populism Affect the Support for Holding Referendums?

open access: yesPolitics and Governance
What populism and polarization have in common is that their relationship with democracy is an ambiguous one. Studies have found that certain degrees of polarization can be helpful for citizens to make up their minds about their choices and because of ...
Marco Fölsch
doaj   +1 more source

The Promise and Perils of Radical Left Populism: The Case of Venezuela

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2018
Mainstream critics argue that populism inevitably leads to economic disaster and political authoritarianism. Venezuela is often pointed to as proof of this.
Gabriel Hetland
doaj   +1 more source

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