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What's Inside the Green Bag? An Analysis of the Eco‐Design Options and a Visual Tool for the Development of Sustainable Fashion Accessories

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrating eco‐design practices in product development from the start is essential for fashion accessories like bags and backpacks, which involve complex manufacturing, diverse materials, and strong socio‐cultural meanings. Building on this premise and drawing from the Lifecycle Design Strategy Wheel, this study aims to characterize the eco ...
Francesco Paolo Lagrasta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки
Background. The prosecution authorities are the most important guarantor of ensuring the rights of military personnel and their families. Prosecutor’s supervision in this direction has acquired particular relevance in the context of a special military ...
S.E. Yakusheva
doaj   +1 more source

The Wagner Group

open access: yesArab Journal for Security Studies
This study includes the mysterious World Wagner, a private military company, which is said to be related to Russian interests around the world. The awthors also explore its emerging origins and implications, and seek to provide a comprehensive analysis ...
Habib Badawi, Mohamad Daabul
doaj   +1 more source

Creating Digital Sustainable Business Models in Cluster‐Based Energy Ecosystems

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Overlapping economic, social, sustainable, health, and military crises create new spaces for scientific research to be applied to practice. The paper focuses on constructing and configuring digital sustainable business models for energy ecosystems that can effectively respond to and mitigate the impacts of dynamic climate change. This topic is
Christian Schachtner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Security in Guatemala:The Pathway to Its Proliferation [PDF]

open access: yes
It has become commonplace to explain the proliferation of private security services as causally determined by crime rates and institutional weakness. By contrast, this paper ar-gues that another explanatory factor needs to be emphasized, especially for ...
Otto Argueta
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

How, and with what implications, did the use of Wagner PMC become one of the chief tools at Russia’s disposal?

open access: yesJournal of Global Faultlines
The War in Ukraine has seen the private military company Wagner PMC used as a useful tool that has brought an additional presence into the war; however, the recent history and popularity of private military companies are in no way limited to Russia or ...
Alexander John Poulton
doaj   +1 more source

PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES: ETHICS, POLICIES AND CIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS/EDITED BY ANDREW ALEXANDRA, DEANE-PETER BAKER AND MARINA CAPARINI

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2011
This publication contributes to a growing body of literature on a phenomenon, theprivatization of the means of coercion, that manifests on the international strategiclandscape.
Francois Vreÿ
doaj   +1 more source

Insecurity, Counterterrorism and the Use of Private Military and Security Companies in Nigeria: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of Asian and African Studies
Insecurity and terrorism pose significant concerns in Nigeria. Yet, there is a paucity of research on citizens’ and private security providers’ (PSP) perceptions of Nigeria’s response to insecurity and the use of Private Military and Security Companies ...
T. Ike   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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