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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
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From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security
Pacific Journalism Review, 2006 Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, private security companies from the United Kingdom and United States have been seeking personnel for their operations in the Middle East, and many hundreds of Fijians have signed up.
Nic Maclellan
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Problems of the Use of Private Military and Security Companies in the US military operations
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2010 В статье анализируются основные проблемы, связанные с использованием Соединенными Штатами частных военных и охранных компаний1 в военных операциях, прежде всего в Ираке и Афганистане, по материалам соответствующих аналитических докладов американских ...
D. O. Novikova
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of green transformational leadership, green human resource management, and pro‐environmental behavior on sustainable performance. Despite the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, the mechanisms through which organizational practices translate into sustainable outcomes remain insufficiently ...
Sharifa Khalid. Mousa +2 more
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The Potential Use of PMSCs to Fulfill the EU's Security Strategy [PDF]
Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2011 The EU is facing a gap between its security ambitions and the reality of its military capabilities. It is often argued that the suitably regulated use of Private Military Companies and Private Security Companies (PMSCs) by international organisations ...
Marco Marilli
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Securing the state, undermining democracy: internationalization and privatization of western militaries [PDF]
Changes in the field of security since the 1990s triggered off a number of still continuing military transformations in liberal democracies. Since their armed forces were designed for the purposes of the bipolar Cold war security constellation, they have
Geis, Anna, Deitelhoff, Nicole
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Engagement of Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone – utility assessment
Security and Defence Quarterly, 2019 Objectives The article explores combat related Private Military Companies (PMCs) that are authorised to engage in the forefront of the battlefield as dedicated force multipliers.
Mateusz Maciąg
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2026, some years after the Covid‐19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, the global landscape remains profoundly unsettled. Geopolitical conflicts, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts, continue to drive instability, reshaping global priorities and challenges.
Rosa Maria Dangelico +3 more
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