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Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Significance Deforestation in the Amazon has reached record highs in 2019 and poses a serious threat to climate change. In Brazil, about 2 million hectares of indigenous land are still awaiting homologation, and thus do not have their full property ...
Baragwanath K, Bayi E.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Preferences, Property Rights, and Anonymity in Bargaining Games

open access: green, 2000
Research on ultimatum and dictator games has found that because of "fairness" first movers in such games offer more than noncooperative game theory predicts.
Elizabeth Hoffman   +3 more
openalex   +3 more sources

Securing Property Rights [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2016
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong the state or its powerful citizens against the weak.We present evidence that undue influence on judges is a common concern in many countries, especially among the poor.
Behrer, A. Patrick   +3 more
openaire   +7 more sources

Political Circles and Land Supply for the Service and Industrial Sectors: Evidence from 284 Cities in China

open access: yesLand, 2023
This study examines how political career incentives drive city leaders to strategically lease land to the service and industrial sectors within their terms of office and trigger political circles in land supply.
Ya Zhao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Surveying and Squatting

open access: yesLand, 2022
Although its scale and social implications depend on the specific country or local situations, squatting is a global urban and rural phenomenon associated with such humanitarian issues as social justice, poverty and environmental impact, as well as ...
Lawrence W. C. Lai, K. W. Chau
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering the voiceless. Disorders of consciousness, neuroimaging and supported decision-making

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Patients suffering from (Prolonged) Disorder of Consciousness are deemed incompetent to give valid informed consent due to the presumed impairment of their cognitive functions and the impossibility to communicate with them. Neuroscientists have, however,
Timo Istace, Timo Istace
doaj   +1 more source

Bodily rights and property rights [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2006
Whereas previous discussions on ownership of biological material have been much informed by the natural rights tradition, insufficient attention has been paid to the strand in liberal political theory represented by Felix Cohen, Tony Honoré, and others, which treats property relations as socially constructed bundles of rights.
Sven Ove Hansson, Barbro Björkman
openaire   +3 more sources

Advances in Antenna Technology for Wireless Handheld Devices

open access: yesInternational Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2013
The constant evolution of wireless handheld devices together with the apparition of multiple wireless communication systems fosters the antenna community to design new radiating and measurements systems capable of satisfying the market demands.
Jaume Anguera   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Euthanasia of a person with a psychiatric disorder does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights (Mortier v. Belgium [no. 78017/17])

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
For more than 20 years, euthanasia in Belgium and The Netherlands is allowed for unbearable suffering caused by terminal or non-terminal illnesses, including psychiatric disorders.
M. De Hert, S. Loos, K. Van Assche
doaj   +1 more source

Mentorship program to elevate journal quality and rankings in Indonesia: a case study [PDF]

open access: yesScience Editing
This article explores the best practices of mentorship programs in all journals at Universitas Airlangga. The university has established a journal mentoring team, as mandated by the rector’s regulation, which is responsible for guiding journals through ...
Ferry Efendi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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