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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partners in Ministry & Mission: Women Religious and Associates

, 2019
Women’s religious communities—like other communities of religious—began exploring the possibility of embracing lay women and men as associate members in the 1970s and 1980s. Associate member groups offered congregations a new way to extend the reach of their respective missions and charisms, while deepening the relationships with lay women and men who ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Youth networks as bridging actors in environmental governance: Roles, achievements and barriers

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people form a large demographic group and have specific interests and views on the current socio‐environmental crises. However, they are largely underrepresented in decision‐making. To bring their visions and claims into environmental governance, youth have created alternative pathways of participation, such as youth networks. Yet, their
Marie‐Morgane Rouyer, Juliette Aminian Biquet, Isabelle Claire Parada Dela Paz, Axel Eriksson, Jay Marisca Gietzelt, Evgeniia Kostianaia, Paul Mukhin, Sean Russell, María Elisa Sánchez, Danian Singh, Deign Frolley Cabañero Soriano, Swetha Stotra Bhashyam, Niklas Weins   +12 more
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Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In Western cities, some animals are valued for their beauty, rarity or usefulness, while others are dismissed as unwelcome. This distinction reflects the cultural meanings attached to each species and frequently conflicts with ecological priorities.
Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Alessandra Facchin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Patterns of biological diversity have been shaped by cultural practices in the past, while in turn, cultures and languages have evolved in close interaction with local species and ecosystems. However, in the Anthropocene, human activities are putting increasingly diverse pressures on ecosystems and cultures, resulting in accelerating threat ...
Bernd Lenzner, Andreas Baumann, Sietze Norder, Franz Essl, Hannes A. Fellner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Luis Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Felipe Alves Oliveira, Maria Paula Vasconcelos Mesquita, Mariana Taniguchi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Religious missions and African heritage in ethnographic museums: the circulation of a missionary collection gathered in Angola between the colonial and post-colonial periods]. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Amaral AR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nationalism, ethnicity and religion: Fundamental conflicts and the politics of identity in Tanzania [PDF]

, 1999
Abebe Z., Amiji H., Appadurai A., Balda J., Blommaert J., Boeson J., Booth D., Burke E., Burke F., Campbell J., Campbell J., Chande A. N., Chege M., Constantin F., Court D., Cranenburgh O., Elmasri F. H., Fox R., Friedman J., Gilkes P., Gilsenan M., Hedlund S., Hornsby C., Iliffe J., Kaduma L. M., Kaspin D., Khamis A. M., Lockwood M., Lubeck P., Mbuguni L., Moore S. F., Nimtz A., Nyerere J., Oliver R., Ostberg W., Parkin D., Parkin D., Pouwels R., Sanneh L., Schildknecht F., Scotton J., Shivji I., Smith A. D., Sperling D., Trimingham J. S., Tripp A. M., Versteijnen Fr, Wilk R., Yeager R., Zegeye A.   +49 more
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Measured‐State Conditioned Recursive Feasibility for Stochastic Model Predictive Control

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we address the problem of designing stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) schemes for linear systems affected by unbounded disturbances. The contribution of the paper is rooted in a measured‐state initialization strategy. First, due to the nonzero probability of violating chance‐constraints in the case of unbounded noise ...
Mirko Fiacchini, Martina Mammarella, Fabrizio Dabbene   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source