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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconversion and Retrieval: Nonlinear Change in African Catholic Practice

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Against models of conversion that presume a trajectory or a progression from one religion to another, this article proposes a less linear, more complex, and ultimately more empirical understanding of religious change in Africa.
Devaka Premawardhana
doaj   +1 more source

The convent as cultural conduit: Irish matronage in early modern Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Irish catholic women religious who migrated to Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries established a strong tradition of schools, hospitals and charitable institutions.
Knox, Andrea
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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
wiley   +1 more source

Humanistic mission of religious studies

open access: yesUkrainian Religious Studies, 1998
Introduction to the curriculum of higher educational institutions of the normative course on religious studies and legalization of the same specialty in the Wakivsky registry is a notable phenomenon in the reconstruction of old social science, humanitarian and socio-political sciences, in the further humanization and humanization of education in ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Transformation Teams Leading the Hispanic‐Serving Institutions Movement at HSI Community Colleges

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Department of Education defunded discretionary grant programs for enrollment‐based minority‐serving institutions (MSIs) on September 10, 2025, yet Hispanic‐serving institutions (HSIs) still exist and must continue to adapt to their growing population of Latine/x students.
Gina Ann Garcia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’émergence de la missiologie comme discipline critique du fait missionnaire à l’époque contemporaine

open access: yesCahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2008
Missiology, both as a taught discipline and a field of research, is a fairly recent development in the academic curriculum of French-speaking universities since it dates from the 1980s.
Jean-François Zorn
doaj   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corrupting Charity: Why Government Should Not Fund Faith-Based Charities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
President George W. Bush has proposed that faith-based charities be made eligible to receive billions of dollars in federal grants to provide social services.
Michael D. Tanner
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Evangelizing a Nation: Catholic Priests in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
According to the most recent statistics provided by the American bishops, there are an astonishing seventy million Catholics who call the United States home.
Wild, Christopher J
core   +1 more source

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