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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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“And Carthage souls be glutted with our bloods” : Marlowe’s Lucanian Dido in The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage [PDF]
, 2015 textDespite most scholars agreeing that Christopher Marlowe's The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage was composed fairly contemporaneously with his adaptation of Pharsalia 1, Lucans First Booke Translated Line for Line, few have recognized the ...
Price, Destini Nicole
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Attempts to address biodiversity loss have led to ecosystem and species restoration efforts. Tree species restoration is particularly relevant because of increasing threats from pests and pathogens. However, there are different notions of ‘loss’, as well as sociocultural considerations, including social acceptability, which are often neglected
Fritha West +4 more
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The legislation of the late Republic : some neglected evidence in the historiography of the fall of the Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2001 This thesis looks at Roman legislation in the period between 79 and 60 BC. It searches for an explanation of the reason for, and consequences of, individual laws and attempts to determine the function and operation of the laws in the general context of ...
Džino, Danijel
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Ancient people and living nature: A global perspective on archaeological areas and biodiversity
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Archaeological sites are not only of cultural and historical significance but also contribute to biodiversity conservation. Often marked by limited human disturbance and distinct ecological conditions, these areas serve as important refuges for various plant and animal species, playing a vital role in global conservation efforts.
Antonio Romano +3 more
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Faeneratores, negotiatores and financial intermediation in the Roman World (Late Republic and Early Empire) [PDF]
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Verboven, Koenraad
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Narrative and Notice in Livy's Fourth Decade: The Case of Scipio Africanus [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues for the importance of Livy's annalistic notices in structuring the author's aims and the reader's reception of the history, as against the standard conception of the notices as archaic memoranda.
Lushkov, A. Haimson
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