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How Brazilian Public Universities Are Operationalizing The SDGs: Strategic Plans Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the importance of universities for Sustainable Development, only a handful of studies have evaluated the implementation levels of SDGs in HEIs in Latin America. To fill this void, this study examines the strategic plans of 70 Brazilian public universities, which account for 92.8% of Federal Universities.
Carolina Grano, Walter Leal Filho, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho, Lucas Veiga Ávila, José Carlos Curvelo Santana, Delmo Alves de Moura, Vanderli Correia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the Individual to the Community: A Qualitative Exploration of Professional Perspectives on Community Well‐Being Dimensions in Gran Canaria

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing body of literature on community well‐being, limited studies have explored how social service professionals conceptualise community dimensions in archipelagic or island territories, where territorial inequalities and access barriers pose unique challenges. This study explores how professionals from the Public Social Services
Jonay Del Pino García, Juan Carlos Martín Quintana, Carmen Delia Díaz Bolaños   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risks of concealing environmental degradation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward, Kaya Klop‐Toker, Salim Momtaz, Eliza Payne, Louisa Rebec, Robert J. Scanlon, Craig M. Shuttleworth, Nick Valentine, Andrea S. Griffin   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm Productivity and Exit During Economic Crisis: Does Market Potential Foster Resilience?

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between firm productivity, market potential, and firm exit over the economic cycle, focusing on the COVID‐19 crisis. Using Spanish firm‐level data (2011–2022), we analyse how market potential shapes the link between productivity and survival.
Sabine D'Costa, Adelheid Holl
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Local Government Decision‐Making: The Influence of Institutional Pressures and Managerial Perceptions

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being integrated into public sector decision‐making processes, with public managers relying on them to enhance their capabilities. As AI adoption becomes more widespread, discussions about its advantages and drawbacks intensify, alongside growing external expectations and pressures. However,
A. Paula Rodriguez Müller, Luca Tangi, Amandine Lerusse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI Public Value Creation: Data Encoding, Aggregation, and Algorithmic Computation

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI systems in public administration challenge the premise that value creation arises from managers' strategic mediation among the vertices of Moore's strategic triangle: Public value, legitimacy, and operational capacity. AI imposes new logics that reshape vertices and their interaction dynamics.
Antonio Cordella, Francesco Gualdi
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Reducción del empleo público redundante, capital humano y ajuste en una economía abierta

Económica, 1986
En la investigación se desarrolla un modelo teórico apropiado para el estudio de aspectos agregados (macroeconómicos) del proceso de ajuste de pequeñas economías abiertas, que se someten a una importante reducción del empleo redundante en el sector ...
Jorge C. Ávila
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Austeridad e inversión privada en carreteras de México [PDF]

Ola Financiera, 2017
La austeridad aplicada al presupuesto se expresa en recortes masivos del gasto público y el consecuente deterioro de bienes y servicios públicos. Las aún vigentes políticas del Consenso de Washington (CW), determinan que quede poco espacio para la ...
José Enrique Mendoza Méndez
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