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Are Local Authorities Building Their Capacity to Plan for Reduced Climate Impact? A Longitudinal Analysis of Swedish Comprehensive Plans

open access: yesLand, 2021
Spatial planning conducted by the local authorities has been identified as a key part of shaping carbon-neutral societies. Nevertheless, the question of whether local authorities are building their institutional capacity for integrating climate change ...
Vincent Wretling, Berit Balfors
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Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

open access: yesAnimal Welfare, 2023
Digital Livestock Technologies (DLTs) can assist farmer decision-making and promise benefits to animal health and welfare. However, the extent to which they can help improve animal welfare is unclear.
Juliette Schillings   +3 more
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Integrative learning for practicing adaptive resource management

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
Adaptive resource management is a learning-by-doing approach to natural resource management. Its effective practice involves the activation, completion, and regeneration of the "adaptive management cycle" while working toward achieving a flexible set of ...
Craig A. McLoughlin, Martin C. Thoms
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Learning in Adaptive Management: Insights from Published Practice

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Adaptive management is often advocated as a solution to understanding and managing complexity in social-ecological systems. Given the centrality of learning in adaptive management, it remains unclear how learning in adaptive management is understood to ...
Christo Fabricius, Georgina Cundill
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Factors Affecting Government Use of Social Media for Service Provision [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات رسانه‌های نوین, 2023
IntroductionNowadays, social networks are an essential part of daily life, and it's safe to say that the majority of the world's population uses at least one social media platform.
Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari   +2 more
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Variance Reduction Optimization Algorithm Based on Random Sampling [PDF]

open access: yesJisuanji kexue yu tansuo
The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms have been applied to machine learning and deep learning due to their superior performance. However, SGD requires the stochastic gradient of a single sample to approximate the full gradient of all samples ...
GUO Zhenhua, YAN Ruidong, QIU Zhiyong, ZHAO Yaqian, LI Rengang
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The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Environment: Organizational Learning within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2013
Due to a growing public awareness, in the last 40 years environmental impacts of development projects financed and supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have come into view.
Alexandra Lindenthal, Martin Koch
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Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Over the past two decades, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have emerged as instruments to improve social and environmental practices and to communicate sustainability standards in trade and business. However, debates about the correct assessment
Xiangping Jia
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Local recycling and reuse of concrete and soil: The societal impact of double-loop learning from circular urban transformation projects

open access: yesSocietal Impacts
The article presents certain findings from a large European research and development project aiming to generate societal impact through multi-stakeholder collaboration based on circular economy principles in the built environment.
Cecilie Nadine Glarborg   +2 more
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Intervention strategy for sustainable waste management systems in developing countries using community of practice [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Environmental Science and Management
Collaborative systems from various sectors, including public community, are encouraged to tackle the complexity of waste problems. However, identifying the most effective intervention strategies to promote sustainable participation in collaboration ...
Sunarti .   +6 more
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