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Fulfilling and desperately needed: Australian media representations of responses to homelessness
Abstract Homelessness is a significant social issue that continues to confront Australian society, despite burgeoning public and policy responses to the issue. Existing scholarship demonstrates the important role the media can play in shaping such responses by framing homelessness – and the people who experience it – in particular ways.
Laura Simpson Reeves+3 more
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Differences in perceptions of the living environment by respondent age [PDF]
This article explores whether potential statistically significant differences in terms of respondents’ demographic characteristics (i.e., age) can point to intergenerational differences in perceptions of the living environment. A quantitative methodology
Bojan Grum
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Challenges Facing Organised Interests Under a Populist Right-Wing Government in Slovenia
The development of organised interests (OIs) during the socialist period in Central and Eastern Europe was considerably limited, if not frozen. This was also somewhat the case in Slovenia, where it was mainly OIs close to the government that could ...
Meta Novak, Damjan Lajh
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In Croatia, Slovenia and Austria, the coronavirus crisis raised pre-existing deficiencies in the democratic orders to the surface, i.e., issues in functioning according to democratic principles in the circumstances of a public health crisis.
Butković, hrvoje
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Natural healing methods as the basis for the development of preventative wellness programmes: Arnold Rikl's potential [PDF]
This paper deals with the methods of natural healing that were practiced already in the 19th century by Swiss natural healer Arnold Rikli as a part of healing offer in Bled, Slovenia.
Grafenauer Boža, Kužnik Lea
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Suitability of Natura 2000 sites for threatened freshwater species under projected climate change
Abstract As part of the world's largest coordinated network of protected areas, Natura 2000, European Union member states designate special areas of conservation (SACs) to maintain or achieve favourable conservation status for imperilled aquatic species listed under Annex II of the Habitats Directive.
Timo Basen+4 more
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Engineering of Ca‐based SEI using boron‐based additives is investigated and their morphology, composition, and properties are thoroughly characterized. The presence of boron‐crosslinked polymeric matrices in the passivation layer plays a major role allowing for Ca plating.
Charlotte Bodin+10 more
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Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals
Abstract One of novel manners to achieve sustainable development is concentrating on circular economy in order to manage greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and waste. It also helps to protect the environment and optimize usage of input resources.
Navid Zarbakhshnia+3 more
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Abstract The assurance of sustainability information by small and medium‐sized entities (SMEs) has not attracted much research interest to date. To rectify this, we draw on a sample of European firms (from the EU, the United Kingdom and Norway) extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) database and explore the disclosure variable in relation
Antonio Somoza
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Laibach in North Korea — A Journey to the East (from the Slovene Perspective) [PDF]
In summer 2015 for the first time in its history the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea welcomed a western rock band, making an unexpected gesture of inviting the Slovene art group Laibach. Laibach’s credentials for this type of cultural diplomacy may
Irena Šentevska
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