The Role of Trade Unions in Environmental Governance: Exploring Workers Legitimacy Judgments
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trade unions are increasingly expected to play a role in sustainability transitions, but their legitimacy as environmental governance actors remains underexplored. Our study uses a multidimensional framework to examine how workers, both union members and non‐members, evaluate trade union legitimacy “from below.” This framework distinguishes ...
Urša Golob +2 more
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Assessing Policy‐Oriented Learning About Climate‐Related Forest Disturbances in Europe
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European forests provide multiple ecosystem services but are increasingly under pressure from climate‐related disturbances such as droughts, storms and insect calamities. Forest policy is an important driver for the adaptation of forest management practices to climate change.
Pascal Renaud‐Bernath +8 more
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Knowledge hegemony and epistemic reclamation in Central Asian higher education: a community case study of Eastern scholastic heritage integration, sociological field dynamics, and the conditions for decolonizing economic reasoning across STEM and social science disciplines in Uzbekistan. [PDF]
Front SociolRuziyeva G +5 more
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Is Evidence‐Based Policymaking an Environmental Studies Agenda? An Interpretive Review
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studies of knowledge development and use for public decision‐making can be found across the social sciences. There have been increasing calls for meaningful integration of the contrasting disciplinary perspectives on this topic, including from environmental and sustainability sciences.
Peter Tangney, Raisa Adamjee
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Risk translation in a compressed meritocracy: a sociological and social-psychological analysis of the Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon. [PDF]
Front SociolLiu HJ.
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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From information to existence: the Information-Meaning-Existence (IBE) framework as a meta-method for second-order observation. [PDF]
Front SociolMund H.
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The poor mental and physical health of trans‐ and gender‐diverse (TGD) young people is well established and commonly attributed to gender minority stress. Although recent research has shown that social support can mitigate these effects, less attention has been paid to the psychological processes through which this occurs.
Chase Staras +3 more
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Associations between individual characteristics, decision-making autonomy, and satisfaction in a continuing education program for adult women in Chile. [PDF]
Front SociolÁlvarez-Maldonado D +7 more
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