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The Business Case for Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of 21 Companies' Engagement With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
wiley   +1 more source

Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
wiley   +1 more source

Differences, commons and rhythms: Towards an urbanism of temporalities

open access: yesArticulo: Journal of Urban Research
A main challenge facing the city of the future is that of social cohesion between the poor and the rich, generations, genders and lifestyles. In addition to issues of professional opportunities and access to resources in general (housing, shops, services,
Vincent Kaufmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community as Medicine: A Qualitative Exploration of Meaningful Social Support and Health for Trans‐ and Gender‐Diverse People in England

open access: yesEuropean 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
wiley   +1 more source

Information needs of patients considering epilepsy surgery: A scoping review

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Epilepsy surgery is a recommended treatment for individuals with drug‐resistant epilepsy. However, patients often face significant challenges in decision‐making due to a lack of accessible and high‐quality information. Methods We conducted a scoping review to identify the information needs of people considering surgery for epilepsy ...
Maren Kimura   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlation between the built environment and sociology: A critical review of residential segregation and social housing policy in Iran

open access: yesSmart Cities and Regional Development Journal
This paper critically reviews the correlation between the built environment and sociology as it pertains to residential segregation and social housing policy in Iran.
Armita Khalatbari LIMAKI
doaj   +1 more source

Labour in transition. Social reproduction, re-spatialisation and the sociology of work

open access: yesSociología del Trabajo, 2018
In this work, I explore the importance of the sphere of social reproduction to rethink the centrality of work. New labour actors are emerging and engaging in collective activities that are considered part of the process of ‘social reproduction’ in a ...
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
doaj   +1 more source

From Ad Hoc to Function: Vancouver Foundation's Journey to Learning Through Evaluation

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case narrative details the Vancouver Foundation's (VF) journey from ad‐hoc reporting to a core internal learning and evaluation function. Catalyzed by the pandemic and motivated by the increasing need, VF established the Engagement Department to house evaluation independently.
Vincent Tom
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating for Learning: Latin American Strategies and Experiences From the Evalparticipativa Community

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents EvalParticipativa's 6‐year effort to democratize evaluation across Latin America through participatory approaches rooted in the region's traditions of Popular Education, Participatory Action Research, and Sistematización de Experiencias.
Pablo Rodríguez Bilella   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Commons During Crisis: Understanding Housing Cooperative Strategies Through Dramaturgical Sociology

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons
The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives – a specific type of energy community – to the energy crisis.
Jan Frankowski   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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