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From the ´Social Neighbourhood´ to the ´Neighbourhood Cities´. Housing Programs and the Elaboration of Sensitivities in Córdoba City (Argentine) during the 80´s and 2000´s

methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2015
This article analyzes the connections between social programs and sensitivities at the light of two housing interventions oriented to poor groups that have been implemented in the City of Córdoba, Argentina, during the ‘80s and ‘2000s.
Ana Lucía Cervio
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Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks, Muhammad Al Mahameed, Umair Riaz   +2 more
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The Urban Politics of food- housing nexus in São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]

lo Squaderno
The relationship between housing justice movements and the practice and politics of agroecology and feminist political ecology shares many features. Recent scholarship has increasingly addressed agrifood and housing justice claims in the Global South ...
Caio Penko Teixeira
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Sociologinė naujųjų būsto projektų posocialistiniame Vilniuje refleksija

Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2012
Santrauka. Posovietiniuose miestuose atsiranda naujas būsto tipas: suplanuoti būsto projektai „rezidenciniai parkai“, palydimi gyvenimą juose nusakančių rinkodarinių žinučių.
Dalia Čiupailaitė
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
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The Business Case for Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of 21 Companies' Engagement With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Corporate 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
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Explaining Housing Policy Change through Discursive Institutionalism

Social Sciences
Explaining how and why housing policies change is an ongoing theoretical challenge for housing scholars. A key approach is the ‘housing regimes’ framework (Kemeny 2006), drawing from Esping-Andersen’s work on the role of labour/capital struggles in ...
Jordan Carnaby King
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From patterns to predictions: a framework for the spatial epidemiology of wildlife diseases

Ecography, EarlyView.
Wildlife diseases pose a significant threat to biodiversity conservation, public health, and livestock. Spatial epidemiology provides a robust framework to understand disease dynamics and guide policy and management. However, the rapid proliferation of spatial methods has largely occurred in isolation across disciplines, leaving the field without a ...
Cesar Herraiz, Pelayo Acevedo
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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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Differences, commons and rhythms: Towards an urbanism of temporalities

Articulo: 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, Yves Pedrazzini, Guillaume Drevon   +2 more
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