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The Future of AI in the GCC Post‐NPM Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Kuwait and the UAE

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Comparative evidence of how two Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states translate artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions into post–New Public Management (post‐NPM) outcomes are scarce because most studies focus on Western democracies. To fill this gap, we examine constitutional, collective choice, and operational rules that shape AI uptake in ...
Mohammad Rashed Albous   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Footprint Halves Tail Loss Rates in Geckos Worldwide

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Anthropogenic changes alter predator–prey systems worldwide. Defensive behaviour is shaped by the costs and benefits for individuals, and we hypothesise that tail shedding, as an escape strategy, has a higher cost for animals in human‐modified environments compared to natural landscapes. Therefore, our central objective was to evaluate the
Lucas Rodriguez Forti   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Semper supra”? Trump administration policy narratives and the creation of the space force

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 1157-1183, September 2025.
Abstract In 2019, the Donald Trump administration rejected the draft Treaty on the Prevention of Placement of Weapons in Space (PPWT) in the UN Conference on Disarmament and instead created the Space Force, the first new US military service branch established in decades.
Jeffrey S. Lantis
wiley   +1 more source

A roadmap to sustainable management of commercial medicinal and aromatic plants, fungi, and lichens in Nepal

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 4, August 2025.
Abstract Thousands of plants, fungi, and lichen species are traded every year. Although sustainable use is critical for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, insufficient data prevent detailed sustainability assessments for most species. How can the sustainability of trade in such data‐deficient species be enhanced?
Carsten Smith‐Hall   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of theories of human action in recent conservation research

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Social sciences are increasingly recognized as useful for reorienting human action toward environmental conservation. Fully realizing the social sciences’ potential requires applying social science methods to conservation challenges and drawing from and building on human action theories from across the social sciences to better understand how ...
Harold N. Eyster   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Conservationists increasingly position conservation that is mutually beneficial to people and biodiversity on the promise of empowerment of people through participatory discourse, metrics, processes, and outcomes. Empowerment represents multidimensional concepts and theories that permeate the interlinking levels of power, from the ...
Michael A. Petriello   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The place for people in rewilding

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 6, December 2024.
Abstract Rewilding, although controversial, is increasingly presented as humanity's best hope of addressing the global biodiversity crisis, but it remains unclear how restoring nonhuman autonomy affects people's relationships with nature. We conceptualized 3 human–nature relationships (HNRs) that could occur when restoring nonhuman autonomy: human ...
Joseph Glentworth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding equity and inclusion in universities through motivational theory and community‐based conservation approaches

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 6, December 2024.
Abstract Despite widespread plans to embed justice, equity, decolonization, indigenization, and inclusion (JEDII) into universities, progress toward deeper, systemic change is slow. Given that many community‐based conservation (CBC) scholars have experience creating enduring social change in diverse communities, they have transferable skills that could
Maï Yasué   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling gender and social difference for just and transformative biocultural approaches

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 1394-1406, August 2024.
Abstract Advancing research and practice that recognize diverse worldviews, knowledge systems, and value orientations is essential to enable transformative change towards sustainability. Biocultural approaches recognize the diverse ways in which people relate to nature, offering a potential pathway for sustainability transformations.
Isabel Díaz‐Reviriego   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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