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Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
The proliferation of digital platforms has given rise to manipulative design practices known as “dark patterns,” which exploit users’ vulnerabilities to influence behavior, leading them to make decisions against their own interests.
Xin Ye
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When national qualifications travel: Curriculum fairness after the 2024 Pearson Edexcel A‐Level Chinese reform

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract National qualifications do not always stay national. Once offered internationally, a reform designed around one education system may reach students with very different linguistic histories. This article examines that problem through Pearson Edexcel A‐Level Chinese, an England‐regulated subject qualification offered in the UK and ...
Gracie Jiaxin Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Agriculture or Farmers? Problem Representations of Biodiversity and Farm Loss in Swedens Strategy for the Common Agricultural Policy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European Union (EU) strategies for food supply address challenges of increasing, or at least maintaining, today's level of agricultural food production. At the same time, European farmland biodiversity continues to deteriorate despite considerable investments in measures to promote environmentally friendly farming practices.
Johanna Tangnäs, Tuija Hilding‐Rydevik   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining equality in European contract law: protecting consumer interests in a post-consumer society

European Law Open
Consumers have in law been defined as the weaker parties in a transaction. Contract laws have integrated consumer protection with a view to balancing the interests of the parties, ensuring equal bargaining power and to some extent substantive fairness in
Vanessa Mak
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The EU Deforestation Regulation: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential Impacts on the Producing Countries of Cocoa and Coffee

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is a policy that prohibits access to the EU market for commodities that are linked to deforestation. We did a systematic review to understand perceived challenges, opportunities and potential impacts of the EUDR on producing countries of cocoa and coffee.
Alexi Van Loco, Marco Campera
wiley   +1 more source

THE REFORM OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM – A PREMISE OF INCREASING ABSORPTION OF EUROPEAN FUNDS AND FOSTERING COMPETITION ON THE SINGLE MARKET

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2016
Under the auspices of the two Acts on the Single Market (2011, 2012) and the Europe 2020 Strategy, and given that the financial risks involved and the tight connection between the public and private environments may transform public procurement into a ...
Mihaela Adriana OPRESCU
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Unfair commercial practices in the banking sector

, 2022
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία σχετίζεται με τις αθέμιτες εμπορικές πρακτικές στον τραπεζικό τομέα, που συνιστά τομέα ενδιαφέροντος άρρηκτα συνδεδεμένο με το δίκαιο προστασία του καταναλωτή, αφενός, και το τραπεζικό δίκαιο, αφετέρου. Αναλύεται το σχετικό νομικό πλαίσιο, κυρίως ενωσιακής προέλευσης, και ιδίως η Οδηγία 2005/29/ΕΚ (η «Οδηγία»), η οποία ...
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Unfair commercial practices used by the Czech retailers

, 2018
This bachelor thesis is focused on unfair commercial practices and consumer protection. First of all it explains basic concepts such as commerce, retail, wholesale, businessman or consumer and next it devotes to unfair commercial practices.
VÍTKOVÁ, Karolína
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Pursuing Affordability, Fairness, and Efficiency in the U.S. Commercial Health Insurance Market

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The high cost of health insurance and health care services in the US is affecting not only the uninsured and lower income households, but is beginning to reach into the middle class. Current health insurance benefit designs often fail to address two forms of market failure: poor consumer information and distorted prices.
Minjeong Kang, Bryan E. Dowd
wiley   +1 more source