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The Role of Intrinsic Quality in Reducing Consumer Xenocentrism: Evidence From a New World Wine Market

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through technological advances in winemaking, New World wine‐producing countries have achieved wines of comparable or superior quality relative to traditional European producers. Nevertheless, the symbolic value associated with European wines may still outweigh that of domestic products, particularly in countries where historical sociocultural
Alvaro Luis Lamas Cassago, Mateus Manfrin Artêncio, Richard Paul Bagozzi, Janaina de Moura Engracia de Giraldi, Fernando Batista Da Costa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 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
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Unsustainable hunting practices can alter population dynamics, driving biodiversity declines, which leads to ‘empty forests’. Understanding hunting behaviour, including motivations for hunting and relationships with market drivers, and access to hunting grounds are important to develop affirmative policies to stem biodiversity loss.
Natasha L. M. Mannion, Rachel Gaulton, Maria Erica Jamil, Marion Pfeifer, Johan Willem Ferry Slik, Stephen G. Willis, F. Merlin Franco   +6 more
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
doaj  

Some love them, others hate them: Understanding farmers' tree planting decisions in Scotland

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural land use system with potential to sequester carbon, create and repair habitats, enhance biodiversity and offer environmental and socio‐economic benefits, including improved agricultural productivity.
Albert Mvula, Katrin Prager, Josie Geris
wiley   +1 more source

Back to the Future-Proof: Four Reforms for the Better Regulation of Dark Patterns Under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and Article 25 of the Digital Services Act

European Journal of Risk Regulation
The efficacy of the “future-proof” Unfair Commercial Practices Directive against dark patterns is undermined by the fragmented regulatory landscape introduced by the Digital Services Act. Article 25 DSA creates four weaknesses: a general prohibition that
Fabrizio Esposito, Cecilia Isola, Cristiana Santos, Martim Farinha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Addictive Design as an Unfair Commercial Practice: The Case of Hyper-Engaging Dark Patterns

European Journal of Risk Regulation
AbstractThis article explains why hyper-engaging dark patterns should be considered unlawful in the European Union even though they are very common online, particularly on content-sharing platforms. A hyper-engaging dark pattern is a digital interface with an addictive design: it makes users spend more time interacting with the service by making use of
Fabrizio Esposito, Thaís Maciel Cathoud Ferreira   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source