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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Entering of Stefan Dušan into the Empire [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2007
At the moment when, in October 1341, a new Civil War broke out in the Byzantium after the death of Andronicus III, the traditional views of the imperial power and the Empire underwent considerable changes. The powers of the co-rulers had been on the rise
Pirivatrić Srđan
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Byzantium and the Crimea in the Context of Imperial Interests in the Northern Black Sea Area: New Finds of Emperor’s Molybdoboulla in Taurica

Античная древность и средние века, 2019
The author has discussed the question of Byzantium’s particular interest to the strategically important Crimean region against the background of the seals of Byzantine emperors discovered in Byzantine Taurica.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseienko
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An Analysis the Reflection of Actions in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh [PDF]

مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019
1. Introduction The Reflection of actions has a special place in Islamic mysticism. Based on this component, it is believed that any good or bad act in this world has a reflection that causes the good or bad reaction, and in addition to the punishment of
mahmoud rezaei dashtarzhaneh
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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The Original Meaning of the Judicial Power [PDF]

, 2004
In this paper, the author refutes any claim that judicial review was invented in Marbury v. Madison, or that, because it is contrary to the original meaning of the Constitution, it must be justified by some nonoriginalist interpretive methodology.
Barnett, Randy E
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The improvement of the mechanisms of realization of the functions of the Constitutional Court in Ukraine as a state authority with a special status

Економіка, управління та адміністрування, 2020
The article investigates the functions of the body of constitutional justice, their importance and influence on the functioning of the mechanism of public administration.
I.M. Petriv, Yu.Yu. Baltsii
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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'He's dead but he won't lie down!' Posthumous characterisation: the symbiosis of ghost and man, of spirit and flesh [PDF]

, 2015
In the case of some Shakespearian characters (e.g.Richard II and Julius Caesar) their postmortal presence influences our reading of their characters when they were alive. The past being is morally nourished by his postmortality.
Watts, Cedric
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