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Anthropology and Value

open access: yes, 2023
Anthropological theories of value highlight the cultural processes responsible for value creation, re-creation, and transmission. This chapter provides an overview of the most crucial value theories in anthropology.
Steinert, S. (author)
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An Approximate Theory for Value Sensitivity [PDF]

open access: yes2015 IEEE/ACM 4th SEMAT Workshop on a General Theory of Software Engineering, 2015
The software engineering community is on a quest for general and specific theories for the discipline. Increasingly, systems constructed for today’s hyper connected world are raising issues of security and privacy, both examples of value concerns. Hence there is a need to articulate a theory for value sensitivity that software engineers can draw upon ...
Balbir S. Barn, Ravinder Barn
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Making Forest Values Work: Enhancing Multi-Dimensional Perspectives towards Sustainable Forest Management

open access: yesSouth-East European Forestry, 2016
Background and Purpose: Sustainability, sustainable development and sustainable forest management are terms that are commonly, and interchangeably used in the forest industry, however their meaning take on different connotations, relative to varying ...
Doni Blagojević   +15 more
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THE HUMANIST THEORY OF VALUE [PDF]

open access: yesMind, 1910
MR. QUICK'S article in this periodical for April had a special interest for me, arising from the circumstance that, in my anti-pragmatist days (now happily passed) I was vexed by the same difficulties and moved to urge substantially the same objections to pragmatism as those which are so well presented in Mr. Quick's Criticism of Humanism.
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An innovative horizontal ecological compensation mechanism: How do inter-county forest ecological credit transactions affect rural residents' income?

open access: yesEcological Indicators
Ecological protection compensation has been widely recognized as an effective policy instrument for enhancing ecosystem services and alleviating poverty.
Wenjie Cheng   +9 more
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Introduction: The Many Faces of Value

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter sets up the upcoming chapters of the book and introduces four essential aspects of value. The topic of value has personal, social, and cultural dimensions, and value considerations are related to conceptual and metaphysical questions.
Steinert, S. (author)
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Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Landscape Pattern and Ecosystem Service Connectivity in Wetland Environment: Evidence from Yellow River Delta, China

open access: yesLand
Ecosystem service connectivity (ESC) is the spatial and functional links among and within ecosystems that support unimpeded service flows, and that could play an important role in ecosystem stability enhancement and regional land planning.
Chaozhi Hao   +6 more
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The influence of dividend yield and dividend stability on share returns: Implications for dividend policy formulation

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013
The relevance of the dividend decision has been a contentious issue in corporate finance research, partly due to contradictory views reported in existing literature.
Pierre Erasmus
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Sociology and Value

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter traces the development of value theory in sociology and opens with Weber’s influential ideas about value rationality and value spheres.
Steinert, S. (author)
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