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Positioning teachers in climate change education: Insights from a Hong Kong Global South perspective

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how prospective teachers in Hong Kong (N = 13) position themselves within climate change education through ‘Global Dialogue for Climate Change Education’, a cross‐institutional teacher education programme facilitating online global dialogues between Hong Kong and the UK.
Sally Wai‐Yan Wan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroecology of methane-oxidizing bacteria: the β-diversity of pmoA genotypes in tropical and subtropical rice paddies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Studies addressing microbial biogeography have increased during the past decade, but research on microbial distribution patterns is still in its infancies, and many aspects are only poorly understood. Here, we compared the methanotroph community in paddy
Fiantis, Dian   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Marketing Tensions in Sustainable Business Models: A Conceptual Approach Through Customer Value Propositions and Stewardship

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable business models (SBMs) inherently involve tensions, which are contradictory or misaligned demands that companies must consider simultaneously. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the relevance and linkage of these tensions to strategic marketing considerations, including positioning, competitiveness, differentiation,
Päivi Petänen
wiley   +1 more source

Composition and Antioxidant Status of Vegan Milk—Pilot Study

open access: yesAntioxidants
Background: More and more women are following a vegan and vegetarian diet. For some, the use of a vegan diet during lactation is controversial. Purpose: The aim of the study was to comparatively analyze the concentration of selected hormones, micro- and ...
Agnieszka Chrustek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of Customer Eco‐Friendly Goods Consumption in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the key attributes of eco‐friendly products in the hospitality and tourism industries and examines the impact on consumer behavior through a three‐study approach. Study I utilized principal component analysis and identified five key factors: price relevance, external charm, visual attention, product symbolism, and ...
Jiyoung Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A double-edged sword: Use of computer algebra systems in first-year Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics courses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many secondary-level mathematics students have experience with graphical calculators from high school. For the purposes of this paper we define graphical calculators as those able to perform rudimentary symbolic manipulation and solve complicated ...
Ewart, Paul, Khanna, Jai, Louie, Ken
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The Associations Between Vegetarian and Vegan Diets and Orthorexia Nervosa Symptoms in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To synthesize the evidence on the associations between vegetarian and/or vegan diets (VVDs) and symptoms of orthorexia nervosa (ON) compared with omnivorous diets in the adult population. Method Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) and the Meta‐analyses of Observational Studies in ...
Valentina Díaz‐Goñi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Should Vegans Live? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this essay, I look at the significant portion of vegans who are vegan because they care about harm to animals. I investigate what lifestyle is in fact consistent with caring about harm to animals, which I begin by calling consistent veganism.
Cohen, Xavier
core  

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