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Poor compliance and exemptions facilitate ongoing deforestation. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Many nations are struggling to reduce deforestation, despite having extensive environmental protection laws in place and commitments to international agreements that address the biodiversity and climate crises. We developed a novel framework to quantify the extent to which contemporary deforestation is being captured under national and ...
Thomas H, Ward MS, Simmonds JS, Taylor MFJ, Maron M.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany

Policy &Internet, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 627-645, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Concerns over online hatespeech have prompted governments to strengthen social media governance. However, claims by policy‐makers and political activists regarding the effectiveness and likely consequences of legal regulations remain largely untested.
Daniela Stockmann, Sophia Schlosser, Paxia Ksatryo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of rainwater harvesting as a sustainable approach to improving the climate resilience of small landholders in Kenya

World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 913-928, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The African Water Vision 2025 emphasized the disadvantages of the rural population in the context of water supply infrastructure, water management, and access. The vision extolled the virtues of providing improved decentralized governance and localized actions to deliver on this agenda.
Kristin Mutschinski, Neil A. Coles
wiley   +1 more source

Improving the protection of migrant workers with work histories in the European Union and Ibero‐America: Enhancing the coordination of international social security instruments

International Social Security Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 25-45, July/September 2023., 2023
Abstract Migration affects almost every nation, emphasizing the need to guarantee social security rights for all migrants and their families. This article focuses on the rights of workers who migrate between the countries of the European Union (EU) and the Ibero‐American community. In the EU, social security systems are increasingly coordinated through
Daniela Zavando Cerda, Laura Gómez Urquijo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Global efforts to deliver internationally agreed goals to reduce carbon emissions, halt biodiversity loss, and retain essential ecosystem services have been poorly integrated. These goals rely in part on preserving natural (e.g., native, largely unmodified) and seminatural (e.g., low intensity or sustainable human use) forests, woodlands, and ...
Jeremy S. Simmonds, Andres Felipe Suarez‐Castro, April E. Reside, James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan, Scott C. Atkinson, Pasquale Borrelli, Nigel Dudley, Stephen Edwards, Richard A. Fuller, Edward T. Game, Simon Linke, Sean L. Maxwell, Panos Panagos, Philippe Puydarrieux, Fabien Quétier, Rebecca K. Runting, Talitha Santini, Laura J. Sonter, Martine Maron   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 3, Page 515-524, September 2022., 2022
Abstract In this article, I analyze practices of self‐formation among European climate activists. I develop the concept of regenerative cultures as a lens to capture nonspectacular practices that embody intimate forms of activism. Drawing on ethnographic research among climate activists, I show that regenerative cultures employs recursive circuits of ...
Arne Harms
wiley   +1 more source

Entorno social y obesidad infantil: implicaciones para la investigación y la práctica en Estados Unidos y en los países latinoamericanos

Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen El entorno en el que viven los niños influye en su riesgo de sufrir obesidad debido, entre otros factores, a los comportamientos relacionados con el peso (es decir, a la dieta y la actividad física). En este artículo presentaremos evidencia sobre los factores socioambientales asociados a la dieta y la actividad física de los niños y, de forma ...
Guadalupe X. Ayala, Rafael Monge‐Rojas, Abby C. King, Ruth Hunter, Jerica M. Berge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accommodating platform work as a new form of work in Dutch social security law: New work, same rules?

International Social Security Review, Volume 74, Issue 3-4, Page 61-83, July-December 2021., 2021
Abstract In the Netherlands, the social security rights of platform workers have still not been formally defined. At present, the level of social security protection accorded to all workers is derived directly from the labour law qualification. In the continuing absence in the Netherlands of specific legislation for platform workers, specifically as ...
Saskia Montebovi
wiley   +1 more source

Healthy mistrust or complacent confidence? Civic vigilance in the reporting by leading newspapers on nuclear waste disposal in Finland and France

Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 130-157, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Trust and confidence have been identified as crucial for efforts at solving the conundrum of high‐level radioactive waste management (RWM). However, mistrust has its virtues, especially in the form of “civic vigilance”—healthy suspicion towards the powers that be.
Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo, Mika Kari, Tapio Litmanen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethics and biodiversity offsetting

Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 578-586, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Biodiversity offsetting is an increasingly applied tool aiming to compensate for environmental damage caused by exploitation projects. Critics, however, raise concerns over the purported effectiveness of offsetting and question the ethical underpinnings and implications of offsetting.
Mikael Karlsson, Karin Edvardsson Björnberg   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source