Few studies consider human behaviour and relationship impacts on how people use and manage plastic.
Few studies consider human behaviour and relationship impacts on how people use and manage plastic.
The involvement of financial markets is critical to deliver effective and long-lasting solutions to mitigate climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. However, financial markets have not invested in ecosystem services because these are often valued based on non-market prices, which deter investments. Based on existing carbon market prices, we value the carbon services produced by forest elephants and show that wild animals\uffe2\uff80\uff99 carbon services are valuable enough to attract investors. This framework would facilitate financing of conservation programs and local communities and broaden the portfolio of nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change.Following the failure of legislative proposals for a multi\uffe2\uff80\uff90sector greenhouse gas (GHG) cap\uffe2\uff80\uff90and\uffe2\uff80\uff90trade policy, the shift in focus to energy sector policies ignores the perhaps substantial potential for GHG mitigation from agriculture/forestry. We review estimates of the current U.S. agriculture sector contribution to GHG mitigation from a portfolio of existing sector policies in bioenergy, conservation, and research and development to compare accomplishments across programs. We then consider what opportunities and challenges may exist for increasing sector GHG mitigation by retargeting and/or expanding current programs\uffe2\uff80\uff94or for bioenergy\uffe2\uff80\uff90related mitigation, implementing proposed new programs\uffe2\uff80\uff94to serve as an alternative to cap\uffe2\uff80\uff90and\uffe2\uff80\uff90trade.
", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Carol Adaire Jones, Cynthia J. Nickerson, Paul W. Heisey,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppt020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Economic%20Perspectives%20and%20Policy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/aepp/ppt020", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/aepp/ppt020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/aepp/ppt020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-08-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/bjsw/bcad239", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:17:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-11-16", "title": "\u2018Shown love from the brokenness of a system\u2019: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare", "description": "AbstractChild welfare (CW) reforms have called for including family and youth voice. Yet, most initiatives have remained at individual levels, and research has rarely included youth, parent and professional voices simultaneously and equally. This study sought to integrate these perspectives and identify systems-level strategies that could reimagine CW. Using an arts-based method and thematic analysis, researchers investigated recommendations for policy and practice changes needed to transform CW to better support youth. Data were collected from individual and relational poems written by forty-one participants, including youth with foster care (FC) experience and CW professionals. Participants were located in a Midwestern state in the USA. Four themes were generated and several key findings were highlighted. First, results demonstrated relationship-building as central to supporting youth in FC. Secondly, participants described complex, fragmented and fluctuating views about the purpose of CW. Thirdly, strong emotions were commonly demonstrated by both youth and professionals. Fourthly, participants offered prescriptive actions needed to better support youth. Overall, this study indicates that CW should centre relationship-building, youth self-determination and practices that build resilience for youth and professionals. Findings also provide hope for transforming CW towards an accountable, family-centred, well-being system.Forestry is a major source of revenue for the Lao People\uffe2\uff80\uff99s Democratic Republic. The Government\uffe2\uff80\uff99s view is that shifting cultivation in the highlands is the primary cause of deforestation and erosion; this has led it to establish a policy of eliminating shifting cultivation by the resettlement of highland people in or near the lowlands. Here, it is assumed, the highlanders will be able to lead a more sedentary existence, cultivate wet rice, and benefit from various forms of development assistance. In the district of Muang Sing in northern Laos this policy has been partly responsible for the movement of large numbers of Akha people downhill to settle on the lower slopes of the highlands, at the periphery of the lowlands. This movement has been further encouraged by the low productivity of the Akha swidden economy. This article argues that Akha expectations of a more secure livelihood have not been fulfilled due to the ravages of disease, high rates of opium addiction, and the lack of government assistance. Instead, the Akha of the lower slopes have become an impoverished labour force, exploited for the benefit of the politically and economically dominant Tai lowlanders.
", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "0507 social and economic geography", "1. No poverty", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Paul T. Cohen", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00151"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Development%20and%20Change", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1467-7660.00151", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1467-7660.00151", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1467-7660.00151"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/agec.12057", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:17:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-08", "title": "Competition For Land In The Global Bioeconomy", "description": "AbstractThe global land use implications of biofuel expansion have received considerable attention in the literature over the past decade. Model\uffe2\uff80\uff90based estimates of the emissions from cropland expansion have been used to assess the environmental impacts of biofuel policies. And integrated assessment models have estimated the potential for biofuels to contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement over the coming century. All of these studies feature, explicitly or implicitly, competition between biofuel feed stocks and other land uses. However, the economic mechanisms governing this competition, as well as the contribution of biofuels to global land use change, have not received the close scrutiny that they deserve. The purpose of this article is to offer a deeper look at these factors. We begin with a comparative static analysis which assesses the impact of exogenously specified forecasts of biofuel expansion over the period: 2006\uffe2\uff80\uff932035. Global land use change is decomposed according to the three key margins of economic response: extensive supply, intensive supply, and demand. Under the International Energy Agency's \uffe2\uff80\uff9cNew Policies\uffe2\uff80\uff9d scenario, biofuels account for nearly one\uffe2\uff80\uff90fifth of global land use change over the 2006\uffe2\uff80\uff932035 period. The article also offers a comparative dynamic analysis which determines the optimal path for first and second generation biofuels over the course of the entire 21st century. In the absence of GHG regulation, the welfare\uffe2\uff80\uff90maximizing path for global land use, in the face of 3% annual growth in oil prices, allocates 225 Mha to biofuel feed stocks by 2100, with the associated biofuels accounting for about 30% of global liquid fuel consumption. This area expansion is somewhat diminished by expected climate change impacts on agriculture, while it is significantly increased by an aggressive GHG emissions target and by advances in conversion efficiency of second generation biofuels.
", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "11. Sustainability", "Biofuels", " global land use", " partial equilibrium analysis", " comparative statics", " comparative dynamics", " climate change impacts", " carbon policies", " Land Economics/Use", " Resource /Energy Economics and Policy", " Q11", " Q15", " Q24", " Q42", " Q54", "", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Thomas W. Hertel,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12057"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Economics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/agec.12057", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/agec.12057", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/agec.12057"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ejop.12940", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:17:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-02-29", "title": "Schlick, intuition, and the history of epistemology", "description": "AbstractMaria Rosa Antognazza's work has issued a historical challenge to the thesis that the analysis of knowledge (as justified true belief) attacked by epistemologists from Gettier onwards was indeed the standard view traditionally upheld from Plato onwards. This challenge led to an ongoing reappraisal of the historical significance of intuitive knowledge, in which the knower is intimately connected to what is known. Such traditional accounts of intuition, and their accompanying claims to epistemological primacy, constituted the precise target of Moritz Schlick's critique. Schlick engages with this topic throughout his oeuvre, from some of his early epistemological writings, to his anti\uffe2\uff80\uff90metaphysical stance as a leading Logical Empiricist. Schlick crucially distinguishes knowledge from mere acquaintance, denying that the latter has epistemic status. He therefore argues that the very notion of \uffe2\uff80\uff98intuitive knowledge\uffe2\uff80\uff99 is a contradictio in adjecto.The importance of soils to society has gained increasing recognition over the past decade, with the potential to contribute to most of the United Nations\uffe2\uff80\uff99 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With unprecedented and growing demands for food, water and energy, there is an urgent need for a global effort to address the challenges of climate change and land degradation, whilst protecting soil as a natural resource. In this paper, we identify the contribution of soil science over the past decade to addressing gaps in our knowledge regarding major environmental challenges: climate change, food security, water security, urban development, and ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. Continuing to address knowledge gaps in soil science is essential for the achievement of the SDGs. However, with limited time and budget, it is also pertinent to identify effective methods of working that ensure the research carried out leads to real\uffe2\uff80\uff90world impact. Here, we suggest three strategies for the next decade of soil science, comprising a greater implementation of research into policy, interdisciplinary partnerships to evaluate function trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs and synergies between soils and other environmental domains, and integrating monitoring and modelling methods to ensure soil\uffe2\uff80\uff90based policies can withstand the uncertainties of the future.
Highlights
We highlight the contributions of soil science to five major environmental challenges since 2010.
Researchers have contributed to recommendation reports, but work is rarely translated into policy.
Interdisciplinary work should assess trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs and synergies between soils and other domains.
Integrating monitoring and modelling is key for robust and sustainable soils\uffe2\uff80\uff90based policymaking.
Consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) has emerged as a tool for estimating environmental impacts of changes in product systems that go beyond physical relationships accounted for in attributional LCA (ALCA). This study builds on recent efforts to use more complex economic models for policy\uffe2\uff80\uff90based CLCA. A partial market equilibrium (PME) model, called the U.S. Forest Products Module (USFPM), is combined with LCA to analyze an energy demand scenario in which wood use increases 400 million cubic meters in the United States for ethanol production. Several types of indirect economic and environmental impacts are identified and estimated using USFPM\uffe2\uff80\uff90LCA. A key finding is that if wood use for biofuels increases to high levels and mill residue is used for biofuels and replaced by natural gas for heat and power in forest products mills, then the increased greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas could offset reductions obtained by substituting biofuels for gasoline. Such high levels of biofuel demand, however, appear to have relatively low environmental impacts across related forest product sectors.", "keywords": ["690", "Industrial ecology", "2300 Environmental Science", "Energy demand", "Consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA)", "2002 Economics and Econometrics", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "Biofuel", "Partial equilibrium modeling", "13. Climate action", "3300 Social Sciences", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Forest economics", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00540.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Industrial%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00540.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00540.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00540.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-11-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fenvs.2019.00058", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-17", "title": "Development of an Agricultural Primary Productivity Decision Support Model: A Case Study in France", "description": "Agricultural soils provide society with several functions, one of which is primary productivity. This function is defined as the capacity of a soil to supply nutrients and water and to produce plant biomass for human use, providing food, feed, fiber, and fuel. For farmers, the productivity function delivers an economic basis and is a prerequisite for agricultural sustainability. Our study was designed to develop an agricultural primary productivity decision support model. To obtain a highly accurate decision support model that helps farmers and advisors to assess and manage the provision of the primary productivity soil function on their agricultural fields, we addressed the following specific objectives: (i) to construct a qualitative decision support model to assess the primary productivity soil function at the agricultural field level; (ii) to carry out verification, calibration, and sensitivity analysis of this model; and (iii) to validate the model based on empirical data. The result is a hierarchical qualitative model consisting of 25 input attributes describing soil properties, environmental conditions, cropping specifications, and management practices on each respective field. An extensive dataset from France containing data from 399 sites was used to calibrate and validate the model. The large amount of data enabled data mining to support model calibration. The accuracy of the decision support model prior to calibration supported by data mining was similar to 40%. The data mining approach improved the accuracy to 77%. The proposed methodology of combining decision modeling and data mining proved to be an important step forward. This iterative approach yielded an accurate, reliable, and useful decision support model for the assessment of the primary productivity soil function at the field level. This can assist farmers and advisors in selecting the most appropriate crop management practices. Embedding this decision support model in a set of complementary models for four adjacent soil functions, as endeavored in the H2020 LANDMARK project, will help take the integrated sustainability of arable cropping systems to a new level.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "agricultural decision-making", "006", "data mining", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "soil functions", "15. Life on land", "[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance", "yield", "12. Responsible consumption", "Environmental sciences", "expert knowledge", "decision support model", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "GE1-350", "[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00058"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Environmental%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fenvs.2019.00058", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fenvs.2019.00058", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00058"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:18:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-27", "title": "Understanding \u2018culture\u2019 of pastoralism and \u2018modern development\u2019 in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India", "description": "AbstractThe paper attempts to understand the relation between pastoral cultures and irrigation-based intensive farming regimes promoted by modern development represented by the Indira Gandhi Canal (IGNP) in western Rajasthan. Participant observation and development practice engagement with pastoral communities over the past three decades give an opportunity to reflect on epistemic rationality that constitutes the discourse of modern development, formal statecraft of technocracy, and rule by experts. Historical markers of pastoralism in the interconnected regions of north-west Rajasthan and bordering regions of Multan and Bahawalpur in Pakistan are situated to trace thelonguee dureeof pastoral life systems in the Thar desert region. This oscillation between enhanced moisture regimes following inundation and increased desiccation of a moisture-deficient arid region has been at the core of sustaining the culture of pastoralism among semi-nomadic pastoralists of Muslim communities in north-west Rajasthan. The IGNP canal produces a space for modern development that opens up irrigated farming and an intensive natural resource use regime. This political economy of the IGNP canal systematically marginalizes pastoral natural resource use that was ecologically embedded. The varied experiences of adaptation responses by pastoral communities to this state-led marginalization points to the tenacious ability of pastoralism to continually adapt to the radically changing ecology. The paper argues for a complementarity of pastoral and farming use as an inclusive development vision. Beginnings can be made by a compassionate engagement with cultures of pastoralism that are endowed with resilience rooted in a historically constituted rationality to adapt and innovate with changing times. This may hold cues for a sustainable future of Thar. A knowledge repository design artifact, the Constructivist Unifying Baccalaureate Epistemology (CUBE), incorporating conceptual mapping features and a semantic ontology structure was developed and evaluated. The aim is to achieve quantifiable improvement in learning outcomes by integrating course materials in a field of study. The CUBE knowledge repository was modeled as an organic structure with the ability to evolve over time by incorporating a ranking/voting feature that enables learners and instructors to add further content to the knowledge base and collectively evaluate the relative weights of conceptual threads. The goal of this research was to provide the means, models and tools that would allow learners, from their earliest studies, to develop and explore these conceptual threads that tie a discipline together. Although this paper focuses on the technological details of the design and implementation of the artifacts, it also describes the knowledge integration theoretical models used as the basis for tool design and presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of the artifacts.
Biofuel policies are a subset of policies designed to achieve energy security, an improved environment, enhanced agricultural incomes, technological change, and overall economic benefits, with increased domestic energy production creating green jobs and foreign exchange savings. In assessing this broad spectrum of proclaimed policy goals with the outcome of biofuel mandates, subsidies, import barriers, binary sustainability standards, and indirect land use measures, we identify many perverse and contradictory effects. Most importantly, we show how biofuel policies established the crop-energy price link and hence the food-fuel trade-off, the contradictory effects of combining mandates with different subsidies, the various surprising welfare economic effects, and the various inconsistencies associated with binary sustainability standards and carbon leakages. We conclude with examples of how biofuel policies have generated paradoxical effects in many other different dimensions.
", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "biofuels", " mandates", " subsidies", " tariffs", " externalities", " greenhouse gases", " traffic congestion", " air pollution", " burden of taxation", " agriculture", " environment", " energy", "05 social sciences", "1. No poverty", "jel:H23", "7. Clean energy", "jel:H21", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "jel:Q54", "0502 economics and business", "11. Sustainability", "jel:Q48", "jel:Q56", "jel:R48"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, David R. Just,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annual%20Review%20of%20Resource%20Economics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933", "name": "item", "description": "10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151933"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1177/001132557500800211", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:18:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-15", "title": "Book Review Section: Potpourri: Religions et Philosophic Africaines", "keywords": ["05 social sciences", "0507 social and economic geography", "0506 political science"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Suzanne Tarica", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1177/001132557500800211"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/A%20Current%20Bibliography%20on%20African%20Affairs", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1177/001132557500800211", "name": "item", "description": "10.1177/001132557500800211", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1177/001132557500800211"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1975-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1177/0037549715620501", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:18:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-12-17", "title": "Express bus fare optimization based on passenger choice behavior", "description": "A change in bus fare influences passenger choice behavior, resulting in a change of passenger flow and passengers\u2019 total travel time. In this paper, a bi-level model was built to optimize the bus fare. The upper-level used the passenger flow and the travel time of passengers to optimize the bus fare. The lower-level is an agent-based simulation model that can simulate the passenger flow based on the passenger choice behavior. Then the tabu search algorithm was used to solve the bi-level model. Finally, the bi-level model is verified using two bus routes of Dalian, China. The result proves the bi-level model is reliable.
In this paper a look is taken at organizational effectiveness in terms of a Person-Environment (P-E) match and it is argued that the various approaches to the improvement of on-the-job performance focus either on changes at the individual level (\u2018fitting the man to the job\u2019) or at the organizational level (\u2018fitting the job to the man\u2019). Furthermore it is also argued that these interventions occur at either a global preventative level or at a localized remedial level. The resulting 2 \u00d7 2 classification of four basic strategies for enhancing P-E match are discussed and evaluated. It is concluded that in a mixed-economy situation, such as occurs in South Africa at present, attention should be given to adapting organizational structures and job processes to make them more compatible with the needs and values of the local work force.
This study theorizes on the sociomateriality of food in authority-building processes of partial organizations by exploring alternative food networks (AFNs). Through the construction of arenas for food provisioning, AFNs represent grassroots collectives that deliberately differentiate their practices from mainstream forms of food provisioning. Based on a sequential mixed-methods analysis of 24 AFNs, where an inductive chronological analysis is followed by a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), we found that the entanglements between participants\uffe2\uff80\uff99 food provisioning practices and food itself shape how authority emerges in AFNs. Food generates biological, physiological and social struggles for AFN participants who, in turn, respond by embracing or avoiding them. As an outcome, most AFNs tend to bureaucratize over time according to four identified patterns while a few idiosyncratically build a more shared basis of authority. We conclude that the sociomateriality of food plays an important yet indirect role in understanding why and how food provisioning arenas re-organize and forge their forms of authority over time.
", "keywords": ["Partial organization", "Alternative food networks", "sociomateriality of food", "550", "Sociomateriality", "grassroots collectives", "0502 economics and business", "05 social sciences", "alternative food networks", "authority-building processes", "Grassroots collectives", "partial organization", "Authority-building processes"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0170840620980232"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620980232"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Organization%20Studies", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1177/0170840620980232", "name": "item", "description": "10.1177/0170840620980232", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1177/0170840620980232"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1177/0972622518768679", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-08-25T16:18:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-05-09", "title": "Profiling Customers Based on Their Social Risk Perception: A Cluster Analysis Approach", "description": "Past research asserts that social risk is an important determinant of consumer purchase behaviour; however, the characteristics of consumers who perceive high/low social risk in a purchase decision have been largely neglected. This study examines consumer social risk perception from a sample of Indian consumers of automobiles. The study segments the consumers using a cluster analysis, and explores differences between clusters based on consumers\u2019 social risk perception and their psychological, cultural, and socio-demographic variables. Need for cognition (NFC) and risk-taking tendency are the two psychological variables focused in the study. The three cultural dimensions considered include collectivism, power distance, and masculinity. The cluster analysis yielded three clusters: high social risk perceivers, medium social risk perceivers, and low social risk perceivers. High social risk perceivers are found to be the individuals with high NFC, low risk-taking tendency, high collectivism, low power distance, and high masculinity. Medium social risk perceivers are the individuals with medium level of NFC, risk taking tendency and collectivism, and are low on power distance and masculinity. Low social risk perceivers are the consumers low in NFC, high in risk-taking tendency, low on collectivism, high on power distance, and low on masculinity. Further, each cluster was cross tabulated with consumer demographics.
Fame is a shuttlecock only kept aloft by being hit from opposing sides.
Partiendo de la evoluci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rica del paradigma de la Administraci\u00f3n, se busca demostrar c\u00f3mo, a partir de nuevas teor\u00edas, hechos y paradigmas, el dise\u00f1o de pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas ha evolucionado de un modelo top-down a un dise\u00f1o bottom-up, abandonando el modelo weberiano de Administraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica. De este modo y en el marco del paradigma del gobierno abierto, el dise\u00f1o y la implementaci\u00f3n de pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas se apoyan en distintas disciplinas para cumplir los objetivos propuestos de transparencia, participaci\u00f3n y colaboraci\u00f3n. Es as\u00ed como las metodolog\u00edas de pensamiento de dise\u00f1o se presentan como una posibilidad de mejora continua y creaci\u00f3n de valor p\u00fablico.
Soil acidification due to N supplied from fertilizer or aerial deposition in grasslands is well recognized and documented; however, little is known about its consequences on soil P availability. This question was addressed on a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term field experiment done on grassland in Erc\uffc3\uffa9 (Central Pyrenees, France), where plots were treated for 6 yr with a factorial combination of mineral N added as NH4NO3 (0 and 190 kg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and P (0 and 50 kg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and managed with a frequent defoliation regime (3 cuts yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Diffusive PO4 ion dynamics at the soil\uffe2\uff80\uff93solution interface was determined by coupling sorption studies with 32P labeling of PO4 ions (Pi) and dilution analysis. Results showed that the soil pH did not change in zero\uffe2\uff80\uff90N treatments (5.9 \uffc2\uffb1 0.1) in comparison with the initial soil (5.9 \uffc2\uffb1 0.1), whereas it decreased to 5.3 \uffc2\uffb1 0.1 on N\uffe2\uff80\uff90treated soils. Meanwhile the cation exchange capacity and exchangeable Ca2+ and Mg2+ contents decreased significantly and the saturation percentage of the adsorption complex by Al3+ increased from 2 to 15; no changes were observed for untreated soils. Furthermore, the gross amount of diffusive Pi (Pr) was accurately described as a function of the concentration of PO4 ions in the solution (Cp) and time (t) by a Freundlich kinetic equation; these dynamics were significantly modified by N supply but not by P.
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The MP abundance at the waterworks' inlet and outlet was quantified as MP counts per cubic metre (N/m3) and estimated MP mass per cubic metre (\u03bcg/m3). The waterworks' MP removal efficiency was found to be higher when analysing by \u03bcFTIR (counts: 78.14\u00a0\u00b1\u00a049.70%, mass: 98.73\u00a0\u00b1\u00a011.10%) and less fluctuating than when using \u03bcRaman (counts: 43.2%, mass: 75.1%). However, both techniques pointed to a value of \u223c80% for the counts' removal efficiency of MPs >6.6\u00a0\u03bcm. Contrarily to what was shown by \u03bcRaman, no systematic leaking of MPs from the plastic elements of the facility could be identified for the \u03bcFTIR dataset, either from the counts (inlet 31.86\u00a0\u00b1\u00a017.17\u00a0N/m3, outlet 4.98\u00a0\u00b1\u00a02.09\u00a0N/m3) or mass estimate (inlet 76.30\u00a0\u00b1\u00a0106.30\u00a0\u03bcg/m3, outlet 2.81\u00a0\u00b1\u00a02.78\u00a0\u03bcg/m3). 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