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The intersection of food justice and religious values in secular spaces: insights from a nonprofit urban farm in Columbus, Ohio
Critical food scholars have argued that activists’ political ideologies and environmental values are important influences on their food justice...
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For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question
The chapter focuses on the reception of the concept of animality in the Italian Marxist tradition. While the “orthodox” agenda of traditional Marxism...
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Why Does Energy-Saving Behavior Rise and Fall? A Study on Consumer Face Consciousness in the Chinese Context
This research examines the effect of an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which one desires positive evaluations from...
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Perceived Greenwashing: The Effects of Green Marketing on Environmental and Product Perceptions
Many firms are striving to improve their environmental positions by presenting their environmental efforts to the public. To do so, they are applying...
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Critical Constructivism: An Exposition and Defense
In this paper, I explain in detail Critical Constructivism, which I situate as a political philosophy of technology that draws from the Frankfurt...
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Veganic farming in the United States: farmer perceptions, motivations, and experiences
Veganic agriculture, often described as farming that is free of synthetic and animal-based inputs, represents an alternative to chemical-based...
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Toward Modeling a Global Social Contract
The task of linking global citizens’ preferences in value orientation and sovereign states’ preferences in treaty orientation is carried out in this...
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The Institutionalization of an Envisioned Future. Sensemaking and Field Formation in the Case of “Industrie 4.0” in Germany
Technology-based, envisioned futures have a significant influence on the dynamics of technological development and, as a consequence, on societies....
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Transmodernizing Management Historiographies of Consumerism for the Majority
Within an increasingly unequal, heterogeneous, and authoritarian Global North, a (US-led) new global consumerism (NGC) movement championed by...
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Prosperity, Egoism, Voluntary Simplicity, Sustainability, and Expectations of Immortality
The presence or absence of states described by the concepts of happiness, well-being, and prosperity play a crucial role in determining behaviour and...
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Social constructionism and climate science denial
It has been much debated whether epistemic relativism in academia, for instance in the form of social constructivism, the strong programme,...
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Self-Sustaining Practices of Successful Social Change Agents: A Retreats Framework for Supporting Transformational Change
We advance a framework of three types of “retreats” – reflective, relational, and inspirational – that social change agents can use to sustain...
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Environmental Strategy, Institutional Force, and Innovation Capability: A Managerial Cognition Perspective
Despite the rising interest in environmental strategies, few studies have examined how managerial cognition of such strategies influences actual...
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The Contribution of Management Control Systems to Environmental Capabilities
A growing number of companies are implementing proactive environmental strategies with the objective of gaining competitive advantage through an...
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Energy Politics in the Public Sphere: Frames, Values, and Symbolic Power
The study examines the relationship between energy policy and values that appears in social movement mobilizations with respect to energy in the...
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Workplace Spirituality in Social Entrepreneurship: Motivation for Serving the Common Good
This chapter discusses the interconnection between workplace spirituality and social entrepreneurship. Based on the literature, the author explores...
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Transmutation
In this chapter, I consider the shifts in species status from success to threat, in terms of the development of a hierarchy of species roles...
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Environmental Behavior On and Off the Job: A Configurational Approach
The current literature on environmental sustainability acknowledges that habits are often shaped in private life and that experiences with...
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The “Business Sucks” Story
The purpose of this essay is to suggest that one of the dominant modes of thought in our society is a profound mistrust and misunderstanding of the...
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Towards a dialogue of sustainable agriculture and end-times theology in the United States: insights from the historical ecology of nineteenth century millennial communes
Almost one-third of all U.S. Americans believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in the next 40 years, thereby signaling the end of the world....
