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Beyond Rational and Utilitarian Action: Moral and Emotional Giving Within Chinese Folk Religion
Despite a trend to use rational and utilitarian paradigms to interpret the revival of folk religions, other human motives need to be acknowledged....
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Sexual Exploitation and Vulnerability of Followers in Nigerian Religious Circles: A Legal Approach
Sexual exploitation in religious circles is often underreported, especially in contemporary Nigeria. This includes the misuse of power and abuse of...
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A “watered-down” solution? Deconstructing the ecosystem approach in Swedish policy affecting fisheries management
This study seeks to deconstruct an ecosystem approach in Swedish national policy pertaining to fisheries management, not least because fisheries are...
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A Conceptual Framework to Visualise Liveability
The paper presents an alternative conceptual framework to theorise urban liveability. It reviews two urban liveability measurement methodologies to...
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Running on the Hedonic Treadmill: A Dynamical Model of Happiness Based on an Approach–Avoidance Framework
Describing the dynamical nature of happiness is crucial for understanding why individuals are constantly running on a hedonic treadmill around set...
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The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach
The copper-using cultures of North America’s Archaic Period (10,000–3000 BP ) have long been an archaeological enigma. For millennia, Middle and Late...
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The Effects of Public Expenditure on Municipal Development: A Dynamic Panel Approach
We investigate the effects of public expenditure on municipal development in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The definition of development...
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The Pursuit of Subjective Well-Being Through Financial Well-Being, Relationship Quality, and Spiritual Well-Being: A Configuration Approach with Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
Individuals’ subjective well-being is influenced by their financial well-being, family relationship quality, spiritual well-being, gender, and age....
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The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review
Child well-being is a dynamic concept currently under revision due to its complexity and the need to incorporate traditionally overlooked...
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Measuring welfare with the use of the MIMIC approach: evidence for Poland
The growing interest in the concept of using welfare categories as a measure of economic or social development results from the fact that dominant...
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Analyzing the Conflict of Rights to Urban Space Between Humans and Stray Animals: From East and West Perspectives
This chapter addresses the tensions between the rights to urban space of humans and non-human animals, with a special focus on ethical issues...
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions
In spite of decades of research, the complexity of new technology uptake by smallholder farmers in the context of development interventions is still...
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The Social Cost of Carbon, Humility, and Overlap** Consensus on Climate Policy
At first glance, it may seem that climate policy based on estimates of the social cost of carbon (SCC) presupposes a set of controversial...
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On the Political Control of Mobilities (A Structural Approach to Geopolitics)
The present chapter introduces the premises of structural geopolitics. This approach is based on the innovative works of structural geographers from...
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Capability Index: Applying a Fuzzy-Based Decision-Making Method to Evaluate Social Inclusion in Urban Areas Using the Capability Approach
There is rising interest in re-evaluating transport policy, moving away from analysing concrete economic indicators and towards examining the number...
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Hierarchies of Valuable Life: Positioning Pigs and Primates in UK Bioethics
UK bioethics discourses advocate banning the harvesting of tissues from non-human primates for xenotransplantation (animal-to-human transplantation),...
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Criticisms of the Competency-Based Education (CBE) Approach
This chapter presents the conceptual pitfalls, ideological implications and educational consequences of Competency-Based Education (CBE) approach....
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Exploring the role of blockchain technology in value creation: a multiple case study approach
The value creation potentials of blockchain technology have attracted significant attention from academia and industry. To address how blockchain...
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Architecture, Urban Planning and Social Justice: The Role of Transformative Design in Achieving Spatial Justice
Chapter two sets the theoretical tone for following chapters, by first briefly tracing the historical evolution of architectural design and urban...
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Intellectuals in Exile: Toward a Comparative Approach to the Conditions of Creativity and Unequal Opportunities
This chapter presents a sociological approach to intellectual exile which takes into account a series of parameters: the relations between the...