What is the difference between fossil fuel embargo and price shocks?
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Political and Business Dynasties: a Social Gradient in Returns to Elite Education
Dynasties constitute a visible sign of intergenerational persistence and raise questions about the legitimacy of the ruling elite. This paper uses data on graduates of elite colleges to explore the influence of political and business dynasties in France. I link nominative data on 103,309 graduates of 12 French Grandes ´ Ecoles born between 1931 and...
Identifying site-specific circularity potential in the built environment through socio-spatial visualizations
status: Published online
Post-Soviet dependence with benefits? Critical geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s strategic alignment with Russia...
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine has stimulated a debate on Russia's relations with states which were part of the Soviet Union. Our article contributes to this discussion by focusing on Russia's two 'strategic partners', Belarus and Tajikistan, and exploring these countries' perspectives. We develop a critical geopolitics framework which accounts for t...
Undoing the development army : a paradigm shift from transfer of technology to agricultural innovation system in Ethiopi...
Appropriate use of agricultural technologies and diversifying the farming activities is critical to addressing food security problems in Africa, including Ethiopia. The country is experimenting with the new Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approach alongside the well-established Transfer of Technology (ToT) approach. This paper analyzes the gap...
Evolution and prediction of rural ecological environment quality in eastern coastal area of China
Introduction: Rural ecological environment construction, as a pivotal component of the rural revitalization strategy and ecological civilization construction strategy, plays an indispensable role in promoting sustainable agricultural development and safeguarding ecological security. An accurate assessment and prediction of Rural Ecological Environm...
Measuring and characterising green jobs : a literature review
This study presents a comprehensive literature review on green job measurement and characterisation across various countries and world regions. The study adopts a conceptual framework distinguishing between outputbased and process-based greenness, and entity-level and occupation-specific measurement techniques. The wideranging green job estimates r...
A comprehensive framework covering Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, resource circularity and criticality
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is a recognised methodology for analyzing and communicating the sustainability of product systems. However, the fragmented analysis of the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability remains an obstacle to its wider application. In addition, the increasing demand for raw materials lead...
Laurent Feller and Agnès Gramain, L’évident et l’invisible. Questions de méthode en économie et en histoire
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What's stopping the waste-treatment industry from adopting emerging circular technologies? An agent-based model revealin...
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