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Personal carbon trading and sustainable consumption: the art of the state
Doran, Peter - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 3/4, pp. 323-342
Anticipating a new prominence for the carbon market and lifestyle change in post-2012 implementation of ambitious carbon mitigation targets in OECD countries, including the UK, this paper draws on Foucauldian scholarship to support an argument that personal carbon trading (PCT) may be consistent...
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Meaning-making in a context of climate change : supporting agency and political engagement
Wamsler, Christine; Osberg, Gustav; Panagiotou, Anna; … - In: Climate policy 23 (2023) 7, pp. 829-844
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Sustainable development paths: investigating the roots of local policy responses to climate change
Burch, Sarah - In: Sustainable Development 19 (2011) 3, pp. 176-188
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices...
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Delivering sustainable public transport: The case of the Better Bus Area Fund
Song, Yena; Hickford, Adrian; Preston, John - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 373-380
Transport for South Hampshire, a joint board responsible for transport planning for a conurbation of over one million people, successfully bid for the UK's Better Bus Area Fund. This will result in investments of £7.4 million over the period 2012 to 2014, of which £4.5 million will come from...
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Contemporary debates on institutions : governance, governmentality and power
Halsall, Jamie P.; Powell, Jason L. - In: International journal of public policy 12 (2016) 1/2, pp. 98-109
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The Urban Precariat, Neoliberalization, and the Soft Power of Humanitarian Design
Johnson, Cedric G. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 3-4, pp. 445-475
This essay examines the humanitarian design movement’s efforts to address the crushing need, social precarity, and ecological frailty that define global megacities. The aims and character of the humanitarian design movement have been shaped by both the ethical demands of antiglobalization...
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Seeing like a market
Fourcade, Marion; Healy, Kieran - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 1, pp. 9-29
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Do institutions evolve like material technologies?
Molho, Catherine; Peña, Jorge; Singh, Manvir; Derex, Maxime - 2024
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Student Learning and Information Technology Nexus
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of Service Science, Management, … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 34-45
The evidence illustrating enhancement in student learning through information technology (IT) is still questioned in … many disciplines, yet education institutions world over are adopting IT with a hope of enhancing the learning effectiveness …
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On institutions that produce and disseminate knowledge
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, … - 1997
This paper investigates institutions for the creation and transmission of knowledge as efficient resource allocation … mechanisms. By looking at Science and Technology it develops a two way classification. Science, is a non market allocation … disclosure. Technology, is a market allocation mechanism, where knowledge is treated as a private good and where patents and …
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