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International law shapes climate change litigation
How international law shapes climate change litigation arguments and outcomes
Explore how international law shapes climate change litigation, from human rights obligations to corporate accountability through national courts.
Public reporting outperforms penalties for contractor compliance
How transparency in infrastructure regulation sustains contractor environmental compliance
Evolutionary game theory and system dynamics reveal that public reporting systems outperform financial penalties in maintaining sustainable environmental compliance among infrastructure contractors.
U.S. obstruction reshapes WTO trade adjudication
How US obstruction of WTO appeals is reshaping global trade governance
Explore how U.S. obstruction of WTO’s Appellate Body reshapes neoliberal trade governance, reconfiguring power within multilateral systems rather than abandoning them entirely.
Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological knowledge and norms
How Indigenous storytelling encodes ecological ethics and environmental governance
Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological governance, environmental ethics, and resource management frameworks that challenge anthropocentric legal paradigms and offer relational approaches to.
Ecocide is presented as a proposed fifth international crime
Examining ecocide as a potential fifth international crime for environmental protection
Analysis of ecocide codification efforts across national jurisdictions and prospects for recognition as a fifth international crime within the Rome Statute framework.
Ukrainian soil scientists’ contributions are presented as foundational
Overlooked Ukrainian soil scientists and their lasting impact on global soil science
Discover how Ukrainian soil scientists made foundational contributions to soil science theory and global food security, despite systematic historical erasure by imperial and Soviet authorities.
Western Ukraine is presented as promising for agricultural development
Agricultural potential and development prospects in Western Ukraine
Assessment of Western Ukraine’s agricultural sector demographics, natural resources, and development potential following 2022 military invasion and population migration.
Media lobbying varied by policy stage and narrative
How business groups strategically shape news coverage across crisis policy stages
Study examines how Finnish business associations strategically use media lobbying during public health crisis, analyzing narrative tactics and timing across policy stages.
Economic conditions and presidential approval move together in patterned ways
Economic factors driving U.S. presidential approval, 1953-2023
Machine learning analysis identifies which macroeconomic conditions drive presidential approval ratings. Public sector activity, recession timing, and housing markets show distinct temporal dynamics.
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Altamira study maps timing of cave art use and transit
Reconstructing when and how humans created and reused rock art in Altamira Cave
Study establishes chronological sequence of artistic creation, reuse, and transit in Altamira Cave’s decorated zone using radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic analysis of Palaeolithic deposits.
Grotto acoustics match auditory perception across spatial forms
How ancient cave temples use sound and space together
Study reveals systematic relationships between acoustic properties and auditory perception in grotto temples, proposing soundscape as a typological dimension for religious architectural analysis.
GIS maps crop change in nineteenth-century eastern Africa
Nineteenth-century crop adoption patterns in inland East Africa mapped from explorer accounts
GIS analysis of 1857-1876 explorer accounts reveals spatial and temporal patterns in maize, rice, and cassava adoption across inland equatorial eastern Africa along caravan routes.
Mesolithic ornamentation shows changing visual complexity over time
How visual complexity and motif diversity changed across Mesolithic portable ornaments
Computational analysis of Mesolithic portable art reveals non-linear changes in visual complexity and information content, suggesting shifts in ornamental functions tied to environmental changes.
Shaolin in Zambia emerges as a collaborative cultural assemblage
How Shaolin practices adapt through collaboration in Zambia
Study challenges state-centric views of Chinese cultural engagement by analyzing the Zambia Shaolin Cultural Center as a collaborative assemblage where diverse actors negotiate and adapt practices.
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Indonesia’s dynastic politics coincided with democratic decline
How dynastic politicians manipulated Indonesia's democracy while preserving electoral legitimacy
Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.
Indonesian Doomscrolling Scale shows one-factor structure
Validating a tool to measure compulsive social media news consumption in Indonesia
Validates an Indonesian-language Doomscrolling Scale measuring compulsive social media news consumption, demonstrating strong reliability for assessing behavior in Indonesian-speaking populations.
Race and Book Collecting in Colombia on the Eve of Digitization
How racial hierarchies shaped Colombian book collections before the digital age
Historical analysis of Colombian book collecting practices and how racial categories influenced institutional decisions about which authors and knowledge traditions to preserve.
Western relations to Russian oligarchs changed rapidly after the Ukraine war
How Western institutions disconnected from Russian oligarch wealth during Ukraine conflict
Explores how Western institutions rapidly disassociated from Russian oligarchs after Ukraine invasion, introducing oligarch-washing as a framework for understanding institutional responses to.
Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
Early Islamic traders and Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia
Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.