The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies, and investors to publish data on their nature-related risks, dependencies, and impacts. These disclosures are intended to drive businesses to recognise, manage and mitigate their reliance on ecosystem goods and services. However, there is a “biodiversity blind spot” that is evident for most organisations and business schools. Business education rarely addresses the root causes of biodiversity loss, such as the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. As the dominant positioning of Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) presents biodiversity in anthropocentric instrumental terms inadequate for addressing ecosystem decline, we posit that a more progressive and transformative ecocentric education through ecopedagogy and ecoliteracy is needed. Both approaches include the development of critical thinking about degrowth, circular econ…
Purpose: Internationalisation in higher education (HE) has always been romanticised and idealised but there has been limited focus on the internationalisation of gender equality and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) certification and the role of international partnerships. Certification and Award Schemes (CAS), such as the Athena Swan Charter, can promote gender equality, best practices exchanges and foster institutional changes. Nevertheless, simply transferring strategies or frameworks without careful consideration of the nuances of the destination context can inadvertently lead to the perpetuation or exacerbation of gender inequalities and reproduce hierarchical relations between the Global South and North. Brazil's cultural and political context highlights the need for adapting the CAS framework to align with the unique conditions of the country, as well as institutional transformations in order to accommodate such a framework. This study aims to critically explore how gender equality and EDI certif…
Nursing staff engage readily with patients and associates in mental health/forensic inpatient settings. These settings are known to have instances of workplace violence directed towards staff and such violence includes racism. Racism is a form of workplace violence that must be better understood and supported within this complex setting. Completing a systematic review to coalesce preexisting research and suggested interventions can be beneficial to supporting nurses. Systematic review following PRISMA guidelines. CINAHL, PsycInfo, Medline, British Nursing Database and Web of Science databases were searched. Reviewers screened the papers for inclusion (29 articles out of 7146 were selected for inclusion) and completed the quality appraisal using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Subsequently, data extraction was completed, and findings were summarised through narrative synthesis. The way racism was conceptualised impacted how data was collected, reported and interpreted; racism was silenced or exposed dependi…
The UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 calls for states to provide ‘access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’. It is commonly assumed that “developed” nations have attained these goals. However, this chapter draws on the author’s research with sexually diverse refugees, alongside a conceptualisation of ‘Administrative Violence’, to argue that UK institutions—such as the Home Office—continue to operate in ways which undermine core targets and indicators associated with this goal. For example, instances of rule-breaking, dubbed ‘Administrative Lawlessness’ by Juss, push against target 16.3, which calls on states to ‘promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all’. Similarly, the largely behind-the-scenes, decision-making practices of the Home Office challenge target 16.6, which calls for states to ‘develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels’. Thus, thr…
While scholars have recognised the postcolonial legacies of targeted policing practices in Australia, there has been more limited engagement with how this type of policing operated in practice in historical context. By examining evidence from the Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876-1908), supported by police court reports from newspapers, this article suggests that policing in this period was concerned with exercising power over targeted communities and groups. In particular, policing was directed towards three ‘suspect communities’: convicts and former convicts, Indigenous Australians and non-European immigrants. This policing had both immediate and longer-term impacts for individuals and communities, and the impacts have been transmitted through generations and collective memories to the present day. The police targeting practices highlighted here are foundational to the institution of policing, and need to be fully understood if we want to begin to unpick deep-rooted police stereotyping practices.
Using credit cards is a convenient and efficient payment mechanism. Credit card fraud significantly impacts financial loss, mental health, and the reputation of financial institutions. This study would incorporate an analysis of the preceding statement about eliminating several obstacles associated with the availability of public data, the presence of unbalanced data, the dynamic nature of fraud tendencies, and the prevalence of false alarms. The authors discuss various machine-learning techniques used to detect credit card fraud. Extreme Learning, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, and XG Boost are among these techniques on the European card benchmark dataset. A comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of machine learning has also been conducted, and precision is increased by incorporating multiple layers. The study’s findings indicate significant improvements in several crucial metrics, including accuracy, f1-score, precision, and AUC curves. XGBoost model achie…
This paper proposes a new objective function for manufacturer considering the negative externality of unrecycled products (NEUP), and develops three cooperative recycling models: non-cooperative, fundcooperative and labour-cooperative. Results indicate that compared to non-cooperative, while fund-cooperative can enhance the recycling rate, it hurts the system’s profitability. In contrast, labour-cooperative can achieve a win-win situation for both. Moreover, considering NEUP expands the dominant space of fund-cooperative in recycling rate, but weakens its advantage in market demand. Notably, considering NEUP may render cooperative recycling ineffective in improving profit, which largely depends on the degree of considering NEUP and recycling cost coefficient ratio.
I recommend this textbook for teachers and students alike and will be using it as an aid to learning to thinking differently on my own module. I was engaged by the authors’ conversational style and stimulated to reflect on my assumptions, which is the hallmark of critical reflection. This small book is replete with an unusually large number of incisive and important ideas, which is a testament to authors’ knowledge, identity work and sociological imagination. In short, they make a convincing case for why ‘there is nothing as practical as a good theory’ (Lewin, 1943: 118). In doing so, they show how theory can be used to unsettle taken for granted assumptions (Foucault, 1976) and highlight why we should reconsider canonical theories that have been abstracted from context - alerting us to the dangers of transposing ideas from one field (e.g. Lewin’s experimental psychology) to another (e.g. change management) without critically reflecting on the context in which theories are enacted. In my experience, we need t…