Factors driving embodied carbon in international trade: a multiregional input–output gravity model

ABSTRACT

Concerns about the effects and consequences of climate change have notably increased in recent decades. Despite large advances in the understanding of this phenomenon, further research into the determinants of gas emissions is necessary, to shed light on the responsibilities of producers and consumers, and their potential contribution to mitigation strategies. This paper studies the trajectories and determinants of carbon embodied in world trade during a period of 15 years. Our methodology relies on a multiregional input–output model, environmentally extended. Drawing on data from the World Input–Output Database, we estimate embodied emissions in bilateral flows. Then, we assess the determinants of CO₂ emissions embodied in trade, combining input–output modelling with trade gravity panel data analysis. This paper offers a methodological approach that explains and quantifies the underlying factors of carbon trade, integrating the production and consumption perspectives and considering the geographical, structural and institutional context of countries.     

“Going natural”: Black women’s identity project shifts in hair care practices

Hair care, a seemingly mundane consumption practice, is packed with sociocultural meanings and constitutes an important realm of identity work for consumers. Drawing upon existing literature on consumer identity projects, this paper investigates the experiences of urban, Black women in Kenya as they disengage from the normative practice of altering their natural hair texture using chemical straighteners (a practice that conforms to Eurocentric beauty ideals of straight, flowing hair), and adopt the non-normative hair care practice of “going natural,” in which they embrace their natural hair texture and hairstyles. This paper traces the historical, sociocultural, and political events that underpin the normative ideology associated with the identity marker of natural Black hair, and how this ideology influences the women’s “going natural” experience. Findings reveal tensions that emerge in the women’s identity project disengagement and reconstruction process, and how the women navigate their position as they reimagine their embodied identity quest.     

金融控股公司：原则、发展思路与对策研究综述

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理论创新与市场价值论

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经济学方法论的三大哲学论战

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建筑物区分所有权行使之理论依据

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哲理小说与哲学小说

哲理小说创作的特点是 :作家调动小说的一切要素 ,都是为了使小说人物完成对人生的深层哲理感悟 ;而哲学小说与哲理小说不同 ,作家调动小说的一切要素 ,完全是为了让人物来传达一种全新的哲学观念     

怎样认识哲学在当代的命运

改革开放以来，人们对哲学及马克思主义哲学的现状和前景已经进行和正在进行着种种思考。经过以解放思想为界的前后对比，对哲学正常功能的分析，本文明确提出在时代大变动之际，特别是基于我国建立社会主义市场经济这一现实，对哲学的需求是非常迫切的，就此展示了马克思主义哲学的地位和命运。     

论马克思主义哲学在实践中产生和发展

在马克思主义哲学原著的基础上，深刻论述了马克思主义哲学的产生，概述了马克思主义哲学在实践中的发展，特别是毛泽东同志和新的历史时期党中央对马克思主义哲学的发展。对于系统理解马克思主义哲学体系，认识和建设社会主义具有重要的现实意义。     

企业价值观的塑造与整合

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