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Sense of Place as a Governance Mechanism: Eco-Neighbourhood Claims and Environmental Justice in a Peri-Urban Corridor of Cali, Colombia

This article argues that in the peri-urban corridor of Cali, Colombia, residents' deep "sense of place," which generates authoritative ecological knowledge, is paradoxically misinterpreted by planning institutions as parochial bias, thereby perpetuating environmental injustice, and proposes a new analytical matrix to reframe these territorial attachments as valid claims for recognitional and procedural justice within an eco-neighbourhood governance model.

Hernando Uribe, Efraim Parra, Fabiana Restrepo2026-10-18

📄 social science

Evaluation of Governance, Institutional, and Policy Dimensions of Rainfall-Induced Landslide Risk in Malawi

Drawing on eight months of qualitative fieldwork and governance theories, this paper argues that Malawi's rainfall-induced landslide risk management is undermined by weak local government capacity and poor coordination between the state and NGOs, necessitating a more balanced approach that strengthens local institutions before further decentralization.

Samuel Gama, Cosmo Ngongondo, Miriam Kalanda-Joshua2026-10-18

📄 social science

PISA Performance and Adolescent Suicide Mortality Across Countries: A Multidimensional Indicator Analysis

This ecological study reveals that while higher PISA scores are generally associated with increased adolescent suicide mortality across countries, this correlation is not inevitable, suggesting that the specific conditions under which educational achievement is produced and the integration of subjective well-being indicators are critical for understanding national outcomes.

Julian Schmitz2026-10-18

📄 social science

Correcting AI-generated false criminal allegations: a human-rights framework for remedial closure

This article proposes a human-rights-based framework for "remedial closure" that establishes a propagation-aware legal standard to determine when corrective actions against AI-generated false criminal allegations are complete across all relevant system nodes, combining doctrinal analysis with technical requirements for accessible challenge, record correction, verifiable implementation, and proportionate safeguards.

Hanane Merzougui, Xianghe Gong, Yaohui Liu2026-10-18

📄 social science

Changing social patterns of induced abortion in China, 1971–2020: a cohort-period analysis and latent class typology

This study analyzes national survey data from 1971 to 2020 to reveal that induced abortion patterns in China have shifted from being concentrated among urban, educated women to a more complex landscape defined by life-course timing and fertility desires, characterized by four distinct behavioral typologies including a rising trend in premarital unintended pregnancies and chronic repeat abortions.

Qingqing Zhang, Hui Zhu, Jiuhuan Sun, Jun Wang2026-10-18

📄 social science

Shared-access denial and the individual-attribution gap in Saudi cybercrime judgments

This article analyzes twelve Saudi cybercrime judgments from 2011–2014 to demonstrate how defendants and judges navigate the "individual-attribution gap" in shared-access scenarios by employing specific denial strategies and hybrid judicial reasoning that integrate digital forensic traces with Islamic legal concepts like *shubha* and *niyya* to establish individual responsibility.

Bunder Alshammari, Khaled Nasser Alfraidi2026-10-16

📄 social science

Development and psychometric validation of a Value–Belief–Norm-based scale for household waste separation behavior

This study developed and validated a 41-item, nine-construct questionnaire grounded in the Value–Belief–Norm theory to effectively measure the psychosocial determinants of household waste separation behavior among Iranian housewives, demonstrating strong psychometric properties suitable for future environmental health research and intervention design in similar low- and middle-income contexts.

khadijeh jafarpour, masoud karimi, Leila ghahremani2026-10-16

📄 social science

Restorative Experiences in New Wood-Based Accommodations: A Post-Occupancy Study

This 2024 pilot study in Finland evaluates a new massive-wood accommodation facility, finding that indoor comfort and eco-friendliness significantly influence occupant satisfaction and stress levels while validating a new post-occupancy evaluation tool for assessing the impact of wood-based built environments on wellbeing.

Jaakko Jussila, Michael Burnard, Ritva Toivonen2026-10-16

📄 social science

The Impact of Leader Negative Emotional Displays on Employee Taking Charge Behavior: The Chain Mediating Roles of Work Stress and Threat Perception

This study demonstrates that leader negative emotional displays significantly inhibit employee taking charge behavior by increasing threat perception and work stress, which act as sequential mediators in this negative relationship.

Jin Wan, Wenjun Zhou, Desheng Zhu, Yinpu Zhang, Jing Wang2026-10-16

📄 social science

Narrative reconstruction and embodied identification: the dramatic narration of sporting values and its educational transformation

This paper proposes that educational drama, through a framework of narrative reconstruction involving spatial reconfiguration, role invitation, and collective ritual, transforms the one-way transmission of sporting values into an embodied, collective experience that fosters deep student identification and internalization.

Yi Wang, Shiyu Ren2026-10-16

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