To advance positive change within social impact ecosystems, policy makers offer tax incentives in return for social value. Some social enterprises are exempt from paying taxes, with an expectation that they will create ...

CONTEXT: Rapid social-ecological changes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource overexploitation are threatening food security, livelihoods, and local knowledge of small-scale farmers worldwide. There has ...

The increasingly visible effects of climate change, the degradation of ecological systems, growing income inequality, and high levels of stress and disengagement in the workplace have dramatically increased corporate ...

Several studies have demonstrated that altruism and gratitude may confer beneficial effects on psychophysical wellbeing. The present chapter describes how positive changes in health and social relationships can be fostered ...

Much has been done to formalize miners in Peru; since its inception in 2006 the Ministry of Environment passed laws to align mining policies with international standards. However, the combination of the necessity to have ...

Enterprises recuperation by their workers in Argentina refers to processes of reconversion of capitalist enterprises into worker cooperatives originated in the collective action of employees in defense of their labor source. ...

Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive social effects. It can be observed ...

Alcohol use and misuse is known to involve structural brain changes. Numerous imaging studies have examined changes in gray matter (GM) volumes in dependent drinkers, but there is little information on whether non-dependent ...

Latin America faces common development and health problems and equity and overcoming poverty are crucial in the search for comprehensive and high impact solutions. The article analyzes the definition of social capital, its ...

First at all, I would like to thank the kindly invitation of Ghent University to participate in this event. It is really a privilege and a pleasure to be here. Thank you very much. In this opportunity, I will address ...