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2026 EN
Venhovens Mikel · Arjevanidze Nargiza
ABSTRACT Thirty years after the Georgian–Abkhaz War of 1992–1993, internal displacement remains an unresolved and open‐ended crisis in the Republic of Georgia. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic research conducted between 2016 and 2023, this article examines how prolonged forced displacement becomes normalised and experienced as a condition of chronic crisis rather than a temporary rupture. Focusing on ethnic Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, the article challenges conventional understandings of crisis as abrupt, exceptional, and time‐bound. Instead, it conceptualises chronic crisis as a long‐term demographic and social condition characterised by the entanglement of hardship and resilience in everyday life. It explores how IDPs experience liminality, non‐return and the ongoing uncertainty of displacement. Central to this analysis is the notion of home, understood not merely as material housing but as a symbolic site of belonging, memory and identity. While recent state re‐housing programmes have improved material living conditions for many IDPs, they have also concretised non‐return and intensified emotional dislocation, revealing a persistent gap between ‘house’ and ‘home.’ By foregrounding everyday practices and spatial experiences, this article contributes to debates in population geography and human geography on displacement, crisis and normality, offering an account of how people endure, adapt and make sense of life in protracted displacement, as even those who have successfully integrated are still marked by their past experiences of displacement and the lingering effects of war.
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2026 EN
Téllez Valle Cecilia · Martín García Margarita · Martín Marín José Luis
Abstract In this article, we explore the impact of the beginning of the war between Ukraine and Russia on both the market and credit risk of large European companies to find out which were more sensitive and if the reactions varied by sector. We sampled from companies included in the EuroStoxx 600 index and those whose CDS can be found in the iTraxx Europe index. Then we applied event study methodology. The results indicate that the impact on risk is significant, with banking as one of the industries' most negatively affected or some energy companies as positively affected. It is also shown that in most market risk cases, the levels of CAR are negative, and in all credit risk cases, the CAR is positive.
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2026 EN
Gürbüz Süleyman
Abstract This study investigates the dynamic relationships between the Borsa İstanbul Sustainability Index (XUSUR), Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), Crude Oil Volatility Index (OVX), and Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate (MOVE) using daily data from January 2, 2016, to June 26, 2025. Employing the R 2 ‐based connectedness framework, the analysis decomposes connectedness into contemporaneous and lagged components, thereby providing nuanced insights into the mechanisms of shock transmission. The findings reveal that XUSUR functions predominantly as a net shock receiver, exhibiting heightened vulnerability during crisis periods such as the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war. Among the global volatility indices, the VIX exerts the strongest influence, followed by OVX and MOVE, while lagged effects are more pronounced than contemporaneous ones. This indicates that Turkey's sustainability markets not only respond to shocks immediately but also experience persistent vulnerabilities over time. The results suggest that XUSUR plays a limited role as a shock transmitter, underscoring its dependence on global financial fluctuations and its limited capacity to act as an independent shock generator.
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2026 EN
Kamanda John Kowa · Mulimba Donald · Mansaray Bashiru
ABSTRACT This study, based on a systematic analysis of literature from 2014 to 2025, identifies the severe and escalating threats, including the projection that over 100 million Africans will live in vulnerable Low Elevation Coastal Zones by 2030 and the potential for heat exposure in cities like Lagos‐Ikorodu to increase from 0.25 to 23 billion person‐days annually under a high‐emission scenario. The analysis reveals that effective resilience hinges on an integrated financial and governance architecture, where the environmental impact of financial instruments is contingent on policy; for instance, business lending often increases emissions, whereas strategic green finance can be a potent mitigation tool. Crucially, the pursuit of a green economy must navigate the complex tug‐of‐war between economic ambitions such as export diversification and industrial growth and environmental quality, requiring policies that explicitly decouple prosperity from pollution. Promising strategies with documented efficacy include bioretention systems achieving up to a 92% reduction in stormwater runoff and the integration of nature‐based solutions. However, these are consistently undermined by pervasive challenges, including governance fragmentation, corruption, and a primary research focus on major cities that neglects secondary urban centres. The review concludes that bridging critical gaps particularly concerning the finance‐governance nexus, the evaluation of long‐term strategy effectiveness, and the integration of local knowledge with scientific data is essential for moving beyond incremental projects toward transformative, systemic urban resilience.
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2026 EN
Shklarski Liat · Latzer Yael · SpivakLavi Zohar
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ABSTRACT Mental health therapists (MHTs) providing care during shared traumatic reality face distinct emotional and professional challenges, particularly when they are also personally affected. While a central concern is compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion that arises from prolonged exposure to others' trauma, this concept does not capture the dual nature of the MHT's traumatic experience, both as a citizen of the region and as a helping professional exposed to the traumatic narratives of their clients. This study explores the shared traumatic reality experiences of MHTs working in a war zone, offering support to trauma survivors while navigating their own exposure to the same crisis. Through qualitative, semi‐structured interviews with 20 therapists conducted between April and July 2024, three key themes emerged: (1) We're All in the Same Boat—When Boundaries Blur, reflecting how shared traumatic reality erodes traditional therapeutic roles; (2) The Collapse of Everyday Concerns—When Nothing Feels Important Unless It's Related to the War, illustrating how therapists deprioritised non‐trauma issues and experienced emotional detachment; and (3) Therapy as Shared Emotional Support, highlighting a shift towards mutual validation rather than structured interventions. From these findings, we propose a model conceptualising the dual impact of shared traumatic reality on therapists: boundary dissolution can both increase distress and foster resilience, especially when cultural values of solidarity and mutual responsibility are present. Although rooted in one cultural context, this model underscores the importance of identifying community‐level resilience factors that help MHTs maintain professional functioning during collective crises and when operating in war zones and other high‐stress environments.
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2026 EN
Palgi Yuval · GreenblattKimron Lee · Grossman Ephraim S.
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ABSTRACT This study aimed to profile at‐risk individuals in the aftermath of exposure to war‐related traumatic events. We examined the contribution of distal and proximal as well as direct and indirect traumatic exposure, including disturbing social media content, to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) among Israeli citizens following the October 7 attack. Five hundred eighty‐two participants ( M age = 44.81 ± 13.63) reported traumatic exposure, PTSD, and CPTSD a year before the attack and again 2 months after the attack and the beginning of the Israel‐Hamas War. Logistic and multinomial regressions were conducted to determine which types of traumatic exposure were associated with PTSD and which were linked with CPTSD. Results showed that both distal and proximal, as well as direct and indirect exposure, were related to PTSD. However, when separating PTSD from CPTSD, indirect exposure, both distal (i.e., familial Holocaust background) and proximal (i.e., indirect exposure to the Israel‐Hamas War), was related to a higher risk for PTSD only. In contrast, direct exposure, both distal (i.e., lifetime exposure) and proximal (i.e., direct exposure to the Israel‐Hamas War), was related to an elevated risk for CPTSD. Moreover, indirect proximal exposure (i.e., media exposure to the Israel‐Hamas War) was also related to CPTSD. These results suggest that different types of exposures are associated with diverse posttraumatic outcomes. Notably, exposure to uncensored disturbing media content may be associated with grave posttraumatic reactions, comparable to those linked to direct exposure.
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2026 EN
Bartsch Zachary
ABSTRACT During US alcohol prohibition, 1920 to 1933, alcohol consumption fell dramatically. Less well known is that coffee consumption surged as a legal alternative. Using import data and a variety of textual data, I examine prohibition's impact on demand for coffee and the supply‐side response to the new policy environment. Using the Bai–Perron method of identifying structural breaks and a structural vector autoregression model, this study finds elevated coffee imports during prohibition and immediately after enactment. Evidence from other commodities, shipwrecks, and causal inference using local newspapers indicates that the conclusion of World War I cannot explain sustained greater coffee consumption during prohibition. The results exemplify the role of legal substitutes to prohibited goods, how policy regimes distort consumption patterns, and how industries respond.
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2026 DE
Ring Anne Marie · Jacobs Ron
Abstrakt Die Notwendigkeit, Gebäude nachhaltig zu planen, zu bauen und zu nutzen, ist unbestritten. Wenn es jedoch um die praktische Umsetzung geht, ist vieles im Fluss. Die Revitalisierung des Brüsseler Gare Maritimes ist ein vorbildliches Beispiel dafür, wie nachhaltiges Bauen gelingen kann. Bei der Gestaltung der neuen Pavillons im Gare Maritime durch Neutelings Riedijk Architects spielte die Zirkularität der verwendeten Materialien eine wesentliche Rolle. Ziel war es, eine Architektur zu schaffen, die nicht nur die historische Struktur respektiert, sondern auch zukunftsweisend in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit und Anpassungsfähigkeit ist. Die Entscheidung für eine leichte Stahlkonstruktion für die Fassaden war in diesem doppelten Bestreben verwurzelt. Die insgesamt 20 großflächigen Glasfassaden an den Giebelseiten der Pavillons, jeweils mit einer Fläche von 215 m 2 , wurden als freitragende, funktional unabhängige und reversible Stahlleichtbaukonstruktionen aus dem Stahlsystem Jansen VISS‐Fassade errichtet.
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2026 DE
Blandini Lucio · Chwalek Katrin · Bolay Jan
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Abstrakt Das Forschungsprojekt „Ressourceneffizientes und kreislaufgerechtes Umbauen von Fassaden“ befasst sich mit der Fassadenerneuerung von Nichtwohngebäuden aus den 1960er‐ und 1970er‐Jahren. Das Ziel besteht darin, die bauphysikalische Leistungsfähigkeit der Fassaden zu steigern und zugleich deren gestalterische Qualitäten aufzuwerten. Dabei soll die bestehende Bausubstanz möglichst umfassend erhalten bleiben, um graue Emissionen und Bauabfälle zu minimieren. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurden verschiedene Lösungsvarianten für die nachhaltige Erneuerung und Instandsetzung von Fassadenflächen erarbeitet. Hierbei wurden bewährte Bautechniken mit innovativen und ökologischen Materialien durch einen Variantenvergleich miteinander kombiniert und auf ihre jeweilige Performance geprüft. Das Universitätsgebäude im Pfaffenwaldring 4f, das ursprünglich für einen Rückbau vorgesehen war, wird im Projekt als Case Study genutzt. Die im Projekt getesteten Lösungen sind vielseitig. Im Brüstungsbereich wurden Holztafelbauelemente mit Aerogel‐ und Korkdämmung sowie zwei multifunktional‐gradierte Betonfassadenelemente exemplarisch umgesetzt. Im Fensterbereich kam ein aufgesetztes Aluminiumprofilsystem mit Vakuumglas zum Einsatz. Die Lösungen zielen darauf ab, einen reduzierten Materialeinsatz und einen minimalinvasiven Umbau mit möglichst großer bauphysikalischer Wirkung zu erproben.
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2026 EN
Bassetti Chiara · Hannem Stacey · Jaworski Gary D.
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The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book. Subsequently, three Goffman scholars, Greg Smith, Chiara Bassetti and Stacey Hannem critically engage with the text, before Gary Jaworski offers his response to the critics.