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Reflecting on carrying out impact evaluation as part of the The Research for Health in Humanitarian crises programme, Cordelia Lonsdale and Gloria Seruwagi, discuss common challenges faced in evaluating impact, particularly when outcomes don’t conform to expectations. The Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme has an explicit impact mission: the research funded through the programme … Continued

A taste for AFNsA feel for uncertainty; A taste for adaptability; Conclusion; References; 6. Taste in competition; Introduction; Situating agricultural shows; The spectacle of the Royal Canberra Show; Taste, judging and being moved at the show; Relational tastes on show; Conclusion; References; 7. Introducing waste; Introduction; Confronting excess: the generative potential of encounters with waste's vitalities; Food flows: placing, removing and obscuring; Conceptualising food waste; The affective force of visceral encounters with food waste; Conclusion; References; 8. Waste in the home

Peer review decisions are definitive, and depending on the style of peer review practiced at a journal, reviewers can usually make one of three recommendations: accept, reject, revise and resubmit. Discussing a new study into the levels of certainty reviewers have making these choices, Adrian Barnett suggests how embracing this doubt could improve peer review processes. … Continued

Peer Reviewed ; A significant portion of the agricultural food sector today is geared towards developing sustainable and organically based products, contributing to a widely acknowledged 'quality turn' in food markets (Goodman 2004). Organic viticulture is booming worldwide, having increased threefold between 2004 and 2015 (Willer and Lernoud 2016). Consumers are willing to pay a premium for wines deriving from organic vineyards in the belief that they are healthier, tastier, and of higher quality, although the differences between organic, biodynamic, or sulfite free wines remains confusing for many (Amato et al. 2017). In exploring this paradigm shift, current research addresses the question of how organic wines can provide increased value given the lack of clarity about the full list of ingredient and qualities (Krzywoszynska 2015; Delmas et al. 2016). This question is fundamental to understanding the process of assessing qualities and singularities in the commercialization of wine, a central debate in the interaction between nature and culture pervading most scholarship on wine (e.g., Bourdieu 1984; Charters 2006; Smith 2006). The breadth of supply and the democratization of consumption in an 'age of omnivorousness' encourages the need to empirically establish the specifics and logics of differentiation in the wine market (Maguire 2016). Empirical studies demonstrate that standardized wines in saturated, mature, global markets fail to satisfy a group of consumers who are looking for a differentiated product and willing to pay for it (Aylward 2008, 2011). Consumers are willing to pay for organic wines even though some of them are rejected by the various quality control systems established by geographical indications of origin and other certification bodies, or in spite of their variability in flavor due to low levels of sulfur dioxide, an antioxidant that favors their stability and conservation (Teil 2013). ; This work was supported by the Grupo de EstudiosTerritoriales (Universida de da Coruña), ...

Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors have emerged or intensified in recent years and together conspire to undermine even the most carefully constructed business strategies. Syrett and Devine address these new challenges, assessing the sources of business turbulence, how to classify uncertainty, and the different ways in which uncertainty can be embraced to allow greater innovation and growth

This paper examines the gains in complexity reduction and causality identification pro­vided by the factorial survey for the analysis of a market characterized by uncertainty. The starting point is the problem of quality uncertainty for the market actor, commonly dealt with in economic sociology. Using Karpik's approach of the 'Economics of Singularities', the problem of choosing the right movie is expounded and the question of what moviegoers base their choice on is developed. The uncertainty in question is the result of subjective tastes, which also leads to a methodological problem. As a result, previous studies mea­sured taste preferences instead of the influence of judgment devices. By means of a study on the right choice of movie, the paper shows that the method of the factorial survey has the important advantages of being able to control for taste preferences as well as to detect causality. Data collected among students is presented and hypotheses based on Karpik's concepts are tested. The results show that expert judgements such as critics' recommenda­tions and awards have a high influence on the choice of independent movies. On the other hand, the choice of blockbuster movies is additionally influenced by its listing in the charts and the ratings by other consumers. This shows not only that different social devices are used for orientation depending on preference, but also how strong their influence is in each case. Therefore, it is argued that the factorial survey method offers some advantages for the analysis of the causal influence of judgment devices in choice situations, especially for singular goods, which are highly complex and thus difficult to compare. Finally, limitations of the study as well as the method used are discussed.

Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions: Do gay and lesbian people face occupational access constraints and entry wage bias than comparable heterosexuals? Do gay and lesbian people benefit from providing more job-related information? Does the differential treatment between gay/lesbian and heterosexual applicants disappear as the information of the applicants increases? Methodologically, we sent applications to advertised vacancies and we experimented with two information sets the 'sexual orientation' and 'information' of the potential applicants. The estimations suggest that gay and lesbian applicants face significant bias than heterosexual applicants. Moreover, both heterosexual and gay/lesbian applicants gain by providing more job-related information. However, the estimations suggest that the informational premium for sexual orientation minorities could not reduce the discriminatory patterns. The current results indicate that discrimination against sexual orientation minorities in the Cypriot labour market is a matter of preference, not the result of limited information. One strategy the Cypriot government may employ is to try to affect public opinion and people's attitudes towards sexual orientation minorities. This is the first nationwide field experiment in the Cypriot labour market and contributes to the literature as it is the first field study on sexual orientation which tries to disentangle statistical from taste-based discrimination in the labour market.

Chapter 1 Cities as the strategic terrain of research on contemporary inequalities and uncertainty -- Part I Urban inequalities and uncertainty as conceptual challenges -- Chapter 2 Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality – The Refiguration of Spaces as Today's Challenge for Cities -- Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism vs identity and local belonging? -- Chapter 4 The Digital Natives and the Future City: Contradictions and Ambivalences -- Part II Revisiting social change and gentrification -- Chapter 5 Fear, Disgust and Dignity: The securitisation of everyday life and the new revanchism against the urban subaltern in a working-class area of Madrid -- Chapter 6 Protest and taste: socio-spatial restructuring of Moda -- Chapter 7 Urban inequalities and egalitarian scenes: relationality in urban placemaking and identity-building and paradox of egalitarianism -- Chapter 8 Outcomes of Urban Requalification under Neoliberalism: A critical appraisal of the SRU model -- Part III Urban diversity and boundaries -- Chapter 9 Feeling safe, defining crime and urban youth in Berlin's inner city: An exploration of the construction of 'unsafety' and 'youth' as symbolic violence -- Chapter 10 Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods -- Chapter 11 Refugees and Borders: Simmel's contributions on space and strangeness to reflect on the condition of contemporary refugees in Europe -- Chapter 12 The use of factor analysis in urban research: the case of the metropolitan area of Bilbao -- Part IV Answers for urban inequalities -- Chapter 13 From "chabolas" to invisible squats: a reflection on the residential informality evolution in Madrid -- Chapter 14 Urban scenes, cultural context exposure and contemporary health lifestyles: A multilevel analysis of Spanish sub-municipal areas -- Part V Environmental turn in urban politics -- Chapter 15 Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon -- Chapter 16 Greening the urban politics: the conflicts over tree felling in Warsaw. Part 5: Environmental turn in urban politics 13. Fronika de Wit, Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon 14. Renata Putkowska-Smoter, Greening the urban politics: the conflicts over tree felling in Warsaw