1. Governance failure and wildfire escalation : a multi-level analysis of institutional preparedness, corruption, and emergency responseDaraz Umar, Štefan Bojnec, Younas Khan, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: Wildfire escalation is increasingly threatening ecosystems and communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, particularly in forest and rangeland landscapes where eco- logical flammability interacts with human activity. While environmental and climatic drivers are well studied, governance factors remain underexplored despite their decisive role in shaping how ecological risk translates into disasters. Regional forests show consid- erable ecological diversity, including chir pine-dominated stands, mixed temperate conifer forests, broadleaved oak-associated systems, and shrub rangeland mosaics, each differing in fuel structure and fire behavior. Dependence on fuelwood collection, grazing, and forest access further influences ignition probability and fire spread. This study examines how governance failures influence wildfire risk and severity through a Governance-Fire Risk Framework. Governance is treated as a determining institutional condition affecting prevention capacity, regulation of hazardous land use, fuel management, and emergency response effectiveness. A cross-sectional survey of 540 stakeholders from rural (Dir Lower, Dir Upper) and peri-urban districts (Swat, Mansehra, Abbottabad) was analyzed using SPSS (version 26) and AMOS (version 24) (CFA and SEM). Governance failure significantly escalates wildfire risk through delayed emergency response, regulatory non-compliance, political interference, and weak institutional coordination. Institutional preparedness and response capacity reduce risks, whereas corruption intensifies them. Corruption functions through illegal land conversion, diversion of fire management resources, procurement irregularities, nepotistic staffing, and selective enforcement, increasing ignition sources, fuel accumulation, and response delays. Rural districts show stronger governance-fire linkages. Wildfire escalation in KP is governance-driven in interaction with ecological conditions and community dependence on forest resources. Effective mitigation requires anti-corruption measures, rapid response systems, stronger enforcement, and improved preparedness. The study offers a transferable governance-focused framework for wildfire management in fire-prone developing regions.
Keywords: wildfires risk escalation, governance failure, institutional preparedness, corruption, emergency response, fire management, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Published in RUP: 27.02.2026; Views: 391; Downloads: 5
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2. Economy of Death: The Grey Zone, CannibalWar Machine and Capitalist Accumulation in Latin AmericaAntonio Fuentes Díaz, Panagiotis Doulos, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: This article argues, based on the analysis of extortion and criminal governance in México, that criminal activities should be understood as a key component of contemporary capital accumulation. This criminal accumulation of capital requires the suspension of restrictions on illegal activities, generating zones of legal-illegal indistinction that allow profitability, shared sovereignties and cannibal war machines that, through violence, generate the extraction of goods, income and bodies in line with the neoliberal enterprise. This means that criminal capital carries out, in an extreme and nihilistic way, the logic of value.
Keywords: extortion, criminal governance, criminal capitalism, war
machine, economy of death, neoliberalism, Latin America
Published in RUP: 17.12.2025; Views: 502; Downloads: 3
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6. Corporate governance policies and transparency in the Republic of SloveniaDanila Djokić, 2015, original scientific article Abstract: The Corporate Governance Policy is the framework for the corporate governance of particular public company. The deed is drawn up by the supervisory board and the management board in order to commit to and publicly disclose how they will supervise and run the company. The article analyses how Corporate Governance Policies have been drawn up in annual reports of the prime listing and selected companies of the standard listing of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange. The annual reports for 2010, 2011 and 2012 have been scrutinized and the results commented. Article shows the perspectives for the further development of transparency principle in the Republic of Slovenia.
Keywords: annual report, corporate governance, policy, disclosure, transparency
Published in RUP: 14.10.2015; Views: 4832; Downloads: 82
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9. Development of disclosure and transparency as legal methods for the supervision of public companies in the Republic of SloveniaDanila Djokić, 2012, original scientific article Abstract: As a rule, public companies in the Republic of Slovenia use a twotier system of corporate governance. The supervisory boards of such companies should execute the supervisory function by informing and disclosing to the shareholders the data regarding envisaged policies of corporate governance. The principle of disclosure and transparency in general, and in the field of remuneration, is used in the Republic of Slovenia as a systemic legal method and tool, which enables better decision making processes, supervision and control of public companies in the country.
Keywords: corporate governance, supervisory board, corporate governance statement, disclosure, transparency, remuneration, joint-stock companies, Slovenia
Published in RUP: 15.10.2013; Views: 5159; Downloads: 130
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