查看更多>>摘要：What is the mental pattern steering the events unfolding in front of our eyes? Which paradigms are the driving forces for Russian aggression (Backer and Rak, 2022)? Will Putin's war-waging regime fall by itself (Aslund, 2023)? Is the self-destructive potential sufficient to put an end to an aggression-based statehood (Meduza, 2023 d) meanwhile boosting epic devastation (Vogler, 2023) and even global hunger, especially for developing countries (Karner, 2023)?
查看更多>>摘要：The goal of this article is to perceive and understand environment-related activities of international financial institutions (IFIs) as part of a societal learning process, and consequently to describe their 'environmental and social project quality criteria' as an expression of such ongoing societal learning processes. What can our readership, likely to be related to foresight, but also to higher education and lifelong learning, profit from such a comparison? Against the author's initial expectation, IFIs are starting to become efficient at redirecting global funds to climate and environmental projects - and have thus performed a successful 'act of societal learning'. The 'environmental and social project quality criteria' have played a crucial role in convincing economic and administrative actors (i.e., learners in our context) to behave in a climate-compatible manner. Thus, the lesson can be drawn from the domain of 'societal learning' to the do-main of 'individual learning' that clear and transparent criteria sets are decisive for a rule-based societal transformation. This case study shows that a criteria-based selection process provides the best results for long-term societal interest; in this case climate protection.
查看更多>>摘要：Despite being the three main world views shaping global citizenship education (GCE) methods, the neoliberal, humanistic and critical world views all have important drawbacks. This paper attempts to address those drawbacks by constructing the evolutionary world view from established knowledge in biology, psychology, as well as findings from the social sciences. The evolutionary world view explains the conditions of risks our global society is facing. It also demonstrates how evolutionary mechanisms of human cooperation underpin the concept of citizenship/citizenship education. Such world view enables the reconceptualisation of GCE as the study of global scale human cooperation in response to global risks and calls for further investigation into alternative methods for citizenship education.
查看更多>>摘要：In the recent decade, AI technology has proliferated into many industry sectors and formed a hegemony pushed by dominant actors. It has become an attractive phenomenon to study, as it significantly influences civilisation's current and future development. This study explores the hegemony in AI technology and provides a detailed map of contemporary development through a patent analysis approach. As a result, three significant findings are being highlighted. Firstly, the main hegemons of AI technology are uncovered; they are major tech companies in the USA and China. Secondly, four AI trajectories are identified, including pattern recognition, digital computing, administration, and computer system. Thirdly, six emergent themes of AI technology are listed, covering machine learning, natural language, deep learning, big data, neural network, and reality. Overall, this study extends the understanding of hegemony in terms of technology in which a dominant country exerts its power through patent strategy. It also maps how far AI technology has expanded in the current hegemony. As a practical implication, this depiction could give the Al-related industry players a hint to determine what to catch up on.
Mariya BulatenkoNataliia TarasovaAlia DyhovaAnzhela Mikaeva...
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查看更多>>摘要：The state course to develop competitive energy markets and decentralisation creates a broad yet strategic diversity of possibilities for fuel and energy companies. This study identified strategic directions for the development of enterprises in the Russian energy industries by using semantic analysis of the content of the Russian Energy Strategy, and development strategies for seven key enterprises in the Russian energy complex. Semantic analysis data were visualised using a word cloud, and keywords featured with high frequency as substantive parts of the strategies were extracted. Overall, Russian fuel and energy companies declare their refusal to develop extensively, which is confirmed by the semantic core of all the energy companies under consideration: 'development', 'asset", 'technology' and their formative ones. At the same time, the words 'digital' and 'digitalisation' are most vividly reflected only in the Energy Strategy, even though this direction is widely discussed at the government level.
查看更多>>摘要：Dedicated energy crops are essential for energy purposes with the production of heat and liquid biofuels, bioplastic, paper, and biochemicals. Several support measures were enacted in the EU to enable the expansion of dedicated energy crops. Ukraine has some experience with energy plantations. The study focuses on state-of-the-art and potential support measures for the plantations of energy crops in Ukraine, in particular Miscanthus x giganteus and Salix willow. The possible support measures include capital grants to start a new plantation, waiver of the land rent for the beginning several years of plantation operation and waiver of some taxes. A feasibility study was conducted for the hypothetical projects with the support measures and without them. The study concludes that combinations of support measures are needed, and capital grant to start the new plantations is the most critical support measure.
查看更多>>摘要：The paper aims to describe the decarbonisation of large companies in Ukraine, entitling the clean energy transition of energy, transport, industry, and agricultural companies. The method of the paper is descriptive qualitative research. The paper focuses on several case studies from Ukraine, including the transition from oil and gas to biofuels and the development of new technologies for renewable energy. The paper focuses on the need to invest in mitigation technologies typical to those of developing counties, difficulties with attracting capital and access to finance, the high cost of imported natural resources coupled with disruptions of their supply due to price spikes, whereas the war made the industry very vulnerable. The use of renewable energy technologies and the global trend for decarbonisation is to become the basis for the post-war recovery in Ukraine.
查看更多>>摘要：The South African automotive industry is relevant globally as it supplies the local market and other European countries. The automotive industry in the country is experiencing disruption and is transitioning in different forms. This paper aims to explore the South African automotive market, focusing on the role of car manufacturers. Therefore, it investigates market characteristics, automotive sales and distribution, vehicle electrification and environmental sustainability, the implications of black empowerment for car manufacturers, and competitive dynamics in the South African automotive market. One issue car manufacturers face in the country is the need for market size. Export dependency is particularly challenging in times of a global pandemic.
查看更多>>摘要：In the strategic context of foresight, the target of the present work is to describe the positive effects of strength training on health. A literature analysis answers two research questions: What are the positive effects of strength training on health? How must training be carried out in order to achieve positive effects? The results show that strength training has many positive health effects including positive orthopaedic effects on back pain, muscular imbalances, muscular joint stabilisation, arthrosis, osteoporosis, incontinence prevention and therapy. It counteracts age-related muscle atrophy, and acts on brain and mental health, including improved cognitive functions and strengthening long-term memory. The results further showed that resistance training has positive effects on blood lipid levels, insulin sensitivity, glucose tolerance and diabetes, and has cardioprotective effects. After build-up of muscle mass, the change in physical appearance can also lead to positive psychological effects such as an increase in self-concept and self-confidence.
查看更多>>摘要：The structure of an energy economy mirrors the views that a society has of itself: flexible, sustainable, self-responsible - or rather other values. In this light, the endeavour of transiting to a climate-compatible energy future means to take decisions now even if future technologies' performance is not yet known. Inspired by long-term trends as rendered visible through the 'global change database', especially that end-user-friendly energy carriers increase their market shares, it can be expected that electricity will witness further and solid growth rates within the final energy mix. However, interest-led groups from the gas industry contest an upcoming electricity-only energy future. Against this background, this article investigates dynamic details of the ongoing 'energy (r)evolution' and explores scenarios to which degree policies can think openly about the future while using sector coupling, synergies across energy carriers, and new financing models. It seems helpful to divide the energy transition into several phases.
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