Unsuccessful master plans, approval delays, numerous appeals and weak enforcement of regulations result from tensions generated by planning, democracy and capitalism practices. Additionally, regulatory and legislative reforms are insufficient to yield improvements, and therefore politicians, the public and ...
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5 Per-country effects of the left-right identification, education, and their interaction on the beliefs that climate change is human-caused (data from Hornsey et al., 2018). We first display the effects for the US and English-speaking countries, then for the European and the countries from ...
In this special issue, we analyze how societies in different countries have responded and continue to respond to the fact that the future is and has always been unpredictable and unforeseeable. The starting point for these studies is the recognition that the world situation is more complex than e...
While some nation states have adopted Western ideas of democracy and capitalism, joined NATO and the European Union (EU), others have experienced significant political turmoil and setbacks (Schwartz & Winkel, 2016; Silova, 2009). With respect to youth, "the heterogenic developments in the ...
When we look at the relationship between ICT and the SDGs from an economic perspective, it can be said that ICT would contribute to “decent work and economic growth” (SDG 8) and “industry, innovation, and infrastructure” (SDG 9) by improving productivity, creating safer work environments,...
Again, the realties and practice of collective management often do not meet ambitious aspirations. Nevertheless, even though collective management has lapsed, the early experiences of the ‘Library Group’ and the G7 indicate that it was initially a strong motivation for governments to establish ‘...
When we look at the relationship between ICT and the SDGs from an economic perspective, it can be said that ICT would contribute to “decent work and economic growth” (SDG 8) and “industry, innovation, and infrastructure” (SDG 9) by improving productivity, creating safer work environments,...
How many countries practice some form of federalism? What kind of economic system does a socialist country have? What type of government does Germany have? What countries have not signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? What kind of economy do communist countries have? What countries are...
or create a stop-gap period of adjustment that gives countries time to adapt to the impacts of climate change5,6. Other options, such as marine cloud brightening or cirrus cloud thinning, are being assessed for their potential to remediate the risk of pending “tipping points” in the climati...