Description, Prescription and the Choice of Discount RatesdiscountingethicsThe choice of discount rates is a key issue in the analysis of long-term societal issues, in particular environmental issues such as climate change. ApproachesSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Sustainability, the long-term viability of a community, set of social institutions, or societal practice. Sustainability is usually understood as a form of intergenerational ethics that accommodates the economic, social, and environmental needs of curren
The necessary transformation process has to be initiated, taking social and societal issues into account. Figure 4. Average yield gaps for major cereal crops, maize, wheat and rice [4]. This view is also shared by Foley et al. (2011) [2]. Their analysis shows that many nations have a...
sustainability, the long-term viability of acommunity, set of social institutions, or societal practice. In general, sustainability is understood as a form ofintergenerational ethicsin which the environmental and economic actions taken by present persons do not diminish the opportunities of future person...
Systems Engineering and Engineering Management 1 Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Course Description (Unless otherwise specified, all are 3-unit term courses of three hours of lecture and one hour of tutorial per week.) *SEG2410 Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics SEG2420 Operations Re...
If we knew how child-robot relationships emerge when robots are not presented as more advanced than they currently are, new light would be shed on the societal and ethical discussion surrounding the topic. However, current research is inconsistent about the effects of presenting robots as they are...
EthicsSocialchoiceDemocracyClimatechangeThe choice of discount rates is a key issue in the analysis of long-term societal issues, in particular environmental issues such as climate change. Approaches to choosing discount rates are generally placed into two categories: the descriptive approach and the ...