Environmental Research of the European Communities in the Future

1986 ◽  
pp. 491-497
Author(s):  
G. Angeletti ◽  
H. Ott
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Research ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Closing the Future: Environmental Research and the Management of Conflicting Future Value Orders

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson ◽  
Erik Westholm
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Value ◽  
The Creation

This paper examines a struggle over the future use of Nordic forests, which took place from 2009 to 2012 within a major research program, Future Forests—Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk, organized and funded by Mistra, The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. We explore the role of strategic environmental research in societal constructions of long-term challenges and future risks. Specifically, we draw attention to the role played by environmental research in the creation of future images that become dominant for how societies structure action for the long term. We also show that this process is on several accounts problematic. Research labeled “strategic” or “relevant” is intended to manage long-term risks and challenges in a sustainable way, by taking into account the “open” and “plural” nature of the future. The case of Future Forests suggests, rather, that by contributing to the emergence of dominant future images, environmental research is entangled with a process of gradual consensus creation around what may be highly selective or biased narratives of the long term, which may conceal or postpone key forms of future conflict.

Towards a resilient perspective for the future of offshore platforms. Insights from a data driven approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Loia ◽  
Nunzia Capobianco ◽  
Roberto Vona
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Circular Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
Data Driven Approach

Purpose This study aims to investigate the collective perception regarding the future of offshore platforms and frame the main categories of meanings associated by the community with the investigated phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach A data driven approach has been conducted. The collection of the peoples’ opinions has been realized on two specific social network communities as follows: Twitter and Instagram. The text mining processes carried out a sentiment and a cluster analysis. Findings The sentiment analysis of the most frequent words has been shown. The following four main homogeneous categories of words are emerged in relation to the decommissioning of offshore platforms: technological areas, green governance (GG), circular economy and socio-economic sphere. Research limitations/implications The alternative use of the offshore platforms, including tourism initiatives, aquaculture, alternative energy generation, hydrogen storage and environmental research, could improve the resilience of communities by offering the development of new jobs and the growth of local and innovative green businesses. Practical implications The adoption of a circular model and GG initiatives aims to limit the input of resources and energy, minimize waste and losses, adopt a sustainable approach and realize new social and territorial value. Originality/value The analysis underlines the importance to adopt a systems perspective, which takes into account the social, economic and environmental system as a whole, the different phenomena that occur and the variety of categories of stakeholders, from users to local governments that participate in the territorial development.

scholarly journals Light for the Future

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (10) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Harry Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power Research Institute ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Power Demand ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Clear Water ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Fourfold Increase ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a nonprofit organization for energy and environmental research, has predicted that worldwide power demand will see a fourfold increase by 2050. Meeting the demand will require an effort equivalent to opening a 1-gigawatt power plant every two days for the next 50 years. The study projects the future of known technologies, including many in development. It takes into account variables, including the estimated learning curve for adoption and how far an idea is from commercialization. APERC and other energy research groups recommend the use of renewables instead. Systems bankrolled by grants, often from governments, can run on local resources. Engineering is working toward an unprecedented era in which the very poor—the quarter, or perhaps third, of the world without the juice to run a pump—within a generation or so may be able to offer their children a bedtime drink of clear water and light to drink it by.

The Validity of Task Analytic Information to Human Performance Research in Unusual Environments

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Richard H. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Critical Incident Technique ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
A Performance

Recurring naval student flight errors were collected using three types of task analytic methodologies: maneuver description questionnaires, critical incident technique of observed student problems and inflight maneuver rating forms. The results from these three efforts were highly correlated, which indicated that the task analytic methodology was valid; and therefore, would have utility in the future development of a performance battery for environmental research.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

Some Structural Features of Metaphase Chromosomes of Mice and Men

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Godfrey C. Hoskins ◽  
Betty B. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Of Mice And Men ◽  
Mouse Cells ◽  
Human And Mouse

Metaphase chromosomes from human and mouse cells in vitro are isolated by micrurgy, fixed, and placed on grids for electron microscopy. Interpretations of electron micrographs by current methods indicate the following structural features.Chromosomal spindle fibrils about 200Å thick form fascicles about 600Å thick, wrapped by dense spiraling fibrils (DSF) less than 100Å thick as they near the kinomere. Such a fascicle joins the future daughter kinomere of each metaphase chromatid with those of adjacent non-homologous chromatids to either side. Thus, four fascicles (SF, 1-4) attach to each metaphase kinomere (K). It is thought that fascicles extend from the kinomere poleward, fray out to let chromosomal fibrils act as traction fibrils against polar fibrils, then regroup to join the adjacent kinomere.

Freeze-fracture cytochemistry: A goal set by Russell Steere in 1957

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Nicholas J Severs
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Nature ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Membrane Biology ◽  
Routine Application ◽  
The Future ◽  
Freeze Etching

In his pioneering demonstration of the potential of freeze-etching in biological systems, Russell Steere assessed the future promise and limitations of the technique with remarkable foresight. Item 2 in his list of inherent difficulties as they then stood stated “The chemical nature of the objects seen in the replica cannot be determined”. This defined a major goal for practitioners of freeze-fracture which, for more than a decade, seemed unattainable. It was not until the introduction of the label-fracture-etch technique in the early 1970s that the mould was broken, and not until the following decade that the full scope of modern freeze-fracture cytochemistry took shape. The culmination of these developments in the 1990s now equips the researcher with a set of effective techniques for routine application in cell and membrane biology.Freeze-fracture cytochemical techniques are all designed to provide information on the chemical nature of structural components revealed by freeze-fracture, but differ in how this is achieved, in precisely what type of information is obtained, and in which types of specimen can be studied.

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