New and old peripheries: Britain, the Baltic, and the Americas in the Great Divergence

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klas Rönnbäck
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Factor Endowment ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
One Step ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Baltic

AbstractIn his seminal bookThe Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This article takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. The article shows that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did not, however, enable the production of specific raw materials, such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent to be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.

How can stakeholder participation improve European watershed management: the Water Framework Directive, watercourse groups and Swedish contributions to Baltic Sea eutrophication

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
The Baltic

Nutrient losses from agricultural land constitute an important part of the total flow of nutrients to lakes and seas in Sweden and the Baltic region. With the Water Framework Directive, to be implemented shortly throughout Europe, emphasis is increasing on the role of stakeholder participation and decentralisation of various responsibilities from authorities to groups in the civil society. This paper investigates a Swedish case where local watercourse groups (WCGs) have formed in order to be involved more actively in the efforts to reduce nutrient losses from agricultural lands. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the institutional landscape surrounding WCGs, goals, goal formulation and space of action.

Italian Intrigue in the Baltic: Myth, Faith, and Politics in the Age of Baroque

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Aušra Baniulytė
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract This article examines the role of myth in Italian cultural politics in the Baltic region during the Baroque era. A special focus for this analysis is the legend about a “kinship” between the Florentine Pazzi family and the Lithuanian noble family of the Pacas (Polish: Pac), known in the sources of the seventeenth century as “the Pazzi in Lithuania.” This legend prevailed particularly in the second half of the Baroque period, having developed under the influence of different political, religious, and social aspects of Baroque culture. It played an important part in the Papacy’s interests in Poland-Lithuania during the Counter-Reformation and in the commercial activity of Italian merchants in the Baltic, which coincided with the expansion of the monastic orders in this region and the cult of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, to whom the Pacas family expressed their devotion.

scholarly journals Literature in the Principal of Industrial Revolution 4.0

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Manugeren
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Industrial Revolution 4.0 is not only a phenomenon in society, but also has become a social reality. Through the sociology of literature approach, the research reveals the standing of literature in the principle of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Industry refers to human activities or efforts to change or to cultivate raw materials or semi-finished materials into ready-used products; then the industrial revolution is directed at changing the ways humans produce goods. These big changes have been noted three times, and now people are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution. The industrial revolution of the fourth generation is marked by the emergence of supercomputers, and robots, a picture of the digitalization era. The research is carried out with a qualitative descriptive method as it is in contact with social problems by the relationships among literary writers, texts, and society and these three components both directly and indirectly have been involved in the Industrial Revolution. The research results show that literature is a work of art unlimited by time and space and is not dominated by the Industrial Revolution 4.0, especially those relating to the theme or problem presented. The social problems expressed in literature are cycles; repetitions of events. The role of Industrial Revolution 4.0 on literature is only limited to distributions by means of cyber literature. The principle of Industrial Revolution 4.0: interconnection, transparency in information, technical assistance and decentralization or autonomy in drawing a conclusion have already existed in literature

scholarly journals Building ceramics based on composition of low-quality clay and slurry

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 02014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Guryeva ◽  
Alexander Doroshin ◽  
Yuliya Andreeva
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Physical And Mechanical Properties ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
As Effects

At present, there is a trend towards increasing demand for ceramic products with enhanced physical and mechanical properties. This study is aimed at developing scientifically grounded compositions of ceramic products that maximize the use of local low-quality aluminosilicate raw materials and secondary raw materials in brick-making technology. Characteristics of local low-melting clays and industrial waste in the form of drilling slurry with minimum percentage of petroleum product were studied and presented in this paper. Standard methods for determining physical and mechanical properties of bricks, physicochemical and statistical methods of research are used as a methodological framework. The paper shows effects of drilling slurry with an increased content of calcium oxide on the composition, physical and mechanical properties of wall ceramics, as well as effects of composition of low-quality local clays and slurries on the structure and properties of ceramic materials. The modifying role of container glass and its effects on properties of a synthesized ceramic piece were studied and presented.

scholarly journals Spring fuelling by arctic Dunlins Calidris a. alpina in the southern Baltic and the potential role of a changing climate

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3–4) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Johan Stedt ◽  
Åke Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Spring Temperature ◽  
The North ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Breeding Grounds ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Baltic

In spring, Dunlins Calidris a. alpina put on substantial fuel stores in the North Sea region before a long flight to breed in northwest Russia. There are hitherto no well-described fuelling sites in the Baltic region. In May and early June in 2004–2010 we trapped more than 1000 Dunlins at Ottenby, south-east Sweden. Most birds carried substantial fuel loads already when first trapped (much more than in autumn) and, more importantly, 37 within-season re-traps increased in mass at an average rate of 1.2 g/d. This corresponds to a fuelling rate of about 2.6% of lean body mass per day, among the highest recorded for this species. Stopover times were short; only 3.5% of the birds were re-trapped and they stayed on average only 2.2 days. Since the late 1970s, increasing numbers of Dunlins stop over at successively earlier dates. This coincides with an increase in spring temperature of 1.1–2.0°C in 1977–2010. Possibly, a warming climate has facilitated and selected for a gradual shift of the final fuelling sites closer towards the breeding grounds.

scholarly journals Assessment of Hanoman’s Character Value (Indigenous) as a Counselor Competence for Industrial Revolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Maya Tsuroya Alfadla ◽  
Putri Laras Trisnawati
Keyword(s):  
Body Shape ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Online Counseling ◽  
Counselor Competence ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
One Step ◽  
Real Self

<em>Industrial Revolution 4.0 provides changes in digitalization and automation for various sectors in Indonesia. These changes have an impact on the Guidance and Counseling profession can be replaced by the role of robots and online counseling. This study will discuss how the Guidance and Counseling profession responds to the challenges by strengthening the competency of counselors through the analysis of Hanoman's character values as the character of indigenous counselors. Hanoman is a puppet character who has a face and body shape that resembles an ape but has a kind heart, is willing to sacrifice and responsibility. The developed Hanoman character is empathy, unconditional acceptance, dynamic, genuine, real self to be one step to strengthen the competence of indigenous counselors in the era of the industrial revolution. This strengthening aims to provide a unique Indonesian character in competing with the changes that occur.</em>

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