Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
David Kilcullen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Societal Resilience ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Military Victory

The epilogue traces what happened to James Woolsey after 1993, explores issues of resilience and sustainability in the Western approach to war, and emphasizes the need to look beyond military victory to a better peace, which after all is the ultimate object of war. The epilogue looks at the key issues (including climate, energy, vulnerability to cyber and electronic attack, and political stability) that have become Woolsey’s primary focus since leaving government. It examines the issue of societal resilience, including against natural disasters and events beyond human agency, and emphasizes the need for societies—not just military strategists and planners—to adapt and respond to the changing environment.

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Dodds ◽  
Jamie Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Uncertain Future

The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of the Arctic, its physical environment, and its people. The Arctic is demanding global attention as it warms, melts, and thaws in a manner that threatens not just its 4 million inhabitants, but the whole planet. The reduction of the Arctic to its changing environment would ignore the complexities of the region and its potential. This VSI explores key issues facing the region today, from geopolitics to global warming. It examines the causes and effects of cultural, physical, ecological, political, and economic change in the Arctic, and considers its uncertain future.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Transport ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgita Barysienė ◽  
Nijolė Batarlienė ◽  
Darius Bazaras ◽  
Kristina Čižiūnienė ◽  
Daiva Griškevičienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transport Management

The rapidly changing world determines changes in the business processes. Logistics and transport are the areas facing constant changes. Therefore, an important point is to analyse the current problems of logistics and transport within the context of the changing environment. For many years, the experts of the Dept of Logistics and Transport Management of the Faculty of Transport Engineering from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University have been pursuing research both, in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in Lithuania and foreign countries. This research has been directed toward improvements to logistics and the entire supply chain in pursuit of economic, social and ecological competitiveness, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport system in the context of sustainable development, the impact of this system on the economic and social welfare of society, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport sector of improving the legal framework and the application of innovative technologies (including IT) in the transport sector aimed at implementing economic and social cohesion goals. The article deals with some of the key issues of the above introduced research.

Modality and Mood in Formal Syntactic Approaches

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Axel-Tober ◽  
Remus Gergel
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Generative Syntax ◽  
Modal Auxiliaries ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Data Coverage ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Selection Of

The chapter discusses a selection of major approaches to modality and mood in generative syntax. The primary focus lies on the representation of modal auxiliaries and verbs. Key issues relating to modal adverbs and a selection of aspects pertaining to mood are reviewed. Central points addressed are the structural options for different types of modality including the raising vs control debate and the possible structural correlates of epistemic modality addressed in the literature. The chapter incorporates a discussion of “coherent constructions” following a tradition established for German modals. The latter serves as an illustration of a different type of possible syntactic analysis and, in virtue of its data coverage, also of points of variation even between closely related languages like English and German.

Concern and control in human agency

2020 ◽  
pp. 095935432095807
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Yanchar
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Theoretical Problem ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
And Control

Human agency is typically theorized as a unique form of control or countercontrol in a determinant world. Thus, the nature of world (as a closed, determinant space) is taken for granted, creating a notoriously difficult theoretical problem: formulating a persuasive account of how agency as countercontrol might coherently fit within the world conceived and prioritized in this way. Based on hermeneutic thought, I contend that a primary focus on agency as an immanently meaningful phenomenon obviates this problem and offers possibilities for more effective theorizing. From this hermeneutic perspective, agency is conceptualized as concernful involvement in practices; and a concomitant view of world is conceptualized as an immanently meaningful space of participation. I conclude by revisiting the notion of control and offering a brief account of how it fits within this hermeneutic account of agency.

Toward a New Disaster Finance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Levenson Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Risk Transfer ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Peace Initiatives

Looks at complex manmade disasters—thornier, in some ways, than natural disasters because they do not readily lend themselves to risk transfer. Displacement and dislocation—refugees fleeing conflict—are political failures, not market failures. Nevertheless, this chapter looks at whether there are ways to improve how donor funds are raised and spent in humanitarian relief, particularly as protracted human emergencies become long-term development challenges. The chapter’s concluding observations, with examples from investment for peace initiatives in the Middle East, return us to the original Bretton Woods theme: that economic development and political stability are necessarily intertwined.

scholarly journals A katasztrófavédelem és a munkavédelem összefüggései

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (28) ◽  
pp. 376-401
Author(s):  
Zoltán Rácz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Right

Today, people have become increasingly interested in various natural disasters starting from massive floods through epidemics to devastating fires across the continent. Disasters are caused not only by forces of nature but also by human activities. The history of both disaster management and occupational safety can be traced back centuries.  There are many similarities between disaster management and occupational safety, which may be surprising at first. Two fundamental rights are key issues in both disaster management and occupational safety, which are as follows: the right to life and the right to health.  An obligation of closely coordinated cooperation between the state, public bodies and other entities is a flagship task in both areas.

Technologies, Teaching, and Learning in Higher Education

Education ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Lodge
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Among all of the activity and commentary about the impact of technology on higher education, there is, unfortunately, not a high proportion of this work that could be described as rigorous or logically sound. There is a tendency for scholars and commentators to take either an overwhelmingly positive position or a skeptical position on the use of teaching technologies, either seeing them as a silver bullet to solve all educational problems, or as a direct route to a hellish, dystopian future. The focus of this bibliography is the subset of journals, books, and articles that are based on sound evidence, are well argued, and are therefore of high quality and high possible utility. As such, the emphasis is on what is known, rather than on conjectures about the utopian or dystopian versions of the future of higher education. The primary focus is on the role and impact of technologies on teaching and student learning. The bibliography is aimed at providing a high-level overview of teaching technologies in higher education from the perspective of sound, evidence-informed pedagogy. The entries in this bibliography also only include those from peer-reviewed outlets (with one key exception). As grey literature tends toward baseless claims and is based more on opinion and conjecture than sound evidence, it has been left out of this bibliography. Also left out are high-level, sensationalist publications written by former university presidents, consulting firms, or star economists and management professors (again with one exception). As these well-known publications tend to make gross generalizations based on little evidence about how teaching and learning actually work, they are of no real use and have therefore not been included. Looking across all the entries provided here, it is evident that many of the key issues that currently occupy those involved in the conceptualization, research, and implementation of technology in teaching in higher education have been of interest for some time. Many of the seminal articles and topics were published a decade or more ago. While there is probably a case for fresh, systematic reviews and possible reconceptualizations of the role technologies are playing in university teaching, the long-established theories still provide a solid basis for understanding current issues. There has, in fact, possibly been a tendency to ignore these theories in favor of the latest trend or tool. So while it may appear that many of the sources cited in this bibliography are out of date, that is far from the case. It is not the new, shiny technologies that should drive innovation in university teaching, but rather the rigorous and scholarly contributions that have stood the test of time. It is those contributions that make up much of the literature included here.

Key Issues of the German osce Chairmanship 2016

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Gernot Erler
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
European Security ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Shared Understandings

Under the motto “Renewing Dialogue, Rebuilding Trust, Restoring Security”, the German osce Chairmanship 2016 will emphasize five priority areas. The primary focus will continue to be crisis and conflict management in and around Ukraine and in the other so-called protracted conflicts. Second, to this end it is necessary to strengthen the osce’s crisis reaction capacities. Third, the osce must be used as a forum for dialogue on a broad range of issues from arms control, via common transnational threats and other questions of European security, to shared understandings of principles and commitments. Fourth, the economic and environmental dimension should be used more effectively, and business should be given a stronger voice in osce forums. Finally, in the human dimension, Germany will pay special attention to issues closely related to current crises and security developments, such as tolerance and non-discrimination, freedom of expression, freedom of the media, and minority rights.

scholarly journals A digital archive is born

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Julia McDowell ◽  
Annie Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Initial Impressions ◽  
Digital Assets

This paper explores the opportunities offered and the challenges involved in digitising, presenting and preserving data and materials on cinemagoing during the interwar years collected in the course of Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain, a pioneering inquiry led by Professor Annette Kuhn. The Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive (CMDA) project team is tasked with archiving and digitising the extensive materials that were originally collected in the 1990s: which include over a hundred audio-recorded interviews with 1930s cinemagoers and a wealth of related correspondence, documents and contemporary publications, along with postcards, diaries, scrapbooks and other memorabilia donated by participants. The primary focus of CMDA is to make these existing materials available online, applying the most appropriate formats and standards to make them accessible and engaging to a global audience of both scholars and the general public. In so doing, the project has placed an emphasis on developing logical and transparent systems for indexing and accessioning, collaborating to create a bank of shareable digital assets to help ensure interoperability between the project's own website and remote systems such as Lancaster University Library and Cambridge Digital Library. Drawing on our experiences as a close-knit research team, we describe the development of the project from two distinct perspectives, that of web developer and that of archivist. Identifying key issues, we highlight initial impressions and detail ongoing experiences and knowledge gained in the fields of cinemagoing history and memory studies, examining decisions taken in the early stages of the project that have enabled progression towards its goals. The challenges inherent in bringing such a valuable and unique set of resources ‘back to life’ and into the realm of digital humanities are immense; and we conclude by reflecting on lessons learned and offering fresh perspectives and insights to researchers undertaking similar work.

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