Sustainability as an Environmental and Economic Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-270
Keyword(s):  
Economic Issue

Socio economic influences on the restoration and maintenance of the water environment

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Peter Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Influences ◽  
Mind Set

Protection of the water environment has become a modern socio economic issue in which the sociological pressures for a healthy water environment must be balanced with affordability. Reconciliation of these aspects requires clear political thinking and rigorous methodologies. It also requires a shift in mind-set which considers members of the public as customers. Water utilities are the major users of the water environment and potentially its greatest threat – so good delivery of water services is very important. The presentation addresses the topic through the experience of Anglian Water, a privatised water utility serving Eastern England.

scholarly journals Free Sunday-Loss, Deprivation or Welfare

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Elza Jurun ◽  
Nada Ratković ◽  
Bože Vuleta
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Maximum Limit ◽  
Demographic Policy

This paper presents the part of results obtained by a comprehensive statistical analysis of public opinion in the issue of work-free Sunday, based on a survey undertaken in the Republic of Croatia in October 2017. The research has been made aiming at providing the answer to the crucial question of whether free Sunday can be considered only as of the economic issue or concerns deeply almost all the spheres of life in general. Moreover, the authors want to show and promote free Sunday as socio-economic phenomena which become a political and ideological issue as a fundamental human right and true notion of human freedom and welfare. Besides, as a member of the European Sunday Alliance, Croatia is the first EU member state which promotes free Sunday as one of the measures of active demographic policy. Along with the results of classical statistical processing of public opinion research, the methodology of this research has also involved the hypothesis testing about differences in the proportions as well as post-stratification of the two-step stratified random sample based on gender, age, size of residence, regions and education level. Even more, than two-thirds of respondents consider important or exceptionally important not-working on Sundays and support the maximum limit of that work.

scholarly journals Théâtre et sociétés dans la France de la révolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Philippe Bourdin
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The French Revolution

The theatre, a very often-frequented place from the 1770s, is at the junction of several socie-ties: that of the shareholders who own the auditorium and privileges; that of the artists; that of the spectators; that of amateurs who are formed in bourgeois circles and then in patriotic dramatic so-cieties. Commercial freedom, activist investment, the wars born of the French Revolution, emigra-tion, indeed, upset theatrical structures. Halls and troops then multiply, and dramatic practices gain previously unfamiliar spaces for entertainment. Theatre becomes not only an economic issue, but also a political one, posing and addressing long term issues of profitability, social order, and public order. Theatre enables social reconversions, but professional troops are also sometimes divided by the artists’ political choices. They are challenged by amateurs whose commitments are more in line with the wishes of the successive regimes.

The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence

1999 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold D. Clarke ◽  
Allan Kornberg ◽  
Chris McIntyre ◽  
Petra Bauer-Kaase ◽  
Max Kaase
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Value Change ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Measurement Artifact ◽  
Industrial Societies

The Euro-Barometer values battery has provided much of the empirical evidence for the thesis that a shift from materialist to postmaterialist values has occurred in advanced industrial societies over the past two decades. It has been argued, however, that this widely used instrument is seriously flawed because of its sensitivity to current economic conditions. We present data from experiments in Canada and Germany that tested the performance of the values battery in an era of joblessness. Analyses reveal that (1) substituting an unemployment statement for the standard inflation statement in the battery has major consequences for the classification of respondents as materialist or postmaterialist and (2) answers to the battery are conditioned by the interaction between its content and respondents' economic issue concerns. These findings support the argument that much of the shift from materialist to postmaterialist values recorded by the Euro-Barometer since the early 1980s is a measurement artifact.

A Word from Carolyn Blevins: Justice: For the Poor

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Carolyn Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Economic Issue ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Agents Of Change

Poverty is more than an economic issue. Poverty is complicated culture. Communities of faith can be agents of change when they learn effective ways of addressing the culture of poverty. Fortunately, there are experienced voices who share their wisdom in publications that are valuable resources for churches interested in working the poor in their community. The commitment is not short-term, but the results can be life-changing for those who have never experienced any other way of life.

Neuroscientific Approaches for Maintaining, Balancing, and Developing Mature Workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doo Hun Lim ◽  
Sunyoung Park ◽  
Cho Hyun Park ◽  
Chang Sung Jang
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Economic Issue ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Brain Based Learning ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mature Workers

As the aging population is rapidly increasing worldwide, keeping older workers to address the skilled labor shortage has been an important economic issue. This study pursues the current status of the older workforce in the U.S., identifies organizational support systems for mature workers, and proposes neuroscientific approaches and methods to maintain and develop effective mature workers through an integrative review of recent research findings in neuroscience and brain-based learning and development.

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