A (Pre)Cautionary Tale About the Kearl Oil Sands Decision - the Significance of Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, et al. v. Canada (Attorney-General) for the Future of Environmental Assessment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Chalifour
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Same Water, Difference Dreams: Salient Lessons of the Sino-Japanese War for Future Naval Warfare

MCU Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Andrew Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
And Training

American officers considering the role of the sea Services in a future war must understand the history and organizational culture of the Chinese military and consider how these factors shape the Chinese approach to naval strategy and operations. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 remains a cautionary tale full of salient lessons for future conflict. A review of recent Chinese publications highlights several consistent themes that underpin Chinese thinking about naval strategy. Chinese authors assess that the future requires that China inculcate an awareness of the maritime domain in its people, that it build institutions that can sustain seapower, and that, at the operational level, it actively seeks to contest and gain sea control far from shore. Careful consideration of the Sino-Japanese War can support two priority focus areas from the Commandant’s Planning Guidance: “warfighting” and “education and training.”

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF R&D PROGRAMMES: THE CASE OF THE DANISH ForskEL PROGRAMME

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1340002 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAR LYHNE ◽  
INGER PIHL BYRIEL
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
The Future ◽  
Making A Difference

Despite their important role in shaping the technologies of the future, public research and development (R&D) programmes are rarely based on systematic assessments of the environmental effects. R&D programmes thus allocate a huge amount of financial resources to projects, which potentially may cause severe negative environmental impacts. This paper presents an innovative environmental assessment practice on R&D programmes in Denmark. It reports on the challenges and experiences of assessing the Danish R&D programme ForskEL, which promotes R&D projects within the electricity sector. The programme is characterised by uncertainty about impacts and incomparable project types and technologies. A methodology for dealing with these challenges is presented, and experiences from a testing of the methodology on the 2012 programme are reflected upon. Finally the assessment is discussed in terms of its potential for making a difference for the future development and deployment of renewable energy.

UC-Win/Road Simulation Systems Application to Domestic Simulation of Road Traffic

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 1219-1224
Author(s):  
Yun Han Li ◽  
Chang Qing Zheng ◽  
Chun Fu Shao ◽  
Han Deng
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Traffic Simulation ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Planning ◽  
Simulation Research ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Simulation Systems

In recent years, a promising software which is called UC-win/road has been playing a major role in Chinese traffic simulation research. It is mainly applied in traffic planning and design, road and landscape simulation, and transportation environmental assessment. In this article, firstly, a brief description of the software will be introduced. Secondly, the possible problems which might be generated in road traffic simulation will be given. Finally, one case study will be shown in detail and the future of the software in China will be prospected.

scholarly journals Deus Ex Machina: A Cautionary Tale for Naturalists

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cailin O’Connor ◽  
Nathan Fulton ◽  
Elliott Wagner ◽  
P. Kyle Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Incremental Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ethical Project

AbstractIn this paper we critically examine and seek to extend Philip Kitcher’s Ethical Project to weave together a distinctive naturalistic conception of how ethics came to occupy the place it does in our lives and how the existing ethical project should be revised and extended into the future. Although we endorse his insight that ethical progress is better conceived of as the improvement of an existing state than an incremental approach towards a fixed endpoint, we nonetheless go on to argue that the metaethical apparatus Kitcher constructs around this creative metaethical proposal simply cannot do the work that he demands of it. The prospect of fundamental conflict between different functions of the ethical project requires Kitcher to appeal to a particular normative stance in order to judge specific changes in the ethical project to be genuinely progressive, and we argue that the virtues of continuity and coherence to which he appeals can only specify rather than justify the normative stance he favors. We conclude by suggesting an alternative approach for ethical naturalists that seems to us ultimately more promising than Kitcher’s own.

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