scholarly journals Socio-Economic Determinism and Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Us ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Common ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rich Countries

<p><em>The global warming problematic is in reality decided not by the UNFCCC or IPCC with its mastodon meetings. The decisive players are the states of the following BIG polluters of CO2: China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia Mexico, South Korea, Canada, Australia and the US, despite the fact that its present government already has defected from the common pool regime, set up in Paris 2017, These countries together with international shipping and aviation are putting out more than 50% of the CO2s. However, they are little interested, because they emphasize the policy-making of socio-economic development, either economic growth with rich countries or the “catch-up” strategy with poor or emerging economies. Resilience will decide which countries can support the consequences of climate change.</em></p>

Parlamentarische Kontrolle durch Vernetzung? Eine kritische Analyse der Rolle der Interparlamentarischen Konferenz für die GASP/GSVP

IG ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Daniel Schade
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Parliaments ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Eu

The Interparliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy (IPC) is a new parliamentary body set up after the Treaty of Lisbon which allows to create interlinkages between parliaments in the European Union (EU). It is part of an ongoing process which aims to challenge the executive dominance in EU policy-making in general and in the EU’s foreign and security policy in particular. Considering its sessions and the experiences of members of parliaments partaking in the Interparliamentary Conference to date, this article analyses its value-added to this overarching goal. The experiences so far suggest that the IPC faces significant practical challenges in contributing to the parliamentary scrutiny of the policy areas concerned despite the fact that the format of interparliamentary gatherings is a significant innovation in its own right. These challenges arise primarily out of a conflict between the European Parliament and national parliaments in the EU, the diversity of national parliamentarism, as well as the differing moti⁠v­a⁠tions and skills of the participating members of parliaments.

scholarly journals Urban Transport in Vietnam:

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Thi Hoa Nguyen ◽  
Thi Thuy Hoa Phan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Common ◽  
Big Cities

Environmental pollution has become a problem not only for one nation, one region but also for the common concern of all humanity. The process of socio-economic development of the countries in the world has led to tremendous impacts on the environment, causing the human environment to change and become increasingly degraded. important. These are climate change - global warming, depletion of the ozone layer and acid rain ... especially air pollution caused by transportation. In Vietnam, environmental pollution in big cities is becoming a pressing problem. The problem of overcrowding of transport in big cities, which has been very difficult, now adds a serious situation of pollution that is increasing to worrying levels. What a challenging problem that is posing on the shoulders of managers. The paper presents the realities of environmental pollution, especially air pollution from vehicle emissions. Besides, also initially offering solutions to reduce pollution caused by urban transport in Vietnam.

scholarly journals Ensemble reconstruction of spatio-temporal extreme low-flow events in France since 1871

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Caillouet ◽  
Jean-Philippe Vidal ◽  
Eric Sauquet ◽  
Alexandre Devers ◽  
Benjamin Graff
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Reference Network ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Variable Threshold ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Temporal Events ◽  
Rich Countries

Abstract. The historical depth of streamflow observations is generally limited to the last 50 years even in data-rich countries like France. It therefore offers too small a sample of extreme low-flow events to properly explore the long-term evolution of their characteristics and associated impacts. In order to overcome this limit, this work first presents a daily 140-year ensemble reconstructed streamflow dataset for a reference network of near-natural catchments in France. This dataset, called SCOPE Hydro (Spatially COherent Probabilistic Extended Hydrological dataset), is based on (1) a probabilistic precipitation, temperature and reference evapotranspiration downscaling of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis over France, called SCOPE Climate, and (2) a continuous hydrological modelling using SCOPE Climate as forcings over the whole period. This work then introduces tools for defining spatio-temporal extreme low-flow events. Extreme low-flow events are first locally defined through the Sequent Peak Algorithm using a novel combination of a fixed threshold and a daily variable threshold. A dedicated spatial matching procedure is then set up to identify spatio-temporal events across France. This procedure is furthermore adapted to the SCOPE Hydro 25-member ensemble in order to characterize in a probabilistic way unrecorded historical events at the national scale. For the first time, extreme low-flow events are described and compared in a spatially and temporally homogeneous way over 140 years on a large set of catchments. Initial results bring forward well-known recent events like 1976 or 1989–1990, but also older and relatively forgotten ones like the 1878 and 1893 events. These results contribute to improve our knowledge on historical events and provide a selection of benchmark events for climate change adaptation purposes. This study moreover allows for further detailed analyses of the effect of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change on low-flow hydrology at the scale of France.

Globalization and Inequality

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Weede
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

AbstractGlobalization may be defined by a worldwide division of labor and increasing trade between nations. This is inconceivable without expanding economic freedom across the world. Free trade and globalization increase competition, productivity, and economic growth rates. In spite of increasing inequality within many large economies – including the US, China, and Russia – inequality between human beings and households has been reduced. Since catch-up growth in big Asian economies contributes to Schumpeterian “creative destruction,” it necessitates rich economies to adapt, to become ever more entrepreneurial and innovative. This generates resentment and strengthens protectionist excesses which might serve some special interests. But protectionism harms the global economy, the prospects of the poor to grow out of poverty and, worse still, likely increases the risk of war.

scholarly journals The Power of Socialization: Engaging the Diamond Industry in the Kimberley Process

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola Kantz
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Business Power ◽  
Kimberley Process ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Common ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Social Learning Processes ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Discursive Power

Research on conflict in resource-rich countries suggests that resource extraction companies contribute to tension but not development. In recent times, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have flourished, in which set up regulation is not against business but in joint cooperation with corporate actors. Yet PPPs are criticized for serving business self-interest and increasing business power rather than the common good. The paper takes the Kimberley Process and the diamond industry as an example to examine the multi-faceted nature of business power when this PPP was negotiated. The core of the argument is that realist-informed perspectives about business power in PPPs and constructivist accounts emphasizing socialization and social learning processes only tell one part of the story. While demonstrating that the diamond industry acted as a both a socializing and socialized agent, the analysis of the different facets of power shows that structural and discursive power were crucial elements in making socialization happen in the first place.

scholarly journals Innovation as a Determinant of Growth in Outperforming Emerging Markets: An Analysis of South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10241
Author(s):  
Tina Maria Hintringer ◽  
Vito Bobek ◽  
Franko Milost ◽  
Tatjana Horvat
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

Emerging economies and their speed of growth, competitiveness, and resilience are of great interest globally due to the high potential investors see in them. Innovation is one of the factors recognized to be the common ground of significantly outperforming economies. Therefore, identifying innovation benchmarks and how they impact economic success is relevant for a more straightforward evaluation of innovation in a country. This research focuses on the quantitative parts of innovation. Firstly, governmental interference, knowledge flows and networks, cultural and societal preconditions, and openness towards change are identified as notably relevant innovation enhancing factors in South Korea through case study analyses. Then, an analysis of the impact of quantitative innovation factors on the GDP in South Korea is conducted. The impact of quantifiable innovation factors, identified through literature review, on the GDP as the benchmark for economic growth is tested from 1995 until 2018 through a linear, multiple least squares regression to identify significant relationships between the chosen variables. Two out of five selected quantitative innovation factors have a statistically significant impact on the economic growth in the used model. The number of researchers per million people and the patent grants of residents is identified to be impactful innovation benchmarks.

scholarly journals Global Coordination against Global Warning: “Catch-up” Countries against Affluent Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Global Warning ◽  
The World ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Global Coordination

<p><em>The UNFCCC has delivered the COP21 project as the main response to climate change, promising radical decarbonisation of the country economies in the world. A promise is merely a verbal commitment ex ante, whereas the outcomes of policy-making and government coordination inform about the actual matters of fact ex post. Scholars now fear that there will be reneging or defection in the COP21 games to be started now with a long time frame into the next half of this century. Thus, world famous Stern (2016) asks what we are waiting for, given his stern warnings already in 2007. And Conca (2015) suggests that environmentalism and climate change becomes the chief task for the United Nations, on par with peace, security, human rights and development. Star economist Sachs (2015a, b, c) promotes the idea of linking anti-global warming policies with general </em><em>S</em><em>ustainable </em><em>D</em><em>evelopment (SDGs), including anti-poverty policies. Yet, they bypass fundamentals: climate change is driven by Juggernaut forces, namely the links between GDP, energy consumption and greenhouse gases involving the economic struggle between the haves and have-nots. The challenges in implementing the COP21 goals (I+III) are formidable.</em></p>

scholarly journals Social Networking on Climate Change

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mission Critical ◽  
Preparatory Action

This paper reports on the deployment of a multilingual Social Networking Platform in three Regions of Europe (Catalonia, Poitou-Charentes and Tuscany), in the context of an EU-funded Preparatory Action on eParticipation dealing with the issue of climate change and energy policy making at the level of the European Parliament. The US (“Obama”) approach and a novel (“European”) usage of social networks in political online discourses are compared. A recommendation to policy makers is that social networking can be useful whenever the topics under discussion are limited in scope, but also wide in implications, so that they require moving forward from “one-off” and “ad-hoc” participation experiments, towards the permanent coverage of “mission critical” Public Administration functions.

scholarly journals Comparing Industrialization in Pakistan and the East Asian Economies

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 167-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajah Rasiah ◽  
Nazia Nazeer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
The Us ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Manufacturing Growth ◽  
East Asian Economies

Drawing on the successful industrialization and catch-up experience of the UK, the US, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and Japan, and later South Korea and Taiwan, we argue that industrialization is a necessary phase for normal economies to stimulate rapid economic growth and structural change. This paper compares Pakistan’s industrialization with that of selected economies in East Asia. The evidence shows that Pakistan not only has the lowest GDP per capita of this group, it has also industrialized the least. Pakistan enjoyed its highest manufacturing growth rates in the 1950s and 1960s. Thereafter, manufacturing grew slowly and unevenly until the 1990s and 2006, largely through clothing exports.

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