scholarly journals Core and Periphery of Information Society: Significance of Geospatial Technologies

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Piotr A. Werner ◽  
Tomasz Opach
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Is Development

Abstract The paper attempts to identify important factors significant for global information society development and to determine the significance of geospatial (geo-information) technologies. The starting point is international measures of the development level of information & communication technologies (ICT) and information society (IS). The relevance of the particular factors was defined using the general segmentation of the milieu, taking into account social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal and ethical factors and also estimating the global spatial dimension of ICT and IS development. The diagnosis serves as the context of considerations concerning the contribution of geographers and cartographers to IS.

COGNITIVE TURN IN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Naukovedenie ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Alexander Ali-Zade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Information Society

The review analyzes a new cognitive trend in the social sciences and humanities. It is argued that digital communication technologies, which have formed a global information society with an unprecedented level of social self-organization, have created a public demand for a broad democratization of knowledge. It is shown that in response to this demand, social and human sciences are forced to adjust their theoretical, methodological and methodical tools accordingly.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary challenges for sustainable management of mediterranean landscapes in the global information society

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zev Naveh
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Active Fire ◽  
Mediterranean Landscapes ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Flow Equilibrium

The present chaotic transformation from the industrial to the global information society is accelerating the ecological, social and economic unsustainability. The rapidly growing unsustainable, fossil energy powered urbanindustrial technosphere and their detrimental impacts on nature and human well-being are threatening the solar energy powered natural and seminatural biosphere landscapes and their vital ecosystem services. A sustainability revolution is therefore urgently needed, requiring a shift from the "fossil age" to the "solar age" of a new world economy, coupled with more sustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns. The sustainable future of viable multifunctional biosphere landscapes of the Mediterranean Region and elsewhere and their biological and cultural richness can only be ensured by a post-industrial symbiosis between nature and human society. For this purpose a mindset shift of scientists and professionals from narrow disciplinarity to transdisciplinarity is necessary, dealing with holistic land use planning and management, in close cooperation with land users and stakeholders. To conserve and restore the rapidly vanishing and degrading Mediterranean uplands and highest biological ecological and cultural landscape ecodiversity, their dynamic homeorhetic flow equilibrium, has to be maintained by continuing or simulating all anthropogenic processes of grazing, browsing by wild and domesticated ungulates. Catastrophic wildfires can be prevented only by active fire and fuel management, converting highly inflammable pine forests and dense shrub thickets into floristically enriched, multi- layered open woodlands and recreation forests.

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