Structured Data Facilitate Learning Design for Energetic Transition

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Gilbert Ahamer
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Path Dependent

For the immense but necessary task of global climate protection, avenues for action should be designed to consider the intrinsically autopoietic and self-guided behaviour of global power politics. Thus, pragmatic approaches may provide solutions and educational strategies have to prepare global society. This article proposes a “design of social processes” as a lasting global educational strategy that may enhance the societal and institutional transition to a non-fossil future, as called for by the recent Paris climate conference. In a path-dependent world, self-adaptive learning is needed, given the wide distribution of learners' profiles – and their interests. Sound education is identified as the genesis of structures that lead to changes in action. Three principles for such a design of social processes are proposed: rhythmisation, multi-perspectivism, and underdeterminism, as found in game play.

The Climate Change Regime Complex

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-498
Author(s):  
Gorana Draguljić
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Forum Shopping ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
The Status ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Abstract In an era defined by forum shopping, institutional proliferation, and regime complexity, why do global governance arrangements remain relatively stable? This article combines the insights of regime complexity scholarship with historical institutionalism to address this question. It argues that the establishment of international regimes creates winners and losers. States dissatisfied with these arrangements push for institutional change. Regimes nonetheless tend to develop in a path-dependent manner because institutions are resistant to change and the winners under the status quo seek to protect it. Thus, existing governance arrangements exert a centripetal pull, even when states engage in forum shopping and institutional proliferation to generate regime complexity. An examination of path-dependent institutional development in the global climate regime supports the argument.

The Dynamics of Global Power Politics: A Framework for Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacie E Goddard ◽  
Daniel H. Nexon
Keyword(s):  
Power Politics ◽  
Global Power

scholarly journals India and China in the Indian Ocean: Changing Dimensions of Maritime Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anju Lis Kurian ◽  
◽  
C. Vinodan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
Security Affairs ◽  
India And China

In Asian and global power politics a maritime strategic angle concentrates on the value of fortifying and controlling sea lines of communications (SLOCs) for stability, economic growth, and development of nations. Consequently, both India and China are snooping to control SLOCs and safeguard their emergent and escalating worldwide interests. The advancement in and expansion of naval power satisfies the corresponding nationalist aspirations of Beijing and New Delhi. As a result, the development of their maritime capabilities would have a greater impact on the naval security architecture in the Indian Ocean. The hike in Chinese engagements across the Indian Ocean widely known as the String of Pearl’s stratagem is principally stimulated by a policy of maritime encirclement of India. Struggle to secure tactical energy resources which are quickly revolutionizing their navies could induce clashes and have major repercussions for global security affairs. Harmonious handling of both China’s and India’s cooperation will be crucial for regional as well as international peace and opulence shortly and everyone looks upon a fabulous Asia reflected in the world. Thus, this paper analyses the underlying factors that motivate both countries to have ambitious objectives in the Indian Ocean and could find out that securing energy is one of the driving forces in securing maritime dominance across the Indian Ocean.

Designing Adaptive Learning Environments with Learning Design

2006 ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendon Towle ◽  
Michael Halm
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Learning Design

scholarly journals The southern North faces the northern South

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Dylan Kissane
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The South ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Power Cycle ◽  
Global Power ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global North ◽  
Great Power Politics

Australia is almost unique in international politics as it remains a Global North state geographically isolated in the south of the globe. Its northern borders fringed with states of the South, Australia has long looked to allies in its security seeking policies and in the formation of its alliances. Australia, however, is facing a choice. By using the power cycle methodology to forecast the future of global great power politics it is shown that the Global Southís China is rising in power and will soon overtake the US as the dominant global power. This article introduces the power cycle method, extrapolates forecasts from collected sampling and suggests implications for Australia of an international environment where its principal ally (the US) is no longer the predominant power.

scholarly journals “Invasion” in the Russian Arctic: is global Climate Changea real driver? A remarkable case of two nudibranch species

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Irina A. Ekimova ◽  
Tatiana I. Antokhina ◽  
Dimitry М. Schepetov
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Remarkable Case ◽  
The North ◽  
Haplotype Networks ◽  
New Findings

In present paper, we report the first findings of two large and conspicuous nudibranch species for Russian waters - Goniodoris nodosa and Flabellina pellucida. Both species show wide distribution in the northeastern Atlantic waters or even in the north-western Atlantic in the case of F. pellucida. The morphology of both species was studied using anatomical dissections and scanning electron microscopy. Molecular diversity was assessed by sequencing of COI marker and reconstruction of haplotype networks. In the Barents Sea, both species show minor genetic differences from their European relatives and similar morphological characters. Putative explanations of new findings for Russian Arctic are discussed.

scholarly journals Modeling Myths: On the Need for Dynamic Realism in DICE and other Equilibrium Models of Global Climate Mitigation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Grubb ◽  
Claudia Wieners
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Cost Component ◽  
Abatement Costs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Dice Model ◽  
Climate Damages

We analyze and critique how optimizing Integrated Assessment Models, and specifically the widely-used DICE model, represent abatement costs. Many such models assume temporal independence –abatement costs in one period are not affected by prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions of dynamic realism in emitting systems: inertia, induced innovation, and path dependence. We extend the DICE model with a stylized representation of such dynamic factors. By adding a transitional cost component, we characterize the resulting system in terms of its capacity to adapt in path-dependent ways, and the transitional costs of accelerating abatement. We formalize a resulting metric of the pliability of the system, and the characteristic timescales of adjustment. With the resulting DICE-PACE model, we show that in a system with high pliability, the optimal strategy involves much higher initial investment in abatement, sustained at roughly constant levels for some decades, which generates an approximately linear abatement path and emissions declining steadily to zero. This contrasts sharply with the traditional formulation. Characteristic transition timescales of 20-40 years result in an optimum path which stabilizes global temperatures around a degree below the traditional DICE behavior; with otherwise modest assumptions, a pliable system can generate optimal scenarios within the goals of the Paris Agreement, with far lower long run combined costs of abatement and climate damages. We conclude that representing dynamic realism in such models is as important as – and far more empirically tractable than – continued debate about the monetization of climate damages and ‘social cost of carbon.’

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