The place and role of insurance in shaping a “greenˮ economy

The paper implements an institutional and functional approach to determining the place and role of insurance in shaping a “green” economy. The ways of integrating it as a constituent element of the financial system have been considered. The views of scientists involved in various aspects of modelling the “green” economy on the functional utility of insurance have been summarised. The use of the term “green insurance” and the meanings it implies have been analysed. The author has concluded that the relevant concept of “green insurance” is not yet so unambiguous that it can be used as a scientific concept. Another important conclusion that has been brought up for discussion is that the potential of insurance as a risk management tool within the green economy strategy is not to be confined to environmental insurance, but should be considered in expanding its scope of application to include both the fuller coverage of risk carriers and the range of potential hazards.

Learning from Lisbon Or, how postmodernism conquered Portugal

The Amoreiras shopping centre in Lisbon is an icon of Portuguese postmodernism. When it first opened in 1985, its kitsch design stood out conspicuously amidst a landscape of smart Pombaline shopping streets, social housing tower blocks and tourist-friendly houses clad in “traditional” azulejo tiles. But it also reflected a pivotal moment in Portuguese history and still stands today as a reminder of the consumerist aspirations of post-revolutionary Portugal, the neoliberal policies that have come to dominate life in many Western nations and the stark contradictions of global capitalism. Departing from an initial discussion of Amoreiras, this short essay critically explores recent transformations to Lisbon’s urban and architectural landscape and traces their political and economic origins. In so doing, it suggests ways in which postmodernism might be considered a relevant concept for describing contemporary Portuguese society.

Reliable Methodologies and Impactful Tools to Control Fruit Tree Viruses

Viruses are microbes that have high economic impacts on the ecosystem. Widely spread by humans, plant viruses infect not only crops but also wild species. There is neither a cure nor a treatment against viruses. While chemists have developed further research of inefficient curative products, the relevant concept based on sanitary measures is consistently valuable. In this context, two major strategies remain indisputable. First, there are control measures via diagnostics presently addressing the valuable technologies and tools developed in the last four decades. Second, there is the relevant use of modern biotechnology to improve the competitiveness of fruit-tree growers.

Local Resistance and Hybrid Peace

Local resistance and hybrid peace have emerged as useful conceptual frameworks to capture the dynamic interaction between the stakeholders at international and local levels, as well as the forms of peacebuilding that develop as a result. This chapter examines a few major academic debates over these concepts by analyzing relevant examples from the peacebuilding programs in Cambodia. The chapter comprises three parts that will explain local actors’ resistance against externally driven peacebuilding, the process of hybridization, and the hybrid forms of peacebuilding. Each section will briefly introduce conventional debates on the relevant concept, and then demonstrate how each type of interaction materialized in the context of Cambodian peacebuilding.

Over de betekenis van het element ‘algemeen’ in het concept van de algemene vorming

The meaning of ‘general’ in the concept of general education The author aims at a conceptual-analytical approach. Up to now conceptualization and, above all, the realization of general education remained based on fundamental inconsistencies. Its ‘generality’ was accomplished neither individually nor institutionally. Class- and genderspecific discriminations formed a constitutive part of most concepts and of the educational practice as such. The author then discusses some essential characteristics of a presently relevant concept of general education. He concentrates on the comprehensive, ‘synthesizing’ powers of general education and asks whether the socializing and ‘homogenizing’ (Bourdieu) effects of a truly ‘general’ education can also be regarded as a contribution to autonomizing individuation. The considerations are primarily based on Humboldt and the recent recommendations of the Collège de France (1985).

Quantum mechanics and entropic gravity via the principle of stationary von Neumann entropy and quantropy

This paper utilizes the principle of stationary entropy to derive Feynman path integral formalism of quantum mechanics and entropic gravity formalism that recovers the Einstein field equations in the classical limit. For dynamics, the relevant concept of entropy is quantropy, proposed by John Baez et al. For statics, the relevant concept of entropy is von Neumann entropy.

The Fall of the Honest Broker

Thus far, this book has focused on concepts which have played a crucial role in formulating the debate between economically minded and progressively minded scholars about the policy and content of corporate reorganization law. In contrast with these earlier chapters, Chapter 8 is concerned with a concept which has not divided corporate reorganization law scholars to date, but which now interacts with another corporate law field in a new way. The relevant concept is the concept of transparency and disclosure, and the proximate field in question is the law of insider trading. Chapter 8 explores why shifts in identities in the finance field raise entirely new questions about the implications of transparency and disclosure for insider trading and market abuse liability in both the US and England.

Pro-Subjective Enterprise Concept

The article is devoted to the enterprise concept theoretical framework development, which is objectified in both Civil and Economic codes of Ukraine. Thus, named concepts are fundamentally different. In particular, Civil Code of Ukraine recognises enterprise as an object. In the same time Economic code gives a birth to prosubjective enterprise concept. Nevertheless, both legal acts are aimed to regulate economical relationships, which results to doctrinal and practical needs to identify the optimal approach of understanding the nature of enterprise under the current legislation of Ukraine. In order to identify the place of the enterprise in the system of subjects of economic relations, the relevant concept is compared with other subjects of the economic relations (business entity; business organization) and with the intersectoral participant of business relations – a legal entity. Based on the analysis of these concepts, the Authors claimed a non-systematic approach to concept defining under the Economic Code of Ukraine and other shortcomings of legislative techniques in the definition of the enterprise under named act, which resulted in the absence of a clearly constructed system of subjects of economic law. Thus, the establishment of the place of the enterprise in the relevant system seems impractical

Geistige Gesundheit und kulturelle Pathologie bei Nietzsche

This paper reconstructs Nietzsche’s conception of spiritual illness, especially as exhibited in various forms of the bad conscience, and asks what positive, ennobling potential Nietzsche finds in it. The relevant concept of spirit is arrived at by reconstructing Nietzsche’s conception of life and then considering what reflexive life – life turned back against itself – would look like. It distinguishes four independent features of spiritual illness: the measureless drive to make oneself suffer, self-opacity (or mendaciousness), life-denial, and a self-undermining dynamic in which life exhausts the sources of its own vitality. The paper ends by considering various suggestions as to how these features of spiritual illness might also be preconditions of great spiritual health, including the preconditions for erecting new “ideals.”

Apt Emotions and Normative Continuity

This chapter characterizes a set of parallel assumptions. One, shared by many otherwise different contemporary philosophical treatments of the emotions, is that our affective responses are susceptible to assessments of rationality, fittingness, or some other notion of aptness. The other is that analogous norms of fittingness apply to those emotions directed at what is only fictional, or what is only imagined to be the case. This chapter identifies the relevant concept of emotional aptness that is at play in both kinds of assumptions, and which is at the core of the disagreement between the theses of normative continuity and normative discontinuity. The chapter then develops and assesses arguments in favor of the continuity thesis: the claim that the criteria determining such aptness of responses to contents of artistic representations apply invariantly to responses to analogous states of affairs in real life.