Determining policy recommendations towards electric vehicles incentives in Jakarta using AHP-Entropy

One solution for diminishing carbon outflows is to provide electric vehicles (EV), which can help the sustainable development of the ecosystem in an environmentally way. Jakarta, as a capital city with high levels of pollution, has forced the government to recognize the need for policymakers to correct environmental failures through effective policy solutions. To support policy-driven adoption of EV, incentives shall be given to stimulate EV users. Current regulations have not yet explained regulations for EV’s, direct and indirect consumer benefits, infrastructure for charging, and complementary policies. This paper will compare the world’s best EV policy which will determine the main policy criteria to be developed for Jakarta’s regulation using the analytical hierarchy process and entropy method in giving scaled preferences of sets of standards and alternatives with acceptable inconsistency. AHP is used to determine initial subjective weights from experts, while then entropy will enhance AHP’s weights into objective weight. This study shows that charging infrastructure is the most influential criterion among other criteria followed by consumer incentive, both direct and indirect, complimentary policies, and regulatory incentives. Therefore, it is highly recommended that Jakarta’s government develop EV’s incentive policy in detail as the order above.

The Impact of Environmental Risk Exposure on the Determinants of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Does the increasing awareness of environmental risk exposure also affect intentions to create enterprises which address these social and environmental failures? Besides economic explanations that social and environmental needs and market failure create opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship, it is less clear how cognitive processes and motivations related to sustainable entrepreneurship are shaped by its context. This research integrates environmental risk exposure as a contextual variable into the theory of planned behavior and uses data gathered in the course of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. We provide empirical evidence for the impact of environmental risk exposure on the determinants of sustainable entrepreneurial intention and contribute to a deeper understanding of the formation of sustainable entrepreneurial intention.

Peripheral mobilities: looking at dormant, delegitimized and forgotten transport regimes

In the transport debate, policy makers seem to be under the spell of a technological determinism, in which innovation Tand novelty are the key concepts. Obsessed with westernised regimes and systems, the current debate misses the relevance of forgotten, peripheral and silent mobilities. In this regard, looking to those peripheral mobilities is not only important for reconstructing our memory, but can also offer tools to build socially and environmentally sustainable transport regimes. I suggest using Walter Benjamin’s Angelus Novus to address the past and future of infrastructural systems and the role of “old” regimes. This paper relies on David Edgerton’s work, but I push the argument further, claiming that an innovation-prone debate today creates the (social and environmental) failures of tomorrow. While electric cars and driver-less vehicles can be useful tools, we should consider that peripheral mobilities could better address the issue of socially and environmentally sustainable transports systems. Long-term vision can bridge the past and future of transport policies and offer hints to social science, humanity and governance.

Stock Market Reactions to Auto Manufacturers’ Environmental Failures

The automotive sector must meet strict regulations to increase mobility while reducing emissions to demonstrate environmental stewardship. Trust in the promise of a sustainable Fahrvergnügen was broken with recent scandals like Dieselgate denting the confidence of regulators and consumers. Overpromising on sustainable innovative technology resulted in unethical behavior, deceit, and failure to meet promised standards. We consider to what extent societal disapproval was evident in the stock market reaction to these events. We sampled 41 announcements (1984 to 2016) and observed a mean stock market reaction of -1.01%. There was no difference in the stock reaction in firms failing governmental vs. voluntary standards and more negative reactions for events following Dieselgate or when compensation was offered. The severity of the reaction to unethical misuse of environmental credentials should encourage maintaining promised environmental performances as a macromarketing strategy.

Environmental failures could weaken Iran’s government

Headline IRAN: Environmental risks could weaken the government

Dependence in Infant-Care, in Child-Care and in the Psycho-Analytic Setting

In this paper presented to the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Winnicott examines the nature of transference dependence in a patient using clinical material, and he compares this with the stages of infant and child dependency. This vulnerable dependent patient required a phase of deep dependency on his analyst and a regression to the initial difficulties in her early life. All analysts fail and succeed in this work, but in failing and succeeding, they can help towards change. He comments on Dr Zetzel and her views of his work, correcting how he is represented in the area of early environmental failures.

Psychiatric Disorder in Terms of Infantile Maturational Processes

In a lecture to the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, Winnicott affirms the importance, in psychoneurotic psychoanalytic cases, of the analysis of the ‘three-person relationship’ (the Oedipus complex). But when more ‘psychotic’ elements emerge, deeper work of interpretation and understanding must follow. He discusses the analysis of deep depression, of the mourning processes and of the internally persecuting object in the more borderline patients. The ego of the patient needs to be functioning well for interpretation to serve. He proposes that three areas of his own theory—the functions of integration, personalization and the capacity to relate to objects—need to be considered since early environmental failures may cause psychotic-type difficulties. Analytic techniques of regression to dependence and holding then need to be worked through. He concludes that the processes of schizophrenic illness are the processes of early infantile maturation but in reverse. Important clinical illustrative material is given.