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Social Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation in Costal Regions -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The sociocultural dimension: Why does it matter? Editors' Foreword -- Grit Martinez -- Peter Fröhle -- Hans-Joachim Meier -- Acknowledgements -- Current challenges in coastal adaptation at regional and local levels: Perspectives from multiple scientific disciplines -- Climate change in the Baltic Sea region What do we know? - Marcus Reckermann, Anders Omstedt, Janet F. Pawlak, Hans von Storch -- Abstract -- 1 Global and regional climate change assessments -- 2 The climate of the Holocene - A geo-historical perspective -- 3 The climate of the past 200 years -- 4 Future climate change -- 5 Impacts of current and future climate change in association with non-climatic drivers -- 5.1 Impacts on the environment -- 5.2 Socioeconomic impacts -- 6 Detection and attribution on the regional scale -- 7 Key finings -- 8 Literature -- Public environmental administration and local integration Tasks and perspectives - Hans-Joachim Meier -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tasks of the public environmental administration -- 2.1 Agriculture / EU grant support -- 2.2 Integrated rural development -- 2.3 Nature conservation, water and soils -- 2.4 Immission control and climate protection, waste management and recycling -- 2.5 Coastal protection -- 3 Perspectives for the public environmental administration -- 4 The work of the public environmental administration: Current examples -- 4.1 Example: Sustainability and environmental education -- 4.2 Example: Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive -- 4.3 Example: Coastal and flood defence -- 4.4 Example: RADOST -- 5 Literature -- Regional perspectives concerning climate change and coastal adaptation A comparison between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein - Doris Knoblauch, Nico Stelljes.

What does it take for a society to be able to innovate? The question is crucial today when an increasing share of world patents are taken out by countries such as Japan, South Korea and China, which have limited energy resources and cultures very different from those in the West. However, most previous studies of the beginnings of industrialization have focused on the resources and institutions of Britain alone. As a result, they have missed the lessons to be learned from casting the net more.

This questionnaire study sheds light on the psychological component of kin selecting tendencies predicted by Hamilton's (1964b) inclusive fitness theory of discriminatory altruistic behavior based on genetic similarity. Participants rated donations of assistance aiding survival
and material wealth as more rational and ethical when these actions were performed for closer relatives. Participants also felt a greater obligation to perform these acts for a close relation. A comparison condition where assistance was unlikely to affect survival or reproductive success did
not exhibit these tendencies.

"Social innovation of work and employment are prerequisites to achieve the EU2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. It covers labor market innovation on societal level and workplace innovation on organizational level. This paper focuses on the latter. Workplace innovations are social both in their ends (quality of working life, well-being and development of talents together with organizational performance) and in their means (employee participation and empowerment). Complementary to technological innovations they regard innovations in social aspects of organizations such as work organization, HRM and work relations. Workplace innovation - or innovative workplaces as it is sometimes called - deserves to be better incorporated in EU policies, as also has been recommended by the European Economic and Social Committee and the OECD. Some countries have experienced the benefits of national campaigns already." (author's abstract)

It is argued that the Czech Republic's attention to the social effects of its economic reforms has significantly reduced the negative impact of these reforms, while Poland's ignorance of social aspects of its economic policies has severely hampered the reform process. The social net erected by the Czech Republic in the postcommunist period is credited with reducing social insecurity, while the lack of such a safety net in Poland has led to widespread social displeasure & significant social problems. It is suggested that because of its attention to such issues, the Czech Republic is on its way toward the rebirth of a welfare state, while in Poland, progress has not gone beyond reactive measures.

The article deals with the basic concepts and tendencies of the digital economy. The current state of the digital economy and prospects for its development in Ukraine are analyzed. It is proposed to consider the digital economy development as an element of the social development strategy. The research methodology includes neo-institutional and systemic approaches, as well as analysis of statistics and data from social studies. The work concerns equally the theoretical and applied aspects of the topic. The paper is based on secondary data that has been collected from the official statistics, the Internet, science articles, interviews, papers, etc. The analysis results indicate a relatively unfavorable situation in Ukraine. The digital economy development entails dramatic changes in social relations. These processes include both risks (the market is being restructured in a new way, leading to challenges related to jobs, skills, security and privacy), as well as prospects (stimulating innovation, increasing governance efficiency, improving service delivery, inclusion and sustainable economic growth, the well-being of citizens, countries and society). The society and the state should be properly prepared for such changes. Therefore, the digital economy development in terms of public administration should be seen as an element of a social development strategy that requires proper scientific and expert substantiation. The concept of digital economy development in Ukraine envisages several measures aimed at addressing digital gap (from digital jobs to digital initiatives in the modern world, conducting digitalization of industry and business, defining basic digital services, preparing educational modernization measures, as well as forecasting digital development in Ukraine until 2020). On January 17, 2018, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Concept for the Development of the Digital Economy and Society of Ukraine for 2018-2020 and a plan of measures for its implementation. The document emphasizes that the path to the digital economy and digital society of Ukraine lies through the domestic product market, use and consumption of information and communication or digital technologies. The digital economy development is a set of mechanisms, motivation factors, and incentives for the implementation of digital technologies, and, therefore, a branched digital infrastructure for harnessing the state's capabilities, enhancing its competitiveness, and increasing the well-being of citizens. Currently, Ukrainian market of information products and services is at the stage of formation. The market of information products consists of technical and technological components (modern information equipment, powerful computers, advanced computer network and related information processing technologies, which enables to work on the global computer network Internet, search information, customers, goods, hypertext management technology, e-mail); regulatory and legal components (the legal basis for regulating the information market); organizational components (elements of state regulation of interaction between producers and distributors of information products and services). At the same time, the tasks of identifying specific practical legal, regulatory (organizational), economic and financial infrastructural mechanisms for the development of the «digital society» that would facilitate the rapid growth of the digital economy remain unresolved.