Suchergebnisse

Multiple impacts of energy efficiency
Multiple impacts of energy efficiency are at everyone's fingertips with the MICATool, Frederic Berger, Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, explains. Energy efficiency measures can have positive and negative effects beyond the usual measure of energy savings. These effects are called multiple impacts of energy efficiency (also referred to as multiple benefits, co-benefits, non-energy benefits, or ancillary benefits). Multiple impacts cover a broad spectrum of sustainability's environmental, social, and economic aspects.

Inequality is a pivotal concern for social scientists, manifest within and across communities globally. Geoffrey DeVerteuil provides a provocative discussion about the contours of inequality in the city and offers a heuristic framework aimed at its understanding. I focus on three aspects of DeVerteuil's arguments: the importance of reconsidering radical political economy theory to understand urban change and bridge disparate traditions; how the lopsidedness of the city is conceptualized; and whether and how his arguments can be extended to other contexts.

Despite its small size, with a population of only 3.4 million, and its geographical location, sandwiched between two giants such as Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay frequently features in the international press. These regular appearances are generally to highlight positive aspects regarding its solid institutions, its democratic credentials, its economic stability and predictability, its social protection […]
La entrada Uruguay's high public debt and low credit risk puzzle: 'what you don't see is what you get' se publicó primero en Elcano Royal Institute.

This paper explores the role of language and storytelling as fundamental aspects of human experience. It emphasizes the importance of critical media literacy in today's tech-dominated world, where diverse stories and media are essential for democracy and freedom. The paper also highlights the impact of social media on storytelling and the need to challenge the dominance of profit-driven platforms. It underscores the power of storytelling through play and critical media literacy in shaping our understanding of the world and advocating for diverse perspectives.

The article, on the basis of various sources, some aspects of the influence of globalization processes on the socio-political outlook of an individual are revealed. Also in it. Also, in the current period, the process of globalization is expanding, which affects the new look and development of the world political space. It was revealed that the global development of states in the world political space is, first of all, a new joint development of all countries and peoples of the world in political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and psychological terms

The article is devoted to one of the important problems of the political culture . During the research from the modern socio-political science assert that the culture of speech and rhetoric are one of the most important issues in the evolutionof societyIn this connection, in the works of Persian and Tajik thinkers, one can frequently find different aspects of this problem and features of the use of rhetoric. Particularly, the artistic word, which has a social content, promote to accelerate the process of change in society.

This article summarizes the most relevant aspects of the most advanced integration process in South America: The Common Market of the South or MERCOSUR. It is described from origins of MERCOSUR, its organizational structure, its economic-commercial and political evolution and its legal-institutional dimension to its external relations and participation in multilateral negotiations. It also describes the progress related to the process of social and citizen integration and the measures that MERCOSUR has adopted to face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

In June every year, the graduate class of Film and Broadcasting at TU Dublin is usually preparing to premiere their final-year work, but as with all aspects of life today in 2020, this year's cohort of students faced a unique set of challenges. Covid-19 restricted group activity, so the BA in Film & Broadcasting final-year group had to make entirely solo projects that conformed to government guidelines on social distancing. The result is this showreel of six extraordinary films made during the Covid-19 crisis.

The growing spread of misinformation and dis-information has grave political, social, ethical, and privacy implications for society. Therefore, there is an ethical need to combat the flow of fake news. This paper attempts to resolves some of the aspects of this combat by presenting a high-level overview of TRUSTD, a blockchain and collective signature based ecosystem to help news creators getting their news backed by the community, and to help users to judge on the credibility and correctness of these news.

An article presents selected theoretical and empirical aspects of functioning information in social and economical dimensions of contemporary democratic political systems. Quantitative and qualitative levels of analysis were highlighted. New developmental forms of the information society were the object of consideration. Some skills related to the use of information and communication technologies were presented. The labour market's situation in the digital economy was include in the analysis. Profession of the information broker was used as an empirical example of that situation. Lastly, a sequential model of information broker's activity was proposed.

The Slovak political system has changed rapidly since the Republic's formation in 1993. Today the number of ideologically conservative political parties is rapidly rising. This article clarifies some aspects of recent party-political developments in Slovakia. To provide an overview, only the most important social milestones have been taken into account. Specifically, the 2015 referendum on the protection of the 'traditional family', the mass civic protests that erupted in 2012 and 2018, and the business–mafia–political connections that have been exposed will be discussed.

This article aims to address gender violence and femicide through the analysis of several aspects related with its reality and current problematic or conundrum, the new standards to widen gender perspective in the ministerial practices and judicial reasoning, as well as the controversies and tensions generated by the social risk related to impunity and the current control policies and exception categories created to fight femicides and violence against women with the principles and fundaments wherewith the criminal justice system and human rights operate in Mexico.

Цифровые технологии коренным образом изменили образование. В статье представлены положительные и отрицательные аспекты влияния современных цифровых технологий на систему образования. Рассмотрено влияние экономических, политических, социальных и технологических тенденций, существующих в современном обществе и их влияние на обучение. ; Digital technologies have revolutionized education. The article presents the positive and negative aspects of the impact of modem digital technologies on the education system. The influence of economic, political, social and technological trends existing in modem society and their impact on education is considered.

This text describes on a synthetic way the history that characterizes the development of public Latin America´s universities. Through an intense literature review three core aspects are identified: enrollment generalization, the growth of private institutions and the politicization within the processes, considered as an essential part of the public universities in the continent. The analysis states that even if they are not negative, these characteristics are by themselves product of a history loaded by the social mobility and by the citizenship formation.

AbstractMinimum wage is one of the most debated issues in the labour policy area. Often perceived as a trade-off between employment and equality in earnings, the debate on minimum wage is highly polarized. With regard to the undergoing discussions on the Social Pillar of the European integration, we aim to extend the debate to include the aspect of minimum living standards, by empirically showing the gap between minimum wages and the minimum living wages in the peripheral countries of the European Union.JEL Classification:J39