Science topic
European Union - Science topic
Explore the latest questions and answers in European Union, and find European Union experts.
Questions related to European Union
The model was already developed and tested in some parts of the world with unique conditions, but there is a lack of research in the South African context. So, can I adopt a similar model or framework to evaluate the impact of a phenomenon using South African conditions? For example, a new paradigm emerging worldwide is called Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in urban planning. The paradigm proposes adopting nature-based infrastructure and other nature-based solutions to address socio-economic and ecological challenges in urban areas. Several models are available in the literature, especially in EU cities, which evaluate the impact of these solutions, but there is a lack of research in South Africa regarding the applicability and scalability of the solutions. So, my question is whether one can adapt existing models from the EU for example to evaluate the applicability here?
I am currently working on a research about the impacts of migration programs and policies on migrants moving to the EU. My research questions are;
1. Are migration policies honestly made with the intention to favour of migrants?
2. Are there fair balances put in place by the receiving countries to favour both the parties when these policies are made?
Kindly share your thoughts concerning these questions if you have vital contributions. I am also open to collaborating with other researchers if you are currently working on something similar or if you want to work with me on this project.
With more energy generated from renewable energy sources than from fossil fuels in the European Union for the first time ever at the end of July 2024, what are the chances that the European Union can achieve zero-carbon of its economy much earlier than 2050?
For the first time ever at the end of July 2024, more energy was generated in the European Union from renewable energy sources than from fossil fuels. This fact may suggest that due to rapidly developing renewable energy sources, the European Union may achieve zero-carbon of its economy much sooner than 2050. However, the structure of energy sources, including renewable, zero-carbon and emission-based, fossil-fuel-burning energy sources, varies widely across the European Union. Also, the pace of development of individual renewable and emission-free energy sources, the scale of financial investment and the large-scale use and implementation of new green energy technologies and eco-innovation varies considerably across the European Union. On the one hand, in Norway, for example, almost all of the energy generated comes from renewable energy sources. On the other hand, in Poland, since the beginning of the systemic and economic transformation, since 1989, for more than 3 decades financial subsidies were provided from the state's public finance system mainly to the fossil fuel extraction sector and the energy sector based on the combustion of these fuels. As a result, today in Poland, almost 3/4 of the electricity and even more of the thermal energy is still generated from dirty combustion energy based mainly on burning hard coal and lignite. In addition, hard coal mining in Poland within the framework of deep, highly methane mines, especially deep seams for many years is no longer profitable and generates additional costs for the state's public finances. It should be added that 90 percent of coal burned in the European Union to heat homes, apartments, etc. is the share of Poland alone against the background of the aforementioned European Union. And, for example, in Germany, which has a much more developed renewable and emission-free energy sector, for many years housing cooperatives have been generating thermal energy to heat apartments, entire housing estates from renewable energy sources, such as using heat pumps powered by electricity generated from photovoltaic panels. So Poland has a lot of work to do in terms of green energy transition. Unfortunately, the plan to build the first nuclear power plant is once again being postponed by the next government in Poland to an undefined and distant future.
I described the key aspects of a closed-loop economy, including a green, sustainable economy, in my article:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
In the following article, I included the results of the research I conducted on the connection of the issue of sustainable development, the genesis and meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals, the essence of sustainable development in the context of social, normative, economic, environmental, climate, as well as human rights aspects, etc. The research also addressed the issue of key determinants of human existential security as an element of the concept of sustainable development.
HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
I invite you to familiarize yourself with the issues described in the publications given above and to scientific cooperation in these issues.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In view of the fact that for the first time in history at the end of July 2024 in the European Union more energy was generated from renewable energy sources than from fossil fuels, what are the chances that the European Union can achieve zero-carbon of its economy much earlier than 2050?
What are the chances that the European Union can achieve zero-carbon of its economy much earlier than 2050?
And what is your opinion on this topic?
What do you think about this topic?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text, I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
Since 1987 we have been trying to solve a sustainability issue like the eco-economic development issue through sustainable development means, a theory-practice inconsistency, so not surprise the social and environmental sustainability issues the Brundtland Commission highlighted then to be addressed are in worse state today,,,,Pollution still increasing and the sustainability problem more acute.
If the price distortions embedded in Adam Smith's traditional market model thinking are not addressed head on, the Thomas Kuhn.s paradigm evolution loop suggest that the worsening of the environmental abnormalities embedded fully in the traditional market thinking and partially in dwarf green market thinking will push the environmentally patched business as usual model towards collapse, which raises the question: Does the Thomas Kuhn's paradigm evolution loop predicts the future collapse of dwarf green markets?
I think yes, what do you think?
Hello everyone,
I am familiar with the EPA's Cornell Mixing Zone Expert System (CORMIX), which is widely used for environmental impact assessments related to wastewater discharge. CORMIX offers three major subsystems for different discharge configurations and has proven effective in simulating site-specific scenarios.
However, I am looking for free and open-source alternatives to CORMIX that are used in the European Union or in other countries, which can predict and analyze plume characteristics and dilution in mixing zones. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on such tools that are easy to install and user-friendly, particularly for modeling submerged discharges and surface discharges.
Thank you in advance for your insights!
Does the EU smart grid strategy empower consumers to actively participate in the energy transition through demand response programs, energy management solutions, support for prosumer participation, and consumer awareness initiatives for meeting climate change mitigating goals? As a follow-up question, does it give the EU electricity customers greater visibility, control, and incentives to manage their energy usage efficiently? In turn, does the EU aim to harness the collective efforts of households and businesses to achieve a more sustainable and resilient energy system? Kindly comment.
Dear Professor(s)
I am writing this message regarding a project proposal that I am considering submitting within the scope of the Cost projects funded by the European Union. The project team needs to consist of 7 different people. The project I am writing is about creative destruction and artificial intelligence. If you are interested and would like to take part in the project team, I would be thrilled and would like to benefit from your experience and ideas.
Best regards.
Assoc. Dr. Altuğ GÜNAR
You can reach me;
Exism movements since BREXIT 2016 have been described as driven by emotions leading to the idea of Emocracy/Emocracies, but as the social discontent that is usually displayed after exism movements a kind of unexpectedly come to power as traditional democratic thinking is inconsistent with their coming shows is the true majority reaction/true emotions to the realization that the unexpected by the true majority actually has happened. So there are true majority emotions and true minority emotions and targeted chaos is directed at both with different goals, one to reduce the size of the true majority voting power by any means and the other to keep the true minority engaged and overdrive by any means...,Hence, we have the idea of democracy driven by emotions and the other idea of democracy driven by targeted chaos,....And this leads to the question, Why is effective targeted chaos more than emocracy?
You are families with coming and going of exism movements like Brexism 2016-2024, Trumpism 2016-2020, Brazilianism 2019-2023, and other exism movements still active out there, and this raises the question, Can exism movements gain power and/or remain in power without the existence of effective targeted chaos?
I think No. What do you think?
You see some democratic countries since 2016 Brexit failing to deal proactively to avoid or reactively to neutralize internal democracy threats like local exism movement or deal with external democracy threats like permanent authoritarianism and temporary authoritarianism or the cooperation of authoritarianisn. In 2016 perhaps Brexit came as a surprise because of knowledge gaps in democratic theory, but maybe 2016 Trumpism should not have been a surprise as THE SAME PLAYBOOK was at play, and this should have been a wake up call to traditional democracy theory based thinkers to adapt liberal democracy thinking to absorve to the coming new liberal democracy landscape where normal democratic outcomes are competing for power, no longer against other normal democratic outcomes as before 2016, but AGAINST EXTREME DEMOCRATIC OUTCOMES.
It seems in the UK, in the USA, in Europe as a whole, they have been treating extreme democratic outcomes as either normal democratic outcomes or abnormal outcomes without probably realizing that if certain conditions are met, extreme democratic outcomes can become long term temporary authoritarianism periods, and if some other especific conditions are met, democracy will end and extreme democratic outcomes will become permanent authoritarianism. The liberal democracy landscape changed in clear ways in 2016 yet democratic countries keep running the system the same way as they did in the past giving space to exism movements not just to materialize by to gain power. And this raises the question, relevant to all democracies and democratic thinkers: The rise of effective target chaos in 2016 and the failure for democracies to adapt and deal with it, how are they link to exism movements?
I am conducting a study on the economic burden of a number of diseases from a health system and societal perspective in EU countries, so I need data on resource use (drugs and services), including costs. Are there such open access databases in the EU as a whole and in all EU countries? It would be very helpful if you could share such resources. Thanks for your help!
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for co-author. My scientific inetrests are migration and immigrant integration in the EU.
I will be glad to collaborate!
After World War, we have seen the formation of the United Nations. The sovereign body for peacekeeping but with regards to the Russia-Ukraine war it is visible that the UN seems to be ineffective due to VITO power In the hands of Russia and Ukraine is backed by the EU and USA and its allies. In my point of view, UN seems to be ineffective in the resolution of the war.
Thanks.
Hey! I am a Master's level researcher with Degrees in East Asian Studies and Criminology seeking a co-author for an 8,000-word research paper in English, which I plan to submit to the Journal of East Asian Studies, published by the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Yamaguchi University. For more information on the journal and submission guidelines, please visit this link: https://www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/eas/en/journal-of-east-asian-studies/call-for-paper/index.html
The proposed title for the paper is "Japan's Defense Strategy and EU Responses to Taiwan Strait Tensions: Impact on Indo-Pacific Stability." This research will delve into how Japan is recalibrating its defense policies in response to increasing tensions in the Taiwan Strait and how the European Union is positioning itself in this evolving scenario. The study will analyze the interplay between Japan's strategic shifts and the EU’s strategic responses, examining their combined effects on regional stability in the Indo-Pacific. The goal is to provide a nuanced understanding of how these interactions influence broader security dynamics and contribute to regional equilibrium.
If you have expertise in East Asian security, international relations, or EU-Japan strategic cooperation, and are interested in collaborating on this timely and impactful project, please get in touch. I look forward to the opportunity to work together on this important issue.
How to develop investments in renewable energy sources, so that clean, emission-free, energy from RES does not go to waste, and so that the funds invested in the development of energy based on RES generate as much efficiently used energy as possible?
In April 2024, the European Union reached a historically record level of 33.8 percent share of clean energy. Wind and solar power dominated this share in terms of RES energy generated. There is still a high level of variation across countries in the European Union in the share of clean energy based on renewable and zero-emission energy sources.
In Norway, for example, the share of clean energy from RES is as high as 98 percent on average, while in Poland it is only 27.1 percent. In April 2024, only about one-third of the energy generated in the European Union came from dirty energy based on combustion power, where energy was generated from burning fossil fuels, mainly coal, lignite and gas.
In April 2024, Poland, too, saw a historically record amount of energy generated from RES at 30 percent of the total energy mix. Solar and wind power dominated this 30 percent of renewable and carbon-free energy sources. From wind it was half of this 30 percent. However, due to insufficient investments made over the last few decades of time in the development of transmission grids, much of this energy generated from wind and solar, i.e. from the cheapest sources of energy and at the same time clean, emission-free energy, was not accepted by power companies from prosumers and simply went to waste. Since there are large losses of produced and unused energy from RES sources, it means that the investments made earlier in the development of emission-free and renewable energy sources are also partially wasted. In Poland, the large power companies dominating the energy sector, which still generate energy mainly through combustion power from burning coal and lignite, invest too little in the development of transmission networks and storage facilities for the energy generated. However, thanks to the financial subsidies unblocked by the European Union, also granted to Poland as part of the National Economic Recovery Plan after the pandemic economic crisis of 2020, it will be possible to accelerate the processes of green energy transformation. A large part of the European Union countries have already benefited from these subsidies for 2 years.
I have described the key issues concerning the problems of green transformation of the economy in the following article:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The key issues of the problematic sources of Poland's exceptionally deep energy cross in 2022 are described in my co-authored article below:
POLAND'S 2022 ENERGY CRISIS AS A RESULT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND YEARS OF NEGLECT TO CARRY OUT A GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF THE ENERGY SECTOR
I invite you to familiarize yourself with the issues described in the above-mentioned publications, as well as to scientific cooperation in these issues.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
How to develop investments in renewable energy sources, so that clean, emission-free, RES energy does not go to waste, and so that the funds invested in the development of RES-based energy generates as much efficiently used energy as possible?
How to develop investments in renewable energy sources so that clean, emission-free, RES energy does not go to waste?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text, I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
APC - Article Processing Charge. My research is related to India's textile and clothing exports to the EU.
In the EU and the USA, politicians are currently preaching excessive warmongering and hatred of Russians and Chinese. Where does this unnecessary and irrational desire to kill and destroy come from? Is this some kind of psycho-pathological misanthropy?
Choose your country of voting and your preferred language to find out how to vote. As an EU citizen, you can vote in your country of origin, from abroad or in the EU country you live in. Please note that registration might be required in order to vote.
I am wondering what percentage of the total landmass in the EU is considered as domestic/private gardens (with or without allotments/community gardens), but not limited to data solely from allotments? Or what percentage of urban green areas in the European Union is considered as domestic gardens? Could someone provide reliable data on this along with a reference? Many thanks in advance.
Think of the environmental sustainability problem the Brundtland Commission highlighted and documented in 1987(WCED) in “Our Common Future” as an environmental pollution production market problem, the consequence of a market failure that was always there and which has always been there embedded in the perfect traditional market thinking, but it was assumed away using environmental externality neutrality assumptions. A problem that can only be solved by internalizing the environmental cost of production in the pricing mechanism of the traditional market to shift it to green market pricing. Hence, only when we fix the root cause of the environmental pollution production problem, the environmentally distorted traditional market prices, we address the environmental pollution problem head on as when doing this we are making environmental pollution reduction a good business opportunity for green producers.
Since we have not fixed the root cause of the problem yet as there are no green markets in place today to transition green economies towards the environmentally clean economies; then this raises the question: Is the current traditional circular economy thinking push worse for the environment than the perfect traditional market economy thinking of Adam Smith that created the environmental problem in the first place?
If Yes, why? If, No, why not?
What do you think?
In the last Eurobarometer, 70% of the répondant said that EU had an impact on their lives. But is there a causal effect between saying that the EU impacts our lives, and going to vote? Do citizens see the act of voting usefull because they think EU can impact their lives?
As part of the project we are currently working on, "Social and Motivation Effects of Virtual Reality in Distance Education," we are looking for a reliable data source for a database of distance education (fully online, not blended) in Europe.
We are specifically looking for databases from reliable sources of individual EU countries (e.g., from the Ministry of Education), providing data on universities offering distance education (university name; name of the study program/field; type of study like bachelor's, master's, doctoral; language of instruction; duration of study, etc.
We would be very grateful for any provided source or advice.
I am going to conduct a research on clean energy. For this, I need historical data for solar photovoltaic investment by different EU countries. What would be the possible data source(s) for solar photovoltaic investment by the different EU countries from 2000 to 2021? Can anybody suggest me? Thanks in advance.
Hi everyone :)
For my master's thesis, I have to test these hypotheses:
"H2(a). The exposure to French ingroup projection frames in relation to the European Union's policy leads towards less Euroscepticism among French participants compared to Belgian participants."
And
"H2(b). The exposure to Belgian ingroup projection frames in relation to the European Union's policy leads towards less Euroscepticism among Belgian participants compared to French participants."
- My dependent variable, 'Euroscepticism', is continuous (Likert scale)
- My independent variables are 'Exposure ingroup projection frames' with 3 categories (control, French ingroup projection frames, and Belgian ingroup projection frames), and 'nationality' which also has 2 categories (Belgian, French).
I tried a Two-way ANOVA but since nationality does not have 3 categories I cannot do the posthoc test and the mean difference of Euroscepticism between French and Belgian for French ingroup projection frames is not accurate so I don't which means the software is comparing.
I was thinking of a multiple regression to test these hypotheses, but would it be accurate?
Thank you in advance for your answer and have a nice day :)
Manon.
As the european elections are coming, I was wondering whether the nomination of a new Prime minister in France - if considered as a strategical choice from the president to win the elections - couldn't hide the european issues that underline the elections. Indeed, given that the Prime minister will be judged on his national policy, is there not a risk that, again, the elections will be national-centered? Then, in a context in which the European Union is threatened by nationalists parties, wouldn't this conjoncture cause a real damage to the EU?
What in your opinion is going to be how the war is going to end? Would the Russians withdraw her troops and allow Ukraine to remain a Defacto member of NATO and the EU ?
When it comes to climate change decision makers always tell you follow and respect the science.
When it comes to pandemics like Covid 19 decision makers always told you to respect and follow the science, ...
BUT when it comes to economics, decision makers are not calling for follow and respect the science. They quietly have apparently moved away of requiring economics to stay a science.
Since 2012 when decision makers avoided to shift from traditional market thinking to green market thinking, the science based evolution point a la Thomas Kuhn as there was consensus then for paradigm change, they have slowly move away from science by going dwarf green markets a la environmental externality management first, and now it seems they are going to square one, circular economic thinking, a thinking totally delinked from the problem we are supposed to be trying to solve, the environmental problem.
Hence, there are science based ways to fix the environmental problem and there are non-science based to patch and manage the environmental problem.
But science follows the scientific truth, if the science does not support what those decision makers want to do, no matter how much they play with the theory and the practice, why support thinking not based on science aimed at perpetuating the problem?
And this raises the question: If climate change action is based on science and the economy to implement it is not, is that good for the environment?
I think No, what do you think? If you think Yes, why? If you think No, why no?
Note; This is an academic question, not a political one.
Think about it, the WCED 1987 told us among other things that to be environmentally friendly we have to go beyond business as usual using sustainable development means, which by 2012 Rio + 20 the world had agreed that the WIN-WIN economy and environment model was the way to shift to a world under green markets, green growth, and green economies, BUT then soon since 2012 the environmentally sustainability pretending began as instead of green markets the world ended up with green dwarf green markets, dwarf green growth, and dwarf green economies. But now that PRETENDING seems to be coming to an end AS the world, against 100% the Thomas Kuhn's paradigm evolution loop expectation seems ready to go back to square one as in 1987, but now with CIRCULAR traditional economic thinking and academic tunneling. And this raises the question, Does going traditional circular economic thinking means the environmental sustainability pretending is over?
What do you think? Yes, and why you think so? No, and why you think No?
There are still a huge number of direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuels at all levels. Main reason is to sustain national industries and improve their competitiveness. In addition, it is deemed that low-income families should be supported for their Energy expanses. For these reasons, I think, governments are very reluctant to withdrawn subsidies. Maybe an EU directive could put all the Country subsidies at similia Level and improve fair competition in the EU market, releasing big financial amount for the renewables.
We could start from an harmonisation of the VAT in all member states.
Under dwarf green markets if the system is leading to market failure, should we expected the governments to act as environmental externality policy correctors and enforcers in the face of social pressure?
I think No, what do you think?
It is not easy to justify that making traditional economic thinking circular is a win-win economy and environment move as then you would need to use ALTERNATIVE ACADEMIC FACTS, and perhaps that may be the reason I see researchers in Researchgate pushing or promoting this idea, but I have not seen it yet in ACADEMIA.
And this raises the question, Is circular economic thinking currently a purely European/researchgate phenomenon?
Do you see the same thing? What do you think?
The WCED 1987 documented traditional economic thinking as the source of social and/or environmental sustainability as it turned out to be socially and/or environmentally unfriendly.
This is because traditional market pricing only account for the economic costs at a profit, and hence, traditional markets are externalizing social and/or environmental cost associated with economic activity. AS TRADITIONAL MARKET EXPANDS, THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES AND THEIR SUSTAINABILITY GAPS EXPAND.
Hence, Making traditional economic thinking circular still has the social and environmental externality problem associated with it SO IT CAN NOT BE THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS IT CREATES. This means that selling circular economic thinking as the solution of sustainability problems requires either paradigm shift knowledge gaps or willful academic blindness as the drivers of willful academic tunneling as the mean to present it or promote it.
And this raises the question; Can we make circular economic thinking the solution of critical problems like the environmental unsustainability without the use of alternative academic facts?
I think No, what do you think? Yes, why you think so? No, why you think so?
We know since 1987 WCED that traditional economic thinking is social and environmentally unfriendly as it has led to social and/or environmental sustainability problems, which sustainable development thinking had tried to address since then.
We should know then that the circular market still has the same sustainability problems as the old traditional market.
And this raises the question, Are economic linearity and economic circularity BOTH environmentally unfriendly?. I yes, why?
Looking for Agricultural Economics Conference in EU, first half od 2024.
Do Canadian Universities have a similar Research Excellence Framework as the UK, NZ, some EU and Australian universities? I have searched for this but have not found a conclusive answer.
Interview Questions:
Understanding Expertise:
"Could you please share your background and experience in the retail industry, particularly in relation to AI technologies? What makes you an expert in this field?"
Value Co-creation (Theory of Value Co-creation):
"How do you see AI technologies enabling value co-creation between retailers and customers in the European Union? Can you provide specific examples?"
"What role do customers play in value co-creation when AI is implemented in retail services?"
Resource-Based View:
"From a resource-based perspective, what are the key resources and capabilities that retailers need to effectively implement and leverage AI technologies?"
"How can retailers in the European Union build competitive advantage through AI-driven resources and capabilities?"
Diffusion of Innovations:
"How have you observed the diffusion of AI innovations within the retail sector in the European Union? What factors have contributed to the adoption or resistance of these technologies?"
"Can you share examples of how retailers have successfully adopted AI innovations to enhance their operations and customer experience?"
AI Concepts and Developments:
"Can you discuss the current developments in AI technology that are particularly relevant to the retail sector in the European Union?"
"How have these developments impacted the operational efficiency and customer personalization in retail?"
AI Applications in Retail:
"What are some innovative applications of AI in the retail sector, and how do they contribute to cost-effectiveness and value creation?"
"Can you provide examples of AI-driven services that have significantly improved customer engagement and loyalty in the European Union?"
Barriers and Enablers to AI Adoption:
"What are the main barriers to AI adoption in the retail industry in the European Union, and how can they be addressed?"
"Can you discuss any enablers that facilitate the successful implementation of AI in retail?"
Data Privacy and Ethics in AI:
"How do retailers address data privacy and ethical considerations when implementing AI technologies? Can you provide examples of best practices in this area within the European Union?"
Implications of AI in Retail:
"What are the implications of AI integration within retail management practices in the European Union? How does AI shape the future of retail business models?"
"What advice would you give to retailers looking to leverage AI for cost-effectiveness and value creation?"
Final Thoughts:
"Is there anything else you would like to share or think is important for my research on the impact of AI on cost-effectiveness and value creation in the European Union's retail industry?"
Hi there, I am planning to conduct a research on 'Enhancing the generation of electricity from RES for stabilizing the energy market'. I am thinking to use 'energy trade index' for the EU countries in the model for different years to calculate the degree of energy market integration. Now, how can I get the dataset or from where can I get the dataset? Thanks in advance.
Social evonomic rights in the gorm of workless wage is accepted in EU and refugees are entitled.
However, the satisfaction of this right ad part of rights to sustained living equality or economic equality due to hostility in adopted country causes other inequalities duch as work contract inequality: some work and get reimbursed some get without work.
Isn"t this inequality a serious one given that the right to life costs state benefits is a non fundamental human right ?
Avoiding the shift from perfect traditional market thinking to perfect green market thinking since 2012 RIO +20 has created a deep green market paradigm shift knowledge gap.
Flipping perfect traditional market thinking to imperfect dwarf green market thinking since 2012 to avoid the shift to perfect green markets has created a deep dwarf green market paradigm flip knowledge gap too.
These knowledge gaps are apparently helping those researchers and institutions implementing development under permanent environmental market failure as well as confusing environmental stakeholders on proper place for action and protest as the responsibility of governments, of businesses and of consumers are changed, and even inversed depending on the market in question.
And this raises the question, green market paradigm shift knowledge gaps and dwarf green market paradigm flip knowledge gaps, are they academic tunneling/willful blindness push helpers?
What do you think?
A lot seems to be coming out in publications about the circular economy or sustainable development and the circular economy or circular economy and sustainability or circular economy, sustainable development and global warming...and so on.
All researchers and publications seems to have the same theme of directly or indirectly indicating that the broken circularity traditional market economy can be made circular by non-green market means; and hence, they advocate circularity without indicating where the circularity problem came from or comes from; hence, without indicating whether they are fixing a broken circularity problem or patching that broken circularity problem plus their circularity thoughts seem to be disconnected from the need to one day transition away from the pollution production based economies to the pollution free economies....
They seem to start with addressing the consequences of the broken circularity problem without any regards with respect to fixing the root cause of the broken circularity problem.
And this raises the question, Can you have a circular green economy without green markets? If No, why No? If Yes, why yes?
Now 40% of the Earth’s population is with the BRICS system. Is there any fear for the global system led by America and the European Union in confronting this system?
Natural, desire, rational or irrational,
I am Cali,
I am not European,
I am Cali Union,
I am Not European Union.
When addressing the socio-environmental challenges associated with the traditional economy mainstream researchers and organizations start from the point of view "Our current economy is linear” “ The economy of the future is circular”, taking the position that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems, see for example: https://www.metabolic.nl/what-we-do/circular-economy/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwpJWoBhA8EiwAHZFzfoJkA5YMY6R6Crk_hIVmoam5SZZ8zjojNJOsh6PgMWygbt0t8LV8TRoCupMQAvD_BwE
They seem to be doing this without asking themselves the question, why is the current economy linear? Since when it has been linear? Could not be that the root cause of that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems? If this was the case, then addressing linearity by going circular a la traditional market still leaves the root cause of the problem untouched and active.
And this raises the question: Is economy linearity the root cause of social, economic, and environmental challenges? If yes, why?. If not, why not?
What do you think?
Imaging there is an ongoing water leak coming down the ceiling of your business, you can either fix the water leak or you can patch it through management. Suppose all businesses have the same problem. All businesses together have a huge lobbying power.
Then you can look at the fixing solutions from the free market and non-free market point of view or from the science based and non-science based point of view or from the pollution reduction market and pollution management market point of view.
In other words, you would be dealing with the situation from the naked environmentalist and from the environmentalism with a mask point of view, where proper solutions compete with improper solutions, and improper solutions win.
Which raises the question: Can the solutions to the water leak dilemma be used to stress the solutions to the environmental pollution dilemma? And used to describe the supremacy of the improper solution?
What do you think?
I have just published this paper about heritage interpretation and the use of virtual reality (VR) to digitise a World War II air raid shelter in Malta (EU).
Every time I work on the subject or read about it I ask myself the the question:
Will digital (digitisation) ever overtake the physical interpretation of heritage? Will we ever consider a digitised version of a place or artefact as good as the real thing?
What is your opinion on this? My paper gives an answer to this question, but it is the near future that I am looking at.
Thanks.
Europe ponders ‘no pay’ open-access plan
quote : The Council of the European Union has recommended a ‘no pay’ academic-publishing model in which neither readers nor authors are billed for academic papers. Critics say that the plan could usher in a state-defined system that might stymie academic freedom and abolish an industry without considering who would pay for the alternative. Supporters, such as the German Research Federation, say the principles would lower the barriers to participation in academic discourse. “There’s a recognition that we need to move beyond the [article processing charge] APC,” says publishing consultant Rob Johnson. “The question is: just how is that done?”
Ref: Nature Briefing , 5th June 2023, Reference: Council of the European Union forum conclusions
think that this situation constitutes a challenge for European countries to move towards liberation from dependence on the Russian oil market in particular, and on traditional energies in general, but the big problem is who is financing this transition??? Can alternative energies cover the huge market for conventional energies???
This can happen in countries that enjoy energy independence, such as the nordic countries, where they invest in the huge revenues from conventional energies exports to finance alternative energies projects. As for the rest of the countries, the question remains.............
On March 21, 2022 the EU endorsed the "Strategic Compass" a strategic document that provided a specific timeline for establishing a Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) of approximately 5.000 troops by 2025. On June 29, 2022 NATO also adopted its new Strategic Concept that encouraged the EU's autonomy. The same concept was promoted by the National Security Strategy of the US that was issued on October 12, 2022. Do you think that this actions will lead to the establishment of a EU Army? What parameters do you think that should be taken into consideration?
We are glad to invite you to submit papers and participate in the International Conference “Sustainable Development of European Smart Cities”, on 9th – 10th of JUNE 2023, IASI (Jean Monnet Project no. 20415-EPP-1-2020-1-RO-EPPJMO-MODULE, European Smart Cities for Sustainable Development (SmartEU), within the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union).
We encourage papers that cover topics including (but not limited to):
●Green and smart technologies for Smart City;
●Smart Governance and Smart Democracy for EU citizens’ well-being;
●Smart People and Smart Working for a resilient European Union;
●Knowledge Management in Smart City Development;
●Heritage and cultural tourism;
●The role of emerging technologies in Smart Cities;
●Smart Cities Marketing;
●E-Society: online communication and collaboration;
● Cyberbullying and digital citizenship education.
For more information, please check our website: http://smarteu.uaic.ro/Pages/Start.aspx
Since 2016 we have come to see that liberal democracies under majority rule can lead to normal democratic outcomes/normal democratic movements; and extreme democratic outcomes/extreme exism movements like Brexit, Usexit/Trumpism, Brazilexit, Italianexit….and so on. We have come to see also that exism movements cannot be in power forever under majority rule and the independent rule of law based liberal democracies. As the world view of a normal liberal democracy is the inverse of the world view of the extreme liberal democracy, this leads to the question: Inverse reality and exism movements: How are they linked?
Any ideas? Please share your own views.
I am looking for statistical data of telework, part-time and other flexibile forms in EU regions and USA? Could you recommend me the best way, how to find it? (Eurostat statistical databases and traditional way are known for me).
Thank YOU!
Matus
Theses:
1. European identity helps the EU to unite European peoples within the EU.
2. European identity is largely based on European values.
3. European values are a historical category (it means that it is always under transformation).
4. European values have became more diverse since EU enlargement.
Question:
What is the role of European values in the formation of European identity, if we take into account the abovementioned theses?
This year CEUR-WS.org publisher has changed the requirements to the authors of the papers to be submitted for the conference. As required by CEUR-WS.org, at least one author of the submission must have at least 5 papers listed in DBLP (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#FAQ-DBLPFOOTPRINT). To check the number of your papers in DBLP, please, go to DBLP site: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/77/11070.html.
If I 'd like to participate in CEUR-WS.org conference then I need to include in my author list another person that has 5 papers listed in DBLP but not made nothing for preparing the conference paper? I think that such requirements is the base of the corruption in the science world. Is it normal?
I think that in more case new author can give a better results as a person that have more than 5 papers in DBLP. This approach of CEUR-WS.org blocks the development of emerging and disruptive science areas.
Both, EU and UK worked intensively for many years to establish close collaborative links in academia and research.
Risk society is oftentimes used to investigate global risk that challenge our traditional societies and push them to move from being mostly concerned with the distribution of wealth into societies that are mostly preoccupied with the distribution of risks. Migration appears to be a challenge that most societies in today's world confront, but what appears is that societies in the Global North are not attempting to address the issue in terms of risk redistribution, but rather seek to outsource the whole challenge to other countries. For instance, the EU is outsourcing the challenge and risk of migration management to transit North African countries, which is the opposite of what Risk Society Theory predicts.
Imaging Adam Smith stating the theory of the perfect green market in 1776 instead of the theory of the perfect traditional market. This has current development implications in terms of current social, environmental and population issues. And this leads to the question: What are the main current negative implications of Adam Smith’s legacy? Why it turned out this way?
What do you think?
Please share your own ideas.
Can anyone help me know what I should expect as an acceptable range of endotoxin in EU/ml from my purified recombinant protein sample, purified using E.coli expression vector.
Whether reading the old Balassa’s foreseeing model of economic integration, the current stage of the EU would show as already ended, but reality is much different.
We`re seeking for someone with an access to air classification unit to process / sieve fine metallic powders? We`re willing to pay for this service and/or we offer authorship in the papers which arose from this research.
I am looking for datasets, including data about:
1. EU agricultural fields boundaries (or, at least on the individual EU country level)
2. EU soil organic carbon map (except FAO map)
3. EU Soil maps. Preferably large scale, up to 1:25,000, 1:50,000
4. Agro-Climatic Zone Map of EU countries
5. Crop data (crop history) linked to a particular field. (eg. farm X has 20 fields with corn in 2022)
6. Results of soil surveys (analyzes). Ideally - carbon content. If not, then at least the humus content.
Thank you for any information you can provide!
I'm working on an article for the Croatian magazine "Teaching History" about the status of History in compulsory education in the European Union. History teachers from the European Union member countries, please answer 5 simple questions. Details are at the link.
Still waiting for answers from:
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Latvia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Do the processes of unifying market, financial, economic, etc. structures on an international scale increase the economic, financial, energy, etc. security of the countries participating in this process?
Does the unification of market structures, an increase in standardization and homogenization of the functioning of economic and financial systems on an international scale, the removal of barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors, the introduction of a common currency cause the acceleration of economic development, an increase in the level of economic and financial stability of the region composed of countries that thus increasingly cooperate with each other economically and not only economically?
An example of the unification of market structures, an increase in standardization and homogenization of the functioning of economic and financial systems on an international scale, the removal of barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors, the introduction of a common currency is the European Union with its area of the common currency, the Euro. European integration includes international cooperation, unifying market structures, removing barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors. A higher level of international economic and financial integration is the adoption of a common currency, e.g. the Euro currency. Poland, just after the system and economic transformation in 1989, because already in the early 1990s, adopted a plan to adjust the economy, financial systems, banking, legal regulations, institutional and organizational issues, etc. to the standards of the European Union, in order to join the EU structures . The central bank in Poland, ie the National Bank of Poland, adopted a strategic plan to combat the then hyperinflation, stabilize the economy and prepare and adjust the financial system, including the banking system, to European Union standards at the very beginning of the 1990s. This process was carried out efficiently and effectively. Poland joined the EU in May 2004. Thus, the aforementioned period of adjustments to the economy, financial systems, banking, legal regulations, institutional and organizational issues, etc., lasted over a decade. The unification of market structures, an increase in the standardization and homogenization of the functioning of economic and financial systems on an international scale, the removal of barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors leads to the reduction of the costs of the implementation of these processes and thus the formation of pro-development impulses that automatically activate economic processes on unified, homogenized markets . As a consequence, economic growth can significantly accelerate and stimulate economic development in the entire region of shared market structures operating in countries that increasingly cooperate with each other. The above-mentioned Unification of market structures, the functioning of economic and financial systems on an international scale, the removal of barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors are also key factors accelerating the processes of economic globalization, globalization of financial systems, etc. Unfortunately, the governments of some, few countries in Europe act as if they did not appreciate these values. For example, unfortunately, this is how the current PIS government of the country in which I operate has operated for 7 years. The plan for Poland to adopt the common currency, the Euro, was adopted at the end of the 1990s. This plan could be implemented a few years after Poland joined the European Union. Unfortunately, the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 caused problems which resulted in the postponement of this plan. However, when the financial markets stabilized after 2009, there could be a return to the implementation of the above-mentioned plan of introducing the Polish economy to the area of the common currency, Euro. However, the political options that took over the reign of power in Poland changed. The current government, which implements a populist economic policy consisting in increasing the scale of centralized state intervention, and finances new socio-economic programs mainly by increasing the public debt and printing the domestic currency PLN. Precisely because the largest socio-economic programs, including anti-crisis shields, which were used during the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic in the form of public financial aid consisting in providing non-repayable subsidies to companies and enterprises, were also based on the reprint of the national currency PLN. The result of the use of additional printing of domestic money during a pandemic on a historically record-high scale was the increase in inflation, which started almost from the beginning of 2021. As the printing of the domestic currency PLN and additional issues of treasury bonds, increasing the public debt are the key instruments for the current government to implement government economic programs, the current government does not want to implement the plan of introducing the Polish economy to the euro area, adopted over two decades ago. As a result, the risk of debt and financial liquidity in the public finance system of the state increases, and inflation continues to rise. Recently, the Central Statistical Office published data showing that in August 2022 inflation increased again and reached a record level of 16.1 percent. Producer inflation is still much higher than consumer inflation, which, combined with the growing interest rates on bank loans, contributes to the deepening economic slowdown, the symptoms of which appeared already in mid-2022. The above-mentioned negative processes, in line with macroeconomic forecasts, will cause a serious downturn in the economy in Poland in the following quarters and in 2023. Core inflation is estimated at around 10 percent. Core inflation is estimated by subtracting food, fuel and energy, i.e. the key factors of international influence, including the impact of the war in Ukraine, from total consumer inflation. As the core inflation generated by internal factors in Poland is much higher than in the European Union, the domestic economic policy, national public policy, public finance management by the government, domestic monetary policy of the politicized central bank, etc. politicized, centrally controlled, interventionist and monetarist, national socio-economic policy in Poland increasingly distances Poland from the plan of adopting the common currency and increases the risk of liquidity and debt of the public finance system of the state. Therefore, in the event of the emergence of another global economic and / or financial crisis in the future, the Polish economy may find itself in a more serious crisis compared to previous crises. Besides, continuing these considerations in order to answer the question: Do the processes of unifying market and financial structures, etc. on an international scale increase the economic and financial security of the countries participating in this process? - further threats that affect the economies and civilization of many countries, such as the currently developing energy crisis and the constantly growing long-term risk of a future climate crisis, can also be taken into account. Transnational economic integration in the European Union also applies to environmental and climate policy, which, unfortunately, also do not belong to the priorities of the current government in Poland. The process of pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the Polish economy, including the energy sector, has been slowed down for 7 years in Poland. The result is still a significant advantage of dirty combustion energy in the generation of electricity and heat in Poland. Energy production in Poland based on the combustion of mainly hard coal and other fossil fuels is still 3/4 of the total energy sector. It is also a result of ignoring the guidelines of the environmental and climate policy of the European Union in Poland for many years. Therefore, the level of energy security in the context of the current energy crisis has been significantly lowered by this type of national energy policy. I examined the issues of the above-mentioned standardization of market structures, the functioning of economic and financial systems on an international scale, the removal of barriers to the cross-border flow of goods and production factors, I examined these issues on the example of the adaptation of the banking system, including commercial banks, to European banking. I have included the results of my research on this issue in articles that were published on my profile of this Research Gate portal. Researchers and scientists studying analogous processes of adjusting market structures, financial systems, banking, etc., are invited to scientific cooperation.
In view of the above, I address the following research question to the Honorable Community of Researchers and Scientists:
Do the processes of unifying market, financial, economic, etc. structures on an international scale increase the economic, financial, energy, etc. security of the countries participating in this process?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Please reply,
I invite everyone to the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz