scholarly journals A low carbon economy and society

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (1986) ◽  
pp. 20110566 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Urry
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
World War ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Carbon Economy

This paper examines various aspects of moving from high carbon economies and societies to a cluster of low carbon systems. First, some historical material is considered from the Second World War and the 1970s, periods with some lessons for the contemporary ‘powering down’ of whole societies. Second, analysis is provided of some green shoots of a powering down of existing systems identifiable in the contemporary developed world. Third, analysis is provided of the array of systems, social practices and innovations that would have to develop in order to effect powering down on a sufficient scale and within an appropriate time period. Most examples are drawn from transport and mobility. Finally, the paper demonstrates just why developing new systems is so hard, especially as this must involve a transformed cluster of systems. The forces that make a new cluster unlikely are exceptionally powerful and make this a very difficult but not impossible outcome.

South Asian Developmental Crisis (Review Article)

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Rafiq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Made In

Like nations and civilizations, sciences also pass through period of crises when established theories are overthrown by the unpredictable behaviour of events. Economics is passing through such a crisis. The challenge thrown by the Great Depression of early 1930s took a decade before Keynes re-established the supremacy of economics. But this supremacy has again been upset by the crisis of poverty in the vast under-developed world which attained political independence after the Second World War. Poverty had always existed but never before had it been of such concern to economists as during the past twenty five years or so. Economic literature dealing with this problem has piled up but so have the agonies of poverty. No plausible and well-integrated theory of economic development or under-development has emerged so far, though brilliant advances have been made in isolated directions.

Modes of Interreligious Engagement

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Clémence Boulouque
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
World War ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
Second World

Chapter 16 examines the theory and practices of interreligious rapprochement, encounters, and dialogue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Retracing the stages of such endeavors prior to the Second World War helps refine the categories used to describe these modes of interaction and to consider how they have applied to intellectual efforts and social practices, including the Second Vatican Council in 1965, against the conceptual legacy of Benamozegh. Because Benamozegh’s work aimed to bring about religious unity, and because he found a disciple in Aimé Pallière and a posthumous audience for his calls to promote coexistence, assessing the implementation of this prescriptive and convoluted thought is a necessary conclusion of this study.

The London-based Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee: A paradigm of collective action in the shipping sector, 1930–1950

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilias Bissias ◽  
Panagiotis Kapetanakis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

In 2016, the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee (GSCC) celebrated its 80th anniversary in London. This article, which is part of an ongoing research project on the development of the GSCC in the twentieth century, provides a new interpretive framework by using the tools of historical institutionalism to study and understand the circumstances that led to its establishment, operation and broad activity in London, England. Furthermore, it seeks to answer the question of how the GSCC, as an independent institutional body of the Greek shipping industry, became a successful paradigm of concerted and collective action within a business sector that is known for its spirit of individualism. The particular time period under consideration in this article is the early 1930s to the early post-war years (1946–1950), excluding the Second World War, when exceptional conditions obliged the Committee to alter its normal mode of working.

The Effects and Countermeasures of Low-Carbon Economy on China’s International Competitiveness of Industries

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 1216-1219
Author(s):  
Jian Bo Hu
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Strategic Objective ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Carbon Economy

Contradiction between the environment and economic development have become increasingly prominent, high-carbon development model of the world economy is more difficult to maintain, low-carbon development has becomea strategic objective of all countries. Countries hold low-carbon technologies, the establishment of a green trade barriers, lack of core technology and our industry, lack of international competitiveness of exports facing enormous challenges. For this reason, the paper deeply analyzes the impact of a low-carbon economy on the international competitiveness of the industry and made a reasonable suggestions and strategies from both countries and companies on how to enhance the international competitiveness of industry.

The Research of Path to Realize Low-Carbon Economic Development in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 756-759
Author(s):  
Jiang Hua Ma
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Carbon Economy ◽  
China’S Economy

China's industrialization and modernization process is actually the development process of high-carbon economic. But the economic structure of the high consumption and low output of is not conducive to the sustainable development of China's economy. Against this background, the paper is to develop a low-carbon economy of the path as a research object. The paper includes three parts: necessity of developing low-carbon economy, measures to promote low-carbon development, and the industrial path of achieving objectives. The study demonstrate gradually our country's development about low-carbon's economic, expecting to obtain a certain degree of referential significance that can help to build low-carbon society and achieve the upgrading of industrial structure.

scholarly journals Holocaust Consciousness in New Zealand 1980-2010:  A Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jessica Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Geographical Isolation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Second World ◽  
Made In

<p>This thesis chronicles and examines the major New Zealand specific Holocaust-related issues of the last three decades, in the time period 1980 to 2010. The Holocaust has had a long reaching legacy worldwide since the end of the Second World War. There have been major news items and issues that have brought the Holocaust to the forefront of people's consciousness throughout the decades, the most prominent example being the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. It was major news such as that trial, as well as Hollywood productions such as the TV miniseries Holocaust in the late 1970s, that brought about widespread consciousness of the Holocaust worldwide, in countries such as the United States and Australia. In New Zealand, but major Holocaust-related issues connected specifically to New Zealand did not begin to emerge until the 1980s. This thesis investigates, in three chapters, differing issues over the aforementioned time period that have had an impact on consciousness of the Holocaust in New Zealand. The issues investigated are respectively: the war criminals investigation of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the colonial 'holocaust' argument of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Holocaust denial controversies in New Zealand academia, and the growth and evolution of Holocaust commemoration and education. Although some issues, such as commemoration and education, began earlier, it was not until the 1980s that these issues developed in earnest and a greater number of people began to take notice of the connection of these issues, and in turn New Zealand, to the Holocaust. The main arguments made in this thesis are that New Zealand's consciousness of the Holocaust developed when it did and at the rate it did because of particular aspects of the Jewish community and New Zealand society as a whole, including the geographical isolation of the country, the size and assimilation of the Jewish and survivor communities here, and the overall attitudes and on occasion apathy and ignorance towards the Holocaust. All of these aspects have influenced, to varying degrees, consciousness of the Holocaust within New Zealand throughout the time period of 1980 to 2010.</p>

Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelos Varvarousis
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
Greek Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global North ◽  
Second World

The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omnipresent in the degrowth literature, the terms “social imaginary” and “social imaginary significations” have not been adequately explained. This creates a level of mystification that limits the analytical value of the degrowth framework. In addition, there is very little theoretical work on how actual social imaginaries can be decolonized and transformed. This paper first tries to clarify those concepts. Subsequently, it develops a theoretical framework for explaining such transitions of the imaginary. In developing this framework, the paper focuses on moments of crisis, since crises have been historically associated with change and transition. It argues that crises are important because they destabilize social imaginaries and open up a stage of suspension—a liminal stage—in which the rise of new social practices can facilitate the emergence of new social imaginary significations and institutions that can contribute to the alteration of the social imaginary at large. The paper draws on case studies related to the Greek crisis, the biggest ever faced by a country of the Global North after the Second World War.

Study on the Low-Carbon Economy of the Development Restrictive Problem

2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 1507-1510
Author(s):  
Xiao Juan Al ◽  
Liang Bai
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Innovation Ability ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
Energy Consumption Patterns ◽  
Native Condition ◽  
Carbon Economy ◽  
Low Carbon Emission

The development of low-carbon economy is restricted and affected by the natural conditions, the economic stage as well as the industry technological level; and it needs a worldwide cooperation. The development of Chinese low-carbon economy should be established on the basis of the native condition and the national interest because of the uneven level of low-carbon emission, the exceedingly limited R&D and innovation ability of China; which will be the biggest challenge for Chinese “high-carbon economy “transiting into “low-carbon economy”. It’s the inevitable way to overcome the low-carbon economic difficulties by improving the following items: Governments’ cooperation, international organization coordination, energy consumption patterns, human being life styles, modern industrial rebuilding, eco-civilization and ecological economy’s establishment and the relevant system.

scholarly journals Research on Establishing City Low Carbon Economy Evaluation Theory Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 446-450
Author(s):  
Xiao Wei
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Fuzzy Evaluation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Carbon Economy ◽  
Economy Evaluation

To explore the method of creating a theoretical model of urban low-carbon economy evaluation, and analyze the development status and level of low carbon economy in cities in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River; Method To introduce the basic theory of low-carbon economy, the principle and the technical route for creating the evaluation system of urban low-carbon economy, develop 3 layers of 5 categories of 18 evaluation indicators, conduct weighted calculation using Delphi method, analytic hierarchy process(AHP) , fuzzy evaluation method and fuzzy AHP method, investigate into 7 cities, such as Shanghai, Nanjing in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River, and evaluate the urban low-carbon economic status using the created models; Results The evaluation result shows that at present China has many cities at “medium to high carbon economy” or “high carbon economy” types. The development level of low-carbon economy lagged behind many western countries; Conclusion It is a most efficient pathway to improve the present low-carbon economic level by vigorously developing the low-carbon technology, developing the low-carbon environmental education and promoting the low-carbon concept.

Obscure years of Soviet Roma literature (1939-1941)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
VIKTOR SHAPOVAL
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World ◽  
Soviet Historiography

The history of Soviet Roma literature from the middle of 1938 to the beginning of the Second World War cannot be explored through an analysis of published books, since no books were published in those years. Moreover, a very specific chronological dilemma arises. In Soviet historiography, the events of the Second World War, which began on 22 June 1941, are considered separately from the events of the war that took place beyond the territory of the USSR. This period is also significant for the history of Soviet Roma literature, since for a period lasting almost two years - from September 1939 to June 1941 (when the interwar period formally ended) - Roma writers enjoyed a time of relative peace, which they spent in an intense search for new opportunities, interactions with authorities, and attempts to revive Roma book publishing. This article presents a study and analysis of this period based on previously unexamined archival documents and letters from Roma writers. The analysis of these documents helps create a picture of this time period and clarifies aspects of the plans and hopes that Roma writers had “relatively speaking, after the brief era of Romani Gutenberg.”

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