scholarly journals The Social Acceptance of Community Solar: A Portland Case Study

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
The Social

The Rise and Fall of the Segway

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Andrew V. Clark ◽  
Carol Atkinson-Palombo ◽  
Norman W. Garrick
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Timely Reminder

Once posited as a revolutionary transportation technology, the Segway never took off as some expected because the social acceptance of the technology was not considered in a systematic manner. Using a framework for social acceptance of technology borrowed from the literature on renewable energy, we examine how social, economic, and environmental costs of the Segway, along with regulatory issues presented barriers to implementation. High prices, legislative and spatial issues, and a lack of appeal to consumers presented challenges to acceptance. This case study provides a timely reminder of the multifaceted and complex nature of social acceptance that will need to be applied to future innovations, such as autonomous vehicles, to better understand factors that need to be considered for them to be embraced by society.

scholarly journals Los Medios Que Usan Lesbianas Y Gays Para Acceder A La Maternidad Y A La Paternidad

Xihmai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Lima Báez [1]
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social

ResumenEl propósito del artí­culo es mostrar que gays y lesbianas buscan estrategias diversas para acceder a la paternidad y maternidad respectivamente, y así­ conformar familias, o bien, visibilizar las que ya existí­an. Aun cuando hay un debate en torno a la aceptación social de los matrimonios igualitarios, las familias homoparentales son una realidad que supera el orden jurí­dico y son cada vez más visibles. El artí­culo se deriva de una investigación de corte cualitativo, particularmente bajo el enfoque de estudios de caso y la interseccionalidad como eje metodológico. El trabajo de investigación se realizó desde el 2013 hasta principios de 2016. Palabras clave: Lesbianas, gays, reproducción asistida, adopción, acogida, heterosexualidad.AbstractThe purpose of this article is to show that gays and lesbians are seeking different strategies to access parenthood respectively and thus, form families, or visualize the existing ones. Although there is debate about the social acceptance of same-sex marriages, lesbian and gays families are a reality that exceeds the legal order and are increasingly visible. The article is derived from qualitative research, particularly under the case study approach and intersectionality as a methodological axis. The research was carried out from 2013 until the early of 2016. Key words: Lesbians, gays, assisted reproduction, adoption, foster care, heterosexuality. [1] Doctora en Pedagogí­a por la Facultad de Filosofí­a y Letras de la UNAM, Maestra en Educación por la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional -Hidalgo y Licenciada en Pedagogí­a por la Facultad de Filosofí­a y Letras de la UNAM. Académica de tiempo completo de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, unidad 131 y docente de asignatura de la Universidad La Salle Pachuca.

scholarly journals A digital platform as a facilitator for assessing innovation potential and creating business models: a case study from the i3 project

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 982-993
Author(s):  
Francesco Bellini ◽  
Iana Dulskaia
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
The Social

Abstract Many ideas flow into the innovation funnel but only 1 out 3000 becomes a successful new product. There are many variables that interact in this complex process and investors decisions are often based on experience and feeling rather than a comprehensive evaluation of the social, economic and technological factors. The innovation potential, the innovator capability, the accessibility of the technology as well as the social acceptance and the chosen business model are the some of the critical factors of a successful innovation strategy. In the broad sense, a business model is the approach of doing business through which a company can sustain itself and generate profits in the long term. Digital platforms can help manage and facilitate the complexity of value propositions and provide an immediate feedback to the entrepreneur. Creating value is necessary, but not sufficient, for an organization to profit from its business model. It is important to see the whole picture of the business that is why the business models are so important for a good start of the business. However, innovation assessment and business model development sometimes are not an easy task and ICT can make this process easier. Then, the aim of this paper is to explore the role of digital platforms as facilitators for the techno-socio-economic impact assessment and the development of sustainable business models through the analysis of a case study from the EU Horizon 2020 “i3 project”.

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

Lord Dacre and the Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Scottish History

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) made several iconoclastic interventions in the field of Scottish history. These earned him a notoriety in Scottish circles which, while not undeserved, has led to the reductive dismissal of Trevor-Roper's ideas, particularly his controversial interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment, as the product of Scotophobia. In their indignation Scottish historians have missed the wider issues which prompted Trevor-Roper's investigation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a fascinating case study in European cultural history. Notably, Trevor-Roper used the example of Scotland to challenge Weberian-inspired notions of Puritan progressivism, arguing instead that the Arminian culture of north-east Scotland had played a disproportionate role in the rise of the Scottish Enlightenment. Indeed, working on the assumption that the essence of Enlightenment was its assault on clerical bigotry, Trevor-Roper sought the roots of the Scottish Enlightenment in Jacobitism, the counter-cultural alternative to post-1690 Scotland's Calvinist Kirk establishment. Though easily misconstrued as a dogmatic conservative, Trevor-Roper flirted with Marxisant sociology, not least in his account of the social underpinnings of the Scottish Enlightenment. Trevor-Roper argued that it was the rapidity of eighteenth-century Scotland's social and economic transformation which had produced in one generation a remarkable body of political economy conceptualising social change, and in the next a romantic movement whose powers of nostalgic enchantment were felt across the breadth of Europe.

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

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