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Anticipating a new prominence for the carbon market and lifestyle change in post-2012 implementation of ambitious carbon mitigation targets in OECD countries, including the UK, this paper draws on Foucauldian scholarship to support an argument that personal carbon trading (PCT) may be consistent...
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As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices...
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Transport for South Hampshire, a joint board responsible for transport planning for a conurbation of over one million people, successfully bid for the UK's Better Bus Area Fund. This will result in investments of £7.4 million over the period 2012 to 2014, of which £4.5 million will come from...
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This essay examines the humanitarian design movement’s efforts to address the crushing need, social precarity, and ecological frailty that define global megacities. The aims and character of the humanitarian design movement have been shaped by both the ethical demands of antiglobalization...
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Being considered as one of the most dynamic markets in Mexico, the mobile phone market becomes a really interesting market to analyze. The objective of the work is to find the factors that allowed the creation of a monopolistic competence market, being Telcel the leader in such monopoly, as well...
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uneven process of international technology diffusion by focusing on how institutions moderate the impact of firm, network …, and knowledge characteristics on the adoption of technology. The study shows that better economic institutions lower … institutions reduce transaction costs for technology diffusion. The impact of each institution-type on the diffusion process is …
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Проанализированы основные положения Доктрины продовольственной безопасности Российской Федерации. Обоснована необходимость развития...
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The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between institutions and development ethics. In a value context …, the center of the discussion between institutions and development ethics is based on confronting ethics as "means of the … toward development. Institutions are the social cement that condition and enhance the roles agents play in economic life. We …
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foreign technologies and establish institutions favorable to economic growth. I explore the threshold between the seemingly … enough technology has been assimilated. My analysis finds that the rate of technological assimilation is determined by the … landscape of a country. As the technology level increases, income level converges toward the level of developed countries. After …
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