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This paper seeks to evaluate the role of ICT in achieving the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. While SDGs do not specifically address ICT, or include a goal on development of ICT, as argued (Berleur & Avgerou, 2005)in this paper, it is an underlying element...
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El cambio climático, su gestión y mitigación, constituye sin duda uno de los elementos de riesgo más importantes que afrontará nuestra sociedad en las próximas décadas. El sector financiero desempeña un papel fundamental en este reto, tanto por su exposición y las consiguientes...
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Climate change and its management and mitigation are unquestionably among the main risks facing our society in the coming decades. The financial sector plays a key role in this challenge, firstly because of its exposure and the consequent capital shocks if this risk crystallises, and secondly...
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On September 25th 2015 the United Nations adopted a renewed set of global sustainable development goals, whereby again tourism was hardly mentioned. The more recent COP21 agreement on climate change has made clear the urge for all parties to be involved. This paper aims to discuss therefore the...
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In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens’ security and low quality of...
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tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …
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social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
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die Entwicklung Chinas geworden. Chinas Umweltprobleme betreffen die ganze Welt. Die Entwicklung der Kreislaufwirtschaft ….Germany is one of the model countries in the world at the development of circular economy. China is just at the beginning. But …
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, spirituelle Weltanschauungen) zeigen zus??tzliche nicht-materialistische Wahrnehmungen von Welt und Wirklichkeit auf. Im f … Methodik um introspektive Einsichten notwendig, sowie die Erweiterung von Welt- und Menschenbild um immaterielle Aspekte … between subject and object, mind and matter, inner and outer world. Two digressions (Emoto, Spiritual Philosophies …
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