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ownership and management practices, technological developments and policy measures already agreed and planned, the foresight …
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The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of foresight methods and techniques, with the aim of updating the … need for a brief incursion in an epistemological discussion. On the one hand, we conclude that foresight studies lean …'s legitimacy as an academic and scientific endeavor. On the other hand, we observe a clear revival of foresight, with new research …
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This study presents a set of novel and multidisciplinary scenarios (‘narratives’) that provide insight into four … the narratives, which started with the generation of qualitative scenario storylines using foresight analysis techniques … these trends are also consistent with emission-intensive scenarios. …
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its results in the form of three scenarios for a desirable energy transition. The project aimed at analysing the influence … scenarios. One workshop included persons who participated in the form of self-supply or membership in energy initiatives, while … transition can be achieved along three different paths, so-called scenarios: bottom-up, acceleration, and passive. The bottom …
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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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The cork sector is a relevant case study given the economic importance of this industry for some regions (value added, employment and rural development). This industry is also important because of its contribution to environmental sustainability as it uses a natural renewable raw material....
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The trajectories of internationalisation followed by family firms can be viewed from several theoretical approaches ? phases of the internationalisation process; international entrepreneurship, sociological perspective, family business theory. An historical perspective of the internationalised...
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The turnover of the companies in North Savo in 2011 was nearly 10 billion euros, of which industry accounted for just under a third. The industrial structure of the region is not strong, but on the other hand it is not alarmingly thin either, because it does have certain successful niches. North...
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