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A Suite Deal, Scott J. Wallsten
Exportkreditagenturen Und Erneuerbare Energien: Chancen Und Herausforderungen, Marcus Schaper
Exportkreditagenturen Und Erneuerbare Energien: Chancen Und Herausforderungen, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Erneuerbare Energien spielen im Kampf gegen die globale Erderwärmung eine Schlüsselrolle. Nur der verstärkte Einsatz von erneuerbaren Energien und die Steigerung von Energieeffizienz werden es ermöglichen, dass die durch klimaschädigende Gase bedingte Erderwärmung kein „gefährliches“ Ausmaß annehmen wird. Während das Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz (EEG), die Deutsche Energieagentur (dena) und andere Initiativen zu einem Boom im nationalen und europäischen Markt für erneuerbare Energien geführt haben und dadurch auch die Wirtschaftlichkeit dieser neuen Energieträger erhöht haben, sieht das Bild außerhalb der europäischen Grenzen weniger gut aus. Jedoch kann keine Klimastrategie ohne große Anstrengungen in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern erfolgreich sein. Noch vor wenigen …
High Tech Cluster Bombs: Why Successful Biotech Hubs Are The Exception, Not The Rule, Scott J. Wallsten
High Tech Cluster Bombs: Why Successful Biotech Hubs Are The Exception, Not The Rule, Scott J. Wallsten
Scott J. Wallsten
No abstract provided.
Decentralization Reforms And Commune Level Services Delivery In Cambodia, Leonardo G. Romeo, Luc Spyckerelle
Decentralization Reforms And Commune Level Services Delivery In Cambodia, Leonardo G. Romeo, Luc Spyckerelle
Leonardo G. Romeo
The focus of Communes’ action has been on the development of small-scale infrastructure, whose financing absorbed all CSF resources in 2002 and 2003. In both years, over 60% went to rural transport projects (roads, small bridges and culverts). In 2003 the second most important category of projects (absorbing 16.3% of the CSF resources) included the construction and rehabilitation of canals and other irrigation structures. These two categories of investments, on which three quarters of the CSF resources were spent, reveal the strong local preference for economic infrastructures. As for the remaining quarter of CSF resources for social infrastructures, most went …
Internationale Harmonisierung Von Umweltstandards Im Oecd-Rahmen: Standards Für Exportkreditagenturen, Marcus Schaper
Internationale Harmonisierung Von Umweltstandards Im Oecd-Rahmen: Standards Für Exportkreditagenturen, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
No abstract provided.
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
Greg Hill
G.L.S. Shackle stood at the historic crossroads where the economics of Hayek and Keynes collided. Shackle fused these opposing lines of thought in a macroeconomic theory that draws Keynesian conclusions from Austrian premises. In Shackle’s scheme of thought, the power to imagine alternative courses of action releases decision makers from the web of predictable causation. But the continuous stream of spontaneous and unpredictable choices that originate in the subjective and disparate orientations of individual agents denies us the possibility of rational expectations, and therewith the logical coherence of market equilibrium through time.
Export Credit Agencies And Climate Change: What Can They Do About It?, Marcus Schaper
Export Credit Agencies And Climate Change: What Can They Do About It?, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Among the chief contributors to the anthropogenic causes of global climate change are carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. Though the sources of these emissions are clearly identified, global carbon dioxide output from energy generation is still on the rise. Many industrialized countries have achieved a slow down in the increase of their emissions or even a reduction. However, emissions in developing countries are on the rise. A key challenge is to create incentives to turn around the trend of ever increasing emissions in the countries that are not obliged to reductions under the Kyoto protocol. …
Health As Foreign Policy: A U.S.-German Dialogue On Governance And Global Health., Marcus Schaper
Health As Foreign Policy: A U.S.-German Dialogue On Governance And Global Health., Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Health has become an issue with significant implications for economies, trade, and security in today’s globalized world. Epidemics like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) carry an impact far beyond the epicenters of the disease. The spread of HIV-AIDS leads to fundamental changes in social cohesion and state structures with far reaching international consequences. Bioterrorism with its potential for rapid pandemic poses a threat to many countries of the world. In a globalized world, health has developed into an issue of soft power. It has become part of deliberations on foreign policy and of the development of civil society and democracy. …
Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser
Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser
Michael Friedewald
No abstract provided.
How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Discussions concerning belief revision, theory development, and "creativity" in philosophy and AI, reveal a growing interest in Peirce's concept of abduction. Peirce introduced abduction in an attempt to provide theoretical dignity and clarification to the difficult problem of knowledge generation. He wrote that "An Abduction is Originary in respect to being the only kind of argument which starts a new idea." These discussions, however, have led to considerable debates about the precise way in which Peirce's abduction can be used to explain knowledge generation. The crucial question is that of understanding how we can get the new elements capable of …
Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth
Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
A central challenge for research on how we should prepare students to manage crossing boundaries between different knowledge settings in life long learning processes is to identify those forms of knowledge that are particularly relevant here. In this paper, we develop by philosophical means the concept of a dialectical system as a general framework to describe the development of knowledge networks that mark the starting point for learning processes, and we use semiotics to discuss (a) the epistemological thesis that any cognitive access to our world of objects is mediated by signs and (b) diagrammatic reasoning and abduction as those …
Town Of Viola Comprehensive Plan, Troy D. Mix