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Value-added bioproducts or renewable energy derived from lignin? : comparative regional economic and environmental impact assessment : case Metsä Gro…
2016
Metsä Group’s next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski will be operational within Q3/2017 and it will have significant regional economic impact on Central Finland. The mill will operate applying principles of circular economy, and thus utilize all possible side streams from pulp production. Lignin is one of the side streams that has huge potential to be refined, as sustainable products and by creating new value added. Conventionally, lignin is combusted with black liquor to generate energy in pulp mills. This thesis compares this conventional situation to refining lignin into biocomposite products made from 100% renewable resources with regard to regional economic and environmental impa…
Modéliser l'ancrage territorial de l'agriculture : application à l'étude de la durabilité d'une agriculture côtière sous pression touristique
2011
The territorial base of agriculture is a key to understand the sustainability of this activity, in hybrid territories like peri-urban areas or rural touristic ones. To this aim, the French method of the "agrarian systems" is improved by the concept of "territorial agrarian system": the territory is then a meta-system of the agrarian system that leads to understand the linkage between the individual trajectories of farmers and the global and collective expectations of the territorial stakeholders. This conceptual, methodological and practical approach is applied to the rural touristic area of Balagne, a seaside territory located at the Northwest Corsica. There, as a subject torn between land…
’Civilising’ the Transitional Generation: The Politics of Civic Education in Post-Communist Romania
2019
Abstract The paper examines the introduction of civic education in post-communist Romania as an educational means of civilising in a democratic ethos the children of the transition. Particularly close analytical attention is paid to a) the political context that shaped the decision to introduce civic education, b) the radical changes in both content and end purpose of civics brought about by educational policies adopted for accelerating the country’s efforts of integrating into the Euro-Atlantic structures (NATO and the European Union), and c) the actual consequences that these educational policies betting on civics have had on the civic values expressed by Romanian teenagers. The analysis …
Political, Economic and Cultural Infl uences of neo-Ottomanism in post-Yugoslavian Countries. An Analysis Illustrated with Selected Examples
2017
Political, Economic and Cultural Infl uences of neo-Ottomanism in post-Yugoslavian Countries. An Analysis Illustrated with Selected Examples
High-rise timber architecture: an opportunity for the sustainability of the built environment
2019
Bioeconomy, circular economy, land use reduction, sustainable use of natural resources, reduction of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and recycling are the keywords which the building world must face in the near future, as the environmental emergency can no longer be postponed. In order to disseminate in the scientific community the different possibilities of timber as a sustainable building material throughout its whole life cycle and to provide the professionals with suitable decision-making tools for a conscious design, within the cultural and scientific scenario of the recent years, the paper serves as a moment of reflection highlighting how a closer integration between different sectors…
Transformacja od dyktatury do socjalnego realizmu : przypadki Argentyny i Chile
2018
W artykule Autor analizuje przypadki sytuację społeczno-gospodarczą w Argentynie i Chile w optyce działań transformacyjnych w sferze politycznej. Przejście z autorytaryzmu do demokracji dokonało się przede wszystkim na poziomie politycznym, zachowując w wielu elementach stary porządek na poziomie społecznym i gospodarczym. W przypadku państw o zastałej strukturze społecznej, ze znacznym poziomem nierówności będzie to skutkować licznymi niepokojami społecznymi, co dobrze obrazują protesty młodych ludzi w Chile na początku drugiej dekady XXI wieku. Jednocześnie jest to przypadek niezwykle interesujący ze względu na zmianę, kadencję po kadencji, czołowych polityków sprawujących urząd prezydent…
To Show, But Not to Disclose. The Willingness of Polish Political Parties to Disclose Information On their Structures
2018
Abstract Constituting the key element of a democratic system, political parties are among entities obliged by the Polish legislator to comply with the principle of disclosure by providing public information. The main objective of this paper is to determine the level of Polish political parties’ disclosure, understood here as their willingness to disclose information on their own structures. It seems that the practice of disclosing such basic organizational data may constitute a specific measure of Polish political parties’ respect for the idea of disclosure. The subject matter of the conducted research was particular parties’ sites in the Public Information Bulletin as well as their officia…
Domesticating the future?: Citizen’s income discussion in Estonia
2018
ABSTRACTCitizen’s income is an idea that is currently gaining ground in many parts of the world. The prospect of disappearing jobs and social exclusion that the globalized world faces has given the...
Board structures, liberal countries, and developed market economies. Do they matter in environmental reporting? An international outlook
2019
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Board structures, liberal countries, and developed market economies. Do they matter in environmental reporting? An international outlook, which has been published in final form at: https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2275. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. Previous empirical evidence has shown the effect of most corporate governance mechanisms on corporate social responsibility and environmental disclosure. However, there is scant empirical evidence that examines the influence of liberal countries, developed market economies, and board s…