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Korean ubiquitous-eco-city: A smart-sustainable urban form or a branding hoax?

04 Octobre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 30 September 2013
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Author(s): Tan Yigitcanlar , Sang Ho Lee

Ambitious eco-city initiatives of the 21st century are commonly branded as carbon-neutral, low-carbon, smart-eco, sustainable, ubiquitous-eco and zero-carbon emphasising their sustainability niches. This study focuses on one of these brands—ubiquitous-eco-city (u-eco-city). The principal premise of a u-eco-city is to provide a high quality of life and place to residents, workers and visitors with low-to-no negative impacts on the natural environment with support from the state-of-the-art technologies in their planning, development and management. The paper aims to put this premise into a test and address whether u-eco-city is a dazzling smart and sustainable urban form that constitutes an ideal 21st century city model or just a branding hoax. It, first, explores the recent developments and trends in ubiquitous technologies, infrastructures, services and management systems, and their utilisation and implications for the development of u-eco-cities. It, then, places Korean u-eco-city initiatives under the microscope, and critically discusses their prospects in forming a smart and sustainable urban form and becoming an ideal city model.

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Design and development of a corporate sustainability index platform for corporate sustainability performance analysis

04 Octobre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 6 September 2013
Source:Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

Author(s): E.W.T. Ngai , Dorothy C.K. Chau , C.W.H. Lo , Chun Fong Lei

This paper describes the design and development of a corporate sustainability index (CSI) platform for corporate sustainability performance (CSP) analysis. The CSI platform design was theoretically underpinned with management theories of CSP and organizational theories. A prototype system was developed and evaluated to demonstrate the feasibility of the design and the usability of the functionalities of the proposed CSI platform. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first identifiable application of a CSI prototype system for CSP analysis in academic literature. The prototype system is expected to be further developed and converted into an industry scalable CSI platform.

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Futures studies and uncertainty in public policy: A case study on the ageing population in the Netherlands

04 Octobre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 3 September 2013
Source:Futures

Author(s): Sietske A. Veenman

Policy issues such as sustainability, healthcare and the financial crisis emphasise the importance of anticipating the long-term perspective. In practice, however, it is difficult to deal with such an irregular or deviant topic as the long term in public policy and politics. A perspective on how the long term and its inherent uncertainty play a role in politics and public policy-making processes is under-represented. This article examines how policy-making processes and politics deal with the uncertainty of a long-term issue from the perspective of futures studies. The case study under consideration is the ageing population in the Netherlands, which has been on the country's political agenda since the end of the nineties. It is shown that the over-reliance on forecasting studies has impacted how uncertainty about the future is dealt with in both policy-making processes and politics. With these conclusions, this paper integrates the existing, yet fragmented, literature on using futures studies in public policy and politics and adds to the scarce empirical research.

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Dispossession, exploitation or employment? Youth livelihoods and extractive industry, investment in Sierra Leone

04 Octobre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 30 September 2013
Source:Futures

Author(s): Roy Maconachie

The impacts that increased transnational extractive industry investments are having on local, populations in natural resource-rich regions of sub-Saharan Africa are diverse, far-reaching and, complex. A surge of recent investment has been variously met by resistance and rejection, by, acquiescence combined with demands for better labour conditions, and outright acceptance in, anticipation of gainful employment. Drawing on recent field-based research carried out in, diamondiferous Kono District in Sierra Leone, this paper critically explores these contrasting, responses to mining activities, by focusing on how youth perceive and respond to extractive industry, expansion. The analysis is particularly salient in the case of Sierra Leone, as Kono's prime alluvial, diamond areas are becoming ‘mined out’, and artisanal and small-scale operations are being replaced, by more capital intensive modes of mechanised extraction. In an environment where the demand for, unskilled labour is diminishing, and young people are facing pressing livelihood needs in an, employment-constrained economy, youth are playing important roles in rights-based mobilizations, around mining. The paper aims to broaden understanding of youth perceptions of mining investment, and illuminate the various factors underlying a diverse range of responses to the expansion of, extractive industries. It concludes by reflecting on how youth perceptions of extractive industry, expansion may also be influencing the ways in which mining companies understand and fashion their, business and social responsibility strategies.

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