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The challenge of adopting mitigation and adaptation measures for the impacts of sand and dust storms in Eastern Mediterranean Region: a critical review

SDS areas, which exhibit economic, political, and social diversity. This review also aims to identify successful mitigation strategies that have been used for similar environmental issues and to draw ... ; Socioeconomic and political dimensions; Transboundary air pollution 1 Introduction Air quality is of critical and rising importance, as widely acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other

Rationality, preference satisfaction and anomalous intentions: why rational choice theory is not self-defeating

preferences than they would be if they abided by some normative theory of choice other than RCT. In this paper, I combine insights from philosophy of action, philosophy of mind and the normative foundations of

Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Area, the capital and largest metropolitan area of Fiji, is expected to be largely impacted by climate-related risks to its socio-economic, cultural, and political positions. In the face of these threats ... corresponding socio-economic and political risks with myriad interactions (Scheffran and Battaglini 2011) . PICs have diverse geographies and economic and social structures, which increases the difficulty of

The landscape of European policies in the power sector: first-mover advantages

. Some member states have further made political decisions to deploy or phase out particular generation technologies, such as coal-fired or nuclear power plants, decisively influencing national electricity ... reciprocally matching their public good contributions. In doing so, the subgroup takes a leader position in the game of public good provision. Page 4 of 25 technological and political conditions in the follow

SOURCES OF GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE AND IMPERFECTINFORMATION AS POLITICAL FAILURE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE STUDIES Vol 7 1309-8055 SOURCES OF GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE INFORMATION AS POLITICAL FAILURE AND IMPERFECT JEL Classification: D 0 0 Prof. Dr. Coskun Can ... ignorance; rational voter irrelevance; shortsightedness effect; political myopia - voice may have in them.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau I.INTRODUCTION One of the most important contribution of the Public Choice

Prioritizing adaptation and mitigation in the climate movement: evidence from a cross-national protest survey of the Global Climate Strike, 2019

Climate adaptation is seen by many as increasingly important and as deeply political, leading some to argue for its democratization. Social movements could play an important role in this. Meanwhile ... climate impacts, such as flooding, drought, urban heat, and fires. As climate impacts become increasingly noticeable and locked-in across the world, adaptation has gained scholarly and political attention

KEY ROLE OF R and D INTENSITY ON POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL STABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE G-8 COUNTRIES

. Even though, there have been a great number of studies subjected to the R and D-economic growth relationship, there have rarely been studied on the subject of the relationship among R and D, political ... -economic growth relationship, there have rarely been studied on the subject of the relationship among R&D, political stability and financial stability. In this regard, the main scope of this study is to

ANALYSISTHE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS OF ANTI-INCOME TAX AVOIDANCE SYSTEM BETWEEN TAIWAN ANDCHINA

regulation during the process. This study tends to realize the formation of Cross-Strait (Taiwan and China) Anti-Income Tax Avoidance from differences of political and economic perspectives in these two ... domesticfunded by the enhancement of Anti-Tax Avoidance (Chen, 2005). Third, promote the quality of foreign-funded. 3. The Differences of Political Perspectives 3.1. The Legislative Process of Anti-Tax Avoidance

Are transport networks in low-income countries prepared for climate change? Barriers to preparing for climate change in Africa and South Asia

regionally led strategic decisions may be responsible for the local level barriers to adaptation. For example, focusing on technological or managerial solutions may fail to consider other socio-political ... political, technical, and institutional and regulatory. Largely, the stakeholders interviewed recognise that climate change is affecting transport, but a widespread level of awareness is in its infancy. There

SOURCES OF GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE AND IMPERFECT INFORMATION AS POLITICAL FAILURE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE STUDIES Vol 7 1309-8055 SOURCES OF GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE INFORMATION AS POLITICAL FAILURE AND IMPERFECT JEL Classification: D 0 0 Prof. Dr. Coskun Can ... ignorance; rational voter irrelevance; shortsightedness effect; political myopia - voice may have in them.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau I.INTRODUCTION One of the most important contribution of the Public Choice

Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation

of Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf , Universitaetsstr. 1, 40225 Duesseldorf , Germany There is a plurality of formal constraints for aggregating probabilities of a group of individuals ... philosophy of science recent research focusses a lot on the relation of scientific groups having gathered a different set of evidence, holding different theories, and providing alternative explanations (cf

Bounded rationality for relaxing best response and mutual consistency: the quantal hierarchy model of decision making

( 4 ), 1297 - 1333 . Alaoui , L. , & Penta , A. ( 2022 ). Cost-benefit analysis in reasoning . Journal of Political Economy , 130 ( 4 ), 881 - 925 . Anufriev , M. , Duffy , J. , & Panchenko , V. ( 2022 ... & Philosophy , 3 ( 2 ), 179 - 214 . Binmore , K. ( 1988 ). Modeling rational players: Part II . Economics & Philosophy , 4 ( 1 ), 9 - 55 . Binmore , K. , McCarthy , J. , Ponti , G. , Samuelson , L. , & Shaked

Belief inducibility and informativeness

divide et impera and, thus, wants to create political unrest in a foreign country by implementing a very heterogeneous belief profile.2 Suppose that there are only two states, say X and Y. Then it is ... ). Feasible joint posterior beliefs . Journal of Political Economy , 129 , 2546 - 2594 . Aumann , R.J. , Maschler , M.B. , & Stearns , R.E . (Eds.), ( 1995 ). Repeated games with incomplete information . MIT

Who accepts Savage’s axiom now?

the measurability of utility . Journal of Political Economy , 1 , 463 - 474 . Gilboa , I. ( 2010 ). Questions in decision theory . Annual Review of Economics , 2 , 1 - 19 . https://doi.org/10. 1146 ... it became, what it really was, what it now suggests to us . Economics and Philosophy , 35 , 423 - 459 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267118000469 Moskovitz , H. ( 1974 ). Effects of problem

POLITICAL REGIME, COMPETITIVENESS, AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT: AN EVIDENCE OF THE EURO AREAS’ FDI POLICIES TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

many countries. There are two schools of thought that hypothesize the FDI determinants: economic factors and political factors. For the latter school of thought, the central questions are directed to ... countries where labour tends to be scarce, are left political regimes more protectionist than right ones, which represent capital owners? Prior evidence had demonstrated an association between the type of

Accountability as a Warrant for Trust: An Experiment on Sanctions and Justifications in a Trust Game

quality of deliberation . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 12 ( 4 ), 389 - 410 . Charness , G. , Cobo-Reyes , R. , & Jime´nez, N. ( 2008 ). An investment game with third party intervention . Journal of ... accountability. In political economy and rational choice theory, accountability is primarily understood as a mechanism based on material sanctions or rewards (Fearon, 1999: 55) . Besley (2006: 37) defines

Original position arguments and social choice under ignorance

Journal of Philosophy , 115 ( 11 ), 588 - 604 . Harsanyi , J. C. ( 1953 ). Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking . Journal of Political Economy , 61 ( 5 ), 434 - 435 ... Science, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium 1 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands John Rawls famously argued that the Difference

Using systems thinking and causal loop diagrams to identify cascading climate change impacts on bioenergy supply systems

interconnectivity of the wood pellet supply system predispose the supply chain to various cascading climate change impacts stemming from environmental, social, political and economic domains, and highlight the value ... political efforts to increase its use mainly rely on the presumption that it will be domestically sourced, and hence increase energy self-sufficiency (Mandley et al. 2020) . However, international trade in

Acting on belief functions

The degrees of belief of rational agents should be guided by the evidence available to them. This paper takes as a starting point the view—argued elsewhere—that the formal model best able to capture this idea is one that represents degrees of belief using Dempster–Shafer belief functions. However, degrees of belief should not only respect evidence; they also guide decision and...

Just society

scrutinized in a number of fields including political philosophy and economics. His maximin rule for the distribution of income and wealth is perhaps most criticized. Rawls is well aware that the maximin rule ... person and the right to hold property; political liberty (the right to vote and equal eligibility for public office); and equal access for positions in private and public sectors). Thus, the three