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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tourism is a significant sector on the Svalbard archipelago. The increase in visitors and tourism activities has reshaped the local community of Longyearbyen, brought new economic opportunities, and put greater pressure on the local environment.
Julien Lebel +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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Aksjomat multiplikatywny Russela
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2012 We present the history of two parallel (and equivalent) discoveries: the axiom of choice and the multiplicative axiom. Firstly, we consider the origins of the formulation of the multiplicative axiom. Next, we concentrate on Russell’s attitude towards the
Katarzyna Lewandowska
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Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of sustainable practices in key sectors of human societies is a global concern, posing threats for the whole planet. This paper provides the first review of ontologies for sustainability efforts, outlining their roles in assessing and advancing such efforts. Section 2 outlines three major challenges associated with sustainability: (1)
Giorgio A. Ubbiali +2 more
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Kilka uwag o Tezie Churcha i Aksjomacie Hilberta
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2006 Some facts concerning Church's Thesis are first reminded, then Hilbert's Axiom of Thought is formulated. Hilbert proposed this axiom in 1905. He believed that it belongs to a domain of knowledge that is prior with respect to mathematics.
Adam Olszewski
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The Independence Axiom and the Bipolar Behaviorist [PDF]
Developments in the theory of risk require yet another evaluation of the behavioral validity of the independence axiom. This axiom plays a central role in most formal statements of expected utility theory, as well as popular alternative models of ...
Glenn W. Harrison, J. Todd Swarthout
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Lev Tikhomirov: supreme power and the state as political axioms
, 2023 M. B. Smolin
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
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