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World, Volume 3, Issue 2

June 2022 - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,030 Views
32 Pages

Environmental Determinism vs. Social Dynamics: Prehistorical and Historical Examples

  • G.-Fivos Sargentis,
  • Demetris Koutsoyiannis,
  • Andreas Angelakis,
  • John Christy and
  • Anastasios A. Tsonis

13 June 2022

Environmental determinism is often used to explain past social collapses and to predict the future of modern human societies. We assess the availability of natural resources and the resulting carrying capacity (a basic concept of environmental determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,690 Views
13 Pages

Epidemiological Monitoring of COVID-19 in a Brazilian City: The Interface between the Economic Policies, Commercial Behavior, and Pandemic Control

  • Veronica Perius de Brito,
  • Alice Mirane Malta Carrijo,
  • Marcos Vinicius Teixeira Martins and
  • Stefan Vilges de Oliveira

13 June 2022

The new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was responsible for one of the worst public health crises in Brazil, which led to the implementation of economic policies to keep social distance. Our aim is to perform an epidemiological analysis of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,223 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2022

In rural Kyrgyzstan, the energy need is usually derived from multiple natural energy resources such as firewood, charcoal, agricultural residues, animal dung, and wood branches, which are considered common and predominant practices. Because of the no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,361 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2022

This article takes a critical view on austerity policy and examines its social and economic consequences for the case of Greece. By introducing the concept of “growthless employment” it demonstrates that the implementation of internal dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,225 Views
14 Pages

Perspectives on the Future of Growth

  • Julia Wardley-Kershaw and
  • Klaus R. Schenk-Hoppé

5 May 2022

In this last paper in a series of four, we will enquire into key developments affecting economic growth in the near future, consider potential restructuring effects that current and future economic events could cause and survey suggestions from liter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,910 Views
12 Pages

19 April 2022

Systems thinking competence is one of the key sustainability competences to make the future more sustainable by focusing on individuals’ capability to analyse sustainability problems across different sectors and scales. The other competencies t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,255 Views
27 Pages

Values and Costs in History: A Case Study on Estimating the Cost of Hadrianic Aqueduct’s Construction

  • G.-Fivos Sargentis,
  • Panos Defteraios,
  • Nikos D. Lagaros and
  • Nikοs Mamassis

19 April 2022

The pursuit of wealth has been a basic occupation of humans; as it turns out, wealth increases life expectancy. Analyzing global data, we show that money, probably connected with medical care, increase life expectancy. However, the base of real wealt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,787 Views
23 Pages

7 April 2022

In this paper, we explore the idea of social innovation as both a conceptual and practical means of delivering positive social, economic and environmental outcomes in marginal rural areas. Definitions are critically appraised, and the dual contempora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,181 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2022

This study applies consistent fuzzy preference relations (CFPR) to evaluate the influential criteria of revitalization strategies (RS) for the hospitality industry in the post-pandemic (COVID-19) era in Taiwan. A real case applies CFPR in order to an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,065 Views
13 Pages

Does Globalization Encourage Female Employment? A Cross-Country Panel Study

  • Asrifa Hossain,
  • Shankar Ghimire,
  • Anna Valeva and
  • Jessica Harriger-Lin

29 March 2022

The objective of the paper is to examine whether female participation in the labor force (FPLF) is influenced by a country’s participation in international markets through foreign direct investment (FDI)—a proxy for globalization. We obta...

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