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Zanou, Barbara. "Conditions for effective management of a river basin in the European Union." Ekistics and The New Habitat 71, no. 427-429 (December 1, 2004): 282–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200471427-429199.
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The author is Coordinator of Socio-Economic Studies at the Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Ministry of Development - General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Athens, Greece). She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (University of Piraeus, Greece), a Master's Degree (D.E. A) in Political Economy (Paris VIII and Paris VII University, France), a diploma on Information Technology (Greek Productivity Center EL.KE.PA with four-year studies as an Analyst-Programmer), and six months' training in the Directorate General for the Environment (EU, Brussels). She is currently finishing her Ph. D thesis on the economic evaluation method (Cost-Effectiveness Analysis - CEA) based on the European Water Framework Directive (University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece). Ms Zanou has participated in several EU projects and national studies on socio-economic and management issues.
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Zafeiriou, Eleni, Veronika Andrea, Stilianos Tampakis, and Paraskevi Karanikola. "Wetlands Management in Northern Greece: An Empirical Survey." Water 12, no. 11 (November 13, 2020): 3181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12113181.
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Water management projects have an important role in regional environmental protection and socio-economic development. Environmental policies, strategies, and special measures are designed in order to balance the use and non-use values arising for the local communities. The region of Serres in Northern Greece hosts two wetland management projects—the artificial Lake Kerkini and the re-arrangement of Strymonas River. The case study aims to investigate the residents’ views and attitudes regarding these two water resources management projects, which significantly affect their socio-economic performance and produce several environmental impacts for the broader area. Simple random sampling was used and, by the application of reality and factor analyses along with the logit model support, significant insights were retrieved. The findings revealed that gender, age, education level, and marital status affect the residents’ perceived values for both projects and their contribution to local growth and could be utilized in policy making for the better organization of wetland management.
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Spyridonidou, Sofia, Dimitra G. Vagiona, and Eva Loukogeorgaki. "Strategic Planning of Offshore Wind Farms in Greece." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 26, 2020): 905. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030905.
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In the present article, a new methodological framework for the efficient and sustainable exploitation of offshore wind potential was developed. The proposed integrated strategic plan was implemented for the first time at national spatial planning scale in Greece. The methodological approach is performed through geographical information systems (GIS) and Microsoft Project Server Software and includes five distinct stages: (i) definition of vision/mission, (ii) identification of appropriate areas for offshore wind farms’ (OWFs) siting, (iii) determination of the OWFs’ layout, (iv) calculation of the OWFs’ (projects) total investment cost and, finally, (v) portfolio analysis. The final outcome of the proposed strategic planning is the prioritization of the proposed sixteen offshore wind projects based on their strategic value, as well as the estimation of the overall investment cost of the entire portfolio. High economic, socio-political and environmental benefits could be achieved through the implementation of only 60% of the total investment capital of the proposed strategic plan.
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ZACHARIAS, OTHONAS, ELENI PANOU, D. TH ASKOUNIS, and AIKATERINI VASSILIKOPOULOU. "PROJECT RISK RANKING IN LARGE-SCALE PROGRAMS: A FUZZY SET BASED APPROACH." Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 31, no. 03 (June 2014): 1450020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217595914500201.
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As most of the global economic activity takes place in the form of projects/programs, their effective management and governance is becoming more and more critical to the competitive position of organizations and societies. Project auditing and risk management, elaborate on methodologies that could be used for analyzing project progress, by identifying potential risks and liabilities, and finally recommending corrective and preventive actions. In relation to these fields, this paper proposes a fuzzy set based approach for project risk ranking in large-scale programs. The proposed approach defines a generic list of risk factors which is used for the ranking and risk assessment of all projects of a program. Data describing projects' progress as well as expert's evaluation of risk factors and project's risk exposure are being used as input parameters to the fuzzy set system. The relative probability of risk appearance due to risk factors for each of the projects is being calculated by providing valuable means for efficient decision-making and success of the program. Finally, this paper describes a case study called Operational Program "Road Axes, Ports, Urban Development" of Community Support Framework III in Greece, where the proposed approach was successfully applied.
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Polyzos, Serafeim. "The Egnatia Motorway and the Changes in Interregional Trade in Greece: An Ex Ante Assessment." European Spatial Research and Policy 16, no. 2 (January 13, 2010): 23–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10105-009-0011-7.
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The Egnatia Motorway, located in the northern part of Greece, constitutes one of the most important, as well as ambitious, projects of the Trans-European Transport Networks programme (TETN) funded by the European Commission. It is expected to greatly influence the spatial economic relationships of several regions across the country. The motorway crosses all administrative regions of Northern Greece, and the expectations currently sustained by the public as regards its contribution to regional development are exceptionally great. As numerous empirical studies have already shown, the most important changes in regional economy induced by interregional transportation infrastructure are associated with trade flows between different regions. This paper analyses the major determinants of interregional trade in Greece and estimates the changes in interregional trade flows which the construction of the Egnatia Motorway is capable of generating.
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Tsagarakis, K. P., D. D. Mara, and A. N. Angelakis. "Wastewater management in Greece: experience and lessons for developing countries." Water Science and Technology 44, no. 6 (September 1, 2001): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2001.0366.
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Technologies to treat wastewater are now well established and are capable of producing almost any degree of purification. The main issue surrounding the selection of a given process lies in deciding which is the most appropriate and applicable technology for the particular social, political and economic environment. This paper concentrates on the development of the municipal wastewater treatment sector in Greece. It examines the deficiencies and problems arising from the implementation of wastewater management policies and makes a number of suggestions and recommendations. The areas considered include, among others, historical development, economic development and pollution control, key issues for wastewater treatment policies and lessons applicable to developing countries. It is hoped that this study will be a valuable source of information for countries embarking on nationwide sanitation projects.
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Theodosiou, Ir, E. Athanassouli, N. Epitropou, Z. Janikian, G. Kossiaris, and K. Michail. "GEOTRAILS IN GREECE." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 43, no. 2 (January 23, 2017): 939. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11259.
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Planning of walking and motoring geotrails around the geosites, in combination with other attractions of biotic, archaeological and cultural interest, as well as creation of interpretative, awareness printed material relevant to the geosites is one of the objectives of the project “Designation of geosites – geoparks, contribution to sustainable development”. It is a project of the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (IGME), funded from the 3rd community support framework program. Furthermore, this printed material which is also available in digital form aided by the project’s data base and the geographic information system is used to develop an application for display at the IGME museum, exploiting the potential of multimedia and interactive technologies (e.g. touch screens), in a way that will attract the interest of the visitor on the geological history and at the time entertain him. Making of the right interpretive products will result in the designation of the geological heritage and the establishment of new forms of alternative tourism, a modern tourist trend which will help in the social and economic development of each region. Designation of geosites will also have a positive impact on the awareness and knowledge of geological history at all levels of education, in our country as well as internationally
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Melissas, Dimitris, and Evangelos Asprogerakas. "Spatial parameters for the development of floating wind farms in Greece." European Journal of Geography 13, no. 4 (June 3, 2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.mel.13.4.001.017.
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The interest in offshore wind farm markets has recently turned to the use of the strong wind power that can be found in deep-sea marine areas with the use of innovative technology in floating wind farms. This activity attracts the interest of economic actors globally, with prevention still necessary to avoid potential conflicts with other maritime activities and protect sensitive local marine ecosystems. The main research interest of this study focuses on the role that the particular characteristics of the local legal framework can have on the spatial planning of activities. The steps taken in this gradual approach include current spatial planning practice, case law and the country’s experience in related projects. Concluding, an example of the possible spatial planning of FWFs, based on the current tools available in the country’s spatial planning system, is provided.
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MELISSAS, Dimitris, and Evangelos ASPROGERAKAS. "Spatial Parameters for the development of Floating Wind Farms in Greece." European Journal of Geography 11, no. 4 (December 16, 2020): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.mel.11.4.157.178.
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The interest in offshore wind farm markets has recently turned to the use of the strong wind power that can be found in deep-sea marine areas with the use of innovative technology in floating wind farms. This activity attracts the interest of economic actors globally, with prevention still necessary to avoid potential conflicts with other maritime activities and protect sensitive local marine ecosystems. The main research interest of this study focuses on the role that the particular characteristics of the local legal framework can have on the spatial planning of activities. The steps taken in this gradual approach include current spatial planning practice, case law and the country’s experience in related projects. Concluding, an example of the possible spatial planning of FWFs, based on the current tools available in the country’s spatial planning system, is provided.
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Dianellou, Anna, Theofanis Christakopoulos, George Caralis, Vassiliki Kotroni, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, and Arthouros Zervos. "Is the Large-Scale Development of Wind-PV with Hydro-Pumped Storage Economically Feasible in Greece?" Applied Sciences 11, no. 5 (March 7, 2021): 2368. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11052368.
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The achievement of the long-term national energy targets in Greece for large-scale integration of wind and solar energy may be facilitated by the development of hydro-pumped storage projects. In light of the above, technical aspects related with the operation of the Greek power system and its ability to absorb renewable energy are analyzed in connection with the role of hydro-pumped storage and relative economic aspects. The aim of this work is to assess the potential contribution of hydro-pumped storage projects and estimate the capacity magnitude order to support large-scale wind and photovoltaic (PV) integration in Greece. For this purpose, scenarios for the Greek power system with focus on Wind and PV development, in conjunction with hydro-pumped storage capacity, are developed, and results for current situation and reference years 2030 and 2050 are presented. For the simulation, among others, high resolution mesoscale wind data for a typical year in the whole Greek territory are used for the steady state simulation of the Greek power system, in order to better estimate the power that could be generated from installed wind turbines, taking into consideration technical characteristics of a typical commercial wind turbine. Results indicate the need of gradual development of hydro-pumped storage in parallel with the large-scale integration of wind and PV capacity into the Greek power system. In addition, the feasibility of the examined scenarios is supported from the low cost of wind and PV generation. In the case of Greece, thanks to the complex morphology and hydraulic conditions of the country, hydro-pumped storage composes an efficient and low-cost storage solution.
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Brott, Simone. "Calatrava in Athens. The architect as financier and the iconic city." Journal of Public Space 2, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jps.v2i1.47.
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<p>Today, iconic architecture is the dominant mode of contemporary public life, but the wishes of the European city and role of public space are based on financial emergencies—even if the term ‘financial’ is screened out by the mesmeric distraction of such spectral, prodigal buildings. While iconic architecture parades as visual stunt—an “avant garde” project of the digital image that violently pushes physics and engineering to its limits—such projects are only made possible by giant debt arrangements; and, as I will argue, their primary agenda is to solve serious financial problems. Yet, not only do these projects often fail to generate the future income (fictitious capital) promised and thus leave the town with an impossible 30-year mortgage that might never be repaid, iconic developments also have the power to contribute to distortions of capital (economic crises) beyond the project and the city itself. This essay will examine the Olympic development and iconic objects designed by Santiago Calatrava for the Athens Summer Games in 2004, and the dual Olympic-budget crisis and national crisis that converged on Calatrava’s project. After the games, the Greek Olympic development attracted considerable financial critique from outside the architectural discipline: economists debated how the Olympic development was implicated in the Greek crisis, and a parallel Left protest-movement against Calatrava, the public figure, for financial corruption through iconic projects gained traction. Regardless of the veracity of these arraignments; in Greece, I propose the Olympic development became a visual cipher for the ongoing Greek crisis. Calatrava’s project illustrates the ways in which National crises in Europe today are played out via architectural icons, and the transformation of public space into both a financial medium and narrator of financial crisis.</p>
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Hatzichristos, Thomas, Athanasia Darra, and Anastasia Kostellou. "Development of a Geodemographic System for Attica, Greece." European Journal of Geography 13, no. 4 (October 6, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.t.cha.13.5.001.014.
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Recent years have witnessed fundamental changes in the financial and retail service sector, with competition among companies intensifying as a result of changing markets. The need to address the specific requirements of the customer groups has become the guiding principle behind the business strategies adopted by companies. These customer needs and, subsequently, the provision of the appropriate products and services to the customer, are dependent on where they live, their personal characteristics (e.g., age, education, income, households etc.). Geodemographic systems take advantage of information technology to analyze these types of data for a better understanding of the consumer characteristics and improved performing of marketing strategies. In the present study, a geodemographic system is implemented utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) technology and artificial intelligence (AI). GIS technology offers a powerful set of tools for the input, management, and visualization of data, while AI provides advanced analytical tools such as the unsupervised fuzzy classification through the Fuzzy C-Means algorithm. The proposed methodology is applied to the Attica region in Greece. It uses the official socioeconomic data of the Hellenic Statistical Authority. The relevant database uses 78 socio-economic variables. The study area consists of 2500 area units, each one with more than 1000 inhabitants. The results, ten socio-economic classes, are analyzed and discussed. The project is funded by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the results of the analysis are open to all users by the official site of ACCI.
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Kondyli, Fotini, and Sarah Craft. "The Making of a Byzantine Monastic Landscape." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 33, no. 2 (February 25, 2021): 135–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jma.19470.
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In this study, we present some results from the Mazi Archaeological Project (MAP), a diachronic regional survey in northwest Attica, Greece. We focus our discussion on the presence of the Middle Byzantine Monastery of Hosios Meletios and its relationship to local communities as well as to the surrounding natural and built environment. In doing so, we focus on three main strategies employed by the monastery: (1) large-scale building projects, (2) the redirection of movement in the area and (3) the exploitation of the natural environment and its economic resources. We also pay attention to the establishment of the paralavria (monastic dependencies) as a fundamental mechanism employed by the monastery to map its presence and influence and connect it to other sites of economic and religious importance in the region. We argue that the spatial, material and symbolic connections between the paralavria, the main monastery and key natural features in the area created a visually, spiritually and economically coherent and distinct monastic landscape.
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Chernila, Abigail, and Evgenia Tousi. "The Issue of Post-Industrial Brownfields in Piraeus, Greece: Suggesting International Best Practices in the Era of Globalization." Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering 30, no. 1 (June 16, 2022): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.30.1.30375.
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Piraeus, Greece’s capital port city since the ancient times, is now home to many abandoned industrial sites that present an opportunity for revitalization through regeneration. This article presents applications of brownfield regeneration policies from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the EU Brodise Program for the case of Piraeus, Greece. The paper includes a theoretical framework that introduces the historical patterns of development through globalization and changing economic systems that led to the presence of brownfield sites around the world. The research utilizes field work at major brownfield sites in Piraeus including site visits and stakeholder interviews, alongside literature review. The ultimate goal of the article is to exemplify areas of proven brownfield regeneration success internationally that can be applied to future policies to support efficient, transparent, and sustainable regeneration projects in Greece.
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Pyrini, Nancy, Orestes Johns Varonis, and Evangeline Marlos Varonis. "The Open Wings project." International Journal of Information and Learning Technology 34, no. 2 (March 6, 2017): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijilt-09-2016-0049.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the implementation and outcomes of the “Open Wings” project, a continuing effort to create a community of self-directed elementary school learners and to enhance their homonomy. Technology-enhanced international videoconference presentations resulted in both knowledge gains and attitude changes. These, in turn, inspired creative, collaborative interdisciplinary projects through which students demonstrated that they could embed themselves in contexts that contribute to homonomous identification and development. Design/methodology/approach Over the 2015-2016 school year, interactive international videoconferences were delivered to first and sixth grade classrooms in two elementary schools in Athens, Greece. Topics included a personal immigration story and responsible citizenship. Impact was measured quantitatively by a pre-test/post-test design that measured changes in knowledge and attitudes and qualitatively by student group projects at six stations inspired by e-reflect methodology. Findings Students demonstrated gains in factual knowledge and changes in attitudes toward immigrants and refugees. Individual and group work at each station revealed that they could plan, research, and present projects that demonstrated their personal sense of self and their place in the community. Originality/value With many in Greece directly affected by the economic crisis and an influx of refugees and immigrants, students feel they have no control over their lives and become fearful of outsiders. Even when resources are limited, innovative use of learning technologies can help educate students in the prescribed curriculum and guide them beyond hopelessness to see themselves as empowered individuals who can enrich their own lives and those of their communities.
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Zikouli, A., Z. Andreopoulou, and T. Tsitsoni. "The contribution of European structural and investment funds to the strategic planning of sustainable development in the national forest parks of Greece." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 899, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/899/1/012056.
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Abstract Sustainable development represents a crucial environmental policy framework in order to provide multiple benefits for climate, biodiversity and people. The National Forest Parks (NFP) represent protected areas with important forest diversity that play a critical role, both in reversing biodiversity loss and contributing to socio-economic development. The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) pursue the preservation and improvement of the environment in the context of sustainable development. To date in Greece, 16 operational projects have been approved through two ESIFs and concern six NFPs which are supervised by Management Bodies. Critical Assessment of the projects and SWOT analysis for the six Management Bodies has also been implemented. These results highlight the existence of common sustainability goals, which focus on the protection of Natura 2000 sites and on preserving biodiversity, to financial support the NFPs with vehicles and IT equipment, rather than promote sustainability.
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Yiannakou, Athena. "Urban regeneration as a perpetual planning process: Understanding the role of stakeholders in property-led regeneration projects in Greek cities." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 35, no. 2 (March 2020): 83–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269094220914470.
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Urban regeneration has been at the forefront of urban planning and development in European cities for many decades and is strongly connected to property-led development, with the involvement of various stakeholders. In Greece, urban regeneration, as a public policy response to large-scale abandonment and dereliction of urban land, has not been successful so far. The Greek planning system and its provisions for renewal of degraded urban areas have for long been regarded as an obstacle to the implementation of urban regeneration projects. The reform of the planning system in the 2010s introduced some critical changes, with an emphasis on larger-scale development, but with no particular focus on urban regeneration. Using two case studies of regeneration projects in the city of Thessaloniki, this paper attempts to provide an insight into the role of the various stakeholders in such projects. It is argued that in these projects, each stakeholder, irrespective of its character, acts as distinct interest group which develops only binary relations with other stakeholders. Thus, the regeneration project becomes a platform upon which each stakeholder aims to secure its power, instead of a coordinated multi-stakeholder process with a framework for sharing the costs and benefits of its implementation.
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Apostolopoulos, Sotiris, Ilias Makris, and Stavros Stravroyiannis. "Healthcare Innovation in Greece: The Views of Private Health Entrepreneurs on Implementing Innovative Plans." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 8, no. 2 (April 27, 2022): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc8020078.
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In the field of healthcare innovation, Greece ranks 26th in FREOPP’s World Index of Healthcare Innovation (WIHI) 2021 analysis. Such a standing illustrates low performance in the dimensions of quality, science and technology and fiscal sustainability. This article seeks to shed light on this backwardness and examine the obstacles and weaknesses in the development of innovative projects by Greek health entrepreneurs. Furthermore, this research aims to trace entrepreneurs’ views on innovation issues and assess the existence of innovative plans from four perspectives: at the level of service to citizens, in the functionality of health business structures, at the level of facilities and technology, and in a clinical setting. Qualitative research was conducted with the entrepreneurs of 12 health companies in the form of semi-structured interviews. This study has shown that healthcare entrepreneurs do not reject the development of innovative projects and that those who have implemented innovative practices have had positive results; however, various obstacles negatively impact the implementation of innovative ideas. A primary research contribution will capture the factors that negatively affect the development of innovative projects and represent a crucial element for Greece to remove barriers and improve its performance on innovation issues. The results of the research will provide support for not only innovation decision-making centres but also other health entrepreneurs.
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Kvashnin, Y. D. "Modern Athens: Migration Processes and Paradigms of Urban Development." Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law 13, no. 1 (May 30, 2020): 84–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2020-13-1-5.
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This article attempts to assess the role of migration processes in the urban development of Athens over an extended period of time – since 1834, when the city became the capital of an independent Greek state, up to this day. The history of modern Athens, which in less than a century has turned from a small regional center into one of the ten largest urban agglomerations in the European Union, is a peculiar case of Mediterranean-type spontaneous urbanization with all its drawbacks, such as illegal construction, excessively high population density and infrastructural problems. At the turn of the 20th century Athens faced a new challenge – the mass inflow of immigrants from the former Yugoslavian countries and Albania, and after Greece entered the Schengen zone – from the countries of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. During the 2015 migration crisis, Greece became the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of refugees and economic migrants to the European Union. These trends have had a direct impact on the economy and social environment of the Greek capital, reinforcing challenges such as an increase in the number of low-income residents, ethnic segregation by regions and suburbanization – relocation of indigenous people from a dilapidated center to safer and more comfortable suburbs and satellite towns.The need for a transition to more responsible urban planning became apparent in the 1980s, when the first (to be legislated) master plan was adopted, which determined the development strategy for the manufacturing sector, transport system, land use and housing market policies. A serious incentive for the implementation of infrastructure projects – partially funded by EU structural funds – was the holding of the 2004 Olympic Games. In 2014, against the backdrop of a debt crisis and economic recession, the city administration adopted Athens Resilience Strategy for 2030, which takes into account such chronic problems as infrastructure degradation, irregular migration, as well as poor management at the regional and prefectural levels. Presently, due to the lack of necessary financial resources, a decisive role in improving the urban environment is assigned to the private sector. Thus, municipal authorities contribute to the gentrification of the central regions of Athens, which have got unfulfilled tourism and investment potential, providing significant tax benefits and incentives for doing business.
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Panagopoulos, Yiannis, and Elias Dimitriou. "A Large-Scale Nature-Based Solution in Agriculture for Sustainable Water Management: The Lake Karla Case." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (August 20, 2020): 6761. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176761.
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This study demonstrates a new nature-based solution (NBS) project in agriculture, the ‘Karla’ reservoir in Central Greece, a unique example at European scale, of a lake ecosystem which was dried and is now restored with the purpose to maximize the efficiency of water provision in agriculture and biodiversity enhancement. In this article, we present: (a) The historical developments from the existence of the old natural Lake Karla until the reconstruction of the homonymous artificial reservoir, (b) the environmental and economic benefits that the new project delivers, and (c) the governance and management mechanisms that can ensure the efficient operation of the project. The analysis shows that the reconstructed Lake Karla can serve as a multi-purpose project to combat water scarcity, achieving a twofold crop yield production and respective agricultural income in the surrounding area, securing the coverage of the water supply needs of the closest city, improving the status of groundwater resources, developing a natural shelter for biodiversity and emerging recreation and touristic opportunities. At the same time, its construction and operation costs can be recovered, and the proposed governance plan can ensure the viability of the whole project inspiring similar multi-purpose water retention projects for investment in agriculture and the environment in southern Europe but also in other water scarce regions.
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Peters, Rebecca, Jürgen Berlekamp, Ana Lucía, Vittoria Stefani, Klement Tockner, and Christiane Zarfl. "Integrated Impact Assessment for Sustainable Hydropower Planning in the Vjosa Catchment (Greece, Albania)." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (February 1, 2021): 1514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031514.
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Mitigating climate change, while human population and economy are growing globally, requires a bold shift to renewable energy sources. Among renewables, hydropower is currently the most economic and efficient technique. However, due to a lack of impact assessments at the catchment scale in the planning process, the construction of hydropower plants (HPP) may have unexpected ecological, socioeconomic, and political ramifications in the short and in the long term. The Vjosa River, draining parts of Northern Greece and Albania, is one of the few predominantly free-flowing rivers left in Europe; at the same time its catchment is identified an important resource for future hydropower development. While current hydropower plants are located along tributaries, planned HPP would highly impact the free-flowing main stem. Taking the Vjosa catchment as a case study, the aim of this study was to develop a transferable impact assessment that ranks potential hydropower sites according to their projected impacts on a catchment scale. Therefore, we integrated established ecological, social, and economic indicators for all HPP planned in the river catchment, while considering their capacity, and developed a ranking method based on impact categories. For the Vjosa catchment, ten hydropower sites were ranked as very harmful to the environment as well as to society. A sensitivity analysis revealed that this ranking is dependent upon the selection of indicators. Small HPP showed higher cumulative impacts than large HPP, when normalized to capacity. This study empowers decision-makers to compare both the ranked impacts and the generated energy of planned dam projects at the catchment scale.
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Мирзеханова, Зоя, and Анастасия Кольцова. "Территории опережающего развития Хабаровского края в аспекте «зелёного» роста." ИЗВЕСТИЯ ДАЛЬНЕВОСТОЧНОГО ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. ЭКОНОМИКА И УПРАВЛЕНИЕ, no. 4 (2019): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24866/2311-2271/2019-4/23-34.
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В статье представлено авторское видение эколого-экономической ситуации в рамках формирования территорий опережающего развития в Хабаровском крае с позиции современной модели «зелёной экономики». Проведённый анализ показал, что выбранное направление развития демонстрирует усиление сырьевой направленности, однако в южных регионах есть и положительные тенденции в сторону приоритетных отраслей «зеленой экономики». В пределах Хабаровского края более 70% проектов соответствуют приоритетным отраслям, но даже в проектах связанных с экологоориентированными отраслями без внимания оставлены вопросы «озеленения» экономики. Territories of advanced development are special industrial zones with special legal regime for attracting investments. It is one of the modern facilitating instruments of the Russian Far East policy. The main objective of the article is to determine how this modern policy corresponds to the global trends in the field of the green economy. Green economy is an economic paradigm which promotes low carbon growth, efficient utilization of natural resources and assets. Far East region needs a sustainable economic growth that does not result in the natural resources depletion and environment damaging. The principal trends within the northern territories of advanced development are stated to be raw industries, mainly branches of oil and gas chemistry. However, in the southern regions of the Far East there are also positive trends towards the priority of green economy industries. In Khabarovsk Krai more than 70% of the projects relate to the priority industries of the green economy and only 2% of the projects are aimed at mining. Unfortunately, even in the projects connected with the ecofriendly industries issues of using green economy principles are disregarded. Under the present circumstances, eco-technology and innovations will be critical in providing opportunities for the ecological balance recovery, resulting in a more eco-friendly, sustainable and diversified regional economy. In the context of green economy special attention should be paid to such industries as waste recycling, tourism, power, agriculture, forestry, fishing and high-tech industries. It has been found that to achieve high social, economic and environmental efficiency it is expedient to expand territories of advanced development according to the green standards.
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Louka, Vereniki, Garyfallos Arabatzis, and Apostolos Kantartzis. "The infrastructure contribution to the regional development and the environmental protection: Typologies of regional units based on forest operations engineering." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1123, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 012010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1123/1/012010.
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Abstract The purpose of this article is to investigate the contribution of mountainous infrastructure and in particular forest operations engineering in its development, environmental protection, adaptation to climate change and policy making, in order to achieve more rational use of natural and financial resources. The research focuses on forest operations engineering funded by the Rural Development Program of Greece and were executed or will be executed by the Forest Services and Municipalities of the country during the Programming Periods 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 respectively. Data related to reforestation, fire protection, mountain waterworks and forest road projects constructed in the forest area are being analysed, followed by a description of their role in protecting the adjacent areas from fires, floods and in general effects of climate change, or contribute to regional and local development through assisting accessibility, upgrading the landscape aesthetically, creating jobs, etc. Finally, comparisons are made between the regional units and the clusters - clusters of regional units between the two program periods. The identification of clusters of regional units will contribute to the creation of a clearer understanding of the problems of the mountainous area and to the evaluation of the possibilities for a more rational development, creating the conditions for the choice of alternatives, depending on the general economic or social objectives. The data are taken from the Rural Development Program and relate to the funding that has been given or projected to be given for the execution of forest technical projects over two programming periods (2007-2013 and 2014-2020) at the level of regional unit. The data are processed by methods of descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis and in particular the cluster analysis of the executed and to be executed forest technical projects (especially projects related to reforestation, fire protection, mountain waterworks and forest road projects). This typology is particularly relevant, in the context of the effort for more rational mobilization and planned utilization of financial resources, based on the comparative advantages of each cluster-cluster of regional units.
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Karamountzou, Styliani, and Dimitra G. Vagiona. "Suitability and Sustainability Assessment of Existing Onshore Wind Farms in Greece." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (January 22, 2023): 2095. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032095.
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Site selection for wind farm projects is a vital issue that should be considered in spatial energy planning. This study explores the deployment of onshore wind farms (OWFs) in Greece and assesses their suitability and sustainability using geographic information systems and multicriteria analysis techniques (the analytical hierarchy process—AHP and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution—TOPSIS). Their suitability is assessed in terms of seven exclusion criteria and constraints provided in the Specific Framework for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development for Renewable Energy Sources (SFSPSD-RES), while their sustainability is assessed in terms of nine environmental, technical-economic, and social assessment criteria in five different scenarios. The obtained results indicated that 81.4% of the existing wind farms are included within suitable areas and the highest percentage of improper siting refers to the installation of wind farms in sites that are within the boundaries of the Natura 2000 protected areas. The existing wind farms located in a part of Peloponnese, at the point bordering the Administrative Region (AR) of Attica, are characterized as more ideal in four out of five of the examined scenarios in the sustainability assessment. The proposed framework of this study is practical and effective in assessing the suitability and sustainability of existing wind farms in a country, and could contribute to spatial energy planning.
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Zervakou, A. D., and P. Tsombos. "GIS IN URBAN GEOLOGY: THE CASE STUDY OF NAFPLIO, ARGOLIS PREFECTURE, GREECE." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 43, no. 3 (January 24, 2017): 1559. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11330.
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The aggregation of population in big cities leads to the concentration of human activities, overconsumption of natural resources and urban growth without spatial planning and sustainable management. As a result, urban societies are exposed to various dangers and threats with economic, social, ecological, and environmental impacts on the urban surroundings. Problems associated with urban development are related to the existing geological conditions. Therefore, the provision of appropriate geological information about the urban environment is essential for every sustainable urban planning. The first systematic recording, codification and documentation of “Urban Geology” geothematic information in Greece was implemented by the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (I.G.M.E.) in the framework of the project called “Collection, codification and documentation of geothematic information for urban and suburban areas in Greece - pilot applications”. Through the implementation of this project, geological mapping, geotechnical, geochemical, geophysical research and measurements took place at four pilot cities of Greece. Nafplio, the capital city of Argolis prefecture, was one of them. During the project, all compiled data were stored and processed in specially designed geodatabases in GIS environment in order to produce multifunctional geothematic maps and other digital products (DEMs, 2D - 3D surfaces).
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Dimitrakaki, Ioanna. "Firms Growth Strategies in Greece – The Case of KriKri S.A." International Journal of Social Sciences and English Literature 5, no. 1 (January 14, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.55220/2576683x.v5i1.114.
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The aim of this project was to examine firms’ growth strategies followed by Greek enterprises, focusing in the case of KriKri SA: a firm that produces dairy products located in Serres, a province of North Greece. The analysis was based exclusively in the usage of secondary data. The result indicated that KriKri follows four types of growth strategies, namely: 1) Market penetration, 2) New product development, 3) Diversification, and 4) International Growth. The firm has successfully implemented the aforementioned practices and this is reflected in its overall business performance (Sales, Profits, EBITDA, etc.). In conclusion, the project highlighted the importance of growth for firms and organizations as a key element for increasing their profitability and ensuring their viability. It is also indicative that the firm achieved a substantial growth despite the economic crisis that affected negatively the Greek economy (OECD, 2021) and the appearance of the COVID 19 outbreak.
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Kalaitzidis, Dimitrios. "Sustainable School Indicators: Approaching the Vision Through the Sustainable School Award." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 168–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10099-012-0015-7.
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Abstract The Sustainable School Award is a project for schools that aims to integrate a sustainability perspective into all aspects of school life through sustainable school indicators. It complies with the implementation strategy of the International Plan of Action of the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) and the Strategy of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). In this paper, we present the vision of a sustainable school and an attempt to connect theory and practice of education for sustainable development in order to approach this vision. A brief report on the first year of the implementation of the project in Greece is also presented.
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Imperiale, Francesca, Roberta Fasiello, and Stefano Adamo. "Sustainability Determinants of Cultural and Creative Industries in Peripheral Areas." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 438. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14090438.
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Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are increasingly recognized as part of the global economy and of growing importance for sustainable local development. However, the exploitation of their full potential depends on several issues concerning their entrepreneurial dimension and the context where they operate. The paper deals with these issues having the scope to investigate the main determinants of CCIs’ sustainability in peripheral areas, to understand what kind of policy could better support the survival of CCIs and development in these areas, according to an end-user perspective. The research is part of an Interreg Greece-Italy project carried out from mid-2018 until the end of 2020 with specific reference to CCIs in Apulia (IT) and Western Greece (EL). A two-step mixed methodology has been used to figure out regional specializations and the specific aspects of the entrepreneurial structure and business sustainability in the cultural and creative sector (CCs). In the end, the paper shows and discusses the main determinants considered crucial for CCI sustainability, suggesting guidelines for local authorities supporting their economic development.
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Issaias, Platon. "From the Flat to the City: The Construction of Modern Greek Subjectivity." Joelho Revista de Cultura Arquitectonica, no. 8 (December 26, 2017): 126–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-8681_8_8.
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Athens is not built by large scale masterplans. Large public or private housing projects are nowhere to be found. Even an empirical observation of the city makes one thing immediately apparent: the city is defined by a construction model that is actualised by a singular building unit. The polykatoikia systems, is made of buildings, on average four to five storeys high, organized in irregular, fragmented plots in a patchwork of discontinuous grids, made of in situ, labour-intensive concrete frames, filled with bricks, plastered, something that ultimately looks like a stack of slabs with rather continuous balconies. The essay develops a critical reading of this model, presenting the way this domestic environment and distinct architectural typology mediated social conflict and economic development in post-war Greece. Architecture and urban management are presented here relating production with the role and the function of family and inheritance, the real estate market, law, and the construction industry.
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Giannaros, Christos, Vassiliki Kotroni, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Christina Oikonomou, Haris Haralambous, and Katerina Papagiannaki. "Hydrometeorological and Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Stream Flooding in Southeast Mediterranean: The Case of Rafina Catchment (Attica, Greece)." Water 12, no. 9 (August 29, 2020): 2426. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12092426.
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The CyFFORS (Cyprus Flood Forecasting System) project aims at increasing flood risk awareness and promoting preparedness against flooding by developing and validating a pilot flood forecasting system targeted over three river/stream basins in the Larnaca region, Cyprus, and Attica region, Greece. The present study demonstrates the analysis of flood-associated information, based on ground-based and ERA5 model reanalysis data, which is a necessary procedure prior to the development of the hydrometeorological modeling tool, in one of the study areas, namely in the Rafina catchment in Attica, Greece. The analysis focusses on 12 stream flood episodes that occurred in the period 2008–2014. The results show that most events were associated with a typical, for the study area, wet-season cyclonic activity. The detailed investigation of two case studies highlighted important spatiotemporal differences in the generation and development of rainfall, as well as in the flooding magnitude, which were related to specific characteristics of the synoptic-scale forcing, topography and soil moisture preconditioning. Moreover, highly correlated positive relationships were found between the observed maximum stream discharge and the duration and maximum total accumulation of precipitation. A strong positive correlation was also evident between the peak discharge and the flooding impacts, leading to the identification of preliminary discharge thresholds for impact-based warnings, which can be applied to the pilot CyFFORS forecasting system.
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Katsaprakakis, Dimitris Al, and Dimitris G. Christakis. "The exploitation of electricity production projects from Renewable Energy Sources for the social and economic development of remote communities. The case of Greece: An example to avoid." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 54 (February 2016): 341–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.029.
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Dragostinova, Theodora. "Competing Priorities, Ambiguous Loyalties: Challenges of Socioeconomic Adaptation and National Inclusion of the Interwar Bulgarian Refugees." Nationalities Papers 34, no. 5 (November 2006): 549–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905990600952970.
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From the estimated ten million refugees in interwar Europe, more than 250,000 were ethnic Bulgarians who found their way in the Bulgarian Kingdom following Bulgarian defeats in the Second Balkan War and World War One. For a country with a population of five and a half million in the mid-1920s, this refugee flow constituted a significant challenge from economic, political, social, and cultural viewpoints. Similarly to Germany, Hungary, and Austria, the refugee presence served as a constant reminder of national failure because Bulgaria lost territories, perceived as a part of the national homeland, to all of its neighbors. The Bulgarian state received refugees from the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Romania, and the interwar governments were compelled to deal with a large and diverse population that suffered harsh socioeconomic problems and psychological traumas. Due to the Convention for Emigration of Minorities between Greece and Bulgaria of 1919 as well as the Greek-Turkish War of 1921–1922 and the obligatory population exchange it initiated in the period 1922–1924, refugee flows in the Balkans lasted well into the mid-1920s. Hence Bulgarians were on the move throughout 1924 and 1925. Despite these strenuous circumstances, interwar politicians boasted the successful integration of the refugees. Immediately after World War One, the government provided temporary assistance to the newcomers. In 1926, an international loan allowed the agricultural settlement of the most destitute new arrivals, and all refugees were granted the rights of Bulgarian citizens. A second loan in 1928 guaranteed the continuation of vital infrastructure projects. By the end of the 1930s, both domestic and international agencies involved in the refugee accommodation viewed the process as a successfully completed mission.
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Nevett, Lisa C., E. Bettina Tsigarida, Zosia H. Archibald, David L. Stone, Bradley A. Ault, Nikos Akamatis, Elena Cuijpers, et al. "CONSTRUCTING THE ‘URBAN PROFILE’ OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE OLYNTHOS PROJECT." Annual of the British School at Athens 115 (December 2020): 329–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245420000118.
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This article argues that a holistic approach to documenting and understanding the physical evidence for individual cities would enhance our ability to address major questions about urbanisation, urbanism, cultural identities and economic processes. At the same time we suggest that providing more comprehensive data-sets concerning Greek cities would represent an important contribution to cross-cultural studies of urban development and urbanism, which have often overlooked relevant evidence from Classical Greece. As an example of the approach we are advocating, we offer detailed discussion of data from the Archaic and Classical city of Olynthos, in the Halkidiki. Six seasons of fieldwork here by the Olynthos Project, together with legacy data from earlier projects by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and by the Greek Archaeological Service, combine to make this one of the best-documented urban centres surviving from the Greek world. We suggest that the material from the site offers the potential to build up a detailed ‘urban profile’, consisting of an overview of the early development of the community as well as an in-depth picture of the organisation of the Classical settlement. Some aspects of the urban infrastructure can also be quantified, allowing a new assessment of (for example) its demography. This article offers a sample of the kinds of data available and the sorts of questions that can be addressed in constructing such a profile, based on a brief summary of the interim results of fieldwork and data analysis carried out by the Olynthos Project, with a focus on research undertaken during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons.
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Gkatsikos, Alexandros, Dimitrios Natos, Christos Staboulis, Konstadinos Mattas, Michail Tsagris, and Apostolos Polymeros. "An Impact Assessment of the Young Farmers Scheme Policy on Regional Growth in Greece." Sustainability 14, no. 5 (March 2, 2022): 2882. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14052882.
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Generation renewal in farming is an urgent matter for European policy institutions that strive to maintain social cohesion and improve economic development in rural areas. Aids to young Europeans to enter the agricultural business sector have been available since 2000 to counter the negative effect of an aging rural population. This study examines for the first time the impact of the Pillar II policy measure for generation renewal on regional economic growth. The well-established input–output method was selected to estimate the income and employment effects of the policy measure, and it served as a concrete impact analysis tool. Within the AGRICORE project study for the Young Farmers Scheme in Greece, two input–output models were constructed for Thessaly and Central Macedonia, the two most agriculturally oriented regions (NUTS-2 level), to estimate multipliers and elasticities for an ex-post impact analysis of the payments of Measure 6.1 "Start-Up Aid for Young Farmers" for the CAP 2014–2020 period. Results indicate that regional output and employment are significantly benefited from the generation renewal policies while income generation is positive but at a lesser extent. Furthermore, indirect jobs created in rural areas equal to 20% of the direct employment expressed as the number of new entrants. Consequently, the Measure proves to stimulate regional output, refresh the agricultural population and enhance rural employment, and it can be a useful tool for policy makers to support rural welfare and maintain social and economic cohesion.
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Kamariotou, Maria, and Fotis Kitsios. "How Managers Use Information Systems for Strategy Implementation in Agritourism SMEs." Information 11, no. 6 (June 20, 2020): 331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11060331.
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Agritourism is long established and the interest in diversification of agricultural enterprises into tourism has increased. However, many challenges have emerged regarding the lack of appropriate skills, strategic planning, Information Systems (IS), as well as increased costs in production processes. In Greece, the contribution of agritourism to economic growth has increased in the last decade, but the relationship between the agricultural sector and agritourism is a reason for certain people having largely taken advantage from the development of tourism in a specific area. Greek businesses operating in the agritourism sector are seeking long-term sustainability. However, they lack strategic planning and effective use of IS. As the strategic implementation of Information Technology (IT) in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the agritourism sector is under-researched, this paper aims to investigate how the process of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) affects the success of Greek SMEs in the agritourism industry. IS executives completed the survey and ANOVA analysis was used for data analysis. The findings of the paper indicate that IS executives do not focus on the analysis of the external environment and the evaluation of opportunities for IS development. In addition, the lack of formulation of the IT strategy creates inefficient and unsuccessful IT projects.
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Arabadzhy, Natalia, and Iryna Korniienko. "RETROSPECTIVE AND MODERN ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARITY." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 4, no. 5 (February 11, 2019): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2018-4-5-256-265.
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The article considers the retrospective and modern aspects of the development of charitable activity in the socio-economic sense, which is the assistance to other persons at the expense of own welfare or free time, and provided that this assistance does not harm other persons and is carried out within the law. Charity should benefit not only the immediate recipient of benefit but also society as a whole. The authors emphasize that the conducted study supports their hypothesis that under the conditions of globalization, society increasingly focuses on social issues that arise as a result of insufficient state resources and so charity becomes a factor in their successful resolution. The development of charity is a system of social, economic, and cultural factors. One of the stages of the development of charity was the creation of charitable foundations specializing in various fields: scientific, cultural, sporting, educational projects, assistance to needy families, help for orphanages, hospitals, fundraising for expensive treatment and other projects. In today’s world, the attitude towards charity as a professional occupation has become widespread, becoming a “social norm.” Charitable funds are a separate and important component of the charitable institution. The concept of “charity” came into the public consciousness as a humanistic call of a person to go to the needy, regardless of religious, national, racial, social affiliation or political or ideological beliefs. Retrospective analysis showed that forms of philanthropy in the advanced form existed already in ancient Rome and ancient Greece; in medieval Europe, they already acquired the status of state and social policy at the legislative level. In the Christian aspect of ancient Rus of the adoption of the Orthodox faith in 988, the foundations of charity are laid as socio-ethical norms of society. In the second half of the XVIII century, as a result of secularization, charitable societies, hospitals, almshouses, open by public organizations and private individuals arise, that is, there are social and state institutions of charity. And charitable funds, which are socio-economic professional activities, are beginning to develop. From ancient to modern times, charitable activity is carried out in the forms of patronage, sponsorship, volunteering, fundraising. Modern trends of charity include: increase of the non-profit sector and its internationalization; cooperation of charitable foundations, development of a social partnership with business, state bodies, and foreign funds; professionalization through the creation of network charity. In turn, charity abroad is characterized by growing professionalism, a variety of forms and programs of cooperation, the growth and expansion of the sphere itself and its importance for non-profit, in particular, socio-cultural activities. The undisputed leader in this area is the USA – the birthplace of modern sponsorship and fundraising. The authors conditionally distinguish three levels of charity. The typology and general characteristics of foreign charitable foundations, typical for the USA, European countries, and Ukraine, are presented. Features of creation and functioning of quasi-public funds are considered. On a global scale, the foreign activity of the US foundations is significant, and the expenditures exceed the official foreign aid budgets of many countries. However, their presence in Ukraine is relatively low. The volume of support is negligible compared to official support amounts: according to the OECD, the amount of grants actually received by Ukraine from other states and multilateral donors in 2011–2017 amounted to more than 5 billion USD while less than 0.1 billion USD came to Ukraine from US foundations. But this does not exclude the role of private donors in solving certain problems, in particular, in terms of supporting civil society, protecting the rights of vulnerable groups of the population, etc.
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Zielińska-Szczepkowska, Joanna. "What Are the Needs of Senior Tourists? Evidence from Remote Regions of Europe." Economies 9, no. 4 (October 11, 2021): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies9040148.
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Tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries in Europe, with growth mostly centered in major cities and urban locations. Nevertheless, remote destinations can also offer tranquility and accessibility, as well as both unexploited and unknown development potential for active senior travelers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze, on the basis of information gathered from 1705 questionnaires, senior touristic behavior, including motivations and decision-making issues for senior travelers in 11 remote regions of nine European countries (Finland, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain, Ireland, and Greece). A mixed-methods approach was used to fulfill the research objectives. Both interviews and the survey method were applied to generate data from senior tourists. The present study will focus on the key factors explaining senior tourists’ motivations and barriers to travel. The results of surveys conducted within the TOURAGE project indicate the significant potential of remote regions in the development of senior tourism. For senior respondents, a very important reason for going on holiday is the possibility of enjoying rest and silence. Safety, nature, historical sites, quality of services, and easy transportation connections are the top five attraction factors for seniors when choosing a destination. At the same time, according to the interviews, among the important problems negatively influencing the size of the senior tourism market in remote regions are: difficulties in reaching seniors with tourist offers, a lack of promotion of local tourist products aimed at seniors, and finally a lack of financial resources for the implementation of local projects supporting the development of senior tourism.
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Price, Nancy Thompson. "The Pivot: Comparative Perspectives from the Four Quarters." Early China 20 (1995): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362502800004454.
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The fixity of urban centers has been deeply implicated in models of political development from chiefdom to the state and early empire. For this reason, both Western and Chinese scholars have neglected the importance of non-permanent or shifting ceremonial centers or capitals like China's in the evolution of complex society. A brief examination of the touchstone cultures of early Mespotamia and Classical Greece, to which China is compared, demonstrates how narrowly conceived and exclusive the Euro-American view of complex society constructed by archeologists and historians has been on the issue of mobility and the relation of ruler and polity to territory. The Chinese case, like those of India and South Asia, suggests that the moving center should be recognized as a common variant in the process of socio-political development and change. The integration of the Asian state and early empires into the comparatist project seeks to analyze the formative relations between religious and cosmological conceptions and social, political and economic development.
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Papadakis, Nikos, Maria Drakaki, Sofia Saridaki, and Vassilis Dafermos. "Into the Vicious Cycle of Precarity: Labour Market, Precarious Work, Social Vulnerability and Youth: The case of Greece within the EU context." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 12 (January 4, 2021): 474–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.712.9511.
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Ιn the last decade, there has been a widespread expansion of both precarious work and precarious forms of employment (such as temporary and low-qualified jobs, seasonal and part-time jobs etc.), in which a growing share of young people work. The impact of precarious work on young people is likely to be permanent, while it seems to affect (even over-determine) their life courses. Non-smooth and early transitions into labour market are very likely to worsen progressively their long-term life chances (Lodovici & Semenza, 2012: 7). Undoubtedly, the long-lasting global economic Crisis and the subsequent Recession, has heavily affected the state of play in the labour market worldwide, provoking severe modifications both in the field of employment and countries’ social cohesion. Based on the above mentioned, the paper deals with precarious work in general, while it emphasizes precarious work among youth. It initially captures, briefly, the state of play in terms of the impact of the Crisis on the widening of the phenomenon of precarious work and then it focuses on theoretical insights and critical conceptual definitions concerning precariousness in the labour market. Further, based on secondary quantitative -data analysis, it analyses the key- parameters and facets of precarious work (focusing on youth) in the European Union and, mainly, in Greece. Additionally, it briefly presents parameters of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on precariousness in Greece. Finally, the paper explores the correlation between precarious work and social vulnerability, especially among young people.
The present paper is based on an ongoing Research Project. More specifically, this research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme «Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020» in the context of the project “Precarious Work and Youth in today’s Greece: secondary quantitative analysis, qualitative filed research and research-based policy proposals” (MIS 5048510).
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Gudev, P. "The Aegean Sea of Contradictions (Part II)." World Economy and International Relations 65, no. 11 (2021): 115–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2021-65-11-115-122.
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The Aegean Sea as a common sea region for Greece and Turkey is not only an important source of aquatic biological and energy resources, but also a water area where both countries have their own interests in its economic development and use. Traditionally, this sea area, most of which is a high sea in terms of rules and provisions of the modern international maritime law, has been used by both states on a parity basis, and other extra-regional countries have had equal rights with them here. However, the desire of Greece and Turkey to extend their zones of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over maritime zones, seabed and subsoil has given rise to new maritime disputes. It is no coincidence that the problem of delimiting the continental shelf, i. e. the underwater margin of the continent where coastal countries are vested with rights to explore and exploit its resources, has accompanied the Turkish-Greek negotiations for decades. Greece has even initiated legal proceedings before the International Court of Justice on the issue, but for various reasons the Court found that it had no jurisdiction to hear the case. To date, the positions of the parties on this issue have not changed; they are directly opposite and mutually exclusive. This and other circumstances, as well as the fact that Turkey is not a party to either the 1958 Geneva Conventions or the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, severely limits the possibility of a new trial. Moreover, the legal positivism of the Greek position on the entire spectrum of Aegean Sea problems, i. e. an appeal solely to the applicable rules and provisions of international law of the sea, not only fails to satisfy Turkey but also has negative consequences for other countries. First of all, this concerns issues related to the freedom of navigation. Greece’s claim to extend the outer limits of its territorial sea from 6 to 12 nautical miles around the huge number of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea would inevitably lead to a significant reduction of the high sea. Although at a minimum the right of innocent passage and at a maximum the more liberal rule of the law of the sea – the right of transit passage – will apply, the legal regime for these maritime areas will be fundamentally different and more heavily regulated. The passage of merchant ships and warships, as well as the overflight of military aircraft, including those of any foreign country, also of the U.S. and Russian Federation, will not be as free as on the high seas. All of these issues are dealt with in this (second) part of the paper. Acknowledgements. The article was prepared within the project “Post-Crisis World Order: Challenges and Technologies, Competition and Cooperation” supported by the grant from Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation program for research projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (Agreement № 075-15-2020-783).
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Anastasiadou, Konstantina, Nikolaos Gavanas, Christos Pyrgidis, and Magda Pitsiava-Latinopoulou. "Identifying and Prioritizing Sustainable Urban Mobility Barriers through a Modified Delphi-AHP Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 17, 2021): 10386. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810386.
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Sustainable urban mobility has been the epicenter both at the scientific and administrative level during the last decades, with a high number of relevant research projects, awareness campaigns, and other initiatives taking place at the local, national, and international level. However, many urban areas have so far achieved limited results in this direction because of political, institutional, organizational, technological, infrastructural, and socio-economic barriers as well as unforeseeable (e.g., COVID-19) conditions. The overall aim of the present research study is to support policy-making by proposing a methodology that identifies and prioritizes the sustainable mobility barriers for a specific urban area, with a view to developing effective policies. Towards this purpose, this work provides, in the first phase, a comprehensive inventory of barriers based on a literature review. In the second phase, a methodology using as a basic scientific tool a modified Delphi-AHP is proposed for the adaptation of this inventory to a specific urban area and for both the evaluation and prioritization of sustainable mobility barriers. The whole process is then applied in Thessaloniki, Greece, a European city suffering from many problems related to sustainable mobility. The above pilot application confirms that this approach can be integrated as a supporting tool in the first steps of sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs).
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Chroni, Athina, and Andreas Georgopoulos. "Documentation of Historic Buildings For Their 3D Reconstruction In A Digital Cultural Heritage Management System." Technical Annals 1, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/ta.32164.
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Being at the crossway of trade routes, Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, has known overtime an economic and spiritual flourishment reflected in the city's urban web, which has, unfortunately, undergone major alterations. Focusing on the city's Post-Byzantine period, starting in 1430, for tracing its pluralistic physiognomy, studying the osmosis of its three cultures, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, and figuring out the related cultural palimpsest, still surviv-ing in the collective memory of the city, has been the great challenge of IASIS Postdoctoral Research Project.1 Extensive documentation of various origin, dynamic and combined interpreta-tion and processing of multiple data, cross-checking of the detected infor-mation, have formed the basic principles of IASIS project development. The specific paper forms the first part of Hagia Paraskevi Christian Byzantine Monastery-Namaz Giyah Muslim Mosque-Perifereia Hellenic State Adminis-trative Building cultural landmarks’ integrated management, i.e., the part on the landmarks’ integrated documentation in the framework of IASIS Postdoctoral Research Project. [35, 36]
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Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Theano Koufaki, Christodoulos I. Sazeides, Gavriil Spyroglou, and Konstantinos Theodorou. "Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Habitat Suitability of the Dominant Tree Species in Greece." Plants 11, no. 12 (June 20, 2022): 1616. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11121616.
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Climate change is affecting species distribution and ecosystem form and function. Forests provide a range of ecosystem services, and understanding their vulnerability to climate change is important for designing effective adaptation strategies. Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) has been extensively used to derive habitat suitability maps under current conditions and project species distribution shifts under climate change. In this study, we model the current and future habitat suitability of the dominant tree species in Greece (Abies cephalonica, Abies borisii-regis, Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus nigra, Quercus ilex, Quercus pubescens, Quercus frainetto and Fagus sylvatica), based on species-specific presence data from the EU-Forest database, enhanced with data from Greece that is currently under-represented in terms of tree species occurrence points. By including these additional presence data, areas with relatively drier conditions for some of the study species were included in the SDM development, yielding a potentially lower vulnerability under climate change conditions. SDMs were developed for each taxon using climate and soil data at a resolution of ~1 km2. Model performance was assessed under current conditions and was found to adequately simulate potential distributions. Subsequently, the models were used to project the potential distribution of each species under the SSP1-2.6 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios for the 2041–2070 and 2071–2100 time periods. Under climate change scenarios, a reduction in habitat-suitable areas was predicted for most study species, with higher elevation taxa experiencing more pronounced potential habitat shrinkages. An exception was the endemic A. cephalonica and its sister species A. borisii-regis, which, although currently found at mid and high elevations, seem able to maintain their potential distribution under most climate change scenarios. Our findings suggest that climate change could significantly affect the distribution and dynamics of forest ecosystems in Greece, with important ecological, economic and social implications, and thus adequate mitigation measures should be implemented.
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Brödner, Peter, and Erich Latniak. "Sources of innovation and competitiveness." Concepts and Transformation 8, no. 2 (September 26, 2003): 179–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cat.8.2.06bro.
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There are (and have been) many efforts to support the development of new forms of work organisation in Europe, most of them being project-driven either as enterprises’ own initiatives or funded by public sources. Dissemination is making rather slow progress, though, despite proven economic benefits. Moreover, national programmes supporting work organisation activities are unevenly distributed among EU member states. While Finland, Denmark or Germany, for example, provide more than one national programme with efforts to promote work organisation in different areas, the majority of EU member states — namely Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain — seemingly have no national activities of this kind, although there might be some regional or project-based efforts with public funding like ADAPT or EQUAL. Comparing new national initiatives with earlier programme activities, it seems that efforts have been cut back. In the final section, a number of recommendations for further initiatives are derived that focus on implementation and dissemination issues.
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Paraskevopoulou, Christina, Alexandros Theodoridis, Marion Johnson, Athanasios Ragkos, Lisa Arguile, Laurence Smith, Dimitrios Vlachos, and Georgios Arsenos. "Sustainability Assessment of Goat and Sheep Farms: A Comparison between European Countries." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 12, 2020): 3099. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083099.
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European sheep and goat farming faces diverse challenges at global or local scales and constitutes an important sector for many countries, playing important sociocultural, economic and environmental roles. A closer examination of the overall sustainability of the sector is necessary to assess the performance of different farm types in various geographical settings. This comparative study evaluates the use of a common sustainability assessment (SA) tool for the major European countries in the sheep and goat sector. In particular, the study reports the results of a SA using the Public Goods (PG) Tool, adapted within the Innovation for Sustainable Sheep and Goat Production in Europe (iSAGE) Horizon 2020 project, which includes questions accounting for 13 dimensions of a sheep and goat farm sustainability. In total, 206 farmers from Greece, Italy, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, France and Turkey were interviewed, all of which were typical of specific types of a pan-European sheep and goat farm typologies elaborated within iSAGE. The study resulted in composite indicators of performance in each dimension for each country. Finland, Italy and the United Kingdom performed better than other countries, while Turkey and Greece performed below average in most categories. The results highlight challenges for each country but also at the European level, the latter mainly relating to generational renewal and an unwillingness to invest in the adoption of a more sustainable approach with long-term results.
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Al Chalabi, Suhail. "A comprehensive planning framework for the National Aviation System, USA." Ekistics and The New Habitat 69, no. 415-417 (December 1, 2002): 250–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200269415-417344.
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The author, Vice-President of the ai Chalabi Group (ACG), Ltd., Chicago, USA, is an architect, graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and of the Graduate School of Ekistics of the Athens Technological Institute, Greece, and also a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). He has over 30 years of experience as a regional planner and transportation planner; he served in several state, city and regional government positions in the USA and, prior to joining the al Chalabi Group, he was Commissioner of Economic Development for the City of Chicago. For ten years the al Chalabi Group has been actively involved in all aspects of planning for the Third Airport for the Chicago region. They have conducted aviation and demographic forecasts; estimated socio-economicand development impacts; and coordinated ground transportation improvement for this 5 billion dollar project. The text that follows was distributed to the participants at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001, which the author was finally unable to attend.
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Paparrizos, Spyridon, and Andreas Matzarakis. "Present and future responses of growing degree days for Crete Island in Greece." Advances in Science and Research 14 (February 7, 2017): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-1-2017.
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Abstract. Climate affects practically all the physiological processes that determine plant life (IPCC, 2014). A major challenge and objective of the agricultural science is to predict the occurrences of specific physical or biological events. For this reason, flower phenology has been widely used to study the flowering in plant species of economic interest, and in this concept, temperature and heat units have been widely accepted as the most important factors affecting processes leading to flowering. The determination of heat requirements in the first developing phases of plants has been expressed as Growing Degree Days (GDD). Determination of GDD is useful for achieving a better understanding of the flowering season development in several plant species, and for forecasting when flowering will occur (Paparrizos and Matzarakis, 2017). Temperature and GDD represent two important spatially-dynamic climatic variables, as they both play vital roles in influencing forest development by directly affecting plant functions such as evapotranspiration, photosynthesis and plant transpiration. Understanding the spatial distribution of GDD is crucial to the practice of sustainable agricultural and forest management, as GDD relates to the integration of growth and provides precise point estimates (Hasan et al., 2007; Matzarakis et al., 2007). The aim of the current study was to estimate and map through downscaling spatial interpolation and multi-linear regression techniques, the future variation of GDD for the periods 2021–2050 and 2071–2100, under the A1B and B1 IPCC emission scenarios in relation with the reference periods for Crete Island in Greece. Future temperature data were obtained, validated and analysed from the ENSEMBLES European project. A combination of dynamical and statistical approach was conducted in order to downscale and perform the spatial interpolation of GDD through ArcGIS 10.2.1. The results indicated that in the future, GDD will be increased and the existing cultivations can reach maturity sooner. Nevertheless, rough topography will act as an inhibitor towards the expansion of the existing cultivations in higher altitudes.
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Christauskas, Česlovas, and Rasa Žilionė. "SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN FROM ETHNIC MINORITY: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 4 (May 28, 2021): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol4.6175.
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The empowerment of women and the improvement of their political, social, economic and health status is a highly important and is one of the Global Sustainable Goals. Gender Equality index 2020 of EU-28 is 67.9, slowly increasing (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2021). Although there are some researches related to women empowerment and economic development (Siba, 2019, Hemalatha, 2020, Doss, Malapit, Comstock, 2020, etc.) or social entrepreneurship (Biggeri, Testi, Bellucci, During, Persson, 2018; Briar-Lawson, Miesing, Ram, 2020, etc.), combining these two fields and especially adding women from ethnic minority is very rare in scientific researches.The aim of the paper is to highlight challenges and possibilities of social entrepreneurship for empowerment of women from ethnic minority.This paper is based on Erasmus+ project “Empowering Women from Ethnic Minorities Through Social Enterprises” (abbrev. EMwoSE) analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data retrieved in Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. International data gives to the paper additional value in picturing the bigger picture of the situation in European countries.However, women starting a social enterprise is itself contributing to women’s empowerment, assuming that social enterprise can be culturally more acceptable for women from ethnic minorities.
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Milousi, Maria, Manolis Souliotis, George Arampatzis, and Spiros Papaefthimiou. "Evaluating the Environmental Performance of Solar Energy Systems Through a Combined Life Cycle Assessment and Cost Analysis." Sustainability 11, no. 9 (May 1, 2019): 2539. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11092539.
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The paper presents a holistic evaluation of the energy and environmental profile of two renewable energy technologies: Photovoltaics (thin-film and crystalline) and solar thermal collectors (flat plate and vacuum tube). The selected renewable systems exhibit size scalability (i.e., photovoltaics can vary from small to large scale applications) and can easily fit to residential applications (i.e., solar thermal systems). Various technical variations were considered for each of the studied technologies. The environmental implications were assessed through detailed life cycle assessment (LCA), implemented from raw material extraction through manufacture, use, and end of life of the selected energy systems. The methodological order followed comprises two steps: i. LCA and uncertainty analysis (conducted via SimaPro), and ii. techno-economic assessment (conducted via RETScreen). All studied technologies exhibit environmental impacts during their production phase and through their operation they manage to mitigate significant amounts of emitted greenhouse gases due to the avoided use of fossil fuels. The life cycle carbon footprint was calculated for the studied solar systems and was compared to other energy production technologies (either renewables or fossil-fuel based) and the results fall within the range defined by the global literature. The study showed that the implementation of photovoltaics and solar thermal projects in areas with high average insolation (i.e., Crete, Southern Greece) can be financially viable even in the case of low feed-in-tariffs. The results of the combined evaluation provide insight on choosing the most appropriate technologies from multiple perspectives, including financial and environmental.
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Mitsikopoulou, Bessie, and Christina Lykou. "The discursive construction of the recent European economic crisis in two political magazines." On the Horizon 23, no. 3 (September 7, 2015): 190–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oth-05-2015-0022.
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Purpose – Acknowledging the important role of the media in shaping a European public sphere, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the recent economic crisis is discursively construed in the context of the British media discourse. It investigates discursive constructions of the economic crisis in two political magazines of different ideological positioning by placing emphasis on the economic crisis in Greece, the “weak link” of the Eurozone. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on systemic functional linguistics which views language as social semiotic and conducts a transitivity analysis of a corpus consisting of 59 articles (a total of 61,820 words) from two weekly British political magazines, one of conservative and one of centre-left political position. The analysis is assisted by Wordsmith 6.0 concordance corpus tool. Findings – It is argued that the articles of the conservative magazine construe the crisis as primarily local and financial, discussing its effects on the British economy. On the other hand, the articles of the centre-left magazine view the crisis as a systemic one derived from and, at the same time, affecting European Union policies and stress its political and economic implications in all of Eurozone. Originality/value – The findings of the study contribute to the body of studies which investigate the role of language in the construction of the economic crisis and also adds to the on-going discussion regarding the development of a European public sphere as part of the wider European Project and the process of European integration.