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Valk, Reimara. "The Global Mobility function." Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research 7, no. 2 (June 10, 2019): 194–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jgm-02-2019-0008.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the transformation of the Global Mobility (GM) function within global organisations from a tactical/transactional into a strategic function to add value to the business and international assignees. Design/methodology/approach The method of research is an exploratory, qualitative study using an interpretivist paradigm. In total, 37 GM specialists working and living across Europe, America and Australasia were interviewed. Findings Administrative burden, organisational culture and structure, lack of alignment with the business and talent management and the lack of capabilities of the GM function and GM specialists inhibit the transformation from a tactical/transactional GM function into a Strategic GM (SGM) function. Research limitations/implications Although this study included a variety of stakeholders of the GM function, it did not include line managers and senior executives. Therefore, future research should capture the views on the GM function of middle and top management of global organisations to provide a more comprehensive view on SGM. Practical implications The designed “Global Mobility Specialists Competencies” model presents the competencies GM specialists and functions need to develop to be able to fulfil the role of a business partner and to create a GM function that is agile, flexible and responsive to create sustainable value for the organisation. Originality/value This paper identified the characteristics of the roles of the GM function and GM specialists unravelling how these influence the transformation of the GM function into a strategic function.
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Howe-Walsh, Liza. "Bank stems the loss of employees returning from abroad." Human Resource Management International Digest 23, no. 2 (March 9, 2015): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/hrmid-01-2015-0005.
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Purpose – Aims to develop a greater understanding of the problems faced by returning employees after an expatriate assignment. Design/methodology/approach – Reports the results of qualitative semi-structured interviews to create a multi-layered perspective of repatriation in a bank. Findings – Reveals that the inconsistent application of a global mobility policy contributed to the dissatisfaction of all stakeholders involved with the repatriation of staff. There was fundamental lack of talent management because of the absence of clear lines of responsibility associated with repatriating an employee. Practical implications – Highlights the need to audit global-mobility policy and practice to ensure policies are interpreted and applied consistently. The issue of multiple stakeholders identifies the need to ensure that clear lines of responsibility are required when managing repatriates. Social implications – It advances the view that fair and consistent treatment of employees enhances the bank’s reputation to manage talent effectively. Originality/value – It draws upon the views of multiple stakeholders, including line managers, human resource specialists and repatriates.
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Tilley, Stephanie, Nathan Mitchell, Marcus King, and Godlove Fonjweng. "PVGoesGlobal: Reimagining Intercultural Learning & Global Student Mobility at Prairie View A&M University." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 34, no. 4 (November 18, 2022): 480–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i4.716.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the United States met the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and increased social unrest caused by George Floyd’s death head on to provide quality instruction and to support students in and out of the classroom. For many of these institutions, global and intercultural efforts struggled as administrators, faculty, staff, and students pivoted to online instruction. Through storytelling, ethnography and narrative analysis, this essay describes how Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) navigated the continuing challenges presented by COVID-19 by reimagining what global education and student mobility could be. This case study highlights the impact of intentional collaborations with stakeholders within and outside of the university, the development of a themed living and learning communities focused on glocal learning, and the infusion of global competencies into core curriculum courses through faculty development. Data indicate learning gains and improved satisfaction with programming. By employing a glocal framework, PVAMU has demonstrated how an HBCU can bring the world to their students when confronted with a global shutdown.
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Bauböck, Rainer. "Global Justice, Freedom of Movement and Democratic Citizenship." European Journal of Sociology 50, no. 1 (April 2009): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000397560900040x.
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AbstractThe article discusses three liberal arguments about freedom of movement: immigration as a remedy for global injustice in the distribution of opportunities, freedom of movement as an integral aspect of individual autonomy, and immigration control as implied in democratic self-determination and citizenship. The article shows how these apparently irreconcilable stances can be reconstructed as partially overlapping once we realize that liberal citizenship provides not only reasons for closure but entails a bundle of mobility rights and is open for access by migrant stakeholders.
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Gouveia, Marta, Veruska Dias, and Jorge Silva. "Management of urban air mobility for sustainable and smart cities: Vertiport networks using a user-centred design." Journal of Airline and Airport Management 12, no. 1 (June 27, 2022): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jairm.207.
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Purpose: Urban mobility is all about people as well as the climate change issue is a human issue. Thus, this research envisions to provide conditions and practical tools through the innovation in urban mobility by bringing urban air mobility (UAM) to cities worldwide, contributing to change lives for the better and reversing the global issue of climate change.Design/methodology/approach: This study goes through two phases: social feasibility and technical feasibility. Moreover, it incorporates a user-centred design based on the systematic engagement of people in the decision-making process alongside a parallel interaction with several stakeholders. An innovative roadmap based on real data and feedback is obtained to implement a vertiport network in Lisbon, Portugal.Findings: By tackling people and stakeholders’ concerns related to vertiport networks implementation (e.g., safety, security, environmental, travel costs, and noise pollution concerns), the people’s needs (e.g., time savings, contribution to less air pollution, enjoyment, and sending and purchasing merchandise) and stakeholders' needs (e.g., adaptation related to airspace and ground integration and capacity, enabling technology, and real-time update and share of data) might be addressed, as by-products. Plus, we could minimize concerns by maximizing opportunities, like optimizing the airspace architecture and enhancing current airspace operations, a chance for businesses to develop on-demand, innovative, and green technologies, and higher employment opportunities. Finally, we have discovered that driving positive global change requires inspiring others by addressing people’s needs and concerns and, by then, calling them to action.Originality/value: UAM’s market reveals a gap in engaging this technology with the people, which is the key enabler to success in the long run. Empathic communication is, therefore, an integral tool to bring urban air mobility to our lives and our world. So, this investigation thrives on humanizing technology to narrow the gap between the science community, public authorities, the industry, and consumers.
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Stievano, Alessandro, Thomas Alvarez, and Franklin Shaffer. "Trends in foreign-educated nurse mobility beyond the COVID-19 pandemic." infermieristica journal 1, no. 1 (June 29, 2022): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/if-1652.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic initially halted the mobility of health professionals, global migration has since returned to pre-pandemic levels and will likely explode in the years beyond the pandemic. Simultaneously, the situation surrounding global health workforce staffing and sustainability is dire; the current global shortage of nurses is estimated at seven million, while the WHO calls for 13 million new nurses by 2030. In response, countries, particularly in high-income regions, seek to fill workforce vacancies with foreign-educated health workers. To both meet the demands of high-income countries’ strained health systems and to ensure ethical and sustainable recruitment practices for equally strained low- to middle-income regions, governments, health systems, and other stakeholders should strive for workforce sustainability via effective and coordinated policy responses, both at the national and international level. If correctly endorsed and implemented, the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel can be an effective tool in helping “destination” countries and regions meet the needs of their strained health workforces while also ensuring sustainability and ethical recruitment from “source” regions that are equally at risk.
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Armenia, Stefano, Georgios Tsaples, Riccardo Onori, Alessandro Pompei, and Robert Magnuszewski. "Systems Thinking and Group Concept Mapping for Classification of Marketing Techniques in Mobility Plans." Sustainability 14, no. 24 (December 16, 2022): 16936. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142416936.
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Due to the increasing urbanization of the global population, policymakers and academia have shifted their attention toward mobility plans and inquiries on how to best design and implement them. Hence, in order to introduce meaningful and lasting mobility plans, coordination and addressing the needs of a wide number of stakeholders are required. Reaching such a broad target audience may appear challenging for policymakers; nonetheless, the employment of appropriate marketing techniques can make the different stakeholders aware of the problems at stake and inform them about the available solutions. However, the question of which marketing technique to use in order to increase the probability of success for the mobility plan still remains. The purpose of the current paper is to propose a hybrid method that can assist policymakers in categorizing the marketing techniques towards the sustainable urban mobility plan’s steps, with the combination of Systems Thinking and modified Group Concept Mapping. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations to policymakers on which marketing technique appears to be the most appropriate under different conditions. The novelties of the paper are the combination of the two methodologies and the practical recommendations that could be useful by policymakers. Moreover, the paper illustrates an example of how to structure and more efficiently use evidence-based policies.
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Hashemi Behramani, Alireza. "SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY AND THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF THE TEHRAN METROPOLIS UNDER INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS." Urbanizm, no. 27 (September 9, 2022): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.58225/urbanizm.2022-27-20-32.
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This paper is aimed to analyse the existing relationships and controlling functions between ecological footprint and international sanction in case of Teheran city. The analysis begins questioning whether the sustainability of health on our common planet is rightly treated with oblivion to the pernicious consequences from the economic blockade of one country by the global community. The analytic method used is based on developing a conceptual and theoretical framework of reference to review the literature, interviews on the main variables of the research: urban policy, transport system, international sanctions and multi scale governance. It is concluded that while that the existence of more holistic facilitating the development of the rail transport system, the governance and stakeholders put a lot of obstacles and play at a different scale. The analysis suggests that a holistic approach is required to build urban mobility based on decreasing of ecological footprint by addressing a fuller range of degradation public health, urban politicisation, to process the policy of the multi-scale governance of city, to create the governance that implies geographical proximity, organisational proximity and institutional proximity of stakeholders.
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Quan, Rose, Alison Pearce, and Yevhen Baranchenko. "Educational mobility in transition: what can China and the UK learn from each other?" Journal of Management Development 36, no. 6 (July 10, 2017): 828–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-03-2016-0045.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences in international student mobility (SM) in two contrasting countries: UK and China, at national, institutional and individual levels. Both are countries in transition in a greater global context. The objective is to identify what these countries can learn from each other about the issues and policies surrounding the management of educational mobility. Design/methodology/approach An inductive approach was employed to understand real-life experience via multiple case studies. Participant observation and semi-structured interview methods with a variety of stakeholders were used to collect data which were then subjected to a thematic analysis to identify in which areas countries had developed good practice. Findings Over-arching themes were developed through comparing national findings. These reveal that national policy and family support are most influential in China, while British universities largely drive SM at an institutional level. Social implications The significance of this knowledge lies in the potential for social impact and reform of successful mobility schemes. International mobility equates to social mobility through global employability of those who engage. Global citizenship is regarded as one of the paths to world peace and understanding. Mobilising a younger generation can contribute to better regional integration and international stability as part of an idealistic approach to geopolitics. Originality/value Concluding that neither country has a comprehensive and complete approach, this study proposes the areas in which all both could develop and details good practice. The value therefore emerges from the comparison and contrast and the practical focus of the research.
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Pieriegud, Jana, and Jakub Zawieska. "Mobility-as-a-Service – global trends and implementation potential in urban areas in Poland." Transport Economics and Logistics 79 (October 23, 2018): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/etil.2018.79.03.
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The concept of sustainable development increasingly affects cities and the challenges they face. At the present stage of sustainability awareness it is desired that the discussion about the city development combines the financial aspects and harmonious social relationships with the natural environment. The role of local authorities in implementation processes is undeniable. The objective of the paper is to verify theoretical assumptions regarding sustainable development governance in cities. A special attention is paid to transport and logistics solutions as supported measures but also as barriers of implementation. The detailed questionnaire in the form of the survey was chosen to examine how local governments practice the concept of the green urban economy to strengthen the sustainable development in different cities. Results prove that Scandinavian cities, in comparison to other European and some North American cities, are indisputable leaders in the development and implementation of sustainability strategies. They extensively involve stakeholders and facilitate open dialogue approach, create public-private partnerships and stimulate more sustainable behaviour through variety of financial incentives.
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Pécoud, Antoine. "Migración, desarrollo y despolitización en el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular." Migración y Desarrollo 20, no. 38 (May 8, 2022): 125–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.35533/myd.2038.ap.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was adopted in 2018 under the auspices of the United Nations. In a context in which the global governance of international migration remains weak, and in which states regularly confront migration/refugee crises, the GCM provides an internationally agreed-upon assessment of the political issues raised by international migration and identifies non-binding policy recommendations regarding how governments should address them. This article analyses the content of the GCM in light of the migration-related discussions at the international level since the 1990s. It critically examines its core arguments and argues that, because of the diverging worldviews and interests among governments and other stakeholders, the GCM is marked by major internal contradictions. This results into a depoliticized document and in a political language that hides the dilemmas raised by migration politics. There is therefore little consensus among states regarding the nature of migration and the political responses to govern the transnational mobility of people.
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Papadaki, Maria, Ioannis Karamitsos, and Marinos Themistocleous. "ViewpointCovid-19 digital test certificates and blockchain." Journal of Enterprise Information Management 34, no. 4 (July 15, 2021): 993–1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jeim-07-2021-554.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how healthcare and public organizations can control and monitor digital health test certificates with citizens or other stakeholders using Blockchain platforms. The paper reviews and analyses the literature by focusing on keywords like “Blockchain AND COVID-19”. In response to the 2019 pandemic, most local governments closed their borders and imposed movement restrictions, impacting the global economy, peoples' mobility and everyday life. This study aims to provide a solution to how Blockchain technology can improve the socioeconomic impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by enhancing people's mobility and achieving a balance between protecting individuals' rights and public health safety.Design/methodology/approachThis research utilized machine learning bibliometric tools for investigating the normative literature in the area of blockchain and COVID-19. The article conducts a systematic literature review and develops a bibliometric map based on Plevris et al.’s (2017) method.FindingsThis study indicates that there is limited literature on the use of blockchain technology in issuing and validating COVID-19 tests. The development of such solutions can be done through the utilization of smart contracts, and it is expected to increase mobility in a secure and trusted environment that will help in monitoring and slow down the spread of the pandemic.Research limitations/implicationsThis analysis is done during the first ten months of the pandemic outbreak, and there is still limited scientific literature investigating blockchain and COVID-19 concepts.Practical ImplicationsOrganizations are rethinking their information management due to the COVID-19 pandemic for creating better value for the enterprise and all associate stakeholders. Blockchain technology helps organizations to move from a centralized to a decentralized way of information managing. The decentralization of information in the health-care sector will create a better value for all involved stakeholders and radical change in how health-care data are managed and controlled. The implementation of blockchain applications in the health-care industry will result in a more secure, visible, auditable environment accessible by all the parties involved.Originality/valueIt was identified that there is currently limited research done on aligning smart contracts structure within the health-care sector. Therefore, while the current literature demonstrates the importance of aligning the key concepts, little research is done on considering people’s mobility and cross-country communication.
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Chuang, Frank, Ed Manley, and Arthur Petersen. "The role of worldviews in the governance of sustainable mobility." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 8 (February 7, 2020): 4034–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916936117.
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Sustainable development aims for a viable interaction between human and physical nature. However, how do we perceive the social and natural world, rationalize our behavior, and modify our ways of life? Here, we apply the idea of worldviews to cognition and rationality in transport since a transition to sustainable mobility is crucial in dealing with global climate change. We utilize Cultural Theory and the British Social Attitudes survey (N = 1,120) to study how three worldviews—egalitarianism, hierarchy, and individualism—relate to people’s attitudes to sustainable mobility. First, we use factor analysis to extract the three worldviews or ways of life in Great Britain. Second, we construct hypotheses concerning the correlations between the worldviews and social attitudes to sustainable mobility. Our statistical analysis of 11 mobility issues in the survey confirms our hypotheses, elucidating the cultural cognition or rationality that underlies people’s transport decision-making. Egalitarianism favors demand control, environmental friendliness, and action driven by inner conviction; hierarchy privileges conformity, order, and security; and individualism embraces freedom, speed, and external incentives. The findings show that the worldviews have a systematic and comprehensive impact on how people assess sustainable mobility debates. Moreover, we perform regression analysis to investigate how these cultural styles are associated with British people’s sociodemographics and political party identification, which can help identify the characteristics of stakeholders in sustainability planning and engagement. We conclude that the worldviews form the bedrock of individual decisions on sustainable mobility and have a wider significance for holistic sustainability governance.
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Sugimoto, Koun, Kei Ota, and Shohei Suzuki. "Visitor Mobility and Spatial Structure in a Local Urban Tourism Destination: GPS Tracking and Network analysis." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (February 12, 2019): 919. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030919.
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Visitor mobility is an important element for facilitating sustainable local economics and management in urban tourism destinations. Research on visitor mobility often focuses on the patterns and structures of spatial visitor behavior and the factors that influence them. This study examines the relationship between visitor mobility and urban spatial structures through an exploratory analysis of visitors’ movements and characteristics, which were collected from surveys with global positional system (GPS) tracking technologies and questionnaires. The Ueno district, one of the most popular tourism destinations in Tokyo, Japan, was selected as the study area. For local stakeholders, the low accessibility levels between this district’s park zone and downtown zone have become a major destination management issue. We compared visitor movements and flow networks in various places from different major trip origins (railway stations) by using several analysis techniques (GPS log distribution, spatial movement sequences, and network analysis), and examined physical and human factors that caused the different mobility patterns. The results demonstrated that physical factors, including major transport hubs (railway stations), topography, commercial accumulation, and POI distribution, affected intra-destination visitor behavior, and segmented visitor markets into different main zones. Such findings could inform future destination management policies and planning in local urban tourism destinations.
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Ulak, Nimesh. "COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Tourism Industry in Nepal." Journal of Tourism & Adventure 3, no. 1 (September 21, 2020): 50–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jota.v3i1.31356.
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The article aims to measure the impact of novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on tourism industry in Nepal. The pause of tourism mobility for months due to an abrupt halt of transportation means; shuttered borders; and stay-at-home orders by government has brought adverse effects on Nepal’s tourism industry and its stakeholders. Likewise, airlines, accommodation, transport operators and other sub-sectors of Nepal are suffering due to international travel bans. There are spillover impacts of the pandemic on the socio-cultural structure, human psychology and global economic system where tourism industry is no exception. The impacts are gradually unfolding. Hence, the study also focuses on the preparedness and response strategy of stakeholders for combating this pandemic which has brought crisis and fear to Nepal’s tourism industry. The research is qualitative in its nature and followed basic/fundamental research type to expand knowledge on this topic which will shed light on the significant impact on the tourism industry in Nepal. The study is based on both primary data collected through interviews with intended stakeholders and the review of several relevant secondary sources.
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Obrecht, Matevž, Matjaž Knez, Andrej Lisec, Aleksandra Wrzalik, and Rebeka Kovačič Lukman. "Sustainable Consumption and Segmentation of Potential Low Emission Vehicle Buyers." System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 425–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2019-0055.
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AbstractIn 2015 the Agenda 2030 was introduced, framed of 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) with 169 targets, which were adopted by the United Nations Member States and should bring prosperity and growth to the global society. In this paper a focus is given to the SDG 12 Sustainable consumption and production from the e-mobility perspective. SDG 12 aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns – it is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs, and a better quality of life for all. Many stakeholders from public and private sector are investing a lot of effort to identify consumer behaviour for future improvements in development of their green products and strategies Because sustainable mobility and consequently low emission vehicles (LEV) are closely related with sustainable consumption within the personal mobility this paper focuses on consumer segmentation of potential LEV buyers and their willingness to buy LEV. Results have revealed that the segment of potential alternative fuel vehicles buyers is much larger than we initially anticipated. Such vehicles are, surprisingly, also more attractive for the older population, according to our results.
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Anlesinya, Alex, Kwasi Dartey-Baah, and Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah. "A Review of Empirical Research on Global Talent Management." FIIB Business Review 8, no. 2 (April 15, 2019): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2319714519836306.
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Global talent management as an academic field is regarded as a multi-disciplinary bridge field, which has recently emerged from the strategic international human resource management (HRM) and talent management fields as a critical strategic issue for multinational firms. While some literature reviews have been conducted on the topic, there is no systematic review of drivers, outcomes and challenges in empirical global talent management research. This study therefore provides a rigorous systematic review of empirical global talent management research from 2008 to 2017. The evidence reveals that global talent management can enhance multinational companies’ global mobility outcomes, employer attractiveness, competitiveness and performance. However, challenges, such as huge financial costs, high rate of turnover among global talents, localization difficulties, corporate culture, and adjustment problems, of expatriate spouses can undermine the effectiveness of global talent management practices and programmes. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the qualitative approach and cross-sectional design have dominated empirical research on the topic while only few studies have performed multi-level analysis. The findings urge stakeholders to adopt a more holistic and well-informed view while designing and implementing global talent management initiatives either as researchers or practitioners. It also implies that despite the substantial interest in global talent management, the field is still under-explored or under-researched. The study makes contribution by providing the first systematic review of empirical global talent management research.
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Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene, Sven Kesselring, and Eriketti Servou. "What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation." Sustainability 11, no. 1 (January 4, 2019): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11010221.
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Cities have changed their pulse, their pace, and reach, and the urban scale is an interconnected element of the global “network society” with new forms of social, cultural and economic life emerging. The increase in the amount and speed of mobilities has strong impacts on ecological conditions, and, so far, no comprehensive sustainable solutions are in sight. This paper focuses on the discussion around smart cities, with a specific focus on automation and sustainability. Discourses on automated mobility in urban spaces are in a process of creation and different stakeholders contribute in shaping the urban space and its infrastructures for automated driving in the near or distant future. In many ways, it seems that the current storylines, to a high degree, reinforce and (re)produce the “system of automobility”. Automobility is still treated as the iconic and taken-for-granted form of modern mobility. It seems that most actors from industry, planning, and politics consider it as being sustained through smart and green mobility innovations and modifications. The paper discusses the implication of these techno-policy discourses and storylines for urban planning. It presents preliminary results from ongoing research on policy promotion strategies of automated driving in the region of Munich, Germany.
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Turoń, Katarzyna, Andrzej Kubik, and Feng Chen. "Electric Shared Mobility Services during the Pandemic: Modeling Aspects of Transportation." Energies 14, no. 9 (May 3, 2021): 2622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14092622.
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The global spread of the COVID-19 virus has led to difficulties in many branches of the economy, including significant effects on the urban transport industry. Thus, countries around the world have introduced different mobility policies during the pandemic. Due to government restrictions and the changed behaviors of transport users, companies providing modern urban mobility solutions were forced to introduce new business practices to their services. These practices are also apparent in the context of the electric shared mobility industry. Although many aspects and problems of electric shared mobility have been addressed in scientific research, pandemic scenarios have not been taken into account. Noticing this research gap, we aimed to update a previously developed model of factors that influence the operation of electric shared mobility by incorporating aspects related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on this industry. This article aims to identify the main factors influencing the electric shared mobility industry during the COVID-19 and post-lockdown periods, together with their operation areas and the involved stakeholders. The research was carried out on the basis of expert interviews, social network analysis (SNA), and the use of the R environment. The article also presents sustainable transport management recommendations for cities and transport service operators, which can be implemented after a lockdown caused by an epidemic. The results in this paper can be used to support transport modeling and the creation of new policies, business models, and sustainable development recommendations. The contents will also be helpful to researchers worldwide in preparing literature reviews for articles related to sustainable management in the COVID-19 pandemic reality.
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Joseph, Jeanelle, and Tessa Barry. "Confronting a Global Pandemic: Responses from Caribbean Extension Service Providers." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 28, no. 2 (March 15, 2021): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2021.28203.
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Agricultural Extension is an essential service, and this was even more so highlighted in this global pandemic which has significantly affected the agricultural sector. This rapid research sought to assess the capacity of Caribbean extension and advisory service providers. Seventy extension service providers from 11 Caribbean countries responded to an open-ended questionnaire administered via the Survey Monkey platform. The findings indicated that governments played an important role in providing opportunities such as distribution of seedlings to encourage producers, and promoted backyard gardening and other programmes to ensure continuity of country’s food security. Extension officers faced a number of barriers in the execution of their duties. Some of the barriers included technological barriers, limited resources, and limited mobility as a result of the necessary restrictions and in some cases psychological barriers such as the fear of contracting the disease in the execution of their duties. Officers however utilized strategies such as increased use of ICTs to train farmers and link them to market opportunities. In an attempt to increase the use of ICTs a number of challenges were highlighted. Challenges such as limited ICT resources for officers, poor connectivity in some remote areas, aged farmers literacy levels in the use of ICTs as well as access. This rapid research recommends policy development towards the increased use of e-extension with consultation among key stakeholders. This can be done on a regional basis, and eventually scaled up in an effort to further strengthen extension and advisory services globally.
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Groom, Quentin, Tim Adriaens, Damiano Oldoni, Lien Reyserhove, Diederik Strubbe, Sonia Vanderhoeven, and Peter Desmet. "TrIAS, leveraging citizen science data to monitor invasive species in Belgium." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (March 15, 2018): e24749. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.24749.
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Reducing the damage caused by invasive species requires a community approach informed by rapidly mobilized data. Even if local stakeholders work together, invasive species do not respect borders, and national, continental and global policies are required. Yet, in general, data on invasive species are slow to be mobilized, often of insufficient quality for their intended application and distributed among many stakeholders and their organizations, including scientists, land managers, and citizen scientists. The Belgian situation is typical. We struggle with the fragmentation of data sources and restrictions to data mobility. Nevertheless, there is a common view that the issue of invasive alien species needs to be addressed. In 2017 we launched the Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS) project, which envisages a future where alien species data are rapidly mobilized, the spread of exotic species is regularly monitored, and potential impacts and risks are rapidly evaluated in support of policy decisions (Vanderhoeven et al. 2017). TrIAS is building a seamless, data-driven workflow, from raw data to policy support documentation. TrIAS brings together 21 different stakeholder organizations that covering all organisms in the terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. These organizations also include those involved in citizen science, research and wildlife management. TrIAS is an Open Science project and all the software, data and documentation are being shared openly (Groom et al. 2018). This means that the workflow can be reused as a whole or in part, either after the project or in different countries. We hope to prove that rapid data workflows are not only an indispensable tool in the control of invasive species, but also for integrating and motivating the citizens and organizations involved.
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Beyer, Elke, Lucas-Andrés Elsner, Anke Hagemann, and Philipp Misselwitz. "Industrial Infrastructure: Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina." Urban Planning 6, no. 3 (September 23, 2021): 444–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i3.4211.
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Current development and re-development of industrial areas cannot be adequately understood without taking into account the organisational structures and logistics of commodity production on a planetary scale. Global production networks contribute not only to the reconfiguration of urban spatial and economic structures in many places, but they also give rise to novel transnational actor constellations, thus reconfiguring planning processes. This article explores such constellations and their urban outcomes by investigating two current cases of industrial development linked with multilateral transport-infrastructure provisioning in Ethiopia and Argentina. In both cases, international partners are involved, in particular with stakeholders based in China playing significant roles. In Mekelle, Ethiopia, we focus on the establishment of a commodity hub through the implementation of new industry parks for global garment production and road and rail connections to international seaports. In the Rosario metropolitan area in Argentina, major cargo rail and port facilities are under development to expand the country’s most important ports for soybean export. By mapping the physical architectures of the industrial and infrastructure complexes and their urban contexts and tracing the translocal actor constellations involved in infrastructure provisioning and operation, we analyse the spatial impacts of the projects as well as the related implications for planning governance. The article contributes to emergent scholarship and theorisations of urban infrastructure and global production networks, as well as policy mobility and the transnational constitution of planning knowledge and practices.
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Teter, Wesley R., and Libing Wang. "Monitoring implementation of the Tokyo Convention on recognition: a multi-stakeholder approach to the internationalization of higher education in the Asia-Pacific." International Journal of Comparative Education and Development 23, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijced-10-2020-0075.
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PurposeThe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed the global outlook for international higher education. Given the rapid shift to online learning, the Tokyo Convention in the Asia-Pacific entrusted to UNESCO has become an important policy framework to facilitate regional collaboration, authoritative information sharing and recognition of qualifications across diverse modes of learning. This paper examines the role of the Tokyo Convention to establish an inclusive platform for monitoring and collaborative governance of mobility and internationalization based on fair and transparent recognition policies and practices in the Asia-Pacific.Design/methodology/approachIn August 2019, a standardized survey instrument was sent by the Secretariat of the Tokyo Convention Committee at UNESCO Bangkok to competent recognition authorities in 46 countries in the Asia-Pacific, including the eight State Parties to the Tokyo Convention that ratified the Convention as of the reporting period. In total, qualitative data from n = 27 countries/states was received and analyzed to assess implementation of the Tokyo Convention throughout the region. The research design illustrates how normative instruments such as the Tokyo Convention are monitored and assessed over time.FindingsA multi-stakeholder approach based on collaborative governance is needed to effectively monitor implementation and implications of the Tokyo Convention for diverse higher education stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region.Research limitations/implicationsImplications include establishing baseline data and methods for monitoring implementation of the Tokyo Convention. Based on collaborative governance theory, the paper explores potential for a multi-stakeholder approach to promote mutual accountability in the Asia-Pacific and to develop mechanisms for inclusive participation in the governance of the forthcoming Global Convention on recognition.Originality/valueAs the first systematic review of its kind, this paper includes a unique dataset and insights into UNESCO's methodology to monitor implementation of standard-setting instruments for qualifications recognition in the Asia-Pacific.
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Ledeneva, V. Yu. "The transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global higher education systems." Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue 1, no. 2 (December 24, 2021): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.53658/rw2021-1-2-28-43.
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The article deals with the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for higher educational institutions in different countries. The lack of information and verified data relative to the impact of the pandemic on changes in the education systems in different countries, the topic is still poorly learned, and therefore, it is difficult to predict what transformation processes will occur in the near future. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for higher education in terms of teaching, learning, research collaboration and institutional governance. At the same time, the pandemic has provided an excellent opportunity for various stakeholders to rethink and even reschedule higher education process with an effective risk management plan for future resilience. The crisis made it possible to reconsider the role of informational and communicational technologies (ICT) and analyze the effectiveness of online learning in higher education. The article attempts to systematize the information available in open sources and assess the impact of the pandemic on such aspects of higher education as problems connected with technical facilities provision, accessibility for different social groups, digitalization and international academic mobility. Methods of systemic and comparative analysis based on international research and online surveys were used. Recommendations are proposed for studying the impact of global politics and geopolitical factors on the future of international higher education.
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Mehta, Jimit Kishor. "Vehicle Telematics in Data Analysis and Importance of Vehicle Tracking For Businesses." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 1 (January 31, 2022): 1258–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.40021.
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Abstract: [3] Vehicle/driver monitoring and sensing is one family of applications which falls in the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) area. Drivers, fleet owners, transport operations, insurance companies are stakeholders which need to have analytical reporting on the mobility patterns of their vehicles, as well as real-time views in order to support quick and efficient decisions towards ecofriendly moves, cost-effective maintenance of vehicles, improved navigation, safety and adaptive risk management. [1] Vehicle telematics is an interdisciplinary field that combines telecommunications, informatics, computer science, electrical engineering, and vehicular technologies to create a vehicle telematics system that functions to collect and derive insight from vehicle telematics data and ultimately improve the efficiency and safety of the overall driver experience. The use of Vehicle Telematics has now-a-days been an active contributor for the global market. Keywords: monitoring, sensing, analytical reporting, adaptive, interdisciplinary, efficiency.
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Kennepohl, Dietmar. "Incorporating Learning Outcomes in Transfer Credit: The Way Forward for Campus Alberta?" Canadian Journal of Higher Education 46, no. 2 (August 31, 2016): 148–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v46i2.185997.
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Learning outcomes have become an integral part of the global trend in higher education reform and are employed in three interconnected areas: (1) quality assurance, (2) teaching and learning, and (3) transfer credit. The article touches briefly on the first two areas, but focuses discussion on employing learning outcomes in transfer credit. Using Alberta as a case study, its higher education system is examined and assessed, with emphasis on transfer credit, prior learning assessment, student mobility, and system coordination. Both the advantages and limitations of learning outcomes are presented, including balancing the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders. Taking lessons learned from similar international initiatives and an analysis of the Alberta context, the discussion culminates in a proposal for a way forward for this educational jurisdiction, promoting and incorporating learning outcomes as an important component of systematic and transparent method of transfer credit.
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Dornier, Raphaël, and Chiara Mauri. "Overview: tourism sustainability in the Alpine region: the major trends and challenges." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 10, no. 2 (April 9, 2018): 136–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-12-2017-0078.
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Purpose This introductory paper aims to provide a broad overview of the significance and contributions of this theme issue. Design/methodology/approach This introductory paper draws from the papers presented at a conference on tourism and local development in the Alpine region (Courmayeur, Italy, June 26-27, 2017). Sustainable tourism from different perspectives was a core topic at this conference, and it is a theme widely discussed in the literature. Findings Sustainability in mountain tourism has many facets, and it involves many aspects of tourism management: mobility and mobility infrastructure; global warming, snow shortage and long-term viability of ski stations; pollution and clean air; price of accessibility; stakeholders’ involvement and networking; and cross-border partnerships. The tourism literature has always been in transition, with many disciplines contributing to its development. Sustainability adds new perspectives that enrich the field and broaden the horizon and discussion. Even though each paper has its own specific conclusion, there are several key themes that emerge from most of the papers. Among these, sustainability is stimulating a re-think of the “classical” products and services provided in mountain destinations, particularly in relation to the winter season. Snow, water and other physical resources typical of mountain regions can no longer be taken for granted, and their progressive scarcity requires a long-term view. Practical implications The findings indicate that it will be necessary to encourage tourists to try and explore the wider range of products and services that a mountain destination can offer. To facilitate this, tourism operators will need to configure a broader and richer experience in the future. The issue of sustainability involves many stakeholders, who can combine their knowledge, competences and activities to maximize the attractiveness of a location while preserving its resources for the future. Originality/value The value of this paper is that it highlights the key themes and perspectives that sustainable tourism is raising.
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Kyriakou, Kalliopi, Konstantinos Lakakis, Paraskevas Savvaidis, and Socrates Basbas. "Analysis of spatiotemporal data to predict traffic conditions aiming at a smart navigation system for sustainable urban mobility." Archives of Transport 52, no. 4 (December 31, 2019): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.0206.
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Urban traffic congestion created by unsustainable transport systems and considered as a crucial problem for the urbanised areas provoking air pollution, heavy economic losses due to the time and fuel wasted and social inequity. The mitigation of this problem can improve efficiency, connectivity, accessibility, safety and quality of life, which are crucial parameters of sustainable urban mobility. Encouraging sustainable urban mobility through smart solutions is essential to make the cities more liveable, sustainable and smarter. In this context, this research aims to use spatiotemporal data that taxi vehicles adequately provide, to develop an intelligent system able to predict traffic conditions and provide navigation based on these predictions. GPS (Global Positioning System) data from taxi are analysed for the case of Thessaloniki city. Trough data mining and map-matching process, the most appropriate data are selected for travel time calculations and predictions. Several algorithms are investigated to find the optimum for traffic states prediction for the specific case study concluding that ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) outperforms. Then, a new road network map is created by producing spatiotemporal models for every road segment under investigation through a linear regression implementation. Moreover, the possibility to predict vehicle emissions from travel times is investigated. Finally, an application with a graphical user interface is developed, that navigates the users with the criteria of the shortest path in terms of trip length, travel time shortest path and “eco” path. The outcome of this research is an essential tool for drivers to avoid congestion spots saving time and fuel, for stakeholders to reveal the problematic of the road network that needs amendments and for emergency vehicles to arrive at the emergency spot faster. Besides that, according to an indicator-based qualitative assessment of the proposed navigation system, it is concluded that it contributes significantly to environmental protection and economy enhancing sustainable urban mobility.
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Paalosmaa, Tomi, and Miadreza Shafie-khah. "Feasibility of Innovative Smart Mobility Solutions: A Case Study for Vaasa." World Electric Vehicle Journal 12, no. 4 (October 14, 2021): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/wevj12040188.
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The global trend of urbanization and growing environmental awareness have risen concerns and demands to develop cities to become smarter. There is a grave need for ambitious sustainability strategies and projects, which can aid cities intelligently and comprehensively in this task. European Union (EU) launched 2014 the Horizon 2020 program (aka Horizon Europe), aiming to encourage the EU nations and their cities to take action to reach carbon neutrality through projects striving to smart city development. By promoting innovative, efficient, far-reaching, and replicable solutions, from the fields of smart energy production and consumption, traffic and mobility, digitalization and information communication technology, and citizen engagement, the objectives of the smart city strategies can be achieved. Horizon 2020 funded IRIS Smart Cities project was launched in 2017. One of the follower cities in the project has been the City of Vaasa in Finland. Vaasa’s climate objective is to reach carbon neutrality by 2030. In order to achieve this goal, the city has taken several decisive measures to enhance de-carbonization during recent years. One essential target for de-carbonization activities has been traffic and mobility. The primary purpose of the research conducted was to study the smart mobility, vehicle-to-grid (V2G), and second life battery solutions in the IRIS Smart Cities project, demonstrated first by the Lighthouse cities and then to be replicated in the City of Vaasa. The aim was to study which importance and prioritization these particular integrated solutions would receive in the City of Vaasa’s replication plan led by the City of Vaasa’s IRIS project task team of 12 experts, with the contribution of the key partners and stakeholders. Additionally, the aim was to study the potential of the integrated solutions in question to be eventually implemented in the Vaasa environment, and the benefit for the city’s ultimate strategy to reach carbon neutrality by 2030. The secondary object was to study the solutions’ compatibility with the IRIS lighthouse cities’ demonstrations and gathered joined experiences concerning the smart and sustainable mobility and vehicle-to-grid solutions, and utilization of 2nd life batteries. The results of the research indicated, that the innovative smart mobility solutions, including vehicle-to-grid and second life battery schemes, are highly relevant not only to the IRIS Lighthouse cities, but they also present good potential for the City of Vaasa in the long run, being compatible with the city’s climate and de-carbonization goals.
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Agbali, Mohammed, Claudia Trillo, Isa Ali Ibrahim, Yusuf Arayici, and Terrence Fernando. "Are Smart Innovation Ecosystems Really Seeking to Meet Citizens’ Needs? Insights from the Stakeholders’ Vision on Smart City Strategy Implementation." Smart Cities 2, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 307–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities2020019.
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The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city administrators are organizing their services and development globally. Thus, the smart city concept is becoming extremely relevant on the agendas of policy-makers as a development strategy for enhancing the quality of life of the citizen and improving the sustainability goals of their cities. Despite of the relevance of the topic, still few studies investigate how open innovation shapes the way cities become smarter or focus on the experiences of professionals to understand the concept of a smart city and its implementation. This paper fills this gap and analyzes the processes for building effective smart cities by integrating the different perspectives of smart innovations and using the core components of smart cities according to a conceptual framework developed in previous research. In so doing, it provides useful insights for smart city stakeholders in adopting social and technological innovation to improve the global competitiveness of their cities. The empirical dataset allows examining how “smart cities” are being implemented in Manchester (UK), and in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Diego City (United States of America (USA)), including archival data and in-depth interviews with core smart city stakeholders who are involved in smart city projects and programs across the cases. Results from empirical data suggest that the conceptualization of smart cities across the cases is similar with a strong emphasis on social and technological innovation aimed at addressing municipal challenges in the core sub-systems of the cities, which include mobility, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurial development, quality of life, and social cohesion. The results also reveal benefits and challenges relating to smart innovation ecosystems across the cases and the future directions of their diffusion.
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FUCHS, Kevin, and Kris SINCHAROENKUL. "The Status Quo of Sustainable Tourism Development in Phuket. A Qualitative Assessment." Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism 12, no. 1 (February 21, 2021): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.14505/jemt.12.1(49).14.
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Sustainable tourism is an increasingly fashionable term that is strongly correlated with the global age of increased mobility. While there is increasing interest in sustainable tourism, there is no contemporary research that describes the current state of Phuket, Thailand, the mass-tourism destination. An in-depth review of existing literature revealed that sustainable tourism at large receives a great deal of attention in its current state. This paper aimed to go beyond the common theme of sustainable tourism and conducted a thorough analysis about the status quo in Phuket with regard to sustainable tourism. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews (n=5) with industry experts and later analyzed the content by the means of thematic analysis. The research is specific to Phuket; therefore, the results of this research are not generalizable to other mass-tourism locations. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but it is evident that stakeholders in Phuket recognize the importance of sustainable tourism. Moreover, the lack of accountability, coherent leadership, and consistency resulted in a high failure rate when initiatives were launched to improve sustainable tourism behavior in Phuket.
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Cruz, Luna A. Dela, and Lean Karlo S. Tolentino. "Telemedicine Implementation Challenges in Underserved Areas of the Philippines." International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering 11, no. 7 (July 26, 2021): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.46338/ijetae0721_08.
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During these difficult times of global pandemic, mobility restrictions and lockdowns were put in place to prevent an outbreak. However, patients with medical needs must deal with regular face-to-face consultations with physicians for their prescriptions and medications. It is important to review the various telemedicine research in the Philippines and abroad and how to formulate a national framework for telemedicine so the program can be implemented in the entire country. As a developing nation and an archipelago, the Philippines needs to work on massive infrastructure project for national broadband and health care facilities. The increase of medical professionals per 1000 of population and prevent them from migrations will help implement such innovation in medical field. A national policy to support the program in terms of funding and its transparency, establishment of processes and standards, and safeguarding digital information should be put in place. The country will need to address these gaps in technology and processes and encourage the population to partake in national health plans and initiatives to increase awareness and engagement of all stakeholders. Keywords— Challenges, Developing Countries, eHealth, Implementation, IoMT, Philippines, Rural, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Underserved
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Turoń, Katarzyna, and Grzegorz Sierpiński. "Electric-Car-Sharing in Urban Logistics – The Analysis of Implementation and Maintenance." Logistics and Transport 40, no. 4 (2018): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.26411/83-1734-2015-4-40-17-18.
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The implementation of the sustainable transport policy in cities aims at finding various solutions that support the use of ‘clean energy’ in urban logistics. One of current global sustainable transport trends involves various measures related to electromobility. An example of electromobility in urban logistics is the e-car-sharing, or a short-term electric car rental. Since electric car-sharing is rather new to the transport market, operators and cities and metropolises may face various difficulties while implementing such services. Based on still operating and discontinued e-car-sharing systems, the authors analysed strengths and weaknesses of those systems with the focus on implementation and maintenance issues. The goal of the article is to determine strengths and challenges for e-car-sharing in urban logistics. The article is designed to assist stakeholders interested in the implementation of e-car-sharing. The analysis was provided under the international research project of ‘Electric travelling platform to support the implementation of electromobility in Smart Cities based on ICT applications’ funded from the National Research and Development Centre as a part of the ERA-NET CoFund Electric Mobility Europe Programme.
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Irwan Putri, Belinda Azzahra, Farhan Atha, Fathiyya Rizka, Rizki Amalia, and Shafira Husna. "Factors Affecting E-Scooter Sharing Purchase Intention: An Analysis Using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2)." International Journal of Creative Business and Management 1, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/ijcbm.v1i2.4397.
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Transportation uses a significant amount of energy and burns most of the world energy consumers. As a result, it gives effect to the environment, such as air pollution in the forms of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrocarbons or volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter. Those compounds contribute a phenomenon called global warming. Within the transportation sector, road transport is the largest contributor to global warming. To cope with global warming, environmental regulations in developed countries are trying to reduce the individual vehicle's emissions. However, this has been counterbalanced by an increase in the number of vehicles and increased use of each vehicle. Therefore, micro-mobility may alleviate several challenges facing big cities today and offer more sustainable urban transportation. This research utilizes the framework of the UTAUT2 to identify and build a quantitative approach to identify factors related to the purchase intention factors of e-scooter sharing. The 200 respondents' field data were collected in Jakarta Metropolitan Area (Jabodetabek) as a rapid increase in pollution level. The linear regression study revealed that the consumers' purchase intention of e-scooter sharing is shaped by seven main factors: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition, hedonic motivation, price value, and habit. Those factors can explain 81 percent of the field data. Moreover, a brief recommendation for related stakeholders based on the research result is proposed to increase the adoption of e-scooter sharing. The practical implication resulted from this analysis are suggested policy measures the e-scooter sharing environmentally impact potency and strengthening circular economy as a part of green economy achievement in the communities.
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Naziz, Arjuman. "Collaboration for transition between TVET and university: a proposal." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 20, no. 8 (October 24, 2019): 1428–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-10-2018-0197.
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Purpose Despite the growing emphasis on revitalizing the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector in Bangladesh, very little discussion has taken place on reforming the current inflexible transition pathways, from TVET to the universities. This paper aims to reflect critically on the existing literature on TVET, in the global and national context, and the experiences of students and TVET experts, to develop a model of collaboration between the polytechnic institutes and the universities in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This paper follows a qualitative strategy of enquiry, using a mix of critical reflection on literature on TVET and higher education and unstructured interviews with two TVET experts, four TVET students and four students from a public university. It draws on the theories of collaboration and uses exemplary cases to illustrate and support the line of reasoning. Findings This paper identifies that there is resource dependency between the polytechnic institutes and universities in Bangladesh, and their institutional environment necessitates them to form collaboration to ensure flexible transition pathway, from polytechnic institutes to universities; this paper proposes a model for such collaboration. Practical implications This paper offers a guideline for forming collaboration among the relevant stakeholders. Social implications Collaboration between polytechnic institutes and universities in Bangladesh is likely to address the inequitable nature of TVET, by improving its social status and acceptance, as well as allowing higher income opportunity and greater mobility for the TVET graduates, coming especially from humble socio-economic backgrounds. Originality/value This paper contributes in the recent discussions on how collaboration among different stakeholders can contribute in achieving the sustainable development goals, with special emphasis on TVET.
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Annette, Lucy. "Supporting research and innovation." Impact 2021, no. 8 (October 28, 2021): 34–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2021.8.34.
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At the third Research and Innovation Day, which took place in June 2021, Mariya Gabriel, EC Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, stated: 'Our ambition is to build a renewed innovation policy that provides smart investments for scaling up companies, new forms of financial instruments and how to best exploit synergies between EU, national and regional funds.' Cross-border cooperation is key to overcoming challenges such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, the recently released Communication on Global Approach for Research and Innovation document defines a global strategy for cooperation with other countries and entities. A key focus for Horizon Europe is on improving health, mobility, energy efficiency and food security, as well as tackling climate change and preserving cultural heritage. The programme encompasses diverse instruments for covering a range of projects, an extended duration and an increased budget. In order to be as impactful as possible, Horizon Europe collaborates with other European programmes and Gabriel believes that public-private cooperation is another tool that can be used to maximise the impact of the programme. For example, she said that collaborating with industry is key to overcoming technological challenges such as the development of clean Hydrogen or High Performance Computing. The development of a flexible and collaborative innovation ecosystem that involves the input of diverse stakeholders is a key part of Horizon Europe's strategy. A key word here is synergy and this includes synergies at all levels, between policies, programmes and instruments.
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Stoykova, Zhaneta. "CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE." Knowledge International Journal 28, no. 1 (December 10, 2018): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij280117s.
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Contemporary education functions and develops in the context of globalisation, each of whose indications imprints on it its own projections, determining the essence of its change. The digitalisation of education and its active involvement in the global communication and information space provides new channels for knowledge and learning as well as for carrying out transformations in the sphere of education. Distance learning is one of those opportunities that allow a wide range of stakeholders to gain access to university and other educational courses and programmes without spacetime constraints. The continuing education framework, as a product of informatisation, is also a consequence of the development of the global processes in the economy, which subject it to commodity-money relations.The ongoing process of internationalisation of education has a number of other manifestations such as: increasing educational migration to economically more developed countries, introducing uniform international qualifications and common standards in education, introducing a list of regulated professions, creating favourable conditions for international educational mobility, etc.These positive changes, dictated by the processes of creating a global educational space, are accompanied by some negative trends such as: decline in motivation to learn as a result of them ossification of education, lack of educational policy in the training of mid-level professionals, inequality in the opportunities for access to quality educational services by low-income social groups, commercialisation of education, and so on.A number of contemporary researchers recommend effective approaches to addressing these issues, beginning with a requisite reflection on the indisputable reform of cognition on knowledge that must emerge from its fragmentation and affirm a complex rationality. The focus of attention is placed on the capabilities and limitations of human knowledge, and utmost to the so-called ‘middle-strip of reality’ in which cognitive abilities are manifested, on the reduction and pseudo-rationality of contemporary knowledge, on hyper-specialisation, and on road mapping knowledge transformation into modern culture.
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Adekola, Josephine, Fabrice Renaud, and Carol Hill. "Risk Information Sources for Snow Disaster Risk Preparedness in Scotland." International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 12, no. 6 (December 2021): 854–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00386-y.
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AbstractHeavy snow disruptions are common and costly occurrences in the UK, including Scotland. Yet, heavy snow remains an underresearched aspect of disaster risks in Scotland. This study critically examined the 2018 heavy snow event in Scotland referred to as the “Beast from the East” (BfE) in order to explore the different sources of information used by the public in preparation for and response to heavy snow emergencies. Our study also examined the effectiveness of BfE risk communication between authorities and the public and sought to determine if there is a relationship between risk information received and the intention to mitigate risk. Data were collected through a semistructured survey from (n = 180) residents of the Annandale and Eskdale region of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Our analysis shows that public authority information sources were the most sought-after information sources, followed by online and web sources. We found statistically significant differences between groups (such as age, gender, and mobility/disability) in terms of using risk information sources. Further analysis shows that the relationship between information received and the intention to mitigate risks is not linear but influenced by intervening variables such as work pressures, financial commitment, and stakeholders’ expectations. We argue that where full adherence to official risk advice is required, policymakers should carefully consider issues around these three factors.
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Garcia-Esteban, Soraya, and Stefan Jahnke. "Skills in European higher education mobility programmes: outlining a conceptual framework." Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning 10, no. 3 (March 6, 2020): 519–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-09-2019-0111.
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PurposeCredit mobility has been acknowledged not only to broaden personal and intellectual horizons but also to have positive effects on the skills development and employability of undergraduate students. Academics, policymakers and organizations representing the labour market have presented a broad number of skills-related explorations proposing different frameworks to help develop students' skills. However, the identification of explicit skills is still a difficult endeavour. This study aims to revise main conceptual skills frameworks applicable in the European higher education area (EHEA), determine the skills relevant in European credit mobility and categorize skills among the examined schemes in order to create a normative model of the skills students should obtain in exchange programmes.Design/methodology/approachThe approach used to identify related literature was a search in three main databases such as Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar for scientific and relevant articles after 1990 using the following combination of keywords: “skill frameworks” AND “higher education” OR “skill frameworks” AND “mobility exchange programs”. It produced 391 articles but only 32 deal with skill frameworks in European higher education. After the review of these existing literature (summaries, tables and conclusions), we found out that most articles focused on specific skills (transferable, employable, etc.) in the EHEA, but merely 16 academic publications offered a complete depiction of skills frameworks applicable in credit mobility programs. Most current accounts about skills outlines, specifically the ones related to employability, come from grey literature, namely comprehensive records and reports.FindingsData seem to confirm that there is scarce agreement on a common taxonomy of skills. However, considering the results, which summarize relevant educational, institutional and occupational perspectives, it can be noticed that there is consensus on the classification of only four skills: ICT, literacy and numeracy, which are considered basic, key or core skills in most researched papers together with problem solving, which is generally regarded as a cognitive skill. The general tendency is that policymakers and academia focus on some particular domains: basic/key, core/global foundation/fundamental skills, transferable, transversal and other skills. Studies analysing the workforce skill requirements have projected mainly cognitive and learning skills, whereas mobility programmes concede relevance to employability, management, career and life skills.Research limitations/implicationsMeasuring skills involves limitations as records vary depending on continuous emerging data from institutions, occupations and education. The key frameworks surveyed have provided a representative classification and depiction of the current skills from specific perspectives which are also believed to have their shortcomings. In combination, however, it is believed that the results presented can help provide a theoretical basis for assessing skills in credit mobility and Erasmus programmes within the EHEA. The resulting framework presents a founded basis for skills appraisal which expects to be meaningful for various stakeholders and helps determine how mobility policies can help improve the attainment of skills in the EHEA.Practical implicationsResearch has suggested that education systems will have to adapt to the changing needs of the labour markets' reshaping roles to balance technology and human intellect. The workforce seems to realize that cognitive skills such as problem solving, organization and decision-making are needed in today's society; advanced basic learning skills such as numeracy and literacy are essential. Findings appoint to new areas for exploration in skills development in order to prepare European higher education students for current trends in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the fusion between digital, physical and biological spheres.Social implicationsData seem to confirm that a sole degree does not guarantee success, but the maturity of certain skills and the commitment to lifelong learning. This can be strengthened by taking part in EHEA credit student mobility that has proved to improve not only basic and linguistic skills but also self-development and respect for several aspects such as diversity and (inter)cultural awareness. Taking into account the perceptive and interpersonal abilities mentioned in reports on future skills, it seems that education will need further support for updated teaching practices and assessment of the skills that are expected to have greater demand, namely STEM. Institutions will need to update and promote the teaching of new skills based on a new collective and moral consciousness as recently indicated in OECD's (2018) Global Competence in order to make future citizens understand and act on issues of universal significance in today's interconnected world.Originality/valueFor several decades, government, education and industry have proposed different outlines for what graduates should know and be able to do. Limited academic studies have been found, however, with updated concrete data on which skills should preferably be developed or whether and how students can further improve these skills as part of EHEA credit student mobility. This study has synthesized works and identified domains which featured the importance of generic core, cognitive and employability skills. The revision of skill frameworks has underscored existing literature and reports on future skills which anticipate that, in order to confront the expanding and prevalent role of technology, graduates will need to focus on developing unique human skills such as effective communication and creative innovation, critical thinking and collective ethical values.
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Asombang, Akwi W., Olaronke Akintola-Ogunremi, Kondwelani John Mateyo, Julie Mwabe, Joel Kpodo, Mary Ani-Amponsah, Filipe J. G. Monteiro, Nancy Kasono, and Margaret-Mary Wilson. "COVID-19 in Africa: The nuances of social distancing and handwashing." Medical Journal of Zambia 47, no. 3 (September 29, 2020): 165–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.55320/mjz.47.3.717.
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The implementation of interventions to minimize the Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Africa has been flurry and increasingly complicated in nature. This milieu engenders and heightens vulnerabilities of critical masses living in socially- compromised situations and economically constrained communities in the current pandemic. The increasing spread of COVID-19 has necessitated enforcement of frequent hand washing, social distancing and lockdown measures as a recommended global strategy to curb community-based spread of the disease. However, pre-existing conditions in Africa impede capacity to observe hand hygiene, social distancing and lockdown. Although past epidemics in Africa created foundations for planning for future occurrences, the enormity of the current COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed capacity to observe globally recommended interventions. The rising trends in morbidity and mortality has gained attention from community members, stakeholders, regulatory bodies and governments, however, implementation of hand hygiene practices and mobility restrictions has not been in tandem with sustainable approaches that assure compliance and resource availability to limit cross-transmission. The aim of our article is to unveil current challenges with handwashing and social distancing in Africa and propose innovative solutions to prevent community-based COVID-19 transmission. The issues pertaining to Africa are not only related to the magnitude of the problem, but the unique nature of African contexts and the paucity of documented evidence that impede a re-envisioning of interventions that promote community health. Therefore, gaining an understanding of the inherent nuances is important to implementing globally recommended interventions.
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Appleyard, Bruce, Alexander R. Frost, Eduardo Cordova, and Jeremy McKinstry. "Pathways Toward Zero-Carbon Campus Commuting: Innovative Approaches in Measuring, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 24 (October 19, 2018): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118798238.
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While universities are significant generators of transport-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, they are uniquely qualified to encourage more sustainable travel behaviors toward achieving rapid decarbonization to meet our global climate action goals. Building on previous university climate action plans, this paper contributes to the literature by describing new and innovative methods in surveying and geospatial analytics. The new geospatial methods involve mapping individuals’ routes to campus, and the creation of Commute/Policy Zones—walk, bike, transit, and motorized—proving useful in (1) quantifying emissions per mode and weighting the survey sample; (2) exploring and testing various policy scenarios; and (3) guiding policy discussions with key stakeholders throughout the campus community. This study also tests four synergistic policy options that, if implemented, could realize a pathway to zero-carbon campus commuting for San Diego State University (SDSU) by 2030, including: (1) more on-campus student housing; (2) expanding public transit use; (3) electrifying vehicles; and (4) electrifying public transit. Finally, the economic and health costs of auto-commuting for SDSU are considerable: Annually, personal auto-commuting is estimated to cost $46.7 million, healthcare costs from non-GHG air pollutants are $1.67 million, and $81 million worth of time (5.4 million hours) is lost in car commutes to campus. SDSU is also estimated to subsidize each parking space at over $700 per year. By reducing the demand for internal combustion engine vehicles, increasing housing near campus, improving access to walking, biking, public transit, and shared mobility technology, and repowering everything through renewable energy, a zero-carbon transportation network is within reach.
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Mbithi, Peter M. F., Judith S. Mbau, Nzioka J. Muthama, Hellen Inyega, and Jeremiah M. Kalai. "Higher Education and Skills Development in Africa: An Analytical Paper on the Role of Higher Learning Institutions on Sustainable Development." Journal of Sustainability, Environment and Peace 4, no. 2 (August 27, 2021): 58–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.53537/jsep.2021.08.001.
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Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa face challenges that require the intervention of national governments, development partners and other stakeholders. HEIs also require new investment paradigms to maximize students’ acquisition of work-ready skills, knowledge and attitudes to enable students to contribute effectively to the workforce. The objective of this study was to identify reforms and investments needed to strengthen Higher Education (HE) in Africa and to inform the design and implementation of future investments and policy for sustainable development. A systematic review approach, involving a synthesis of literature on this theme in Africa in recent years, by African governments, education networks, academia and international bodies, was employed. The study used data from UNESCO and World Bank databases which were blended with the synthesis of the literature. The obtained literature was analysed and synthesized on the basis of its relevance and value to the HEIs study discourse. Textual and thematic analysis tookcentre stage with a view to establishing current reforms in HEIs and the concomitant investments that national governments and other key stakeholders need to make to have robust HEIs. The study used the Human Capital Theory that postulates that the most efficient path to the national development of any society lies in the improvement of its population, which is considered as the human capital. Despite criticisms of the human capital theory at the individual level on the extent to which education is directly related to improvements in occupation or income, human capital theorists generally assume that after all the known inputs into economic growth have been explained, much of the unexplained residual variance represents the contribution of the improvement of human capital, of which education is seen as most important (Merwe, 2010). The results of the study show that HEIs have done very little to promote Intra-Africa Academic Mobility and nurture HEI-industry partnerships to address demand and supply aspects of the labour force. The massification of higher education, resulting in a democratization of education, and the advent of the knowledge economy and globalization, among other factors, are being experienced without commensurate planning and with no corresponding accompanying increase in resources to enable the HEIs cope with the increased student population. HEIs in Africa are sub-optimally capacitated to combat Africa’s pressing challenges such as unemployment, climate change and COVID-19 pandemic. The study points out that HEIs need to evolve in tandem with continental and global market needs to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 4 on quality education. Further, it recommends that HEIs should encourage Intra-Africa Academic Mobility and foster HEI-industry partnerships to address demand-and-supply aspects of the labour force. In this respect, HEIs in Africa should be developing curricula aimed at building capacity of leaders and professionals to respond to the need to decarbonize and dematerialize development in Africa and leverage on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Consequently, HEIs must prepare students to be entrepreneurial and resilient; able to continue to learn and reinvent themselves and their careers throughout their lives. Indeed, HEIs should view themselves as creative hubs where partners come together and harness each other’s synergy to innovate and solve societal problems.
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BILOUS, O. "SYSTEM OF REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY BASED ON INTERACTIVE MODEL." Economic innovations 23, no. 3(80) (August 20, 2021): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2021.23.3(80).21-32.
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Topicality. In modern conditions, science and technology play a decisive role in the effective development of the economies of advanced countries. At the same time, in Ukraine during the years of independence science has lost its influence on socio-economic development due to the lack of an effective system for converting research results into concrete economic achievements, and the state's inability to create the necessary conditions and incentives for knowledge transfer from scientific sphere to production. In contrast to the domestic practice of regulation, which is based on the linear model of innovation process (or "technology push" model), when innovation is understood as a process that begins with a new scientific research, progresses sequentially through the stages of development, production and successful sale of new products, processes and services in the market, in modern knowledge economy dominates an interactive model of innovation. According to this model innovations arise from the interaction between producers and consumers who share both codified and implicit knowledge, and knowledge transfer is considered as a complex, systematic process that involves interaction between different participants in the innovation process and involves the exchange and joint creation of knowledge. Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to form the proposition for the application of the system of regulatory instruments for scientific knowledge transfer to the national economy, according to the interactive model, which is based on the best practices of developed countries, namely: identification and characterization of the factors that determine the application of the system of instruments; classification of tools for regulating the transfer of scientific knowledge according to various criteria; formulation of proposals for the use of tools to stimulate the interaction of knowledge transfer stakeholders, depending on the knowledge transfer channel and the type of tool, in accordance with the linear and interactive models. Research results. The article examines the main factors that determine the use of a system of tools to regulate the transfer of scientific knowledge to the national economy on the basis of an interactive model, in particular: levels of regulation (supranational, national, regional, institutional); knowledge transfer channels (publications, protection of intellectual property rights; joint and contract research; scientific expertise; mobility of scientists; creation of spin-off companies); the latest trends in regulation (departure from linear models in favor of interactive; departure from static practices in favor of dynamic; digital transformation); diversification of regulatory tools (depending on the country's competitive advantages, research, industry). Tools for stimulating the interaction of knowledge transfer stakeholders are proposed, depending on the model of knowledge transfer and the knowledge transfer channel that corresponds to it, in particular, financial instruments - economic transfers from the state to firms, universities or research institutes, provided that they cooperate; regulatory tools - aimed at stimulating the various parties involved in the transfer of knowledge, including regulations affecting intellectual property rights, obtaining degrees by scientists, etc.; soft tools (tools for shaping the environment) - focused on facilitating relations between stakeholders, mobilization, networking, integration, building trust. Conclusion. The promotion of scientific knowledge transfer activities in Ukraine should be done through the implementation of an interactive regulatory model, which is to introduce a system of instruments to create a favorable environment for the exchange and joint creation of knowledge through financial, regulatory incentives for knowledge transfer stakeholders. Taking into account interactive approaches to knowledge transfer will contribute to the development of modern knowledge economy in Ukraine, and will speed up its integration into the global economic space on an innovative basis.
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RUBEL, O. E., А. AGHAYEV, and A. A. ZHIKHAREVA. "THEORETICAL GROUNDS FOR ACTIVATION ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION DIFFUSION IN IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA." Economic innovations 22, no. 4(77) (December 20, 2020): 128–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2020.22.4(77).128-138.
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Topicality.The current stage of society development has a clear innovation orientation. The European scientific community is well aware that the complex problems of innovation cannot be solved in a single country. We need to combine efforts in science, education and business. This is how the European Research Area (ERA) exists and develops. The ERA initiative is actively developing and its development is projected until 2030 under various dynamic scenarios. Ukraine faces the task of finding its "ecological niche" in this quasi-global "innovation ecosystem", building its national innovation ecosystem. Aim and tasks. The purpose of this work is to form a methodological and theoretical and methodological apparatus for the development of innovation ecosystems in the transformation of quasi-global innovation policy. Research results. EU Member States, other countries involved and stakeholders have made significant progress based on an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of European research systems and the common goal of achieving lasting change in the results and effectiveness of European research. The priorities of the European Research Area are: more effective national research systems, including increased competition within national borders and sustainable or greater investment in research; optimal transnational cooperation and competition; identification and implementation of joint research programs on the biggest challenges, quality improvement through pan-European open competition, as well as the creation and effective management of key research infrastructures on a pan-European basis; creation of an open labor market for researchers - removal of obstacles to the mobility of researchers, their training and career development; gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research; optimal dissemination, access to scientific knowledge and their transfer, including through the digital ERA. The scheme of the National Innovation Ecosystem presented by us has a number of new conceptual approaches that use "ecological" elements of the scientific apparatus. In particular, ecosystem functions are more harmoniously represented: by fertilization, synthesis and adsorption of innovations and diffusion of innovations. The proposed classification of innovative players is also proposed: issuers, producers and consumers - corresponds to the concept of innovative ecosystem and harmoniously combines actors of nature management. Conclusion. As in Ukraine today, stakeholders have not had the opportunity to “apply innovation in practice” and gain experience. Therefore, it may be appropriate to link the Ukrainian innovation ecosystem at a very early stage with EU countries. The priority is not only to join Ukrainian universities and research institutions to their international counterparts, but also to train Ukrainian innovation companies on how to operate in international innovation markets. In the international context, Ukrainian firms will be required to develop and improve high-quality innovative products. The formation of new research structures, mobilization of research and innovation activities required by the Green European Deal requires the activation of the national innovation ecosystem, the core of which should be a pool of scientists and research infrastructure of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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Akhunov, R. R., M. Sh Valiev, and R. I. Nizamutdinov. "OIL SECTOR COMPANIES IN THE PERIOD OF THE OIL CRISIS – 2020." Bulletin USPTU Science education economy Series economy 4, no. 34 (2020): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17122/2541-8904-2020-4-34-7-14.
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In order to prevent the consequences of the pandemic, governments were forced to take radical measures that restrict the mobility of the population, which had a negative impact on the oil market, which is based on the transport sector. The article discusses how such market fluctuations affect the market environment and the behavior of companies. Reductions in revenues and profits caused by falling demand and oil prices, forced companies to resort to cost optimization, including staff cuts and budget cuts in investment programs. The article shows how changes in the behavior of stakeholders represented by the state, investment banks, and civil society affect the activities of oil companies during the pandemic. It describes the impact of short- and medium-term consequences of the pandemic on long-term trends in the energy sector. The Russian Government faces a difficult task of combining two characteristics in the oil industry: an industry that can pull the entire economy out through its growth due to a multiplicative effect in the face of global environmental challenges, and an industry that is the main source of income that determines the country's financial condition. While the renewable energy sector is making a breakthrough in its development, the oil industry is forced to reduce investment in conditions of resource scarcity. If before the crisis, the profitability of the oil business could provide oil companies with investment resources for new projects, the pandemic shock and difficulties in overcoming it forced oil companies to reconsider their investment plans for an indefinite period. Despite the fact that it is not possible to predict the final consequences of the crisis, many industry giants have already announced a revision of their strategies in accordance with the growing trends for greening.
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Tianming, Gao, Vasilii Erokhin, Aleksandr Arskiy, and Mikail Khudzhatov. "Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Maritime Connectivity? An Estimation for China and the Polar Silk Road Countries." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 22, 2021): 3521. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063521.
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In light of about 80% of international freight traffic carried by sea, maritime supply chains’ stability is pivotal to global connectivity. For over a year now, the transboundary mobility of vessels and cargoes has been restricted by diverse forms of the COVID-19 containment measures applied by national governments, while the lockdowns of people, businesses, and economic activities have significantly affected the growth prospects of various maritime connectivity initiatives. This study investigates how the pandemic-related public health, trade, and market factors have shifted the connectivity patterns in the Polar Silk Road (PSR) transport corridor between China, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and four economies of Northern Europe. The causality links between the Shipping Connectivity Index (SCI) and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, trade volumes with China and the rest of the world, and price indexes of minerals, fuels, food, and agricultural products are revealed separately for eight countries and thirty-five ports. The study algorithm is built on the consecutive application of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and the Phillips-Perron (PP) stationarity tests, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method, the Fully-Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) and the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) robustness checks, and the Toda-Yamamoto causality test. Tight trade-connectivity links are recorded in all locations along the China-PSR transport corridor in 2015–2019, but in 2020, the relationships weakened. Bidirectional influences between the number of COVID-19 cases and connectivity parameters demonstrate the maritime sector’s sensitivity to safety regulations and bring into focus the role of cargo shipping in the transboundary spread of the virus. The authors’ four-stage approach contributes to the establishment of a methodology framework that may equip stakeholders with insights about potential risks to maritime connectivity in the China-PSR maritime trade in the course of the pandemic.
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Hsu, Emily, and Melissa Kleven. "Optimizing Battery Manufacturing Decision-Making Using Lifecycle Assessment." ECS Meeting Abstracts MA2022-01, no. 5 (July 7, 2022): 584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2022-015584mtgabs.
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The global demand for batteries is projected to increase by 25% annually, reaching ~2,600 GWh in 2030. As the world shifts to electric mobility, particularly EVs, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change, research efforts on recycling and recovery of critical elements from lithium-ion batteries (LIB) have increased, leading to the development and advancement of technologies that utilize conventional and state-of-the-art recycling processes. Hydrometallurgical processing continues to be the most widely used method for recycling metals from LIB, but over the last few years, direct recycling has gained attention as a more sustainable and efficient process. While direct-recycling technologies are promising, most direct-recycling processes remain small in scale and are costly in terms of the equipment needed to recover metals from spent LIB. As such, materials selection in battery manufacturing and overall battery chemistry and design have become increasingly important. The development of new battery chemistries that are less reliant on critical metals, such as cobalt, has become a prominent area of interest, and material criticality has become a major driver for battery recycling and reuse. Battery manufacturing is at a crossroads of decision-making with growing demands that overshadow available resources, reliance on imports, challenges in developing sustainable recycling processes that achieve increasingly stringent materials specifications, changing environmental regulations, and the need to identify and reduce potential environmental impacts for this growing waste stream. The best solutions will engage stakeholders from a variety of specialties who consider the battery lifecycle and the impact of each decision on the entire battery lifecycle. This presentation highlights one set of challenges - tradeoffs in materials selection with environmental regulatory compliance burdens and risks.
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Lupala, John Modestus. "Exploring unbalanced urban spatial expansion in sprawling cities. Case study of Kimara Matangini, Kibululu and Dovya settlements in Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania." Central European Journal of Geography and Sustainable Development 3, no. 2 (November 29, 2021): 62–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.47246/cejgsd.2021.3.2.5.
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Unbalanced urban expansion characterize urban growth in rapidly urbanizing cities in the global south. This pattern of growth has resulted into difficulties in provision of services which leads to challenges of livability within settlements. Services such as education, health, water supply and road network are not easily accessible because of unbalanced growth. Balanced urban growth is concerned with three key themes: place, people and planning. The aim of this study is to help policy makers, local governments, developers and service providers to analyze and visualize different options and scenarios to achieve balanced urban expansion. The overall goal of balanced urban spatial expansion is to achieve livable, sustainable, resilient and affordable cities. This paper adopted both qualitative and quantitative approaches for data collection and subsequent analysis and captured empirical evidence from primary and secondary data sources. The key methods included; literature review, interviews and observations. The research was conducted in three settlements with a sub-ward status namely; Kimara Matangini, Kibululu and Dovya. Finding indicates that the drivers of urban spatial growth are related to economic and social factors, people’s choice and satisfaction of residential areas, modalities in land acquisition, provision or non-provision of services, mobility and proximity to services and at times, planning intervention. Yet the emerging development pattern pose some challenges to residents settling in these areas because of unavailability of longer distances to basic services. This pattern of growth has culminated into unbalanced urban growth. This study recommends that the government in collaboration with key stakeholders should strengthen development control even in unplanned settlements so as to monitor development and potential service requirements, acquire parcels of land for future service provision, strengthen regularization activities to provide for land reserves for infrastructure and conduct a city wide analysis on the unbalance pattern especially in rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas.
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Kharuta, Vitalii, Valerii Marunich, Valentyna Kharuta, and Myroslava Hryhorevska. "STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES." Management of Development of Complex Systems, no. 45 (March 1, 2021): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2412-9933.2021.45.57-65.
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The current state of development of science and technology in various sectors of the economy, including transport, requires the timely introduction of new technologies. The movable and immovable property of the enterprises of the transport industry is in such a state that it needs immediate updating and carrying out capital, finishing and current repairs. This, in turn, will help increase the efficiency of management of transport companies and achieve the goals of their stakeholders. This study proposes an analysis of the application of the project approach to the management of the transport sector at the strategic level. In order to improve the management of enterprises of the transport complex, it is proposed to apply strategic planning for the development of these enterprises, which will focus on portfolio-oriented management. The classical model of strategic management includes: development of the mission and goals of the enterprise; research of external and internal environments; analysis of strengths and weaknesses; formation of strategic alternatives; choice; strategy implementation and evaluation. The main directions of development of the transport complex are: competitive and efficient transport industry; innovative development of the transport industry and global investment projects; safe for society, environmentally friendly and energy efficient transport; unhindered mobility and interregional integration. The strategic planning process consists of three main stages: analysis of the current situation, formulation of future prospects and development of an action plan. The problem of modern enterprises in the transport sector is that the developed strategic plan is not implemented due to insufficient specificity of plans, as well as the lack of a well-established mechanism for implementing and monitoring the implementation of planned actions. Thus, the format of the strategic plan of activity and development of enterprises of the transport complex should be developed through the prism of portfolios, programs and projects that will increase the efficiency of management of these enterprises.
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Paddeu, Daniela, Graham Parkhurst, Gianfranco Fancello, Paolo Fadda, and Miriam Ricci. "MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION IN URBAN FREIGHT CONSOLIDATION SCHEMES: DRIVERS AND BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION." Transport 33, no. 4 (December 5, 2018): 913–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/transport.2018.6593.
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Due to the motivations of climate change, the health impacts of poor air quality, and the importance of cities for economic growth, transport policy at all levels of governance places emphasis on reducing and managing urban traffic and congestion. Whilst the majority of urban traffic is created by personal travel, freight vehicles make a relatively large contribution per vehicle to congestion, pollution and severe accidents. The European Commission (EC 2011) estimates that 6% of all EU transport carbon emissions are from urban freight. For these reasons, a well-structured portfolio of measures and policies oriented towards more sustainable and efficient management of supply chain activities carried out in urban areas is needed, in order to reduce negative externalities related to urban mobility and improve economic performance. In recent years, there has been enthusiasm amongst commentators that shared-resource economic models can both create new commercial opportunities and address policy problems, including in the transport sector. Within the city logistics subsector, this new model is exemplified by the emergence of Urban freight Consolidation Centres (UCCs). UCCs replace multiple ‘last-mile’ delivery movements, many of which involving small consignments, by a common receiving point (the consolidation centre), normally on the periphery of a city, with the final part of the delivery being shared by the consignments in a small freight vehicle. Such arrangements can represent a good compromise between the needs of city centre businesses and their customers on the one hand (i.e. high availability of a range of goods) and local and global sustainability objectives on the other. At the same time, by sharing logistics facilities and delivery vehicles, UCCs offer added-value services to both urban economic actors, such as retailers, and network logistics providers. However, UCCs add to the complexity of logistics chains, requiring additional contracts, communications and movement stages. These arrangements also introduce additional actors within the supply of delivery services, notably local authorities present as promoters and funders, rather than simply as regulators, companies specialised in the UCC operation, and companies, which provide specialist technologies, such as electric delivery vehicles. UCCs therefore also represent an example of multi-stakeholder collaboration. Drawing on the results of a 2013 survey in Bristol (United Kingdom) and a further survey carried out in 2015 in Cagliari (Italy), the present paper will provide an in-depth comparison of the differences in the perceptions of urban freight users and stakeholders towards UCCs. Retailers involved in the survey carried out in Bristol showed high satisfaction with the delivery service provided by the UCC. Different topic areas (e.g. timeliness, reliability, safety) are examined through analyses of both qualitative and quantitative data. The survey carried out in Cagliari investigated the inclination of potential users to join a UCC scheme. The comparison between the two cities considers factors such as the nature of business holding (e.g. SME versus multiple retailers), operational practices (e.g. pattern of deliveries) and operating subsector (e.g. food versus no food). An analysis on the barriers to the implementation of UCCs in Bristol and in Cagliari is provided at the end of the paper.