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Environmental Tax Reform in Latin America
(2023)
• Latin American countries need to implement an agenda of green tax reforms to adapt their current development path and better respond to climate change. The decarbonization of the energy matrix is essential to mitigate future challenges.
• These governments have the potential to raise environmentally oriented taxes to generate additional revenues. Objective should be to adapt to the energy transition, attenuate extractivism and promote better income distribution and growth.
• The design and implementation of green ...
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The Austro Modern
(2021)
The countries of Central Europe cannot simply be understood as catching up with Western modernization. Rather, the article shows how technical developments proceeded in the car factories Lohner in Vienna and Austro-Daimler in Wiener Neustadt, and how the light and powerful gasoline engine drove aircraft construction (the Taube by Etrich) and airship construction. Austria was the leader in aircraft construction around 1910. The creative milieu in Vienna is evident from the fact that the headquarters of the Lohnerwerke ...
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Foreign Capital and Economic Development
(2023-07)
The Irish political economy is notable for the sustained and central role of foreign investment in driving economic growth, notably via the commercial activities of multinational corporations, and more recently financial services. Beginning in the 1950s, the Irish state began to move away from its protectionist policies of import-substituting industrialization, and transitioned towards a liberalized, export-led industrialization model of economic growth in order to achieve its developmental catch-up. This has resulted ...
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Ein klimaneutrales Kassel bis 2030: Handlungsleitfaden im Bereich Naturschutz
(2023)
2019 beschloss die Stadtverordnetenversammlung Kassel, die Stadt bis 2030 klimaneutral zu machen (StaVo 2019a); dafür wurde als Beratungsgremium der Klimaschutzrat eingerichtet (StaVo 2019b). In der Regionalgruppe Kassel der Scientists for Future wurde zur Unterstützung ein Forschungsprojekt initiiert, um für dieses Ziel einen Handlungsleitfaden zu entwickeln. Sinnvollerweise enthielt der Beschluss zum Klimaschutzrat auch die Einrichtung einer Unterarbeitsgruppe Naturschutz und Biodiversität, außer den üblichen Themen ...
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The First Informationexplosion
(2022-06-20)
The paper places punch card technology in the context of the office machine industry in Germany and discusses the exciting relationship between the two competitors on the market for punch card technology, Dehomag and Powers, in Germany. The question is whether the leading role of the United States in the use of office machines frequently cited by Anglo-American authors really applies. How punch card technology in Germany has advanced from its beginnings is discussed under the heading of rationalisation strategies. ...
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Nominal Science without Data
(2022-09-28)
Expanding upon literature on early digital computers, this paper shows the role mathematicians have undertaken in founding the academic fields of Game Theory and Operations Research, and details how they were supported by the mathematics departments of military agencies in branches of the US Armed Services. This paper claims that application is only decoration. Other than astronomy, physics and engineering, where experiments generate data analysed with the aid of models and appropriate software on computers, Game ...
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Natural Resources, Raw Materials, and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability
(2022)
• Extractivism is the dark side of sustainability
• raw materials and primary commodities are the backbones of the global economy
• extraction and export of raw materials lead to Extractivism understood as a development model
• Extractivism is persistent, prone to crisis, and affects domestic and international constellations
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Hotspot 17 der biologischen Vielfalt - Konzeption zur Förderung der biologischen Vielfalt in der Region „Werratal mit Hohem Meißner und Kaufunger Wald“
(2023)
Im Rahmen des Projektes „Schaf schafft Landschaft“ wurde von Oktober 2019 bis April 2022 eine Konzeption zur Förderung der biologischen Vielfalt in der Region „Werratal mit Hohem Meißner und Kaufunger Wald“ (Hotspot 17) erarbeitet. Bei dieser Hotspotkonzeption wurde ein überregionaler, umsetzungsorientierter Ansatz verfolgt und die gesamte Region des Hotspot 17 in den Blick genommen, um möglichst umfassend die Themen mit besonderer naturschutzfachlicher Relevanz für den Erhalt der Biodiversität zu erkennen und mit ...
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The Computing Boom in the U.S. Aeronautical Industry, 1945–1965
(2023-05-15)
Whereas standard accounts on the history of modern computing tell the development of the digital computer as an isolated event on the East Coast of the U.S., this paper will show the history of machine computing in the context of the broad and rapid development of aeronautical weapons in the U.S. military since 1945. Analogue computing plays an important role that is nearly completely ignored by standard accounts. The extensive literature on the history of electronic digital computers does not take into account the ...
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Gold Mining (artisanal gold mining): Is it an engine of development in Mauritania?
(2023)
• In 2021, Mauritania exported approximately 13 million tons of iron, 20% of which was bound for Western Europe.
• The economic structure of this country is increasingly rent based.
• The extractive sector does not act as a catalyst for the country's development. Its contribution to poverty reduc-tion remains insignificant.
• Poverty remains a significant feature of the country, ranking 157th out of 189 according to the Human Development Index in 2020.