Modeling the macroeconomic determinants of environmental degradation in E-7 countries: The role of technological innovation and institutional quality

Environmental degradation poses a severe threat to life on earth. Similarly to other countries, emerging seven (E-7) countries have been struggling to decrease their dependence on non-renewable energy sources by adopting environment friendly technologies for reducing environmental deterioration and to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. In present study, we reassessed the technological policies of E-7 countries, and addressed the issues of affordable and clean energy, institutional quality (IQU), and sustained economic growth (EGR) to address the problem of environmental deterioration. For this purpose, we have investigated the role of renewable energy consumption (REC), technological innovations (TINs), IQU, and EGR on CO₂ emissions (CE) by using the panel quantile regression (PQR) for the period from 1996 to 2020. The empirical outcomes of FGLS reveal that a 1% increase in REC, TIN, and IQU reduces the CE by 0.145%, 0.233%, and 0.249%, while a 1% rise in EGR and population (POPU) raises the CE by 0.993% and 1.546% respectively. Similarly, the results of PQR demonstrate that REC, TIN, and IQU reduce CE, whereas EGR and POPU increase environmental degradation. The impact of TIN on CE is high at lower quantiles and low at higher quantiles. The impact of IQU on CE is low at lower quantiles and high at higher quantiles Based on these findings, we have recommended a comprehensive SDG-oriented policy framework, so that E-7 countries can make progress towards achieving the objectives of SDG 16, SDG 13, SDG 7, SDG 8, and SDG 9.     

Housing and populism

Abstract

The recent success of populist candidates in the UK and Continental Europe has sparked a major debate between those who view populism as a reaction of the economically ‘left behind’ and those who view it as a cultural ‘backlash’ by groups with declining social status, pointing to stark divisions between urban and rural areas, core and periphery. This paper bridges the economic and values-based approaches to populism by arguing that the geography of wealth inequality offers a convincing explanation for the pattern of populist vote share. Drawing on fine-grained house price data in the UK and France, it is shown that the pattern of house prices ? even within small districts ? plays a major part in shaping support for Brexit and Marine Le Pen. The findings illustrate how longstanding variation in local wealth shapes the geography of discontent and drives populist appeal. Populism, the article concludes, is primarily a politics of place, and place is a product, in part, of the housing market.     

甘肃农村产业结构调整的科技创新对策

本文论述了科技创新与农村产业结构调整的关系以及甘肃农业科技创新的重点 ,提出了技术战略、科技投入、科技信息、科技服务等方面的科技创新支持对策。     

论生态文化建设与科技进步之间的关系

生态文化建设和科技进步之间有着错综复杂的关系：从简单性思维的角度来看,发展科技和保护自然是矛盾的,偏重其中的一极;从复杂性思维的角度来看,科技进步引发了生态文化建设,生态文化建设对科技进步进行规制,二者之间是复杂的张力结构关系;从现实的角度来看,生态文化建设必须在科技进步的背景下进行,科技进步必须考虑生态的维度,二者必须并行发展。     

美国职务发明权属规则之演变及其启示

美国职务发明权利归属经历了从归属发明人向“发明前转让协议”支配的演变,且在政府资助领域完成了从“约定”到“法定”的转移。其中揭示的一般性规律在于：职务发明权利归属是取决于人力资源稀缺性还是更取决于物资资源稀缺性的社会条件。同时还表明企业主导和政府资助发明是现代国家科技创新的两种方式,且因政府资助发明领域涉及多元主体和多元利益,关于其发明成果权利归属的法律制度安排应有所不同。受此启示,在我国职务发明人与单位契约地位不平等及利益失衡的情况下,专利法应为职务发明人提供兜底性保障;为促进我国科技成果转化利用,应完善政府资助领域职务发明人利益分享机制和相关配套制度立法,并宜在专利法之外通过特别法的方式予以推进。     

Determinants of voting results in Poland in the 2015 parliamentary elections. Analysis of spatial differences

This paper analyses spatial differences in the voting results in Poland in the 2015 parliamentary elections. Eleven clusters defining different support profiles are determined using the two most popular stopping rules. Parameters of the multinomial logit model are estimated and determinants of Polish communes' membership in specific clusters are identified. The results of the estimation indicate that economic, sociodemographic and location variables strongly determined the Poles' electoral preferences. However, historical and cultural factors turned out to be the most important determinants.     

L'évolution de la justice traditionnelle dans l'Afrique francophone

L'histoire du football Rwanda commence avec la colonisation du pays. En une cinquantaine d'années, ce jeu sport d'origine anglaise, en intégrant une société agro-pastorale et guerrière, est devenu une pratique culturelle locale. Comprendre ce phénomène nécessite d'articuler l'ancrage colonial d'une activité cosmopolite aux [ré]inventions culturelles locales suscitées par son implantation. Ce texte vise à montrer comment un jeu de balle, en traversant une société en cours d'occidentalisation, a marqué l'édification d'une modernité guerrière reçue et façonnée par les joueurs de l'époque. En traversant les transpositions ludiques d'enjeux sociaux et politiques plus larges, on observe que cette pratique, tout en participant du procès de "civilisation" que s'administra l'institution coloniale, constitua l'un des fers de lance de la lutte pour l'émancipation.     

Green Drive

正In the face of environmental degradation,a replacement needs to be fostered for gasoline automobiles By Deng YaqingAs the atmosphere is increasingly affected by the burning of fossil fuels,the use of new-energy cars,theoretically including electric vehicles,plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles,represents an inexorable trend for the automobile industry.