The document discusses the challenges facing higher education in a world facing disruptions from declining oil supply, climate change, and economic austerity/debt ("the triple crunch"). It notes that oil production may not be able to keep up with rising global demand, exacerbating economic issues. Alternative models of higher education and development are discussed, such as Ecuador's plan for "good living" and collective/autonomous education models. The conclusion calls for higher education to have more sophisticated conversations about its role and how to prepare students and society for an uncertain future with constrained resources.
This is a draft of the presentation that will be given at the HEA Social Sciences annual conference - Teaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences.
For further details of the conference: http://bit.ly/1cRDx0p
Bookings open until 14 May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hzCMLR or external.events@heacademy.ac.uk
Part of the 'Apocalypse Now' conference theme, which requires the presenter to imagine their own future world scenario.
IMAGINED WORLD
This session will describe how the idea and reality of ‘teaching forward’ is conditioned through the triple crunch of peak oil (or more specifically a lack of ready access to liquid fuels), climate change and economic crisis. Collectively these form a crisis against which academic practices inside higher education are recalibrated and restructured. However, in the face of a global neoliberal politics that constrains what can be contested, it is increasingly difficult to see beyond the everyday realities of economic growth, the normalisation of debt-driven study that takes the form of indenture, and the disciplining of academic labour through outsourcing, privatisation, financialisation, impact measures, organisational development, and so on.
ABSTRACT
The University is broken. The game is up. Academic labour and the possibilities for ‘teaching forward’ are conditioned by neoliberal politics through the tenets of growth, financialisation and securitisation. Its twin contributions to society take the disciplinary forms of debt and privatisation. Yet society also faces the immediate crises of climate change and liquid fuel availability. In the face of this triple crunch, can academics as activists liberate knowledges and practices from the University to help describe alternatives before it is too late?
The next global economy is emerging in a new world full of unprecedented technologies, new ideas about resources and capital, and new approaches to business. Crucially, we are also being confronted with environmental and economic challenges never before imagined. The ‘next economy’ or ‘green economy’ approach to investment management asserts that the basics of the global economy are evolving in tandem with these changes and that methods of investment management must evolve with them. Green Alpha Advisors contemplates a future economy in which the next generation of asset management must be integral to and reflective of that next economy which both functions to support the integrity of earth’s systems and also can function within earth’s tolerances and finite resource base.
To appropriately invest in this emerging, green economy, one must appreciate that the next economy is by definition not the legacy economy of previous generations, and that it therefore requires a new understanding, new definitions and a new set of rules. To some degree, this requires redefining the parameters of modern portfolio theory to reflect this new world with its technologies and challenges. This in turn requires new economic models, new portfolio construction methods, and new sector classification schemes. Green Alpha Advisors approach to all three is presented here in brief.
Green ICT: More Efficiently Unsustainable?Joss Winn
My slides for the Digital 2020 GreenICT mini-conference: http://www.digital2020.org.uk/skills/events/green
There are quite extensive notes which can be read from slide 21 onwards.
This is a draft of the presentation that will be given at the HEA Social Sciences annual conference - Teaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences.
For further details of the conference: http://bit.ly/1cRDx0p
Bookings open until 14 May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hzCMLR or external.events@heacademy.ac.uk
Part of the 'Apocalypse Now' conference theme, which requires the presenter to imagine their own future world scenario.
IMAGINED WORLD
This session will describe how the idea and reality of ‘teaching forward’ is conditioned through the triple crunch of peak oil (or more specifically a lack of ready access to liquid fuels), climate change and economic crisis. Collectively these form a crisis against which academic practices inside higher education are recalibrated and restructured. However, in the face of a global neoliberal politics that constrains what can be contested, it is increasingly difficult to see beyond the everyday realities of economic growth, the normalisation of debt-driven study that takes the form of indenture, and the disciplining of academic labour through outsourcing, privatisation, financialisation, impact measures, organisational development, and so on.
ABSTRACT
The University is broken. The game is up. Academic labour and the possibilities for ‘teaching forward’ are conditioned by neoliberal politics through the tenets of growth, financialisation and securitisation. Its twin contributions to society take the disciplinary forms of debt and privatisation. Yet society also faces the immediate crises of climate change and liquid fuel availability. In the face of this triple crunch, can academics as activists liberate knowledges and practices from the University to help describe alternatives before it is too late?
The next global economy is emerging in a new world full of unprecedented technologies, new ideas about resources and capital, and new approaches to business. Crucially, we are also being confronted with environmental and economic challenges never before imagined. The ‘next economy’ or ‘green economy’ approach to investment management asserts that the basics of the global economy are evolving in tandem with these changes and that methods of investment management must evolve with them. Green Alpha Advisors contemplates a future economy in which the next generation of asset management must be integral to and reflective of that next economy which both functions to support the integrity of earth’s systems and also can function within earth’s tolerances and finite resource base.
To appropriately invest in this emerging, green economy, one must appreciate that the next economy is by definition not the legacy economy of previous generations, and that it therefore requires a new understanding, new definitions and a new set of rules. To some degree, this requires redefining the parameters of modern portfolio theory to reflect this new world with its technologies and challenges. This in turn requires new economic models, new portfolio construction methods, and new sector classification schemes. Green Alpha Advisors approach to all three is presented here in brief.
Green ICT: More Efficiently Unsustainable?Joss Winn
My slides for the Digital 2020 GreenICT mini-conference: http://www.digital2020.org.uk/skills/events/green
There are quite extensive notes which can be read from slide 21 onwards.
My slides for JISC's Greening ICT Programme Meeting. There are notes from slide 26 onwards.
See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/09/0909greenict.aspx
And more at: http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/tag/resilienteducation/
SPARK Lecture at IUCAA in Pune.
Can perpetual growth be created in a closed system? Can technology, politics or markets make perpetual growth happen? What happens when growth is unconstrained? Can growth be uneconomic? Is the pursuit of growth as an end the sign of a purposeless society?
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis cannot be accepted as a general
rule either for the Spanish case or for other developed or developing countries.
Economic growth alone, far from being the solution to environmental problems, is
causing an increase in resource use and pollution. The consequences of inaction can be dramatic. Solutions to curve this threatening path are available, but they need to be urgently implemented.
From the Economy of the Us to the Green Economyijtsrd
We are at an unprecedented historical moment where three crises converge economic, energy and ecological. Unemployment, climate change, loss of biodiversity, overexploitation of resources, social inequality, price volatility of raw materials, and the more than expected rise in the price of energy are sources of instability for our society. In the current context, the only way to guarantee the well being of citizens is to reduce vulnerability to the shocks derived from the triple crisis. Abdunazarov Saidahmad "From the Economy of the U's to the Green Economy" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31239.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/business-economics/31239/from-the-economy-of-the-us-to-the-green-economy/abdunazarov-saidahmad
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through S...Andy Dabydeen
The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.
The Panel was established by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.
http://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
Chamber of Commerce report that asks and answers the important question: What would happen if the hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas was banned in the U.S.? According to research it would lead to the loss of 15 million jobs and an average increase in the price of electricity and gas doubling.
Climate change and economic growth – full reportRégis Frias
Full report of our group's research carried out for the course "Basics of climate change: The science background and implications on technology & business" at Aalto University.
A "report" from the anti-drilling group Food & Water Watch. It is a compendium of hackneyed, worn-out, recycled, nonsensical pablum that fracking will fry the earth. It's based on the misconception that using fossil fuels leads to global warming and attempts to equate fracking with so-called "climate change." Essentially, it's fundraising propaganda for FWW.
Diana Kool discusses the potential impact of climate change on the global economy and financial markets, focusing on energy sources and the growth of renewable forms
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal universityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAPPE, Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference on 4 September 2014 http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe/conferences/conferences/annual-conference-neoliberalism-and-everyday-life
My slides for JISC's Greening ICT Programme Meeting. There are notes from slide 26 onwards.
See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/09/0909greenict.aspx
And more at: http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/tag/resilienteducation/
SPARK Lecture at IUCAA in Pune.
Can perpetual growth be created in a closed system? Can technology, politics or markets make perpetual growth happen? What happens when growth is unconstrained? Can growth be uneconomic? Is the pursuit of growth as an end the sign of a purposeless society?
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis cannot be accepted as a general
rule either for the Spanish case or for other developed or developing countries.
Economic growth alone, far from being the solution to environmental problems, is
causing an increase in resource use and pollution. The consequences of inaction can be dramatic. Solutions to curve this threatening path are available, but they need to be urgently implemented.
From the Economy of the Us to the Green Economyijtsrd
We are at an unprecedented historical moment where three crises converge economic, energy and ecological. Unemployment, climate change, loss of biodiversity, overexploitation of resources, social inequality, price volatility of raw materials, and the more than expected rise in the price of energy are sources of instability for our society. In the current context, the only way to guarantee the well being of citizens is to reduce vulnerability to the shocks derived from the triple crisis. Abdunazarov Saidahmad "From the Economy of the U's to the Green Economy" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31239.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/business-economics/31239/from-the-economy-of-the-us-to-the-green-economy/abdunazarov-saidahmad
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through S...Andy Dabydeen
The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.
The Panel was established by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.
http://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
Chamber of Commerce report that asks and answers the important question: What would happen if the hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas was banned in the U.S.? According to research it would lead to the loss of 15 million jobs and an average increase in the price of electricity and gas doubling.
Climate change and economic growth – full reportRégis Frias
Full report of our group's research carried out for the course "Basics of climate change: The science background and implications on technology & business" at Aalto University.
A "report" from the anti-drilling group Food & Water Watch. It is a compendium of hackneyed, worn-out, recycled, nonsensical pablum that fracking will fry the earth. It's based on the misconception that using fossil fuels leads to global warming and attempts to equate fracking with so-called "climate change." Essentially, it's fundraising propaganda for FWW.
Diana Kool discusses the potential impact of climate change on the global economy and financial markets, focusing on energy sources and the growth of renewable forms
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal universityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAPPE, Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference on 4 September 2014 http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe/conferences/conferences/annual-conference-neoliberalism-and-everyday-life
Boris Kraft, CTO of Magnolia and Bill Beardslee, GM of Magnolia Americas will take the audience through the company's latest and most ambitious release - 4.5. Those responsible for business development and client service will most benefit from this webinar, although we prompt everyone in our existing or potential partner organizations to attend. This will be a higher-level, non-technical webinar.
Workshop slides for PGR students at De Montfort University on 12 February 2015. See: http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/02/11/notes-on-social-media-for-researchers/
This session will introduce the PHPCR initiative that aims to bring the JCR API to PHP. It will also show how to interact with the content stored inside Magnolia from PHP via HTTP, enabling integration of Magnolia content into PHP websites.
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environmentFERMA
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environment.
The recently published Global Risks 2014 report of the World Economic Forum identifies environmental risks as highest in terms of impact and likelihood. Those risks include both natural disasters, such as earthquakes and geomagnetic storms, and man-made risks such as
collapsing ecosystems, freshwater shortages, nuclear accidents and failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Failure of climate change mitigation and
adaptation is the fifth top risk concern according to
multi-stakeholders communities (see figure beside).
Climate change is evidence proven and this paper doesn’t intend to explore the causes. However, one can state that climate change is a systemic problem – it is one that touches all the others. As such by its systemic nature, it can cause breakdowns of entire systems and not only a component part. (
Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
Introduction
UNEP’s report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/1.0_Introduction.pdf
While concerns about poverty and earning capacity were raised now and then, it was only after the 2008 financial crisis that employment and the earning capacity of people were catapulted into the center stage of political discourse. Part of this discourse has focused on the relationship between employment and consumption, where the tension between providing jobs and decreasing the environmental footprint of industrialized and industrializing states was acknowledged. This relationship has historically focused on increasing production and consumption with insufficient or little regard to their effects on the environment, and energy and resource limits.
Future Agenda - The World in 2025 - EFMD - Rome 09 03 15Future Agenda
A keynote talk on the World in 2025 for EFMD in Rome and the 2015 EFMD MBA Conference. The event is themes 'Redesigning the MBA' and is aimed at MBA Directors and business school staff involved in part-time, full-time and executive MBA programmes. This talk draws on insights from both the first Future Agenda programme in 2010 and futureagenda2.0 now underway and shares some key shifts people see taking place in the world over the next decade.
Future Agenda: The World in 2025 - EFMD MBA Conference - Rome 09 03 15Tim Jones
A keynote talk on the World in 2025 for EFMD in Rome and the 2015 EFMD MBA Conference. The event is themes 'Redesigning the MBA' and is aimed at MBA Directors and business school staff involved in part-time, full-time and executive MBA programmes. This talk draws on insights from both the first Future Agenda programme in 2010 and futureagenda2.0 now underway and shares some key shifts people see taking place in the world over the next decade.
150 word to each part response follow up . Due 9pm 12 1816 Part1.docxLyndonPelletier761
150 word to each part response follow up . Due 9pm 12 /18/16
Part1
There are many concerns that are brought to the forefront when you discuss the U.S. energy policy and three of those are according to Yacobucci (2016) “…assuring a secure supply of energy, keeping energy cost low, and protecting the environment.” By assuring a supply of energy this is referring to not eliminating one component of America’s consumption of energy while bolstering another. As a nation we want to be independent from the oil from the Middle East, but we cannot simply cut off our intake until there are programs in place to ensure that our economy will not collapse. This ties into keeping energy costs low, as long as there are multiple different means of energy they will drive the prices lower for each other in competition. While switching to an all renewable energy source would be the best for the environment and global warming, it is something that will take decades to accomplish.
There are many merits and risks associated with renewable energy and making it a priority when it comes to the U.S. energy policy. Currently we are largely dependent on foreign oil to sustain our intake of gasoline/diesel for our vehicles. Along with being dependent upon other nations we are also digging into resources that take thousands of years to make instead of using the resources that are around us and will not end. These renewable resources are solar, wind, and hydrologic. If we used these instead to heat our homes, light the streets, and fuel our vehicles not only would we cut down extremely on emissions we would become dependent of other countries. The merits of such a program would be easy to spell out and the risks are evident as well. The number one “risk” is the risk of losing jobs that are already created and destabilizing countries that are reliant on our intake of oil. By increasing our renewable energy sources, we would create thousands of jobs putting the infrastructure into our nation and by having to maintain it. This risk, which sounds like a pro, is associated as a risk because of lobbyists and big business that are relying on increasing the price as we deplete a resource that does have a measurable end to it. That one risk is the reason that renewable energy is not being developed whole heartedly, with proper sanctions and taxes we could be dependent on renewable energy within 20 years.
Part2
Globalization
is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies and governments of different
nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.
(
Globalization
org 2016)
Some of the major concerns that occur when it comes to US
energy
policy are security, which is the safety in the prevention of future needs. People fear that environmental
deterioration
will affect present and future
generations
.
, Efficiency, a regulated industry and certain economic activities can be restricted or prohibited.
This collection of insights from www.futureagenda.org were used as stimulus for an RNLI Futures Workshop. The workshop would generate future oriented scenarios that could yield value creation and lifesaving opportunities for the RNLI in the future.
Ill-being and the Hopeless University, a conversation at the Ends of KnowledgeRichard Hall
The PowerPoint slides from my June 14th, 2023, Ends of Knowledge reading group and seminar. Ends of Knowledge is a research network that brings health-related research into dialogue with critical university studies.
What are the material conditions of the contemporary academy? And how do those conditions reproduce ideas about health, illness, disability, and recovery? More details of my session with readings are at: https://www.endsofknowledge.com/events/richard-hall-ill-being-and-the-hopeless-university
Presentation on Decolonising Research Ethics, for the Decolonising the STEM Curriculum working group, University of Bristol. See video at: https://tinyurl.com/mr425vfb
Decolonising DMU: towards the anti-racist UniversityRichard Hall
Workshop materials for strategic visions and values workshop, at the university of Durham. Workshop focuses upon Decolonising DMU: towards the anti-racist University, and the tensions between EDI and decolonising work.
On alienation, hopelessness and the abolition of the UniversityRichard Hall
Slides for presentation and seminar at the research group of Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economies (POSTCAPE), at the University of Tampere, Finland. This is on Wednesday October 5th, 2022, at 15-18.00 (EEST) and 13-16.00 (BST). For details, see http://www.richard-hall.org/2022/09/07/online-seminar-the-alienated-academic-and-the-hopeless-university/
Decolonising DMU and the PGR ExperienceRichard Hall
Slides for my session at the Decolonising Research Festival on 24 June at 2pm. For more events see: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/doctoralcollege/events/decolonisingresearch/ For more resources, see: http://www.richard-hall.org/2022/06/24/decolonising-the-pgr-experience-resources/
Decolonising DMU and the PGR ExperienceRichard Hall
Slides for a presentation on decolonising and the PGR experience at the first Decolonising the Research degree, network event. The aim of the session was: to situate work on decolonising the PGR experience, inside an institutional programme of work (DDMU) that has not previously prioritised research.
Decolonising DMU: Building the Anti-Racist UniversityRichard Hall
Slides for Decolonising DMU: Building the Anti-Racist University online, at a University of East Anglia event, hosted by UEA's Decolonising Interns' group. For more details, see: http://decolonising-dmu-building-the-anti-racist-university
Slides for DMU Social Media for Researchers workshop on Thursday 11 November 2021. Notes available at: http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/03/31/notes-on-social-media-for-researchers-dtp/
Decolonising institutional research: the possibilities for dismantling white ...Richard Hall
My presentation with Paris Connolly on 22 June 2021 at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories Symposium, Anti-Racist Research in the Age of Black Lives Matter (http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-memory-narrative-and-histories)
My slides for my presentation on Ill-being and the University, at the NNMHR Congress 2021: Medical Humanities: In(Visibility): https://nnmhr2021.org/ @nnmhrmed #nnmhr2021
Covid-19 and the idea of the UniversityRichard Hall
My speed lecture at DMU's, Research and the COVID-19 crisis - International Day of Education event. See: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/events/events-calendar/2021/january/research-and-the-covid-19-crisis-international-day-of-education.aspx
The idea of the University is being challenged at the intersection of crises, including those of finance and epidemiology. As a result, the public value of the University is continually questioned. This talk will uncover how, at the intersection of crises, those who labour in universities might recover their historical agency, and reimagine higher learning.
COVID-19 and the idea of the UniversityRichard Hall
Slides for DMU Education Research seminar on Covid-19 and the idea of the University. Abstract available at: http://www.richard-hall.org/2020/10/27/slides-for-covid-19-and-the-idea-of-the-university/
Decolonising DMU: Building the Anti-Racist ClassroomRichard Hall
Slides for:
Patel, K., Hall, C., and Hall, R. (2020). Decolonising DMU: Towards the Anti-Racist Classroom. AdvanceHE Annual Conference 2020: Teaching in the spotlight: Creative thinking to enhance the student experience: From curriculum design to student success, Bedfordshire. https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/conferences/TLConf20
research-engaged teaching: a discussionRichard Hall
Slides for my workshop at DMU for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences on research-engaged teaching.
Key links:
McLinden, M. et al. (2015). Strengthening the Links Between Research and Teaching. Education in Practice, 2(1), pp. 24-29
Student as Producer: https://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/
Strategic Visions & Values: Inclusive Curricula and Leadership in Learning an...Richard Hall
Presentation for the Leadership in Learning and Teaching event at Durham University on 1 May 2019.
Project resources:
Universal Design for Learning: Evaluation Interim Report: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/17106
A Literature Review of Universal Design for Learning: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/17059
Freedom to Achieve: Project Evaluation Report: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/16793
the University and alienated knowledge productionRichard Hall
my talk at the #AcProf2019 conference: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work, held in Manchester on Thursday 4 April, 2019. (https://t.co/vqhp1bpMYB)
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
1. Higher Education and the Triple Crunch.
Professor Richard Hall
@hallymk1 rhall1@dmu.ac.uk
richard-hall.org
PedRIO Annual Conference, 2 April 2014
2. What is the role of higher
education, in a world that faces
significant disruption from liquid
fuel availability, climate change,
and debt/the politics of austerity?
3. USA Energy Information Administration, International Energy
Outlook 2013. http://1.usa.gov/1i7iyWn
USA Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy
Outlook 2009. http://bit.ly/1hSKa01
4. A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a
massive expansion of production and refining
capacity. While it is difficult to predict precisely
what economic, political, and strategic effects
such a shortfall might produce, it surely would
reduce the prospects for growth in both the
developing and developed worlds. Such an
economic slowdown would exacerbate other
unresolved tensions.
US Joint Forces Command. 2010. Joint Operating Environment.
http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/joe2010.pdf
5. “I look at shale as more of a retirement party than a revolution” says
[petroleum geologist] Art Berman... “It’s the last gasp.”
Global Sustainability’s [David] Hughes estimates the U.S. needs to drill 6,000
new wells per year at a cost of $35 billion to maintain current production. His
research also shows that the newest wells aren’t as productive as those
drilled in the first years of the boom, a sign that oil companies have already
tapped the best spots, making it that much harder to keep breaking records.
Hughes has predicted that production will peak in 2017 and fall to 2012
levels within two years.
“The hype about U.S. energy independence and ‘Saudi America’ is
deafening if you look at the mainstream media,” Hughes says. “We need to
have a much more in-depth and intelligent discussion about this.”
Loder, A. 2013. U.S. Shale-Oil Boom May Not Last as Fracking Wells Lack Staying
Power. Bloomberg Business Week. http://buswk.co/QxGGdm
6. USA Energy Information Administration, What Drives Crude
Oil Prices. http://1.usa.gov/1lxBgvC
7. our prediction of small further increases in world oil production
comes at the expense of a near doubling, permanently, of real oil
prices over the coming decade. This is uncharted territory for the
world economy, which has never experienced such prices for more
than a few months…
we suspect that there must be a pain barrier, a level of oil prices
above which the effects on GDP becomes nonlinear, convex. We
also suspect that the assumption that technology is independent of
the availability of fossil fuels may be inappropriate, so that a lack of
availability of oil may have aspects of a negative technology shock.
In that case the macroeconomic effects of binding resource
constraints could be much larger, more persistent, and they would
extend well beyond the oil sector.
IMF Working Paper WP/12/109. 2012. The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology.
http://bit.ly/Qy4EoO
8. James Hansen et al 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 011006 doi:10.1088/1748-
9326/8/1/011006
12. Education markets are one facet of the neoliberal strategy to
manage the structural crisis of capitalism by opening the public
sector to capital accumulation. The roughly $2.5 trillion global
market in education is a rich new arena for capital investment.
(Lipman, P. 2009: http://bit.ly/qDl6sV)
$4.4tn, 2012 Global Education Expenditure ($91bn in e-
learning is the fastest growing).
(IBIS Capital. 2013: http://bit.ly/16aJi1Q)
13. If we presume that a connection exists between the increase
in debt on one side and the increase in “asset value” on the
other, then I would say chances are we’re looking at both a
gigantic wealth transfer from the poor towards the rich and a
huge bubble that allows that to happen, and that will make the
poor even poorer when it bursts. Which seems inevitable,
because debt by itself cannot create value.
And if I’m right, what we’re seeing is not the incredible
resiliency of the markets, and no real increase in asset value,
but an increase in the threat to the social cohesion of our
communities, cities and nations.
Ilargi. 2013. How do we define value? The Automatic Earth. http://bit.ly/1pyfUgN
14. There is a strong correlation between energy use and GDP.
Global energy demand is on the rise yet oil supply is forecast to decline in the
next few years.
There is no precedent for oil discoveries to make up for the shortfall, nor is
there a precedent for efficiencies to relieve demand on this scale.
Public sector debt is a burden that ultimately requires economic growth to pay
it off. Energy supply looks likely to constrain growth.
Global emissions currently exceed the IPCC 'marker' scenario range.
The Climate Change Act 2008 has made the -80%/2050 target law, yet this
requires a national mobilisation akin to war-time.
Probably impossible but could radically change the direction of HE in terms of
skills required and spending available.
18. cybernetics is ‘not just a technological history but a history of
the changing social networks that connected these
technologies to the function of the state and its management’
(p. 17)
'[technologies] helped solidify a particular articulation of the
state that was supported by new claims to legitimate power'
(p. 96)
Miller Medina, J.E. (2005), The State Machine : politics, ideology, and computation
in Chile, 1964-1973. MIT Ph.D. Thesis. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39176
19. Allende:
We set out courageously to build our own [cybernetic] system
in our own spirit. What you will hear about today is
revolutionary - not simply because this is the first time it has
been done anywhere in the world. It is revolutionary because
we are making a deliberate effort to hand to the people the
power that science commands, in a form in which the people
can themselves use it.
Miller Medina, J.E. (2005), The State Machine : politics, ideology, and computation
in Chile, 1964-1973. MIT Ph.D. Thesis, p. 252.
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39176
20. Collective work is one of the cements of autonomy, whose
fruits usually spill into hospitals, clinics, primary and
secondary education, in strengthening the municipalities and
the good government juntas. Not much that has been
constructed would be possible without the collective work, of
men, women, boys, girls and the elderly.
Zibechi, R. 2013. Autonomous Zapatista Education: The Little Schools of Below.
http://bit.ly/19XfrAF
21. Good Living
The five revolutions: democratic; ethical; economic; social;
Latin American dignity
To build a fraternal and co-operative coexistence.
The transformation of higher education and the transfer of
knowledge in science, technology and innovation.
The Republic of Ecuador. National Development Plan: National Plan for Good
Living 2009-2013: Building a Plurinational and Intercultural State.
http://bit.ly/GQJi0M
22. Education is crucial to reinforce and diversify individual and social capabilities
and potentialities, and to foster participative and critical citizens.
Education remains one of the best ways of consolidating a democratic society
that contributes to the eradication of economic, political, social and cultural
inequalities.
From a strategic perspective, it is essential to develop various forms of
knowledge with high added value, as well as technical and technological
research and innovation.
The combination of ancestral forms of knowledge with state-of-the-art technology
can reverse the current development model and contribute to the transition
towards a model of accumulation based on bio-knowledge.
The Republic of Ecuador. National Development Plan: National Plan for Good Living 2009-
2013: Building a Plurinational and Intercultural State. http://bit.ly/GQJi0M
23. IPCC. 2014. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and
Vulnerability. http://1.usa.gov/1hR6qr1
Adaptation
place and context specific
complementary actions across levels, from individuals to governments reducing
vulnerability and exposure to present climate variability
contingent on societal values, objectives, and risk perceptions. Recognition of
diverse interests, circumstances, social-cultural contexts, and expectations
sensitive to context and the diversity of decision types, decision processes, and
constituencies
economic instruments can foster adaptation by providing incentives
but
constraints can interact to impede adaptation
short-termism or failing to anticipate consequences can result in maladaptation
limited evidence indicates a gap between global adaptation needs and funds
co-benefits, synergies, and tradeoffs exist between mitigation and adaptation
24. In the face of the triple crunch, of the volatility imposed by the
interrelationships between peak oil, our climate realities, and
economic futures, is business as usual really possible for
those who labour and study in higher education?
What kinds of conversations are we having with society about
our need for “more sophisticated financial engineering” to
underpin increasing student debt?
What kinds of conversations should we be having with young
people and their parents about the volatile relationships
between debt, real wages, unemployment and precarity, in
the face of the added volatility of access to the resources that
keep the economy growing?
26. Licensing
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Editor's Notes
The phrase, 'more efficiently unsustainable', is borrowed from Bill Rees:
http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/11/16/bill-rees-the-vulnerability-and-resilience-of-cities/