Developing sustainable societies – a dialogical network perspective

Doubtfulness – a Dialogical Perspective

inner dialogue. Internal dialogical activity often reduces the experience of uncertainty by integration of contrasting ideas. Sometimes, however, the result is quite opposite – doubts grow rather than being reduced. The paper proposes a dialogical model of doubtfulness and presents empirical findings which are consistent with the model. Additionally, the functions of doubtfulness and internal d...

A Network Perspective on Ecosystems, Societies and Natural Resource Management

Interaction analysis and psychology: a dialogical perspective.

Interaction analysis is not a prerogative of any discipline in social sciences. It has its own history within each disciplinary field and is related to specific research objects. From the standpoint of psychology, this article first draws upon a distinction between factorial and dialogical conceptions of interaction. It then briefly presents the basis of a dialogical approach in psychology and ...

Community Memories for Sustainable Societies

Our species stands before the unprecedented challenge to fundamentally change its ways in order to avoid the potential catastrophe that would make our world inhabitable and the dangerous tensions that inevitably arise when food, energy and other resources become scarce. This paper raises the question what computer science can contribute to help foster this change. It focuses on community memori...

Mixed Transportation Network Design under a Sustainable Development Perspective

A mixed transportation network design problem considering sustainable development was studied in this paper. Based on the discretization of continuous link-grade decision variables, a bilevel programming model was proposed to describe the problem, in which sustainability factors, including vehicle exhaust emissions, land-use scale, link load, and financial budget, are considered. The objective ...