Mitigating the Davos dilemma: towards a global self-sustainability index

a tripartite model of efl teachers attributions, burnout, and ‎self-regulation: towards the prospects of effective teaching

همطالعه حاضر به ارائه مدلی برای آموزش موثر زبان انگلیسی ‏می پردازد. مدل حاضر از سه عامل تاثیر گذار در کارایی ‏تدریس معلمان زبان انگلیسی بهره می برد. این سه عامل شامل ‏سبکهای اسنادی، خود تنطیمی و فرسودگی شغلی معلمان ایرانی ‏زبان انگلیسی می باشد. رساله مورد نظر درچهار فاز طراحی ‏شده است: فاز اول شامل طراحی و رواسازی پرسشنامه سبکهای ‏اسنادی معلمان زبان انگلیسی و فاز دوم شامل استفاده از ‏این پرسشنا...

Towards a more inclusive and precautionary indicator of global sustainability

We construct a hybrid, economic indicator of the sustainability of global well-being, which is more inclusive than existing indicators and incorporates an environmentally pessimistic, physical constraint on global warming. Our methodology extends the World Bank’s Adjusted Net Saving (ANS) indicator to include the cost of population growth, the benefit of technical progress, and a much higher, p...

A Qualitative Approach towards Implementation of Urban Sustainability in Tehran

Sustainability as a predominant paradigm of 21st century adopted as the best approach to tackle the issues which threat the environment and people’s well-being. As cities in the world are places in which most of the population in the world settles, the best way of ensuring sustainability would be by observing a set of rules and regulations. There are various sets of urban regulations, rating sy...

Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Mitigating global warming: a real options approach

Mitigation and adaptation represent two solutions to the issue of global warming. While mitigation aims at reducing CO2 emissions and preventing climate change, adaptation encompasses a broad scope of techniques used to reduce the impacts of climate change once they have occurred. Both have direct costs on a country’s Gross Domestic Product, but costs also arise from temperature increases due t...