Special Issue on Trade and the Environment

Special Issue on Robots and the Work Environment

The future development of industries is currently on the agenda of public and scientific debates. Due to new technical options such as artificial intelligence and robots, sensor networks, big data, etc., which are “captured in terms such as the Internet of Things and the Internet of Robotic Things” according to van Est and Kools [1], visions like Industry 4.0 in Germany, the Future d’Industrie ...

Special issue on the Design of Intelligent Environment

When we analyse behaviour from the viewpoint of information technologies, computer-supportedsystems may be mainly divided into two types of functional mechanisms. There are processing means and communication means. These two systems sort our activities from the view of Function and Mechanism. This special issue focuses on the correspondence between persons and computers or information systems a...

Special issue on "Optimization models in environment and sustainable development"

Today, sustainable management of the environment and its resources is an issue of vital importance in our contemporary societies and especially in developed societies. The scarcity of resources may well account for this fact. The importance of this problem underlies the necessity for adapting measures aiming at its solution. Many research papers and scientific conferences have been devoted to t...

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Editor's Introduction Special Issue on Natural Resources and Environment

The subject of natural resources and environment under capitalism (2) is distinguished by its absence from the list of time-honored topics of inquiry on the left. I know of only a handful o f academic contributions in recent years as part of the revival of Marxist and related radical echolarehip. (See e.g. Enzenberger, 1974; England 6 Bluestone, 1971; Mumy, 1974; DiNorcia, 1974; Edel, 1973; Per...