This paper investigates the systemic nature of methodological individualism. According to widespread belief, the notion of autonomy of the actor that is defended by methodological individualism is mistaken because it is incompatible with the study of society in terms of its organized structure. We argue that this viewpoint must be rejected. In our opinion, it stems from confusion between ontolo...

* This value represents an average weighted score of the environmental issues associated to the concern. ** This value represents the overall score including environmental, socio-economic and likely future impacts. *** Priority refers to the ranking of GIWA concerns. Sea of Okhotsk This section presents the results of the assessment of the impacts of each of the fi ve predefi ned GIWA concerns ...

Environmental problems are one of the most challenging issues for the entire world and each country. In economic studies, environmental issues are analyzed as negative externalities. In this article, the negative externalities of electricity production on the output growth of different sectors and household’s welfare in Iran’s economy have been studied through price system using Computable Gene...

purpose:  the paper aims to focus on south africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. it attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the national dev...

Sustainable development and poverty alleviation are two intertwined issues that continue to be accorded the highest priority by decisionmakers. This paper seeks to anlayse the nexus between these two topics within a transdisciplinary integrative framework (sustainomics). Following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, including the adoption of the United Nations’ Agenda 21, and the 2002 Worl...

This paper presents the dynamics of environmental problems in Mumbai city. An evolution concept is applied to study the present environmental status of Mumbai. In order to study its dynamics, the entire process of environmental evolution is divided into four types viz. poverty-related environmental issues, industrializationand urbanization-related environmental issues, rapid economic growth-rel...

objectives: the aim of this study was to determine the type and priority needs of people with multiple sclerosis in khuzestan using persian version of the southampton needs assessment questionnaire (snaq) and their relationship to age, gender, and physical disability scale, respectively. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the priority needs of 100 patients with multiple sclerosis (aged bel...

This Paper presents the environmental evolution of Mumbai city. The concept of eI1vironmental evolution as developed and adapted by Sai and Imum is applied to stu~ the. p~t enviropw.ental status of Mumbai. In '" .... '.,., ' ,~.. ,! ..> . order to study its dynamics the entire process of environmental evolution is cIWideclintotDur types viz. poverty related environmental issues, industrializati...