Due to economic, environmental, and social interest of coastal areas, together with their erosion problems, different management strategies can be considered, physical (shoreline evolution) economic (net present value, ratio benefit-cost, break-even point) consequences impacts. Therefore, this work presents an integrated methodology that aims compare discuss the most promising intervention scen...

Social change can be a gradual unfolding of different ways of life or can imply a sudden, fundamental transformation of economic, social, and political institutions, as was the case in Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War. Individuals perceive, experience, and handle effects of social change on the basis of certain sociopsychological processes. This chapter focuses on how individuals de...

Key insights revealed by social informatics studies have come from the new light they have shone on the social dynamics underlying broad changes tied to technological innovations. In particular, they have shown how major developments in computing and other information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet, are often the outcome of complementary or conflicting social moveme...

Social protection in Korea is designed around traditional forms of employment and excludes a substantial share workers non-standard employment. The resulting social gaps compound income inequality undermine financial sustainability as uninsured persons rely on tax-financed benefits. Besides, Korea’s tax benefit system discourages taking up or returning to low-paid work from assistance unemploym...

Hashtag activism happens when large numbers of postings appear on social media under a common hashtagged word, phrase or sentence with a social or political claim. The temporal unfolding of these mutually connected postings in networked spaces gives them a narrative form and agency. Applying Karlyn Campbell’s propositions about rhetorical agency to the case of #BlackLivesMatter, this essay show...

Does the social safety net improve welfare? Conventional wisdom says that means-tested social safety net programs improve welfare because they provide partial insurance against large negative shocks by guaranteeing a minimum consumption floor, but some economists have argued that they may also discourage labor supply and reduce capital accumulation. Furthermore, recent research suggests that th...

Materials and methods A pragmatic cluster, randomised, controlled trial compared the system of care against usual care. Randomisation was at the level of stroke service. Participants’ use of health/social care services and informal care were measured by self-complete questionnaires at baseline, 6 and 12 months. From these, we estimated and compared individual-level total costs from health/socia...

Real net social wealth (NSSW), the real present value of social security benefits received minus social security taxes paid, is frequently used as a direct proxy measure for the impact of a social security system on generation welfare. The present paper establishes to the contrary, for a class of overlapping generation economies, that NSSW can be simultaneously negatively correlated with welfar...

the 2012 election campaign popularized the notion that people who benefit from federal spending vote for democrats, while people who pay the preponderance of taxes vote republican. a survey conducted during the election included questions to test this hypothesis and to assess the accuracy of voters’ perceptions of federal spending. Voters’ perceptions of their benefit from federal spending are ...

We study the integration of stable marriage problems (SMPs) of equal sizes into an extended society. We show that it is impossible to make every agent weakly better off by merging all SMPs if the matching that occurs before and after integration is stable. We show that integration always weakly benefits at least one-half of the society, which implies that it can be implemented by majority votin...