7 research outputs found
Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
In the last years sustainability has become a topic of global concern and a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities and organisations.
Significant changes in business landscape, the emergence of new technology, including social media, the pressure of new social concerns, have called into question established conceptualizations of competitiveness, wealth creation and growth.
New and unaddressed set of issues regarding how private and public organisations manage and invest their resources to create sustainable value have brought to light. In particular the increasing focus on environmental and social themes has suggested new dimensions to be taken into account in the value creation dynamics, both at organisations and communities level.
For companies the need of integrating corporate social and environmental responsibility issues into strategy and daily business operations, pose profound challenges, which, in turn, involve numerous processes and complex decisions influenced by many stakeholders. Facing these challenges calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge as well as the development of proper management models, approaches and tools aimed to contribute to the development and realization of environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies and practices
2018, UMaine News Press Releases
This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between March 2, 2018 and December 31, 2018
Impact of Human and Other Disturbance on Behaviour and Heart Rate of Incubating Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae)
The study presented here provides qualitative and quantitative evidence on existence and extent of incubating AdĂ©lie penguinsâ behavioural and heart rate responses to human and conspecific disturbance, and additionally reports observations on disturbance by predators and aircraft noise
Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences
Interdisciplinarity is the main topic and the main goal of this conference.
Since the sixteen century with the creation of the first Academy of Sciences, in Napoles (Italy) (1568), and before
that with the creation of the Fine Arts Academies, the world of science and arts began to work independently, on
the contrary of the Academy of Plato, in Classical Antiquity, where science, art and sport went interconnected. Over
time, specific sciences began to be independent, and the specificity of sciences caused an increased difficulty in mutual
understanding.
The same trend has affected the Human and Social Sciences. Each of the specific sciences gave rise to a wide
range of particular fields. This has the advantage of allowing the deepening of specialised knowledge, but it means
that there is often only a piecemeal approach of the research object, not taking into account the its overall complexity.
So, it is important to work for a better understanding of the scientific phenomena with the complementarity of the different sciences, in an interdisciplinary perspective.
With this growing specialisation of sciences, Interdisciplinarity acquired more relevance for scientists to find moreencompassing and useful answers for their research questions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences
Interdisciplinarity is the main topic and the main goal of this conference.
Since the sixteen century with the creation of the first Academy of Sciences, in Napoles (Italy) (1568), and before
that with the creation of the Fine Arts Academies, the world of science and arts began to work independently, on
the contrary of the Academy of Plato, in Classical Antiquity, where science, art and sport went interconnected. Over
time, specific sciences began to be independent, and the specificity of sciences caused an increased difficulty in mutual
understanding.
The same trend has affected the Human and Social Sciences. Each of the specific sciences gave rise to a wide
range of particular fields. This has the advantage of allowing the deepening of specialised knowledge, but it means
that there is often only a piecemeal approach of the research object, not taking into account the its overall complexity.
So, it is important to work for a better understanding of the scientific phenomena with the complementarity of the different sciences, in an interdisciplinary perspective.
With this growing specialisation of sciences, Interdisciplinarity acquired more relevance for scientists to find moreencompassing and useful answers for their research questions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio