scholarly journals Strategic Thinking for Sustainability: A Review of 10 Strategies for Sustainable Mobility by Bus for Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Fernandez-Sanchez ◽  
Alvaro Fernandez-Heredia
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Compressed Natural Gas ◽  
Collective Transport ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Bus ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
Main Ideas

The sustainable mobility of the future comes about through sustainable ways of transport, such as walking, cycling, or collective transport. This includes the bus, the underground, and trains in big cities. This article reviews bus-related policies and initiatives worldwide. It also analyses ten cities looking at medium and long-term strategies for the urban bus service. The main ideas are: the forecasts for the use of the urban bus system indicate a significant increase in demand, therefore, there is a need for expanding the offered services; efforts to change the fleets towards Compressed Natural Gas and Electric vehicles; support of technological innovation for communication and accessibility; improving commercial speed and frequencies by infrastructure improvements, operation optimisation and technology; and, the link between these strategies and the air quality of cities. The transition towards a sustainable transport will happen based on the belief that the bus service is no longer the transport of the past or the present, but of the future.

scholarly journals UPAYA PENINGKATAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN TINGGI SERTA IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP TUGAS DAN PERAN DOSEN

Nuansa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizkan Syahbuddin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
National Development ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Behavior

National development that  lasts  all the  time,  then the  development of higher education is still prioritized by the government to continue to grow, including the role and  duties of lecturers. Strategy  setting is part  of long-term development. The goal is in the most appropriate way in the future to be able. Improving the quality of higher education can not be separated from the quality of human resources owned. Therefore, improving the quality of the behavior and behavior of lecturers as teachers through education channels and  effective training programs in their  work is needed. With qualified human resources, it is expected that  higher education will become an institution capable of effectively facing the challenges of the future.

Il ruolo della previsione nel processo decisionale*

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Ornello Vitali
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Good Information ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Events

Abstract Though undertakings prefer, usually, to concentrate on short-term previsions, it seems essential for them to develop middle-term and also long-term forecasting.Taking into consideration the interdependence among these three kinds of forecasts, it is unavoidable the suggestion to make an effort to look not only to the next future, but much further, in such a way to reinforce the quality of previsions.To forecast future events, it is important a good information about the present situation, whilst to understand the actual problems it is essential to be able to foresee the future.

A STRATEGIC ADVOCACY ROLE IN SEA FOR SUSTAINABILITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550015 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA ROSARIO PARTIDARIO
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Strategic Processes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Advocacy Role

In this paper I advocate SEA as an instrument of change towards more sustainable patterns of behaviour and development, by following strategic thinking and constructive approaches. I recommend that the future research agenda of SEA should contribute to make SEA a matured, full-fleshed instrument with a clear identity, and coherent functions and forms. This may be achieved by exploring how to engage all actors in a fundamental new attitude in understanding and addressing the complexity of strategic processes, enabling dialogues towards mutual understanding, offering flexibility, ensuring a long-term and large scale perspectives when exploring development options.

Futurology and Present: from improving the quality of human life to immortality

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
L.M. Allachverdiev ◽  
◽  
N.V. Ponomarenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Further Development

Analyzed is the prospects for further development of humankind in future in the field of medical technologies. Trend “The science of the future” began to develop actively in the second half of the twentieth century. Futurology as a scientific and philosophical direction always actualizes the possible and alternative future, the ways of implementing the most fantastic ideas so far. Identifying possible lines of development and outlining the sphere of moral responsibility, futurology together with philosophy looks for opportunities to achieve immortality as a long-term goal. Then we consider the latest scientific medical projects to achieve a technical progress in improving quality and length of human life, bringing us closer to real immortality. While the first steps are being taken new methods of disease prevention are being tested, the causes of various pathologies are reconsidered and strategies for overcoming them are being developed. As a subject of study, the authors of the article review the role of medicine in the social life in the future as one of the most cutting-edge and high-demand areas of high-tech business, requiring philosophical reflection and fragmentation of the zone of responsibility on the way to real immortality.

scholarly journals Shaping the Next Normal – Explorative Expert Survey Among Teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers ◽  
Patricia Bonaudo
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Self Learning

The Covid 19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the importance of digital HEI teaching. The digitisation of a course of study poses many challenges for teachers. This paper presents the results of a survey of lecturers at the DHBW (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University). Challenges and opportunities were examined in order to derive recommendations for good digital teaching for the future. This paper is based on three pillars: (a) recommendations for good online teaching, (b) a list of the institutional support requirements, and (c) a foresight on the future of digital teaching. In summary, it can be seen that teaching concepts have changed fundamentally as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. While some courses have been converted to online frontal teaching, other formats promote the self-learning process of students by emphasising self-study, with teachers moving away from the classic role of knowledge mediators and increasingly acting as coaches. This can be seen as an effort to make the best possible use of the new conditions created by the pandemic in order to move higher education teaching from pure knowledge transfer to competence transfer. The aim of the present analysis is to promote the digitization of courses in the long term and to make lasting improvements. The results should help teachers to design their courses efficiently and in a way that is appropriate for the target group and to improve the quality of teaching in the long term.

Honours as Signals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno S. Frey ◽  
Jana Gallus
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
The Future

Awards are non-material and symbolic rewards, and do not necessarily have to go with money. Award givers may emit signals of quality, of intent, and of their beliefs. Managers can use the signalling functions of awards to subtly steer the behaviour of (present and future) employees, without having to recur to control through explicit, conditional incentives. Awards can also give rise to signalling failures. They have to be used with moderation, and they can rarely be substituted for money where money is already in place. If well designed, awards can raise intrinsic motivation, as the recipients are explicitly lauded when they receive the award. In comparison to money, awards tend to raise loyalty to the giver and avoid crowding out intrinsic motivation; moreover, they have a more sustainable effect on behaviour. They also remain visible in the future, creating a trophy value that maintains the awards’ salience and their signalling functions even over the medium and long term.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of care in health systems: towards better strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
National Level ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

AbstractImproving the quality of health care across a nation is complex and hard. Countries often rely on multiple single national level programmes to make progress. But the key is to use a framework to develop a balanced overall strategy, and evaluate the main elements continuously and over time. Achieving that requires having a critical mass of leaders who collectively can see the bigger picture now, envision a roadmap for the future to chart an intelligent course, and course correct regularly. This is a long-term agenda requiring commitment, careful stewardship, different perspectives, trust, and the building of knowledge and experience over time. It is also almost completely at odds with much current policymaking which is short term, reactive and demands hard results. Many countries are making progress. But the rapid introduction of new types of care during the COVID 19 pandemic, such as online and digital, the use of new technologies which could soon revolutionalise the way care is delivered, experienced and evaluated, and the huge pressures on spending on health care in future mean we will have to do better. Achieving system-wide quality of care requires having a critical mass of leaders who collectively can see the bigger picture now, envision a roadmap for the future to chart a balanced intelligent course. For the Israeli health system, the recent IJHPR article by Dreiher et al. will help, but it will be important, in the future, to analyse how Israel measures up on the framework outlined above. This ideally would be supplemented with a survey of key leaders for their assessment, and both would be a regular (say 5 yearly) exercise and would help inform future strategies.

Thinking Beyond Language: Intervention for Severe Aphasia

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Simmons-Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Environmental Support ◽  
Total Communication ◽  
Communication Partners

Abstract Purpose: This article addresses several intervention approaches that aim to improve life for individuals with severe aphasia. Because severe aphasia significantly compromises language, often for the long term, recommended approaches focus on additional domains that affect quality of life. Treatments are discussed that involve increasing participation in personally relevant life situations, enhancing environmental support for communication and participation, and improving communicative confidence. Methods: Interventions that have been suggested in the aphasia literature as particularly appropriate for people with severe aphasia include training in total communication, training of communication partners, and activity specific training. Conclusion: Several intervention approaches can be implemented to enhance life with severe aphasia.

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