Social Economic System Research Articles

How to measure the impact of landsenses ecology on sustainable development? A review of people-oriented emerging approaches

At present, the research of sustainable development is developing from a single local problem to a multi-scale, transdisciplinary and comprehensive study. The evaluation and monitoring of its progress need to adopt multi-disciplinary research methods and multi-dimensional, multi-scale identification mechanism. Landsenses ecology is an emerging scientific system that uses the basic principles of ecology to study the sustainable development of land-use planning, construction, and management from the aspects of natural elements, physical senses, psychological perceptions, social economy, process and risk. It provides an effective way for the multi-disciplinary integration research of the relationship between human and ecosystem, and provides an important method and theory for the sustainable transformation research of environmental system and social–economic system, and plays an important role in guiding and realizing the beneficial impact of human on natural ecosystem. This study describes 57 articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2016 and 2024, using qualitative content analysis, and discusses the impact of landsenses ecology on the way sustainable development is perceived and practiced. The results suggest that the role of landsenses ecology in the creation of sustainable vision resonance and behavior is crucial to the study of sustainable transformation and will help to explore effective strategies for using intrinsic sustainable transformation as a deep leverage point.

Assyrian Imperial Elites and Textile Culture of the 1st Millennium BC: Shaping Power Visions Through Textiles

Abstract As a crucial component of the materiality of the first world empire, textile culture documented in archival cuneiform documents, visual art, and archaeological materials from 1st-millennium BC Assyria enables historians to reconstruct the social identities, power visions, and economic systems of the people who ruled the “Land of Aššur”. Through the analysis of royal clothes, it is possible to form an idea of the clothing ensemble, the aesthetic, and power visions that shaped the presence of the king and his queen in public ceremonies and in visual art narratives, and to see how royal textile art played a role in political communication. Royal garments, combined with power accessories such as royal insignia and other objects, represented a powerful means to visualize royal personhood and what the institution of Assyrian kingship meant in the imperial phase of Assyrian history. Representations of royal scenes in visual art integrate the documentary picture from texts and archaeological materials and show how the royal costume developed over the Neo-Assyrian period and how the centrality and superior status of the royal person were emphasised by visual interaction between the king’s clothes and other textiles in the scene. Queenly garments represent another channel for the communication of the success of the Assyrian imperial project. Less represented in textual sources and material evidence are other upper-class sectors of Assyrian imperial society, in which textiles equally played an important role as markers of social identity and status. Non-royal textiles were an integral part of power narratives in the Neo-Assyrian age, contributing to create the sense of a common Assyrian identity, of elite’s unity and cohesion, and full adherence to the imperial project.

System behaviour of water and environmental law

Rules and procedures of mechanical things might be revealed by a piece by piece, linear analysis, while large unorganised masses can be approached by means of statistics. However, there is a vast middle layer of entities with complex structure and hardly calculable non-linear procedures that offer themselves for system science. System thinking makes possible that we understand wicked problems, perfect storms and other similar phenomena that otherwise resist the old, positivist, silo-thinking. In these cases, we learn that elements of a system form structures, develop procedures through which they together produce such results that could have been unimaginable solely by the elements alone. Is it possible that with the help of system thinking we will be able to better grasp the essence of laws, moreover, we can design and implement laws with higher effectiveness? Is law a system? Or rather a complex tiered system of sub-systems, embedded into larger social-economic systems? In order to test these questions we analyse two intriguing sets of legal problems, to learn if we can describe and interpret them as systems that are – like systems generally – protecting their integrity with accommodation and resilience. The first example is the development of the segment of water laws that regulates drilling of small size wells for farms, where we see a 140 years process off gradual, more and more successful accommodation to the double social needs of protecting the interests of small farmers and sustainable development in respect to underground waters. This system resisted successfully an abrupt change that would have not fit to its goals. The second example is climate law as such – a relatively new development in the short history of modern environmental law, which can be hardly called a success story, because of the stiff resilience of the relevant branches of law. Indeed, resilience of law, as a complex, flexible and effective system does not always work according to our wishes.

Becoming killable – meatpacking and kinship among covid-19

ABSTRACT In the early months of Covid-19, meatpacking plants were designated “essential” infrastructure, sending laborers back to work, despite the high risk. Animal bodies were deemed essential to produce, but the human bodies producing them were not deemed essential to protect. Concurrently, the zoonotic nature of COVID-19 challenged dominant narratives of human exceptionalism, reminding us of our animality and shared vulnerabilities. As the pandemic surged, the question of whose lives matter arose in social and political discourse, alongside critiques of social institutions and economic systems. This paper explores the multispecies intersections and potential kinships that were unveiled by Covid-19.

Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance, system justification, and conservative political ideology as predictors of mental health stigma: The Hungarian case.

Insights from mental health stigma research indicate the importance of societal and political views on mental health perceptions. Most studies originate from typical Western neo-liberal settings and focus on generic mental health issues. Our research explores these associations in Hungary, an understudied post-communist context with significant stigma levels, examining a broad range of stigmas related to both general and three specific mental illnesses: schizophrenia, depression, and alcohol use disorder (AUD). The study aims to connect a wide array of political dispositions to stigma associated with both general and specific mental illnesses, exploring both attitudes and behavioral intentions. We surveyed 492 participants (147 males, 342 females) on their political dispositions, including Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), general and economic system justification, and conservative political ideology, and their attitudes toward general and specific mental illnesses. Regression analyses identified key political dispositions influencing stigma. RWA was significantly linked to most stigma outcomes, while conservative political ideology showed a selective impact. Other predictors had minimal influence on stigma outcomes. Our findings suggest that perceptions of danger, threat, and unconventionality, as indicated by RWA, are crucial for mental health stigmatization in Hungary. Intervention programs should target these factors, particularly in similar contexts.

METHOD OF STATISTICAL CONTROL OF A PRODUCTION PROCESS

This study presents a statistic control method for the manufacturing process. This control applies on the most diverse industrial areas such as production lines, data traffic, medical system, the evolution of social media or economic system and is one of the main tool used in the control and management of quality. We based this work on the use of the equipment of measuring horizontal projector type of profiles, StarrrettOptical, from the laboratory equipment. We can imagine an algorithm of measuring for the item “washer” and on the algorithm base, we create a measuring program of this item. Moreover, in this paper, we present on to detail the programming mode of the QuadraCheck 200 system which equip the horizontal projector for profile StarrettOptical. On the base of the data set got through a lot of measures of 14 items got through broaching on the broaching machine DPM 08 84, from the laboratory equipment, we analysed broaching process capabilities and we calculate data capability of this process and of this machine.

Decentring engineering education beyond the technical dimension: ethical skills framework

Engineering plays a key role in society today, influencing social behaviour, economic systems, (un)sustainability and future construction. Faced with this central and powerful role of engineering, it is urgent to recognise the need for professionals in this area to be culturally competent and sociopolitically committed in the collective ethical construction of the common good. Engineering course curricula generally focus on technical-scientific training – as is the case in Portugal – not on including or valuing other educational dimensions (namely, social, ethical, cultural or political responsibility). However, to promote an ethically responsible and sustainable future, it is imperative that these dimensions are included in engineers’ training, namely through ethical education that promotes a responsible professional practice that contributes to a viable common future. Intending to contribute to a culturally responsive engineering education, and to the development of the pedagogical dimension of the ethical education of engineering students, this study aims to develop a framework of the ethical skills necessary for the professional practice of engineering. The methodology used included a systematic literature review and document analysis. The developed framework allows systematising and interconnecting ethical skills, which can promote and facilitate the inclusion of ethical education in engineering courses. The framework helped to design a curricular module in engineering. It is a useful tool for professors of ethics in engineering, for those responsible for structuring engineering curriculum plans and for anyone responsible for enhancing this field of engineering education.

Tracking social-economic system nitrogen flow in China for emissions reduction and efficiency improvement

The increasing human demand have driven intensive reactive nitrogen (Nr) use, leading to high emissions and low efficiency in entire social-economic system. Herein, we accomplished a social-economic Nr flow model to trace the multi-sectorial Nr use, efficiency, and emissions in China from 1980 to 2020. The results showed that Nr use intensity increased 3.1-fold within four decades, with the decreasing proportions of Nr recovery from 32.7 % to 16.8 %. The Nr use pathways of production, consumption and waste management stages showed low resources use efficiency in agriculture and industrial production, high degree of consumption loss, insufficient waste treatment characteristics currently. Nr emissions peaked in 2012 and declined 12.7 % to 2020 owing to the nitrogen oxides control and mitigating overuse of fertilizers, and will continuously decrease under strategies in 2040 (41.7 % compared with 2012), indicating the large potential for emission reduction and efficiency improvement in next few decades.

Sediment DNA Records the Critical Transition of Bacterial Communities in the Arid Lake

It is necessary to predict the critical transition of lake ecosystems due to their abrupt, non-linear effects on social-economic systems. Given the promising application of paleolimnological archives to tracking the historical changes of lake ecosystems, it is speculated that they can also record the lake’s critical transition. We studied Lake Dali-Nor in the arid region of Inner Mongolia because of the profound shrinking the lake experienced between the 1300 s and the 1600 s. We reconstructed the succession of bacterial communities from a 140-cm-long sediment core at 4-cm intervals and detected the critical transition. Our results showed that the historical trajectory of bacterial communities from the 1200 s to the 2010s was divided into two alternative states: state1 from 1200 to 1300 s and state2 from 1400 to 2010s. Furthermore, in the late 1300 s, the appearance of a tipping point and critical slowing down implied the existence of a critical transition. By using a multi-decadal time series from the sedimentary core, with general Lotka-Volterra model simulations, local stability analysis found that bacterial communities were the most unstable as they approached the critical transition, suggesting that the collapse of stability triggers the community shift from an equilibrium state to another state. Furthermore, the most unstable community harbored the strongest antagonistic and mutualistic interactions, which may imply the detrimental role of interaction strength on community stability. Collectively, our study showed that sediment DNA can be used to detect the critical transition of lake ecosystems.

“Just like friends”: Chinese young adults’ interpretation of parent–child relationships on American TV shows

The emergence of individualization in contemporary Chinese society has transformed parent–child dynamics. This article examines one frequently acknowledged, but rarely scrutinized, individualizing force in this process: the consumption of Western popular media. Based on 29 in-depth interviews with college students in Beijing in 2009–2010, I investigate how members of China's first only-child generation reflexively engaged American television shows to assess their own parent–child relationships during a pivotal time of social change in China. While watching US TV inspired a desire among respondents for the individualistic and democratic family dynamics featured on screen, many were critical of what they saw and came to appreciate Chinese family practices more. Beyond comparing their lived realities with specific narratives on US TV, respondents often extrapolated individual circumstances to broader social issues and cultural traditions. Thus, US TV presented new alternatives for family life that fostered a reflexive “social imagination” among young Chinese, allowing them a deeper understanding of personal experiences by situating them within a constellation of social institutions, economic systems, and cultural values. By analyzing viewers’ meaning-making of American television shows within a Chinese context, this article illuminates how parent–child relationships have been shaped by an interplay between local norms and global possibilities.

'Integrating Ethics and Equity with Economics and Effectiveness for newborn screening in the genomic age: A qualitative study protocol of stakeholder perspectives.

Newborn bloodspot screening is a well-established population health initiative that detects serious, childhood-onset, treatable conditions to improve health outcomes. With genomic technologies advancing rapidly, many countries are actively discussing the introduction of genomic assays into newborn screening programs. While adding genomic testing to Australia's newborn screening program could improve outcomes for infants and families, it must be considered against potential harms, ethical, legal, equity and social implications, and economic and health system impacts. We must ask not only 'can' we use genomics to screen newborns?' but 'should we'?' and 'how much should health systems invest in genomic newborn screening?'. This study will use qualitative methods to explore understanding, priorities, concerns and expectations of genomic newborn screening among parents/carers, health professionals/scientists, and health policy makers across Australia. In-depth, semi-structured interviews will be held with 30-40 parents/carers recruited via hospital and community settings, 15-20 health professionals/scientists, and 10-15 health policy makers. Data will be analysed using inductive content analysis. The Sydney Children's Hospital Network Human Research Ethics Committee approved this study protocol [2023/ETH02371]. The Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research will guide study planning, conduct and reporting. Few studies have engaged a diverse range of stakeholders to explore the implications of genomics in newborn screening in a culturally and genetically diverse population, nor in a health system underpinned by universal health care. As the first study within a multi-part research program, findings will be used to generate new knowledge on the risks and benefits and importance of ethical, legal, social and equity implications of genomic newborn screening from the perspective of key stakeholders. As such it will be the foundation on which child and family centered criteria can be developed to inform health technology assessments and drive efficient and effective policy decision-making on the implementation of genomics in newborn screening.

Evaluation of sustainable finance implementation in emerging markets

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the initiative and commitment of an emerging market, Indonesia, in implementing sustainable finance to achieve a low-carbon economy and sustainable development goals (SDGs). It explores trajectories, challenges, and opportunities of sustainable finance as well as recommendations for related stakeholders for the development of sustainable finance in Indonesia. Many believed that implementation of sustainable finance, which considered multiple aspects of economic, social, and environmental risks and returns, would enable finance companies to maximize their role as a catalyst for the creation of environmentally friendly investment and a fair economic social system to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) more effectively. Specifically, green finance implementation as an important element of sustainable finance would create acceleration in financing for environmental preservation and climate change adaptation. Data used for evaluation is derived from selected ten financial services companies’ members of the Indonesia Sustainable Finance Initiative (ISFI) in the 2019–2022 period. It shows that despite the continuous growth in the amount of loan allocated to sustainable and green business activities, considering their loan capacity, the Indonesian financial services sector has done too little in sustainable finance, which in fact is dominated by microfinance, and very little in green finance. Regulators urgently need to formulate proper policies and incentives as well as to develop a favourable ecosystem together with related stakeholders to expedite the establishment of a well-developed and sophisticated sustainable and green finance system in Indonesia.

Fractal analysis of the medical insurance market: Theoretical and practical aspects

The latest experience obviously reflects that social-economic systems increasingly demonstrate an unforecastable behaviour. Financial markets are characterised by extremely guick change and crisis phenomena. Use of traditional modelling methods (in particular, the effective market hypothesis) provides no opportunity to obtain efficient forecasts about state and development of financial markets. One of promising methods in researching and modelling financial markets is the fractal analysis. Various natural and social phenomena posess fractality properties, namely there are similar structures on different scales. Generality of the fractal analysis methods allows their applying to study systems of any nature – from physical to economic and social ones. Fractality attributes of time series provide its dynamics pre-forecast and assess the time series predictability. The fractal analysis consists in establishing the extent of time series similarity to the fractal ones and defining a relation between the trend line and fractal dimension. The Hurst exponent assessment (persistence or anti-persistence of time series) predicts the further process development on the preliminary data basis. The fractal analysis efficiency during the unstable market periods is applicable for studying different social-economic systems (in particular, the Ukrainian medical insurance market). The research object is time series of gross insurance rewards on the Ukrainian medical insurance market. The research topic is the time series fractal analysis. The paper deals with peculiarities of the time series fractal analysis, the R/S analysis for time series of gross insurance rewards on the Ukrainian medical insurance market (via the MS Excel software). The Statistica 10.0.228.2 application generated the ARIMA model to predict dynamics of the gross insurance rewards on the Ukrainian medical insurance market. The obtained results may be used to conduct the R/S analysis of financial time series. In particular, that concerns those time series that describe the insurance market. Also, dynamics of the financial time series may be forecasted via these results as well.

Общественное здоровье как социокультурный феномен

The article presents the results of analyzing the concept of public health as a socio-cultural phenomenon. A critical analysis of existing approaches to defining public health is presented. It is substantiated that public health is not a constant sum of the individual health of members of a certain social community. According to the integral approach proposed by the authors, public health is a certain state of social systems that ensure the reproduction of physical life and individual health of the population, or the mass reproduction of physical life and individual health of a certain society, state, or large social group. It is shown that the systems whose state constitutes the content of the concept of public health include seven social systems: system of reproduction of the physical life of the population, system of demographic reproduction, public pedagogical system, system of reproduction of public consciousness, social economic system, political and legal systems of society, health care system. It is substantiated that public health also includes the health care system. The differences and connections between the concepts of “public health” and “health care” are considered. The relationship be-tween public health and medical policy is explored.

Integrated impact assessment for land and water management

Impact assessment considers the future consequences of current or proposed actions, but multiple impact assessment types and silos of expertise make integration difficult. When faced with the development of policy and planning for the complex bio-physical and social-economic systems found in river catchments, integrated impact assessment (IIA) becomes imperative. IIA has well-recognised potential when considering multiple, intersecting impact domains in one impact assessment verses siloed technical workstreams, often not linked until the decision-making stage, and with little transparency around how integration transpires. A “collective” and systemic view of all impacts is essential for understanding the causal relationships between system components and their full consequences including cumulative impacts. In land and water management, the development and integrated assessment of scenarios of change requires integration of disciplinary expertise, and local and indigenous knowledge systems. The challenge here is to turn practice towards less technocratic, more collaborative, and better integrated approaches. This paper therefore advances a participatory approach to IIA that uses participation and co-production of knowledge throughout. Here IIA is facilitated by broad leadership and iterative communication of concepts, ideas, methods, and accessible data between all participants through purposeful management of the process.

Vedic Era and Social Conditions: Unraveling the Tapestry of Ancient India

The Vedic era, spanning from around 1500 BCE to 500 BCE, is a crucial period in the history of ancient India. This article delves into the social conditions of the Vedic era, exploring the intricate tapestry of society, culture, and governance. Drawing upon the Vedas, the primary religious texts of the time, and archaeological evidence, we navigate through the variegated landscapes of social structures, economic systems, and religious practices that defined this epoch. The article also sheds light on the role of women, the emergence of the caste system, and the profound impact of Vedic thought on the socio-cultural milieu. Through a comprehensive analysis, this article seeks to unveil the nuanced dynamics that shaped the social fabric of ancient India during the Vedic era.

Adaptability of water resources development and utilization to social-economy system in Hunan province, China

The interplay of water resources with social-economy spheres involves a reciprocal feedback mechanism. With the acceleration of the construction process of modernized water networks in Hunan Province, investigating the adaptation status of the "Water-Social-Economy " composite system (WSE) is crucial for promoting sustainability. This study clarifies the connotation of the adaptability of WSE, and the quantitative analyses were conducted through coupling coordinative degree, harmonious development capacity, and the evolution of development lag types among the 14 cities of Hunan Province from 2005 to 2020. The results show that: (1) The development index of the water resources subsystem (WRS) showed a “downward-fluctuation-upward” trend, while the development index of the social-economy subsystem (SES) showed signs of great improvement, the former didn’t catch up with the latter. (2) The coupling coordination degree of WSE developed well, and reached the coordinative development stage by 2020, but the unbalanced spatial pattern between north to south and east to west still exists and is further intensified. (3) The development ability of WSE improved while the harmony ability reduced, and the development rate of WRS and SES hasn’t achieved dynamic synchronization. Finally, the policies and suggestions to improve the adaptability are put forward, which is of instructive significance for the sustainable development of water suitability.

Making compromises without a hurting stalemate, the change of the emblem of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games

The study unveils a unique case in the Paralympic Games through investigating the negotiation between the International Paralympic Committee and the Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for the change of the emblem of the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games two years after its official release. Qualitative data is collected through interviews with senior personnel and archival documents and is analysed through employing the Advocacy Coalition Framework to highlight the change in the belief system of the two parties and the interaction between the policy subsystem and the broader political and social economic system. The findings reveal the shift in the belief system of respective Coalitions and the change in the power dynamics. The paper concludes with a discussion concerning the ACF’s four pathways of policy change and a response to one of the questions that is raised in the ACF literature for further researches.

EVALUATING PUBLIC COMPLIANCE WITH WILDLIFE CONSERVATION LAW IN WUHAN, CHINA

As a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in mainland China, the governments expedite the legislation of the Wildlife Protection Law (WPL) by proposing a comprehensive prohibition on wildlife eating and trading in the latest WPL due to the potential association between the outbreak and wildlife. However, the prohibition could affect the current social-economic system, leading to a void of legislation due to the disobedience of laws in society. Public readiness toward the law has a strong relationship with expected obedience to it. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to assess the two components of the readiness knowledge about the law and the readiness toward the actions potentially contradicting the latest WPL. Another objective is to collect participants' opinions and reasons on whether they think the latest WPL is difficult to enforce. By selecting the epicenter Wuhan as a study site, voluntary response sampling was used to distribute the questionnaire online. The data obtained from 410 respondents show that the citizens in Wuhan have average knowledge about the latest WPL but are unaware of the definition of wildlife. Based on the Mann-Whitney test, the study found no significance between gender and knowledge, but it exists in all other comparisons. Moreover, the significance only exists between readiness scale and age groups. The difficulty in enforcing the latest WPL underlines the problems in enforcement, awareness, demand, and society aspect, while on the opposite, respondents highlight the lesson from the pandemic and belief in the governments. In conclusion, citizens in Wuhan show a medium readiness toward the latest WPL, which is vital to design optimal legislation.

Green Economy and Partnership Program in the Tofu Processing Industry: Towards Social-Economic Systems Driving Sustainable Development

With the development of the population which continues to increase along with the times, there is also a shift in people's lifestyles and human desires to be able to meet their needs, this can be seen from the many community businesses that make ends meet and encourage the family's economy without thinking about the impact on the surrounding environment. The purpose of this study is to find out how the implementation of the green economy and partnership program is carried out in the tofu processing industry in a socio-economic system to encourage sustainable development, so that later it is hoped that the results of this research resume can serve as an example for other processing industries to implement green economy and partnership programs. good for the socio-economic system. This research is a descriptive study using literature and summarizing the results of previous studies. This research shows the results that the tofu processing industry on Singkep Island, Bandar Lampung City has implemented a partnership program, and through this research it can also be seen that the processing industry studied has implemented green economy principles in promoting sustainable development. development. The existence of an exemplary application of partnership programs and the green economy can foster a socio-economic system that is in accordance with the main objectives of Islamic economics, namely creating a prosperous society based on justice, equity and balance.