The present research confirms that during the most recent (2008-) economic crisis, ICT indicators showed deviations from the classical diffusion of innovation trends with regard to individual ICT components. The reason for the deviations should be sought in economic, but also social, cultural, political and other influence factors. During the latest crisis (2008-2011), we thus observed the foll...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

When reflecting on the history and the present situation of their field, psychologists have often seen their discipline as being in a critical state. The first author to warn of a crisis was, in 1897, the now scarcely known philosopher Rudolf Willy. He saw a crisis in psychology resulting, firstly, from a profuse branching out of psychology. Adopting a radical empiriocriticist point of view, he...