Two emergent “green” forms of regional development are compared and contrasted in terms of a concept of sustainability that includes ecological, economic, and equity considerations. The green technopole is built around the ecological modernization of existing industries or the development of new environmentally oriented industries, and green localism is based on production for the regional econ...

Dilemmas of China’s Modernization: Population Problem and the Strategy of Sustainable Development by Hongbo Tang By reexamining the process of China’s modernization centered on its population in the past half century, this paper explores the grim situation of China’s population, historical factors, and the relationship between population, resources, and environment. Also, focused on controlling...

The commonly discussed forms of ‘strong’ sustainable development are rooted in either ecocentric or anthropocentric perspectives. Both eco-socialism and social ecology constitute anthropocentric (or ‘homocentric’) strong sustainability: being essentially humanistic but also embracing stewardship of nature, environmentally benign but centred on social justice. The bases of this development model...

Migrating to the Service Cloud Paradigm implies the migration of legacy software systems to a service-oriented architecture with deployment in the cloud. Although this specific software modernization paradigm promises numerous strategic and operational advantages, it poses also many complex organizational and technical challenges, among which is the lack of mature processes, methods and techniq...

Legacy systems are usually made of two kind of artifacts: source code and databases. Typically, the maintenance of those systems is carried out through reengineering processes. Although both artifacts can be independently maintained, for a more effective re-engineering of the whole system both should be analyzed and evolved jointly. This is mainly due to the fact that the knowledge expected to ...

The growth of Thai society in western style in the middle of Rattanakosin period can be defined as modernization /civilization. These terms had an influence on the development of the country in the reign of King Rama V owing to the governance reform, and cultures influenced by the West. Those were passed on until the reign of King Rama VI. The preference was not only for the renovation of archi...

Two emergent “green” forms of regional development are compared and contrasted in terms of a concept of sustainability that includes ecological, economic, and equity considerations. The green technopole is built around the ecological modernization of existing industries or the development of new environmentally oriented industries, and green localism is based on production for the regional econ...

this paper tries to explore and asses the political party activities in iran after the islamic revolution. it believes that that formation of political parties was a result of political modernization in iran after the revolution. the authors further examine this modernization based on huntington's theory about modernization including stages of faction creation (factionalism), polarization,...

Issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers have been always hindering China’s development. The only solution to these three problems is agricultural modernization. However, China's agriculture is far from modernized. The introduction of cloud computing and internet of things into agricultural modernization will probably solve the problem. Based on major features of cloud computing a...

Today many researches about legacy system modernization are done because legacy systems are needed to perform accurate functionalities and to meet new requirements m a changing computing environment such as moving to on-line systems, client/server systems, internet, and e-commerce systems. Moreover as software component technologies as well as software reuse technologies including class librari...