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Andy Crabtree - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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enabling the new Economic Actor data protection the digital economy and the databox
Ubiquitous Computing, 2016Co-Authors: Andy Crabtree, Tom Lodge, James Colley, Chris Greenhalgh, Richard Mortier, Hamed HaddadiAbstract:This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new Economic Actor--the consumer as personal data trader--through new legal frameworks that shift the locus of agency and control in data processing towards the individual consumer or "data subject". The sociological perspective on proposed data regulation recognises the reflexive relationship between law and the social order, and the commensurate needs to balance the demand for compliance with the design of computational tools that enable this new Economic Actor. We present the Databox model as a means of providing data protection and allowing the individual to exploit personal data to become an active player in the emerging data economy.
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Enabling the New Economic Actor: Personal Data Regulation and the Digital Economy
2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering Workshop (IC2EW), 2016Co-Authors: Andy CrabtreeAbstract:This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to the design of digital technologies that exploit or 'trade in' personal data. From this perspective, proposed data protection regulations in Europe and the US seek to create a new Economic Actor - the consumer as personal data trader - through new legal frameworks that shift the locus of agency and control in data processing towards the individual. The sociological perspective on proposed data regulation recognises the reflexive relationship between law and the social order, and the commensurate need to balance the demand for compliance with the design of tools and resources that enable this new Economic Actor, tools that provide both data protection to the individual and allow the individual to exploit personal data to become an active player in the emerging data economy.
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IC2E Workshops - Enabling the New Economic Actor: Personal Data Regulation and the Digital Economy
2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering Workshop (IC2EW), 2016Co-Authors: Andy CrabtreeAbstract:This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to the design of digital technologies that exploit or 'trade in' personal data. From this perspective, proposed data protection regulations in Europe and the US seek to create a new Economic Actor -- the consumer as personal data trader -- through new legal frameworks that shift the locus of agency and control in data processing towards the individual. The sociological perspective on proposed data regulation recognises the reflexive relationship between law and the social order, and the commensurate need to balance the demand for compliance with the design of tools and resources that enable this new Economic Actor, tools that provide both data protection to the individual and allow the individual to exploit personal data to become an active player in the emerging data economy.
Jose Puppim A De Oliveira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an integrated supply demand model for the optimization of energy flow in the urban system
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016Co-Authors: Hooman Farzaneh, Christopher N H Doll, Jose Puppim A De OliveiraAbstract:This research aims to develop a bottom-up integrated supply-demand model to assess the optimal performance of urban energy systems. To this end, an optimization model founded on the principles of microEconomics was developed and deployed using mathematical programming. In this model, the urban energy system is treated as an Economic Actor in the market seeking to establish an effective energy system to improve its overall resource efficiency with minimum total cost of the system. The model leads the system to achieve supply and demand energy commitments which include alternative energy and energy efficiency targets. In this paper, we apply the model to address the electricity deficiency in Delhi, India, as a case study. The results suggest that the saving at the end-user level could reach about 220 GWh per annum in the near future through improving energy end-use efficiency in the domestic sector. Besides this, the installation of about 40 MW from waste-to-electricity plants and generating approximately 210 GWh electricity from the rooftop solar PV by 2030 could enable a sufficient surplus for the power supply sector to meet the city's electricity demand in the near future. Even though the system has some inherent limitations stemming from the assumptions of microEconomics and challenges related to data needs, the model can help the local Actors, from governments to property owners, to find the best solutions for their energy needs. Such a modeling framework could address an organization's sustainable performance at the urban level through the resource use optimization, minimization of waste, cleaner technologies and pollution limits which are used in achieving co-benefits and a broad range of Eco-Industrial Development (EID) goals.
Antonios Roumpakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Policy Review 31 - Family as a socio-Economic Actor in the political economy of welfare
Social Policy Review 31, 2019Co-Authors: James Rees, Theodoros Papadopoulos, Catherine Needham, Antonios RoumpakisAbstract:After years of neoliberal restructuring of social welfare, families are under pressure to act more strategically in absorbing the ever-increasing social risks and costs associated with social reproduction. Thus, we consider it imperative to expand our theoretical understanding of the family as a socio-Economic Actor whose agency extends beyond the realm of care provision. Drawing upon Karl Polanyi’s work on the variety of moral rationalities of Economic action and upon critical realist sociological literature on the family as a relational subject this chapter conceptualizes the family as a collective socio-Economic Actor that deploys a portfolio of moral ‘rationales’ and practices (householding, reciprocity, redistribution and market exchange) to enhance the welfare of its members. We conclude by arguing for a new research agenda that treats the terrain of family’s collective agency as a separate level of analysis, where intersections of class, racial, gender and generational inequalities can be re-imagined in studying how different welfare regimes institutionalize the conditions for families to act as socio-Economic agents.
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family as a socio Economic Actor in the political economies of east and south east asian welfare capitalisms
Social Policy & Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Theodoros Papadopoulos, Antonios RoumpakisAbstract:In this article, we revisit Karl Polanyi’s concept of ‘oikos’ in order to reconceptualize the role of the family as both a welfare provider and Economic Actor in the social reproduction of East and South East Asian welfare capitalisms. Our article is structured in four parts. First, we critically review existing approaches on the characteristics of welfare capitalism in East and South East Asia. We argue that existing approaches tend to isolate family as a welfare provider and neglect how the role of the family is institutionalized as a collective Actor. The second part focuses on the role of the family in the social production of welfare capitalism, and explores how, in East and South East Asia, the specific conditions for family’s role as an Economic Actor were institutionalized historically. The third part revisits Polanyi’s concept of ‘oikos’ and how householding’ constitutes one of the most important forms of Economic action allowing us to examine the family as a socio-Economic Actor. In the fourth section, we provide an analysis of families' available strategies and evidence related to private education expenditure, household debt and labour market income share. We conclude by highlighting the need to re-articulate the importance of family as a collective socio-Economic Actor that, despite recent reforms and path departures, remains at the epicentre of East and South East Asian welfare capitalisms.
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Family as a Socio‐Economic Actor in the Political Economies of East and South East Asian Welfare Capitalisms
Social Policy & Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Theodoros Papadopoulos, Antonios RoumpakisAbstract:In this article, we revisit Karl Polanyi’s concept of ‘oikos’ in order to reconceptualize the role of the family as both a welfare provider and Economic Actor in the social reproduction of East and South East Asian welfare capitalisms. Our article is structured in four parts. First, we critically review existing approaches on the characteristics of welfare capitalism in East and South East Asia. We argue that existing approaches tend to isolate family as a welfare provider and neglect how the role of the family is institutionalized as a collective Actor. The second part focuses on the role of the family in the social production of welfare capitalism, and explores how, in East and South East Asia, the specific conditions for family’s role as an Economic Actor were institutionalized historically. The third part revisits Polanyi’s concept of ‘oikos’ and how householding’ constitutes one of the most important forms of Economic action allowing us to examine the family as a socio-Economic Actor. In the fourth section, we provide an analysis of families' available strategies and evidence related to private education expenditure, household debt and labour market income share. We conclude by highlighting the need to re-articulate the importance of family as a collective socio-Economic Actor that, despite recent reforms and path departures, remains at the epicentre of East and South East Asian welfare capitalisms.
Marcus Carlsson Reich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Economic assessment of municipal waste management systems case studies using a combination of life cycle assessment lca and life cycle costing lcc
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2005Co-Authors: Marcus Carlsson ReichAbstract:Abstract This paper examines some possibilities and limitations of linking Economic information to an life cycle assessment, LCA, when studying municipal waste management systems. A terminology and methodology for Economic assessment of municipal waste management systems is proposed and tested through a case study. The methodology consists of a financial LCC, life cycle costing, (which is used in parallel with an LCA) and an environmental LCC (functioning as a consecutive, weighting tool). In the case study, the financial LCC covers all the costs incurred by the extended waste management system, as though the LCA system was a single Economic Actor. The environmental LCC uses three different weighting methods to monetarise environmental effects such as emissions and resource use. As both LCCs use the same unit of account, they can easily be added together to a welfare Economic tool. This step-by-step aggregation leads to a transparent, reproducible analysis method. A conclusion is that the methodology facilitates the analysis, but that problems remain as municipal waste management often diverge from existing Economic systems.
Hamed Haddadi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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enabling the new Economic Actor data protection the digital economy and the databox
Ubiquitous Computing, 2016Co-Authors: Andy Crabtree, Tom Lodge, James Colley, Chris Greenhalgh, Richard Mortier, Hamed HaddadiAbstract:This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new Economic Actor--the consumer as personal data trader--through new legal frameworks that shift the locus of agency and control in data processing towards the individual consumer or "data subject". The sociological perspective on proposed data regulation recognises the reflexive relationship between law and the social order, and the commensurate needs to balance the demand for compliance with the design of computational tools that enable this new Economic Actor. We present the Databox model as a means of providing data protection and allowing the individual to exploit personal data to become an active player in the emerging data economy.
