Schools of Management & Engineering
Sustainability, Economics and Ethics
(SEE)
2021 SGR 01020
The Sustainability, Economics and Ethics (SEE) group brings together researchers who collaborate at the intersection of issues related to sustainability, socio-economic and ethical aspects, as well as poverty, inequality, education, aporophobia, social exclusion, convergence, and environment, among others. The group, composed of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and environmental scientists, is currently working on four distinct fields of research:
- Aporophobia: conducting conceptual research on its characteristics, studying the relationship between aporophobia and artificial intelligence, working on the development of an implicit association test (IAT) of aporophobia, and conducting aporophobia modelling and simulation.
- The Chinese development model: studying economic and social development in China.
- Growth and dynamic convergence: researching the evolution of GDP, human capital, HDI, and CO2 emissions.
- Ecological Economics and Sustainability: Sustainability indicators, application of poset analysis, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
In this environment, SEE collaborates and aspires to collaborate with other groups in the following RD lines:
- Sustainable Development Agenda and Leaving No One Behind
- Ecological Economics and Political Ecology
- The rejection of the poor, social inequalities, polarization, human development and capabilities
- Structural transformation and sustainable development in China
- Population medicine and health economics
- Human Rights, Political Philosophy, and Religion
- Bioethics, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
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EXTERNAL COLABORATORS
Georgina Curto, PhD
UAB
May Aye Naw Thiri, PhD
UAB
Ms Huaxin Wang-Lu
IQS. Dpto. Métodos Cuantitativos
LINKED NEWS
Research
Population Medicine, a New Model for Healthcare
03/02/2023
IQS is leading the European project PoPMeD-SuSDeV, with the goal of establishing a new Population Medicine paradigm and to establish a proactive healthcare model, focused on the early detection of possible disorders and diseases.
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News
IQS holds the first international workshop on the chinese development model
14/07/2022
IQS recently hosted the first international workshop on the Chinese development model, entitled defying mainstream economic theories to achieve unprecedented progress.
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Doctoral thesis
Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion
11/07/2022
Dr Georgina Curto defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion: An Analysis of Bias Against the Poor," a pioneering work that provides empirical evidence about the existence of aporophobia in Artificial Intelligence systems and social networks.
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Interview
Interview with Dr Flavio Comim, Coordinator of the SEE Research Group
21/10/2021
“Our research, on measures of vulnerability or the fragility of social structures, can help to fulfil an objective that is very important for our university, which is supporting our social mission.”
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News
Descifrando el ‘milagro’ del crecimiento económico chino
03/06/2021
El profesor de IQS, el Dr. Octasiano Valerio Mendoza lidera el proyecto Chinequaljustice, que tiene el objetivo de estudiar las desigualdades económicas y sociales en China, desde un modelo económico novedoso basado en la teoría Capability Approach, entendiendo el bienestar en términos de las capacidades y del funcionamiento de las personas.
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LATEST PROJECTS
PoPMeD-SuSDeV (Population Medicine and Sustainable Development in Europe and China)
EU-China network working on a joint research program in health, development economics, and anthropology.
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Sustainability, Economics and Ethics (SEE)
INVESTIGO SEE 100045ID19
Dades d'aporofòbia per a Espanya i Portugal a nivell regional
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ChineQualJustice (Investigación sobre el modelo de desarrollo chino: El Enfoque de Capacidades)
Los efectos de las políticas preferenciales y las zonas económicas especiales sobre la desigualdad y la justicia social.
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