Enabling employability, the next generations’ employment and job prospects is crucial in achieving meaningful lives of equal dignity within the current digital era and beyond. Not only have the responsibilities associated with major drivers become crucial in our lives but also the issue of a transformation to a development that is sustainable is taking increasing precedence in our daily routines. One of the key factors in achieving a meaningful life that is sustainable is education in its capacity to empower the next generations. The role of education with regard to the people’s capability and human needs is multiple and complex. This chapter offers an understanding of the focus on “capabilities” from the humanistic and holistic perspective in education. The inspiration behind such a vision is based on the concept of a just and equitable future for the next generations on a stable and resilient planet and is particularly pertinent in view of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sustainable employability today as well as in the future depends as much on employment prospects as on “capabilities.” Although “capabilities” in concrete terms are not yet an integral part of education for sustainable employability, they should not only enable the next generations to do their job, seize job opportunities, and cope with changes but should also enhance the said future. Finally, this chapter looks forward at further areas of research that will spur researchers to examine the topic in more detail in future empirical work.
Ensuring sustainable and economically viable agriculture requires economic resilience before, throughout, and after a shock. This paper studies the economic resilience of Austrian agriculture within the period of 1995 to 2019. However, methods for tracking changes in economic resilience have so far seen only limited application in agriculture. The index for the analysis and measurement of economic resilience is based on four areas: financial flexibility, stability in following the development path, diversification of activities, and diversification of export markets. As results show, Austrian agriculture is of interest because of the very high level of economic resilience, ranging from 0.83 to 0.92 in the period researched, thereby displaying a high capacity to absorb shocks. Generally, these results indicate that Austrian agriculture is forgiving of shocks and thus very economically resilient. These results provide context for developing generalizations on economic resilience in agriculture and its fundamental function for producing effective food security within a sustainable transition path. Some concluding suggestions propose possible future areas of research.
We replicate Bocquého et al. (2014), who used multiple price lists to investigate the risk preferences of 107 French farmers. We collected new data from 1430 participants in 11 European farming systems. In agreement with the original study, farmers' risk preferences are best described by Cumulative Prospect Theory.The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not, in any circumstances, be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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