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Big Data and governing climate change: opportunities and challenges
Boháčová, Zuzana ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Špelda, Petr (referee)
Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges that need to be managed; however, the current governance of climate change is not bearing the desired results. This thesis thus examines the opportunities Big Data-based tools offer for more efficient climate change governance. It provides an overview of the current state of play regarding climate governance and the way climate change is entering the realm of security. The study then introduces the concept of Big Data and, through two case studies, offers specific examples of Big Data applications in the context of climate change. It identifies several categories of Big Climate Data applications i) monitoring behaviour, perceptions and social attitudes, ii) monitoring markets and supply chains, iii) smart buildings, energy and smart cities, and iv) carbon monitoring and monitoring of natural conditions and changes. The thesis also highlights the main critiques and barriers these applications face, which include i) the lack of theoretical and methodological framework, ii) the issues of opacity, accountability, lack of transparency, iii) missing efficient governance system to employ the technology, iv) the complexity of climate and climate data, v) the environmental consequences of AI. It concludes that the trend of public- private...
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Human rights dialogue between regional organisations: case study EU-ASEAN
Boháčová, Zuzana ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with human rights dialogue between European Union and Association of South East Asian Nations. It approaches the subject in the context of interregionalism and it aims to answer the question of whether a different membership concept in these regional organisations presents an obstacle to mutual human rights dialogue. While the values of human rights and democracy are a prerequisite for membership in the EU and also a part of its identity, ASEAN does not require any such conditions from its members. There is also a difference in the concept of national sovereignty or the process of socialisation of member states in these organisations. By describing specific examples of East Timor and Myanmar, the paper shows different reactions of EU and ASEAN to human rights violations in these countries. Furthermore, by analysing joint documents from the ASEAN-EU ministerial meetings, the thesis recapitulates the course of human rights dialogue between the organisations from the 1990s to the present day and shows the disagreements that have occurred during this period. The thesis then concludes that the human rights dialogue did not make a significant progress during this period also due to a fundamentally different membership concept in these regional organisations.
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