Environmental issues have become of crucial importance in the transport sector. Transport is the second biggest greenhouse gas emitting sector after energy and is responsible for 25% of the EU's total emissions. The challenges posed by climate change have added to the urgency for developing low-carbon transportation. In this paper, estimation of greenhouse gas emissions was conducted over the construction and the operation of the main road and rail axes infrastructure in Greece. The objective of this analysis is to better understand the significance of these emissions and their possible influence on designing optimal routes in order to achieve long-term greenhouse gas reductions from transport. The present study shows that the environmental impact due to the highway construction is smaller than that of the railway construction. However, the railway system operation is more environmentally friendly than the highway operation.

This paper examines the concept of life in the historiographical work of Spyridon Zambelios. Through a comparative reading with Hegel, it argues that the organicist philosophical background of Zambelios’ national narrative is double-edged: on the one hand, life is linked to infinity in ways that lead to a redefinition of Zambelios’ central notion of national ‘ὁλομέλεια’. On the other, Spirit's immersion in natural life creates complications, which, as in Hegel, place the ‘transition’ from one historical period to the next under the auspices of death, and, in the final analysis, yield a notion, not of infinite, but of a ‘weak’ life which undermines the national narrative from within.

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