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STI Review, Volume 1999 Issue 2 Special Issue on Sustainable Development
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2000-03-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264181172 |
This special issue of STI Review focuses on technology and sustainable development.
Labor in the Global Digital Economy
Author | : Ursula Huws |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1583674632 |
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.
Local Food Systems; Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
Author | : Steve Martinez |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1437933629 |
This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.
Navigating Through the Crisis – A special Issue on the Covid 19 Crises
Author | : Silvia L. Fotea |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030827550 |
By 2020, the global economy, led by the US – China duopoly, was experiencing the longest economic expansion on record. An economic slowdown was natural, but few experts expected a triple socioeconomic crisis: a crisis in the medical sector along with a crisis in the social realm and an economic crisis. This volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the current global crises, and its socioeconomic ramifications for individuals, businesses, organizations, governments, systems and developing countries. Featuring selected papers from the 2020 Annual Griffiths School of Management and IT Conference (GSMAC), held in Oradea, Romania, this volume focuses on business, technological and ethical considerations in the process of navigating through crisis. The chapters explore diverse aspects of the sanitary crisis and its ramifications for countries and organizations. Finally, it provides diagnosis and recommendations for managerial practice in various industries impacted.
STI Review, Volume 1998 Issue 1 Special Issue on New Rationale and Approaches in Technology and Innovation Policy
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1998-09-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264163514 |
This issue of the STI Review focuses on the new rationale and approaches in technology and innovation policy.
The Land Governance Assessment Framework
Author | : Klaus Deininger |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0821387588 |
Increased global demand for land posits the need for well-designed country-level land policies to protect long-held rights, facilitate land access and address any constraints that land policy may pose for broader growth. While the implementation of land reforms can be a lengthy process, the need to swiftly identify key land policy challenges and devise responses that allow the monitoring of progress, in a way that minimizes conflicts and supports broader development goals, is clear. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) makes a substantive contribution to the land sector by providing a quick and innovative tool to monitor land governance at the country level. The LGAF offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool that covers five main areas for policy intervention: Legal and institutional framework; Land use planning, management and taxation; Management of public land; Public provision of land information; and Dispute resolution and conflict management. The LGAF assesses these areas through a set of detailed indicators that are rated on a scale of pre-coded statements (from lack of good governance to good practice). While land governance can be highly technical in nature and tends to be addressed in a partial and sporadic manner, the LGAF posits a tool for a comprehensive assessment, taking into account the broad range of issues that land governance encompasses, while enabling those unfamiliar with land to grasp its full complexity. The LGAF will make it possible for policymakers to make sense of the technical levels of the land sector, benchmark governance, identify areas that require further attention and monitor progress. It is intended to assist countries in prioritizing reforms in the land sector by providing a holistic diagnostic review that can inform policy dialogue in a clear and targeted manner. In addition to presenting the LGAF tool, this book includes detailed case studies on its implementation in five selected countries: Peru, the Kyrgyz Republic, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Tanzania.
Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2019 (SIMES-2019)
Author | : Eva M. Rubio |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2021-01-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 303943621X |
This Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2019 (SIMES-2019) has been launched as a joint issue of the journals Applied Sciences and Materials. The 10 contributions published in this Special Issue of Applied Sciences present cutting-edge advances in the field of manufacturing engineering, focusing on production planning, sustainability, metrology, cultural heritage, and materials processing, with experimental and numerical results. It is worth mentioning that the topic “production planning” has attracted a great number of contributions in this journal, due to their applicative approach.
Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author | : Daniel Callo-Concha |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2020-05-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3039286684 |
The bioeconomy concept aims to add sustainability to the production, transformation, and trade of biological goods. Though implemented around the world, the development of national bioeconomies is uneven, especially in the global South, where major challenges exist in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, the international BiomassWeb project aimed to underpin the bioeconomy concept by applying the value web approach, which seeks to uncover complex interlinked value webs instead of linear value chains. The project also aimed to develop intervention options to strengthen and optimize the synergies and trade-offs among different value chains. The Special Issue “Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Toward a Basis for a Regional Bioeconomy" compiles 23 articles produced in this framework. The articles are grouped in four sections: the value web approach; the production side; processing, transformation and trade; and global views.