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Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5: Automation and Structural Transformation in Developing Countries -- 6. Chapter 6: Automation, Politics, and Public Policy -- 7. …”
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Climate Change and Community Resilience Insights from South Asia /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…A Framework for Climate Resilient Community-based Adaptation -- Meta-analysis of Community-based Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Developing Countries -- What Motivates Farmers' Adaptation Behaviour to Climate Change in India? …”
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Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment: Survey Results for SMEs Across Six Developing Countries -- Chapter 3: Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment: Qualitative Analysis of SMEs from Cambodia and Vietnam -- Chapter 4: Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment: Qualitative Analysis of SMEs from Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Senegal -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.…”
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Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders -- Concepts of EL -- How to teach EL in a class room - Environmental Challenges and Leadership in Asia -- APIEL resonance -- Leadership Education tackling Water Environmental Issues in Arid Regions -- IPoS: Intensive Program on Sustainability -- Cambodia Considering their sustainable future -- BKK: Sustainable solid waste management in Asian developing countries -- Sustainable urban development toward Green City of the Greater Pearl River Delta, China.…”
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A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility From Theory to Action /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Sustainability in developing countries - case South-Sahara Africa -- 12. The way forward - is sustainable development realistic?. …”
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Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- General reflections -- The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: sustainability 'after the crisis' -- Impacts of global trade flows -- Stocks and flows in the performance economy -- The Embeddedness of carbon in UK Lifestyles -- Ethics of Industrial Ecology -- Complexity and prediction -- Urban metabolism -- Industrial Symbiosis -- Industrial Ecology and the Solidarity Economy -- Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries -- Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management -- Social sciences in Industrial Ecology -- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment -- Prospective Models of Society's Future Metabolism -- Planetary boundaries and sustainable business -- Working with policymakers -- Portugal's national waste plan -- The Industrial Ecology of the automobile.…”
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Education for a Digital World Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Chapter AbstractsIntroductionPart 1: The Impact of Instructional Technologies -- 1 Emerging Technologies in E-learning -- 2 Virtual Design Studios: Solving Learning Problems in Developing Countries -- 3 Challenges Confronted and Lessons (Un)Learned: Linking Students from the University of Ghana and Kwantlen University College -- 4 Addressing Diversity in Design of Online Courses -- 5 Mobile Learning in Developing Countries: Present Realities and Future Possibilities -- 6 The Impact of Technology on Education -- Part 2: Preparing Online Courses -- 7 Learning Management Systems -- 8 Exploring Open Source for Educators: We're Not in Kansas Anymore – Entering OS -- 9 Quality Assurance by Design -- 10 General Principles of Instructional Design -- 11 Accessibility and Universal Design -- 12 Articulation and Transfer of Online Courses -- 13 Planning Your Online Course -- 14 Assessment and Evaluation -- Part 3: Implementing Technology -- 15 Understanding Copyright: Knowing Your Rights and Knowing When You're Right -- 16 ‘Open Licences' of Copyright for Authors, Educators, and Librarians -- 17 E-learning Standards -- 18 Leadership and E-learning: Change Processes for Implementing Educational Technologies -- 19 Building Communities of Practice -- Part 4: E-learning in Action -- 20 Instructional Strategies -- 21 Media Selection -- 22 Computer-Based Resources for Learning -- 23 Computer-Based Games for Learning -- 24 Evaluating and Improving Your Online Teaching Effectiveness -- Part 5: Engagement and Communication -- 25 Tools for Online Engagement and Communication -- 26 Techno Expression -- 27 Social Media for Adult Online Learners and Educators -- 28 Online Collaboration: An Overview -- 29 Identity in Online Education -- 30 Supporting E-learning through Communities of Practice -- 31 Looking Forward: Stories of Practice -- Contributors…”
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Technology Assessment in a Globalized World Facing the Challenges of Transnational Technology Governance /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Tracing Technology Assessment Internationally - TA Activities in 12 Countries Across the Globe -- Technology Assessment in a Multilateral Science, Technology and Innovation System -- Globalisation as reflexive modernisation - Implications for S&T governance -- Technology Assessment and public spheres in the context of globalization - A blueprint for the future -- Technology assessment in developing countries: The case of India - Examples of governmental and informal TA -- Climate change - Does the IPCC model provide the foundation for a potential global Technology Assessment framework? …”
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Life Skills Education for Youth Critical Perspectives /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Life skills for adolescents in developing countries: What are they and why do they matter? …”
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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries -- 5. Urban Water Governance as a Function of the "Urban Hydrosocial Transition" -- 6. …”
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Climate Smart Agriculture Building Resilience to Climate Change /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 13: Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria -- Chapter 14: Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems -- Chapter 15: Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate -- Chapter 16: The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change -- Chapter 17: A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries -- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia -- Chapter 19: Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20: Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change -- Chapter 21: Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia -- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi -- Chapter 23: Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 24: Synthesis: Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA -- Chapter 25: Conclusions and Policy Implications.…”
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Digital Entrepreneurship Impact on Business and Society /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…PART 1: Characteristics of Digital Entrepreneurs -- Developing a digital entrepreneurial mindset for data-driven, cloud-enabled, platform-centric business activities: Practical implications and the impact on society -- Unleashing the creativity of entrepreneurs with digital technologies -- Digital entrepreneurship and agile methods in a hackathon case study -- PART 2: Perspectives on Digital Business Models -- Business model development and validation in digital entrepreneurship -- Development and validation of platform businesses in digital entrepreneurship -- Blockchain as an approach for secure data storage on digital consulting platforms -- Artificial intelligence-enhanced business models for digital entrepreneurs -- PART 3: Settings/Contexts of Mobilising Digital Entrepreneurship -- The role of an entrepreneurial mindset in digital transformation: A case study of the Estonian Business School -- Digitalcreativity: Upgrading creativity in digital business -- Corporate digital entrepreneurship: Leveraging the industrial Internet of things and emerging technologies -- New sources of entrepreneurial finance -- Digital intrapreneurship: The corporate solution to a rapid digitalisation -- PART 4: Global Environments and Digital Entrepreneurship -- Pursuing international opportunities in a digitally-enabled world -- Challenges and opportunities for digital entrepreneurship in developing countries -- Digital entrepreneurship for the 'decade of action'.…”
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Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century Essays in Memory of Peter Berck /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…-- Estimating Agricultural Acreage Responses to Input Prices: Groundwater in California -- Fisheries Management Implications of Intrinsic Under-identification of Growth Equation Parameters -- Efficiency Controls and the Captured Fisheries Regulator -- Part 3: Conservation and Development -- Peter Berck's contribution to the Environment for Development Initiative -- Environmental Attitudes in Developing Countries -- Armed Conflict Increases Elephant Poaching -- Bioprospecting and Biodiversity Conservation: What Happens When Discoveries Are Made? …”
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Sustainable Energy Access for Communities Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…On Available Policy, Competences and Requirements for Action -- Local Action for Energy Sustainability: A Review of Policies' Impact -- Techno-Economic Assessment of Renewable Energy Potential in Cities: Case Studies of Solar Photovoltaic, Waste-To-Energy and Wind Energy -- Management of Intermittent Solar and Wind Energy Resources: Storage and Grid Stabilization -- Modelling Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities: Case Studies of LEAP, ENPEP-BALANCE, and Moces -- Hidden Costs of Decarbonizing Utility Generation: Investment on Grid Stability & Contribution of Renewable Energies -- Democratization of Energy Planning: On a New Planning Tool Tailored to the Needs of Developing Countries -- Innovation for the Better: How Renewable Energy Technologies Improve Living Standard -- Energy Potential of Crop Residues in Senegal: Technology Solutions for Valorization -- Energy in Development Objectives: How the Energy Ecological Footprint Affect Development Indicators? …”
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