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Integratives Umweltmanagement
Die weltweite Wirtschaftskrise fordert nicht nur Politik und Gesellschaft, sondern auch die Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien. In diesem Kontext muss neben der Risikodiskussion auch eine Chancendebatte geführt werden. Die Herausforderung besteht darin, durch die Analyse der vorhandenen Stoff-, Informations-, Finanz- und Energieflüsse auf ineffiziente Strukturen aufmerksam zu werden und sie im Zuge des Krisenmanagements zu bewältigen. Gelingt dies, kann auch der Umweltschutz im Rahmen des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements gestärkt aus der Krise hervorgehen. Dieser Zielstellung, umweltorientiertes Wissen unterschiedlicher Wissenschaftsgebiete in einen interdisziplinären Kontext zu stellen, haben sich die Autoren dieses Buches gewidmet. Umweltsystemwissenschaften, Umweltpolitik, Umweltrecht, Umweltmanagement und Erneuerbare Energietechnik sind dabei die Schwerpunkte.
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Japanese Macroeconomy
This book focuses on the economic aspects of cloud computing, a critical ICT infrastructure in our digital age. The market for cloud computing is rapidly expanding and changing the nature of business in all industries. This book estimates and analyzes the impact of the diffusion of cloud computing on the Japanese macroeconomy, employing model-based simulations.Cloud computing services are being provided not only as simple data storage services but also as various value-added services. The market has shifted to an oligopoly, with a limited number of big-name global firms as the main players. This book quantitatively estimates the impact of this shift on Japan's utility-based social welfare.The book also discusses public policy measures that can enhance free competition in a cloud computing market with oligopolistic characteristics. One aim of this book is to provide policymakers and researchers with fundamental data and an analytic approach that can be used to formulate public policy around cloud computing in terms of both regulation and market promotion.
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Broken Money
Weltweit gibt es über 160 verschiedene Währungen, jede mit einem Monopol innerhalb ihres eigenen Rechtsraums. Doch abgesehen von einer Handvoll stabilerer Währungen, verlieren die meisten von ihnen mit der Zeit rapide an Wert und finden kaum Akzeptanz außerhalb ihrer Landesgrenzen. Grenzüberschreitende Zahlungsengpässe, Umrechnungsprobleme und Währungswechsel machen das globale Finanzsystem in gewisser Weise zu einem modernen Tauschhandel. Wer im "falschen" Land geboren wurde, hat es besonders schwer, effektiv zu sparen. Während stetig steigende Energieproduktion und der technologische Fortschritt durch Elektronik unseren Lebensstandard kontinuierlich verbessert haben, hinkt das globale Finanzsystem dieser Entwicklung hinterher und bremst das wirtschaftliche Potenzial aus. Diese Problematik trifft nicht nur Schwellenländer, sondern wird zunehmend auch in den Industrieländern spürbar, wo Schulden und Defizite außer Kontrolle geraten und Wellen von Inflation und Bankenzusammenbrüchen die Weltwirtschaft erschüttern.Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Warum ist unser Geld im 21. Jahrhundert immer noch so unzulänglich?Politische Eingriffe können zwar kurzfristige und lokale Verbesserungen bringen, doch nur Technologie schafft nachhaltige und globale Veränderungen. Genau wie Gold einst Muscheln ersetzt hat, und wie Zentralbanken eine logische Konsequenz der Einführung von Geldscheinen aus Papyrus sind, und sogar wie die Erfindung des Telegraphen nur eine erste Etappe auf dem Entwicklungspfad hin zu Bitcoin darstellt, fällt die Bedeutsamkeit von Technologie insbesondere im Geldwesen auf.In BROKEN MONEY nimmt Lyn Alden ihre Leser mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die technologische Evolution des Geldes. Sie beleuchtet die Ursprünge des Geldwesens, wagt einen Blick in die Zukunft und hinterfragt die fundamentalen Grundlagen, auf denen unsere heutigen Geldsysteme beruhen.
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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team's inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continuesto show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Innovation and Regional Technological Convergence
This open access book explores the role of innovation in technological convergence processes in the EU regional space and shifts the focus from absolute and conditional income convergence to technological convergence and its determinants. Presenting new theoretical and empirical evidence on the determinants and trajectory of the EU region's development and convergence, this book will appeal to scholars of economics and regional science, as well as practitioners and policymakers interested in the policy implications of regional technological convergence. The presented findings will also contribute to the development of the knowledge-based economy paradigm in the regional context.This is an open access book.
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Productivity
This book develops the theory of productivity measurement using the empirical index number approach. The theory uses multiplicative indices and additive indicators as measurement tools, instead of relying on the usual neo-classical assumptions, such as the existence of a production function characterized by constant returns to scale, optimizing behavior of the economic agents, and perfect foresight. The theory can be applied to all the common levels of aggregation (micro, meso, and macro), and half of the book is devoted to accounting for the links existing between the various levels. Basic insights from National Accounts are thereby used. The final chapter is devoted to the decomposition of productivity change into the contributions of efficiency change, technological change, scale effects, and input or output mix effects. Applications on real-life data demonstrate the empirical feasibility of the theory. The book is directed to a variety of overlapping audiences: statisticians involved in measuring productivity change; economists interested in growth accounting; researchers relating macro-economic productivity change to its industrial sources; enterprise micro-data researchers; and business analysts interested in performance measurement.
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Quantitative Models in Life Science Business
This open access book explores the field of life science business from a multidisciplinary perspective. Applying statistical, mathematical, game-theoretic, and data science tools to pharmaceutical and biotechnology business endeavors, the book describes value creation, value maintenance, and value realization in the life sciences as a sequence of processes using the quantitative language of applied mathematics. Written by experts from a variety of fields, the contributions illustrate the shift from a deterministic to a stochastic view of the processes involved, offering a new perspective on life sciences economics. The book covers topics such as valuing and managing intellectual property in life science, licensing in the pharmaceutical business, outsourcing pharmaceutical R&D, and stochastic modelling of a pharmaceutical supply chain. The book will appeal to scholars of economics and the life sciences, as well as to professionals in chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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Asia's Fiscal Challenge
This book focuses on the analysis of fiscal requirements to achieve the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs. One of the key challenges is creating sustainable financing-considered the bedrock for success of the social protection agendas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and Strategy 2030 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Also outlined in this book are options to close the gaps in population coverage and adequacy of protection of social assistance, health care, and social insurance systems of ADB developing members over the next decade.
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Der Preis der Bildung
Welchen Wert hat schulisches Bildungswissen - und welchen Preis? Wo und wie lässt sich schulisches Bildungswissen als unsichtbares, öffentliches Gut dingfest machen: als Produkt oder als Ressource, als Leistung oder als Ertrag, als Set von Kompetenzen oder im Vergleich von Volkswirtschaften? Wo und durch wen entstehen Wert- und Preisdefinitionen, welche Prozesse der Inklusion und Exklusion gehen damit einher, und mit Rekurs auf welche Kriterien werden sie legitimiert und durchgesetzt? In diesem Band werden aus unterschiedlichen Theorieperspektiven grundlegende Fragen nach den Möglichkeiten, Formen und Dimensionen der Wert- und Preisbestimmung von schulischem Bildungswissen bearbeitet und diskutiert.
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The Growth Paradox
- Providing enriching insights for entrepreneurs to overcome their pains and grow to the next level- Clear growth scan in 3 steps- With tips tricks for executives/middle management- Revised edition of the bestsellerThe Growth Paradox describes the phenomenon of growing pains. When a business grows rapidly, it tends to slow itself down. How can this be prevented? Is there anything that can be done about it? Absolutely, and this book helps you with that! In 11 chapters, it explains in clear language what the most common growing pains are and how to address them. Assumptions are debunked, myths are busted, problems are explained, and solutions are provided. Every company has the potential to become a growth company. And to stay that way.
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Fehldiagnose
Deutschland steckt in einer Dauerkrise. Die Wirtschaft stagniert, der Lebensstandard vieler Menschen ist dramatisch gesunken und die AfD gewinnt an Zustimmung. In diesem Buch zeigt der renommierte Ökonom Tom Krebs, dass eine Fehldiagnose marktliberaler Ökonomen und die entsprechenden Fehlentscheidungen der Bundesregierung für die schlechte Lage in Deutschland verantwortlich sind. Um den Wohlstand zu retten und den Zusammenhalt zu stärken, muss sich die deutsche Politik von der marktliberalen Märchenwelt der Ökonomen befreien. Denn nur ein Ansatz, der die Sorgen der Menschen ernst nimmt und gleichzeitig eine positive Vision der Zukunft bietet, kann uns aus der Misere führen.
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Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor
Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualized? How often, when, and where does it occur? Why does it occur? Shaffer addresses these three sets of questions drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches.This volume presents a conceptualization of immiserizing growth which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed, and 'avoidably' harmed by growth, respectively. It develops this concept of malevolent inclusion drawing on a debate in philosophy about 'doing and allowing harm'. The analysis proceeds to examine the characteristics and causes of immiserizing growth on the basis of comparable household survey data from the 1990s using multiple poverty lines and time periods, and different measures of growth and poverty.The book also explores theories, processes, and mechanisms of immiserizing growth found in a wide variety of bodies of thought including the classical tradition of political economy (Mathus, Ricardo, and Marx), more recent radical traditions of scholarship, literatures on poverty dynamics, and inclusive growth and empirical case studies. It proceeds to empirically investigate some of the variables uncovered in this literature using cross-country econometric techniques, methods of qualitative comparative analysis and case-studies from sub-Saharan Africa, matched using cluster analysis and situated within a typological framework.
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Emerging Issues in Contemporary African Economies
How have the events of the twenty-first century shaped African economies and societies? In this book, Steve Onyeiwu highlights the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities in African economies. He analyzes the socioeconomic and political conditions in Africa, with emphasis on events of the past two decades.Onyeiwu notes that African economies change virtually every minute, and it's imperative to ensure the information presented is current and accurate. Climate change and the explosion of the youth population have assumed new dimensions, prompting analysts to ponder their implications for the future of African economies. Other significant changes include COVID-19 and recent apprehension about the resilience of democracy throughout the region. The author addresses these complex topics and explains how the skepticism about the endurance of democracy is fueled by economic anxiety, political violence, coup d'états and protests in many parts of Africa.The book includes recent data on key variables and events in the region. In addition to undertaking thorough revisions of the 10 chapters from the first edition, this new edition includes three new chapters on population and youth, COVID-19, and climate change.
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The Intersection of Economics and Ecology
Natural Capital.- Water Resources.- Biodiversity.- Ecosystem services.- Integrating Natural Capital in the Economy.
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Upconversion Nanocrystals for Sustainable Technology
Upconversion Nanocrystals for Sustainable Technology provides an overview of the current research directions in upconverting nanocrystals and their role in the development of sustainable technologies.<BR><BR>This book focuses on the development of low-cost, nontoxic, and energy-efficient upconverting nanocrystals for a wide range of applications. It reviews size control synthesis techniques of nanostructured materials in different dimensions, size-dependent properties, and the relationship between material properties and performance. This book discusses the use of upconversion materials for lasers, display, lighting, energy, and biomedical applications-with a focus on the use of these materials to develop more sustainable technologies.<BR><BR>This book is suitable for new entrants in academia and R&D with a scientific background in materials science and engineering, chemistry, and chemical engineering.
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Kapitalismus am Limit
Wir befinden uns in einer seltsamen Zwischenzeit: Die meisten von uns haben sich eingestanden, dass es so nicht weitergehen kann, aber echte Lösungen scheinen in weiter Ferne. Es ist eine Zeit, in der 'das Alte stirbt und das Neue nicht zur Welt kommen kann' (Gramsci), geprägt von Kämpfen zwischen den Aktivistinnen des Wandels und den Verteidigern des Status quo.Ulrich Brand und Markus Wissen unterziehen diese Gegenwart einer kritischen Diagnose. Sie zeichnen nach, wie die Herrschaft der imperialen Lebensweise bröckelt, angegriffen von unübersehbaren Umweltkrisen, aber auch von denjenigen, die die Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur nicht länger mittragen wollen. Diese Kämpfe entscheiden die Zukunft der Menschheit, und der Ausgang ist alles andere als gewiss. Wird der Status quo verteidigt und nehmen damit autoritäre Tendenzen zu? Werden wir einen 'grünen Kapitalismus' entwickeln, und welche Folgen hätte dieser für den Rest der Welt? Oder finden wir in eine gerechtere, bessere Art des Lebens? Ein hellsichtiger Blick auf die großen Konflikte der Gegenwart.
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