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Bio#Futures

Author : Emmanuel Koukios
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030649695
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Bio#Futures written by Emmanuel Koukios and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a timely recognition, warning and mapping of the fast approaching wave, or “bio-tsunami”, of global socio-technical transformation, built by a much wider spectrum of converging powers, including biotechnology, new agriculture, novel foods, health, quality of life, environment, energy, sustainability, education, knowledge management, and design of smart applications. The book contains eight sections corresponding to different clusters of bioeconomic and socio-technical change, as identified by the editors’ “Scanning the Horizon” foresight research; it also offers an integrated view of the future bioeconomy landscape though the convergence of several technologies that affect everyday life. The clusters offer methodologies for forecasting the future bioeconomy, and how these predictions can affect target-setting and the orientation of policies and actions to manage cultural and societal change, and achieve sustainable development in less developed areas. The book will be of interest to researchers, producers, logistics experts, policy makers, regulators, business and financial institutions, and biotechnologists (e.g. geneticists, food experts, etc.).

Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Author : Carlos López Galviz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429803842
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Social Futures written by Carlos López Galviz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies. Engaging with key defining questions of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data, AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should play in their making. While the various chapters demonstrate how futures emerge and take shape in particular places at particular times, the distinctive insight provided by the volume overall is that futures thinking today must be social and contextual. By presenting a range of futures work from contexts around the globe, the Handbook contextualizes techniques – forecasting, backcasting, scenario planning, collaboration and co-production– to ask how different dimensions of the social are created and circulated in the process. Through its thirty chapters, the volume explores and interrogates narratives, anticipations, enactments, ecologies, collaborations, prospections and so on to highlight which versions of the social are legitimized and which are encouraged and foreclosed. This Handbook opens an important conversation about the centrality of the social in futures thinking. By bringing arts, humanities and social sciences scholars and practitioners into conversation with biologists, environmental, climate and computer scientists, this volume seeks to encourage new pathways across, between and within multiple disciplines to interrogate the futures we need and want. The social must be our starting point if we are to steer our planet in a direction that supports good lives for the many, everywhere.

The New and Improved Romie Futch

Author : Julia Elliott
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040160
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The New and Improved Romie Futch written by Julia Elliott and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Wilds, which Publishers Weekly called “a brilliant combination of emotion and grime, wit and horror,” comes a debut novel that is part dystopian satire, part Southern Gothic tall tale: a disturbing yet hilarious romp through a surreal New South where newfangled medical technologies change the structure of the human brain and genetically modified feral animals ravage the blighted landscape. Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia. After “scientists” download hifalutin humanities disciplines into their brains, Romie and his fellow guinea pigs start debating the works of Foucault and hashing out the intricacies of postmodern subjectivity. The enhanced taxidermist, who once aspired to be an artist, returns to his hometown ready to revolutionize his work and revive his failed marriage. As Romie tracks down specimens for his elaborate animatronic taxidermy dioramas, he develops an Ahab-caliber obsession with bagging “Hogzilla,” a thousand-pound feral hog that has been terrorizing Hampton County. Cruising hog-hunting websites, he learns that this lab-spawned monster possesses peculiar traits. Pulled into an absurd and murky underworld of biotech operatives, FDA agents, and environmental activists, Romie becomes entangled in the enigma of Hogzilla’s origins. Exploring the interplay between nature and culture, biology and technology, reality and art, The New and Improved Romie Futch probes the mysteries of memory and consciousness, offering a darkly comic yet heartfelt take on the contemporary human predicament.

Man Education and Society, the Year 2000

Author : Grant Venn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Man Education and Society, the Year 2000 written by Grant Venn and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man Education and Society [in] the Year 2000

Author : Grant Venn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Phenomenal Future Stories

Author : Tony Bradman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448119723
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenal Future Stories written by Tony Bradman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloned boy looking for his 'father'; the dramatic rescue of a captive tiger; the submersion of the Scottish isles in a flood; a girl who finds out why cyber-pets will never be as good as the real thing - these are among the fascinating scenarios conjured up in this world-shattering collection of original stories. Published for the new Millenium, contributing authors include such well-respected names as Jan Mark and Mary Hoffman.

Biofuture

Author : Burke K. Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Biofuture written by Burke K. Zimmerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses human cell structure, genetic engineering, clones, the biotechnology industry, and the possible benefits and dangers of genetic experiments.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man Education and Society the Year 2000

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Liquid Biofuels: Bioethanol

Author : Carlos Ricardo Soccol
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031012410
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Biofuels: Bioethanol written by Carlos Ricardo Soccol and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the present and future of bioethanol biorefinery technologies. It discusses the efficient use of feedstock in bioethanol production, and critically reviews the environmental sustainability of bioethanol production. In addition, it describes the integrated production of bioelectricity, biopolymers, organic acids, and other biomolecules, as well as the use of process-related liquid and solid byproducts and/or wastes during bioethanol generation. Since the bioethanol industry has also led the automotive industry to explore new avenues, this book summarizes the various aspects of ethanol motorization, hybrid engine development, and biofuel electrification. For decades, clean and renewable alternatives have been sought to reduce dependence on petroleum-based fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. Bioethanol appears as one of the best solutions for the production of biofuels, bioenergy and biochemicals, along with the establishment of new biorefinery concepts and a circular bioeconomy. Therefore, the ideas and technologies presented in this book contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. This book is a useful reference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in biorefinery and biofuel technologies, both in academia- and commercial laboratories. Early career scientists can use it to fast track into the field. Advanced scientists will find it helpful to gain a broader overview of the field beyond their area of specialization.

Disability in Science Fiction

Author : K. Allan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343435
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Disability in Science Fiction written by K. Allan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

Education Canada

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Pressure

Author : Brian Keene
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466882492
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Pressure written by Brian Keene and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off the coast of tropical Mauritius, an ecological catastrophe with global implications is occurring. The ocean's floor is collapsing at a rapid rate. World-champion free diver and marine biologist Carrie Anderson joins a scientific expedition determined to discover the cause-and how to stop it. But what they uncover is even more horrific. Deep beneath the surface, something is awake. Something hungry. Something...cold. Now, the pressure builds as Carrie and her colleagues must contend with the murderous operatives of a corrupt corporation, an unnatural disaster that grows bigger by the day, and a monstrous predator that may spell the extinction of all mankind. Pressure is this summer's hot new thriller from bestselling author and World Horror Grandmaster Award winner Brian Keene.

The Jasons

Author : Ann Finkbeiner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201282
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Jasons written by Ann Finkbeiner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jasons are a well-guarded group of world-class scientists, briefly outed in the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, who have been meeting every summer since 1960 to tackle classified problems that the Defense Department cannot solve. Among many stunning innovations, they helped invent our electronic battlefield and Star Wars missile defense technology, and are now looking into ways to improve our intelligence gathering. Recounting the unknown story of these brilliant, stubbornly independent thinkers, Ann Finkbeiner takes advantage of her unprecedented access to this elite group to explore the uncertain bargains between science and politics. It is a story older than Faust and as timely as tomorrow’s headlines.

Sustaining our Environment for Better Future

Author : Abdelnaser Omran
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981137158X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining our Environment for Better Future written by Abdelnaser Omran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a variety of topics regarding environmental practices in our day-to-day lives, as well as topics concerning sustainable development as a broader concept embracing ecological, social, and economic aspects to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Starting with the traditional controversy between the neoclassical economy and sustainable economy, which may be overcome by scientific progress due to more intensive scientific studies of the sustainability paradigm, the book proceeds to discuss various problems and challenges regarding environmental protection and sustainable development in different countries and on different continents. This includes analyses of recent, sometimes fatal mining disasters in South and North America, challenges and opportunities for rural development in Africa and Australia, an exploration of the role of women for sustainable development in Palestine, water safety and water security issues in Asia and Australia, the environmental exploitation of popular tourism destinations like Acapulco, and deforestation in Malaysia, suggesting innovative approaches to turn challenges into opportunities to effectively tackle these problems. Other topics addressed involve sustainable energy creation for future generations, a research survey among Romanian students on sustainable consumption behavior, validity testing for a heat transfer model in a greenhouse, and a case study on sustainability risk management practices at Malaysia’s environmentally sensitive companies. The book closes with an examination of highly digitalized Smart Cities as a potentially valuable complement to conventional urban and rural lifestyles in connection with achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Forest products in the global bioeconomy

Author : Verkerk, P.J., Hassegawa, M., Van Brusselen, J., Cramm, M., Chen, X., Imparato Maximo, Y., Koç, M., Lovri?, M., Tekle Tegegne, Y.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251351511
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Forest products in the global bioeconomy written by Verkerk, P.J., Hassegawa, M., Van Brusselen, J., Cramm, M., Chen, X., Imparato Maximo, Y., Koç, M., Lovri?, M., Tekle Tegegne, Y. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses the role of forest products in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products. The overarching objective is to provide recommendations to strengthen the contribution of substitution by forest products to sustainable development. To that end, this report firstly provides an overview of the understanding of the bioeconomy and the role of forest products across the world. Secondly, we present examples of conventional and innovative forest products and describe their role in the bioeconomy. Thirdly, we present a review of the quantitative and qualitative understanding of the environmental impacts and benefits of substituting fossil fuel-based or -intensive products with forest-based products, and of the contribution of substitution to SDGs. Fourthly, we outline the current understanding of the future global demand and supply dynamics of forest products and the potential impact that increased substitution may have on these dynamics. Fifthly, we identify gaps in the global forest product value chain. Finally, it provides recommendations and conclusions, respectively.

Predictive Modelling for Energy Management and Power Systems Engineering

Author : Ravinesh Deo
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 012817773X
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Predictive Modelling for Energy Management and Power Systems Engineering written by Ravinesh Deo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predictive Modeling for Energy Management and Power Systems Engineering introduces readers to the cutting-edge use of big data and large computational infrastructures in energy demand estimation and power management systems. The book supports engineers and scientists who seek to become familiar with advanced optimization techniques for power systems designs, optimization techniques and algorithms for consumer power management, and potential applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in this field. The book provides modeling theory in an easy-to-read format, verified with on-site models and case studies for specific geographic regions and complex consumer markets. Presents advanced optimization techniques to improve existing energy demand system Provides data-analytic models and their practical relevance in proven case studies Explores novel developments in machine-learning and artificial intelligence applied in energy management Provides modeling theory in an easy-to-read format