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Publisher : Donzelli Editore
ISBN 13 : 8860366607
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book La soglia della sostenibilità ovvero quello che il Pil non dice written by and published by Donzelli Editore. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emanuela Scarpellini
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199589577
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Material Nation written by Emanuela Scarpellini and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consumer history of Italy from unification in the 19th century to the present day, combining economic and cultural history with a vivid narrative style.
Author : Riccardo M. Pulselli
Publisher : Alinea Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8860554063
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Dinamiche dei sistemi urbani written by Riccardo M. Pulselli and published by Alinea Editrice. This book was released on 2009 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enzo Tiezzi
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845640357
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Steps Towards an Evolutionary Physics written by Enzo Tiezzi and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the elements of a new evolutionary approach to physics. Based on intuition, this concept was originated by the late Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine.The text will appeal to both technical and graduate audiences as well as general readers. It deals with the following topics: Epistemological Basis of Evolutionary Thermodynamics; Far From Equilibrium - Thermodynamics and Irreversibility; The Concept of Negentropy (From Boltzman to Szent-György, Through Schrödinger's "What's Life"); Energy Versus Entropy; Is Entropy Always a Function State? The Arrow of Time and the Role of Events in an Evolutionary Physical-Chemistry; First and Second Principles of Thermodynamics Revisited; Introduction to Ecodynamics - Fundamental Principles; A Physics for Biosystems and Ecosystems - Cross-Fertilization Between Evolutionary Thermodynamics and Systems Ecology; The Supramolecular Structure of Water - A Magnetic Resonance Approach; Nuclear Spin Relaxation Times; Dissipative Structures in Nature - The Bat's Case (Biodiversity and Strange Attractors); Application of Ecodynamic Models to Sustainable Development; Biosphere Global Ecodynamic Models; and Dissipative Structures and Design.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464813566
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book World Development Report 2019 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Technological progress disrupts existing systems. A new social contract is needed to smooth the transition and guard against rising inequality. Significant investments in human capital throughout a person’s lifecycle are vital to this effort. If workers are to stay competitive against machines they need to train or retool existing skills. A social protection system that includes a minimum basic level of protection for workers and citizens can complement new forms of employment. Improved private sector policies to encourage startup activity and competition can help countries compete in the digital age. Governments also need to ensure that firms pay their fair share of taxes, in part to fund this new social contract. The 2019 World Development Report presents an analysis of these issues based upon the available evidence.
Author : Enzo Tiezzi
Publisher : Computational Mechanics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The End of Time written by Enzo Tiezzi and published by Computational Mechanics. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting scenarios of 'hard' and 'soft' sustainability for the future, he posed the critical question: Will the scientific and cultural instruments we have be enough to combat the pressures of unsustainable human behaviour?" "Now fully revised and still highly relevant, this book will be of interest to technical and graduate audiences as well as general readers who wish to explore these issues further."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264281282
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Understanding Financial Accounts written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Financial Accounts seeks to show how a range of questions on financial developments can be answered with the framework of financial accounts and balance sheets, by providing non-technical explanations illustrated with practical examples.
Author : Enzo Tiezzi
Publisher : WIT Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beauty and Science written by Enzo Tiezzi and published by WIT Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines a planet threatened by human attempts to dominate nature, the unforeseen consequences of 'progress' and a post-modern society increasingly hostile to basic human psychic needs. He outlines a reappraisal of the aesthetic element present in nature, a mixing of science, poetry, creative mathematics and imagination.
Author : Federico M. Pulselli
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 184564140X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Road to Sustainability written by Federico M. Pulselli and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the concept of sustainability strongly founded on solid scientific bases? And can this elusive concept be introduced in the economic framework and embodied in people's behavior as well as public and private institutions' decision making? This book presents a view of sustainability that starts from the acknowledgment of physical conditions and limits that humans can no longer neglect. It also includes some epistemological foundations of the concept of sustainability and historical backgrounds. The view is optimistic to the extent that economics, the compass of our industrial society, is open to inputs and suggestions coming from outside orthodox schemes. Transdisciplinary science is one key element of such a change, and this book is a transdisciplinary project.In the field of the criticism to GDP as an omni-comprehensive instrument, the book also describes the methodology of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), proposed by H. Daly and John Cobb in 1989. They proposed some revisions to the System of National Accounts and GDP in order to add information for policy makers towards sustainability. Starting with consumption, some adjustments are proposed to allow for inequality of income distribution, environmental problems (such as pollution costs, long term environmental damage, depletion of non-renewable resources) and social issues (such as commuting costs, urbanization costs, public expenditure for health and education). Computations for different nations have shown that ISEW increases together with increasing GDP up to a point, beyond which it stagnates or even decreases, due to the environmental and social pressure of economic growth. The ISEW is a feasible calculation and some experiments at the local level in Italy are presented. Advances in integrating different sustainability indicators (both economic-based and physical-based) are also presented as well as their use under a sustainability viewpoint.
Author : Filomena Maggino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331960595X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Complexity in Society: From Indicators Construction to their Synthesis written by Filomena Maggino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In the last ten years the methodology of multivariate analysis and synthetic indicators construction significantly developed. In particular, starting from the classical theory of composite indicators many interesting approaches have been developed to overcome the weaknesses of composites. This volume focuses on these recent developments in synthesizing indicators, and more generally, in quantifying complex phenomena.
Author : Sven Erik Jørgensen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 008049739X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A New Ecology written by Sven Erik Jørgensen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Ecology presents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each of these properties is developed in detail to show that these basic and characteristic properties can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of ecological obsevations and convections. It is also shown that the properties have application for environmental management and for assessment of ecosystem health.* Demonstrates an ecosystem theory that can be applied to explain ecological observations and rules* Presents an ecosystem theory based upon a systems approach* Discusses an ecosystem theory that is based on a few basic properties that are characteristic for ecosystmes
Author : Maykel Verkuyten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135075530
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Identity and Cultural Diversity written by Maykel Verkuyten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling with the basic problem of who they are and where they fit in, and although cultural diversity can enrich communities and societies it also sometimes leads to a new tribalism, which threatens democracy and social cohesion. The author Maykel Verkuyten considers how people give meaning to the fact that they belong to ethnic, racial, religious and national groups, and the implications this can have for social cohesion. The opening chapters consider the nature of social identity and group identification, and include discussions of identity development in adolescence, acculturation, and multiple and dual identities. Verkuyten then considers one of the most pernicious social problems: how conflict emerges from perceiving others as different. He examines when and why group distinctions grow into conflicts and considers the role of cultural diversity beliefs, such as multiculturalism and assimilation. The book concludes by exploring productive ways of managing cultural diversity. Written in an engaging style, Identity and Cultural Diversity will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of social and cultural psychology and other social sciences, and it also makes key themes in social psychology accessible to a wider audience outside academia.
Author : Cor van Beuningen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463727914
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Finance and the Common Good written by Cor van Beuningen and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, (financial) capitalism has brought about an enormous growth in wealth. Millions around the world have been lifted out of poverty. However, the downsides of the present global economic constitution are rapidly becoming evident as well. Rising inequality, soaring debt levels, and repeated cycles of boom and bust have proven to be some of its key characteristics. After the 2008 crisis brought the financial system to the brink of collapse, new regulations, stricter supervision, higher capital requirements, and ethical codes were introduced to the sector. Today we find ourselves in the middle of another economic boom. Yet one pressing question remains: has anything changed? Have the (necessary) repairs fixed the flaws in the system? Or do we require even more fundamental reforms? This volume builds on the observation that society has co-evolved with the financial sector. We cannot simply claim that 'finance' was the sole instigator of the 2008 crisis. Society itself has become financialized; the process of replacing relations, structures of trust and reciprocity, by anonymous and systemic transactions. The volume poses vital questions with regard to this societal development. How did this happen? And more importantly: is change possible? If yes, how? This volume contains 21 essays on the themes mentioned above. Authors include Jan Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos, Lans Bovenberg, Govert Buijs, and Herman Van Rompuy. A recommendation by Dutch Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra is also included.
Author : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189059538
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Against the Madness of Manu written by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Riccardo M. Pulselli
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845641337
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book City Out of Chaos written by Riccardo M. Pulselli and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: systems such as climate, society, economies and cities." "The book is specifically concerned with cities. The aim of the authors is to promote a new operative approach to the study of urban systems through an integrated, systemic view of their components and relations with the outside. Evolutionary science opens new development prospects for cities in the framework of sustainability." --Book Jacket.
Author : Anthony Forsyth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527536173
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Labour Law and Welfare Systems in an Era of Demographic, Technological, and Environmental Changes written by Anthony Forsyth and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses how labour law and welfare systems will be affected by the ongoing transformation of work. The first section considers demography from two different perspectives. On the one hand, it focuses on chronic diseases and their impact on work, emphasising the role and the regulation of welfare systems. On the other, attention is given to youth unemployment and to those forms of employment which might have an impact on young people. Section II touches upon the relationship between the environment and industrial relations, while the third part broaches the topic of the impact of technology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. As such, this volume provides an exhaustive picture of the changes currently underway, considering all the aspects which will affect work now and in the future.
Author : Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123826X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book What Makes Us Think? written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In a remarkable exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, What Makes Us Think? revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur ask: Will neuroscientific knowledge influence our moral conduct? Is a naturally based ethics possible? Pursuing these questions, they attack key topics at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience: What are the relations between brain states and psychological experience? Between language and truth? Memory and culture? Behavior and action? What is a mental representation? How does a sign relate to what it signifies? How might subjective experience be constructed rather than discovered? And can biological or cultural evolution be considered progressive? Throughout, Changeux and Ricoeur provide unprecedented insight into what neuroscience can--and cannot--tell us about the nature of human experience. Changeux and Ricoeur bring an unusual depth of engagement and breadth of knowledge to each other's subject. In doing so, they make two often hostile disciplines speak to one another in surprising and instructive ways--and speak with all the subtlety and passion of conversation at its very best.
