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  • 1
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    World Energy Outlook 1998 (1998)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The IEA's Economic Analysis Division (EAD), with input from other Divisions, produces the World Energy Outlook, the IEA's flagship publication. In even-numbered years, the EAD publishes a global energy survey, including detailed long-term projections of energy demand, energy supply and CO2 emissions. The "WEO" looks from 20 to 30 years into the future, and its projections are based on the World Energy Model . The "World Energy Outlook: Insights" series cover a single aspect of energy, like subsidies in 1999 and global supply in 2001. The WEO Insights series are published in odd-numbered years.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (475 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264161856
    URL: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2008-1994/weo1998.pdf
    Language: English
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    Manifesto of the New Economy : Institutions and Business Models of the Digital Society (2012)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Business ; Management science ; Computer communication systems ; Application software ; Economic history ; Economic theory ; Social sciences ; Economics ; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods ; Methodology/History of Economic Thought ; Business and Management, general ; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences ; Computer Communication Networks ; Social Sciences, general
    Description / Table of Contents: How do social networking services earn money? What is the "second hand of the market" and how does it operate? Why does society need so many different kinds of goods? What does happiness economics not reveal about happiness? What is the link between talent, success and "stardom"? What is the business development  model for the entertainment and media industry? What is emotional hysteresis? How can we measure cultural values? What is subjective time and how can it be made qualitative? What is club economics? You can find the answers to all these questions in the book. It describes the main trends in development of our digital society. It appeals to those who are curious about what will replace search engines, and how social networking services will evolve. It is about the profit from different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering) and how it will affect the structure of the society and human pursuit for happiness
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 145 pages)
    ISBN: 9783642212772
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-21277-2
    Language: English
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    Application of Geographic Information Systems (2012)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: geographics ; GIS ; Geographic Information Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: The importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can hardly be overemphasized in today’s academic and professional arena. More professionals and academics have been using GIS than ever – urban & regional planners, civil engineers, geographers, spatial economists, sociologists, environmental scientists, criminal justice professionals, political scientists, and alike. As such, it is extremely important to understand the theories and applications of GIS in our teaching, professional work, and research. “The Application of Geographic Information Systems” presents research findings that explain GIS’s applications in different subfields of social sciences. With several case studies conducted in different parts of the world, the book blends together the theories of GIS and their practical implementations in different conditions. It deals with GIS’s application in the broad spectrum of geospatial analysis and modeling, water resources analysis, land use analysis, infrastructure network analysis like transportation and water distribution network, and such. The book is expected to be a useful source of knowledge to the users of GIS who envision its applications in their teaching and research. This easy-to-understand book is surely not the end in itself but a little contribution to toward our understanding of the rich and wonderful subject of GIS.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (372 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535108245
    URL: http://www.intechopen.com/books/application-of-geographic-information-systems
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    Greening the Financial Sector : How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries (2012)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Macroeconomics ; Environmental economics ; Economics ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics ; Finance, general ; Environmental Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles --- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector --- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Finance --- The Roles of Wheather Insurance and the Carbon Market --- Mainstreaming Impact Over Time - Who Measures What for Whom? --- UNEP Perspectives --- Trading of Emission Certificates for Climate Protection: Using Markets and Private Capital for Development --- Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities --- Environmental Finance Through the Financial Sector - An Approach with Growing Potential - Experiences of KfW Entwicklungsbank
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 250 pages)
    ISBN: 9783642050879
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-05087-9
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    Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013) (2014)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Climate change ; Environmental economics ; Economics ; Environmental Economics ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Part 1 Theory and Methodology --- Part 2 General Report of Global Environment Competitiveness --- Part 3 Sub Report --- Appendix --- Postscript
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXI, 846 pages) , 437 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783642546785
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-54678-5
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    Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, Volume 1 (2008)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-1098, I1-I32 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444826428
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444826428
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    Handbook of Defense Economics, Volume 2 : Defense in a Globalized World (2007)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444519108
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444519108
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    Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6, Part B (2007)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (4777-5752, I1-I52 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444532008
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444532008
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    Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 2, Part A : Agriculture and its External Linkages (2002)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1213-1686)
    ISBN: 9780444510808
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444510808
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    Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2 : Valuing Environmental Changes (2005)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (517-1103, I1-I28 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444511454
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444511454
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    Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 3, Part B (1995)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444823021
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444823021
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    Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia (2013)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Public finance ; Development economics ; Economic growth ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Growth ; Public Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Infrastructure and Growth --- Approach --- China --- Pakistan --- Philippines --- Summary and conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 148 pages) , 19 illustrations, 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319031378
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-03137-8
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    Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer : Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society (2013)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Management ; Industrial management ; International law ; Intellectual property ; Law and legislation ; Economic policy ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation/Technology Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Universities and research institutes are increasingly expected to contribute to society by creating innovation from the returns of their research results and the establishment of new technologies. Toward that goal, Keio University in Japan held an international symposium titled "Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society." From that symposium the following contents are included in the present volume: 1) A showcase of ideas and case studies to promote future creation of innovation by universities and research institutes worldwide, including information on the R&D value chain, licensing, income generation, start-ups and mechanisms to encourage entrepreneurship, and the changing role of universities in fostering innovation. 2) Introduction of active research projects that aim to productize successful research results on an international level. For example, the book includes results of research on stem cell technologies and regenerative medicine as well as the realization and application of polymer photonics and the development of the core technology of polymer photonics. 3) Case studies from the U.K. in developing industry–academia collaboration with various business partners ranging from start-ups and spinout companies to large enterprises. 4) Reports of the achievements of the technological transfer activities at Keio University supported by the 5-year public fund, with suggestions for future prospects
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 128 pages) , 50 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431543060
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-54306-0
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    Finance for Food : Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance (2014)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Macroeconomics ; Development economics ; Economic growth ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; Finance, general ; Economic Growth ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Big Picture: Global Trends Affecting Agricultural Finance --- Institutional and Process Innovations in Serving Rural Clients --- Dealing With Risks in Agricultural Finance --- Using Modern Technology for High-Quality Services in Rural Areas
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 295 pages) , 25 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783642540349
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-54034-9
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    Saving Oil in a Hurry (2005)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: During 2004, oil prices reached levels unprecedented in recent years. Though world oil markets remain adequately supplied, high oil prices do reflect increasingly uncertain conditions. Many IEA member countries and nonmember countries alike are concerned about oil costs and oil security and are looking for ways to improve their capability to handle market volatility and possible supply disruptions in the future. This book aims to provide assistance.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (168 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/saving-oil-in-a-hurry.html
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    Oil Supply Security : Emergency Response of IEA Countries (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Since its founding in 1974, oil supply security has been a core mission of the International Energy Agency. In order to test IEA member countries’ readiness to deal with oil and gas emergencies, IEA member country representatives and the IEA Secretariat participate in peer reviews of member countries every few years. Procedures and institutional arrangements are thoroughly analysed. The publication Oil Supply Security: The Emergency Response of IEA Countries (2007) represents the last full cycle of reviews of IEA member countries (and some non-member countries). Below are updated reviews of member countries’ (and Chile) emergency preparedness in oil and gas carried out in the most recent review cycle (2009-2012).
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/oil-supply-security-emergency-response-of-iea-countries.html
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    Measuring Short-term Energy Security (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: MOSES contains a novel approach to analysing energy security, which can be used to identify energy security priorities, as a starting point for national energy security assessments and to track the evolution of a country’s energy security profile. By grouping together countries with similar “energy security profiles”, MOSES depicts the energy security landscape of IEA countries. By extending the MOSES methodology to electricity security and energy services in the future, the IEA aims to develop a comprehensive policy-relevant perspective on global energy security. Ensuring energy security has been at the centre of the IEA mission since its inception, following the oil crises of the early 1970s. While the security of oil supplies remains important, contemporary energy security policies must address all energy sources and cover a a comprehensive range of natural, economic and political risks that affect energy sources, infrastructures and services. In response to this challenge, the IEA is currently developing a Model Of Short-term Energy Security (MOSES) to evaluate the energy security risks and resilience capacities of its member countries. The current version of MOSES covers short-term security of supply for primary energy sources and secondary fuels among IEA countries. It also lays the foundation for analysis of vulnerabilities of electricity and end-use energy sectors. MOSES contains a novel approach to analysing energy security, which can be used to identify energy security priorities, as a starting point for national energy security assessments and to track the evolution of a country’s energy security profile. By grouping together countries with similar “energy security profiles”, MOSES depicts the energy security landscape of IEA countries. By extending the MOSES methodology to electricity security and energy services in the future, the IEA aims to develop a comprehensive policy-relevant perspective on global energy security. This Brochure provides and overview of the analysis and results. Readers interested in an in-depth discussion of methodology are referred to the MOSES Working Paper.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/measuring-short-term-energy-security.html
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    Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The environmental benefits of renewable energy are well known. But the contribution that they can make to energy security is less widely recognised. This report aims to redress the balance, showing how in electricity generation, heat supply, and transport, renewables can enhance energy security and suggesting policies that can optimise this contribution.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (74 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/contribution-of-renewables-to-energy-security.html
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    Sectoral Approaches in Electricity : Building Bridges to a Safe Climate (2009)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Addressing climate change requires nothing short of an energy revolution. Electricity, mostly generated from fossil fuels, is at the core of this challenge, accounting for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Addressing climate change requires nothing short of an energy revolution. Electricity, mostly generated from fossil fuels, is at the core of this challenge, accounting for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Sectoral Approaches in Electricity – Building Bridges to a Safe Climate shows how the international climate policy framework could effectively support a transition towards low-CO2 electricity systems in developing countries. Sectoral approaches are intended to address sectors that require urgent actions, without waiting for countries to take nation-wide commitments. Once built, power generation capacity lasts for decades. Investing massively in CO2-intensive technologies to meet surging electricity demand will either make it impossible or overly costly to stabilise CO2 concentrations at sustainable levels. The technology mix needed to avoid such a development is clear: higher generation efficiency, CO2 capture and storage, nuclear and renewables. Earlier IEA publications have extensively reviewed developed countries’ efforts to steer generation away from carbon-intensive production modes, from dedicated support to low-carbon technologies to, increasingly, the reliance on CO2 pricing via emissions trading. Following the same logic, there are proposals seeking to use the international carbon market to drive changes at sectoral level in developing countries. This publication illustrates the pros and cons of such an approach in a few key emerging economies. It also asks how international climate policy could support and enhance ongoing efforts on end-use energy efficiency - an essential piece of the climate change/electricity puzzle.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (186 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/sectoral-approaches-in-electricity-building-bridges-to-a-safe-climate.html
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    Issues behind Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage (2008)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This report explores the vulnerability of heavy industry to carbon leakage and competitiveness loss. It reviews the existing literature on competitiveness and carbon leakage under uneven climate policies. It also suggests a statistical method to track carbon leakage, and applies this methodology to Phase I of the EU emissions trading scheme, for various industrial activities: iron and steel, cement, aluminium and refineries. Finally, it reviews measures to mitigate carbon leakage, as discussed in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the US.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (122 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/issues-behind-competitiveness-and-carbon-leakage.html
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    Lights Labour's Lost (2006)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: When the incandescent lamp was first commercialised the main mode of transport was the horse, trains were powered by steam, balloons were the only means of flight and the telegraph was the state of the art for long-distance communication. Much has changed in the intervening 127 years, but much has also remained the same. In 1879 the incandescent lamp set a new standard in energy-efficient lighting technology, but today good-quality compact fluorescent lamps need only onequarter of the power to provide the same amount of light. Yet most of us continue to rely on the “horse” of the incandescent lamp instead of the “internal combustion engine” of the compact fluorescent lamp. Nor is this the only way in which lighting energy is being wasted. We illuminate rooms when we’re not there, we over-light spaces, we squander available daylight and we underutilise the most efficient street lighting and non-residential building lighting technologies. This might not matter were it not for the severe challenges we face in securing a clean, sustainable and affordable energy system. Electricity generation is the main source of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and lighting uses one-fifth of its output. Despite having many higher-efficiency and lower-cost alternatives, we continue to use less efficient and more expensive lighting technologies. Is this because we are inherently attached to these older technologies, or is it simply because we stick to what we know when unaware or unsure of the merits of the alternatives? In each of the main lighting end-use sectors (commercial buildings, households, industrial lighting, outdoor lighting and vehicle lighting), this book shows that not only do more cost-effective and higherefficiency alternative choices exist, but that they could be deployed very quickly were the current market barriers to be addressed. Doing this would allow our economies to be stronger and cleaner without sacrificing anything in our quality of life. Moreover, the policies that can bring about this change have been tested and found to work. What is needed is more comprehensive and vigorous implementation in each economy and lighting sector. This book shows us why and how we should do so.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (561 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/lights-labours-lost-1.html
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    Renewables in Russia (2003)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Russia is a key energy producer and exporter. IEA co-operation with the Russian Ministry of Energy dates back to the early 1990s; a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 1994. To date, the co-operation has focused largely on gas supply security, energy efficiency, the investment framework and energy sector transparency. Recent developments in Russia’s energy policy have demonstrated an increased interest in renewable energy sources. This publication is intended to support Russian-IEA co-operation by analyzing the prospects for developing a renewable energy market in Russia. By contributing to the evolving discussions on Russian policy in the sphere of renewable energy, this study supplements the “Russian Energy Survey” released by the IEA in March 2002.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (120 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/renewables-in-russia.html
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    Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia (2015)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Climate change ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; Climate Change Management and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia --- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance --- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence --- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan --- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India --- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? --- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India --- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India --- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh --- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions --- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach --- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India --- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? --- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal --- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines --- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 314 pages) , 22 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812874207
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-420-7
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    Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes (2015)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
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    Keywords: humanities ; archaeology ; landscape archaeology ; landscape ; biography ; history ; archaeology ; human geography
    Description / Table of Contents: ‘Landscape Biographies’ explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In ‘Landscape Biographies’, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (437 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789048517800
    URL: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=569807
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    Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development (2015)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development paradigm that ensures environmental sustainability while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind. In Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, experts in the area provide a variety of insights about the technical transformation needed for sustainable development. It spells out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next technological transformation, taking into account the complexity of inducing technological change in the energy and agricultural sectors. The assessment suggests that this will require major, but doable improvements in national innovation systems and major, but affordable shifts in investment patterns and related macroeconomic adjustments.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 215 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781472580795
    URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472580795
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    Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics (2015)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    Description / Table of Contents: Having emerged from the end of the Cold War as a unified country, Germany has quickly become the second largest exporter in the world. Its economic might has made it the center of the Eurozone and the pivotal power of Europe. Like other geo-economic powers, Germany's foreign policy is characterized by a definition of the national interest in economic terms and the elevation of economic interests over non-economic values such as human rights or democracy promotion. This strategic paradigm is evident in German's relationship with China, the Gulf States and Europe, but it is most important in regard to its evolving policies towards Russia. In this book, Stephen F. Szabo provides a description and analysis of German policy towards Russia, revealing how unified Germany is finding its global role in which its interests do not always coincide with the United States or its European partners. He explores the role of German business and finance in the shaping of foreign policy and investigates how Germany's Russia policy effects its broader foreign policy in the region and at how it is perceived by key outside players such as the United States, Poland and the EU. With reference to public, opinion, the media and think tanks Szabo reveals how Germans perceive Russians, and he uncovers the ways in which its dealings with Russia affect Germany in terms of the importing of corruption and crime. Drawing on interviews with key opinion-shapers, business and financial players and policy makers and on a wide variety of public opinion surveys, media reports and archival sources, his will be a key resource for all those wishing to understand the new geo-economic balance of Europe.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 187 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781472596352
    URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472596352
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    Interdisciplinary Analysis and Modeling of Carbon-Optimized Land Management Strategies for Southern Amazonia : Carbiocial Status Conference in Cuiabá, October 7-8, 2013 (2014)
    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
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    Keywords: land management ; Amazonia ; global change
    Description / Table of Contents: The Carbiocial Project investigates viable carbon-optimized land management strategies for maintaining tropical ecosystem services under land use change and changing climate conditions in Southern Amazonia – a hotspot of global change. The project aims at understanding the vital natural processes and socio-economic driving forces in the region and develops strategies to enhance and protect carbon stocks in the recently deforested agroscapes of Central/Northern Mato Grosso and South Pará. That is why Carbiocial analyzes and models soil, water and climate as well as agro-economics, social and political transformations. Based on detailed storylines, the project aims at identifying possible entry-points for a necessary change in local and regional production patterns, considering local livelihoods as well as the present national and global economic, legal and political situation. This book gives an overview of the first results of the multi-disciplinary Carbiocial Project by publishing the main presentations, held on the Carbiocial Status Conference, on October 7-8, 2013, in Cuiabá. In sixteen chapters the authors elucidate the project‘s current state of knowledge, illustrating adapted methods for regional modeling and promising strategies for the Amazon development. | Contents --- Stefan Hohnwald & Gerhard Gerold: Carbon-Optimized Land Management Research for the Southern Amazon-Geographical and Organizational Settings of the Carbiocial-Carbioma Project Consortium --- Philip M. Fearnside, Aurora M. Yanai & Claudia S. M. N. Vitel: Modeling Baselines for REDD Projects in Amazonia: Is the Carbon Real? --- Jens Boy, Charlotte Schumann, Simone Strey, Robert Strey, Georg Guggenberger & Regine Schönenberg: Digging Deeper – Biographic Interviews as a Promising Tool for the Joint Dissemination of Natural- and Social Science Results in REDD Contexts --- Carlos E. P. Cerri, Thalita F. Abbruzzini, Carolina B. Brandani, Mariana R. Durigan & Denise Signor: Soil Carbon Stocks and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agrosystems in Brazil --- Karl M. Wantzen, Malte Unger, Eduardo G. Couto, Ricardo S. S. Amorim, Karina P. Peña & Ulrich Irmler: Carbon Farming: Enriching Tropical Farm Soils with Organic Matter --- Alphonce C. Guzha, Ricardo S. S. Amorim, Rodolfo Nóbrega, Gabriele Lamparter, Kristof Kovacs, Norma Bertão & Gerhard Gerold: Impacts of Land Cover and Climate Change on Hydrology and Hydrochemistry in Selected Catchments in Southern Amazonia: Preliminary Analysis and Results --- Marcus Schindewolf, Daniela Schönke, Ricardo S. S. Amorim & Jürgen Schmidt: Effects of Contour Banks and No-Till Measures on Run-Off and Sediment Yield in Campo Verde Region, Mato Grosso --- Alessandra R. Gomes, César G. Diniz & Cláudio A. Almeida: Amazon Regional Center (INPE/CRA) Actions for Brazilian Amazon Forest: TerraClass and Capacity Building Projects --- Patrick Hostert, Tobia Lakes, Hannes Müller, Florian Gollnow & Letícia B. V. Hissa: Land-Use Monitoring and Change Detection --- Jürgen Böhner, Helge Dietrich, Klaus Fraedrich, Tobias Kawohl, Markus Kilian, Valerio Lucarini & Frank Lunkeit: Development and Implementation of a Hierarchical Model Chain for Modelling Regional Climate Variability and Climate Change Over Southern Amazonia --- Claas Nendel, Hermann Jungkunst & Adriano M. R. Figueiredo: Intercol and Steps Towards a Simplified DSS --- Neli A. de Mello-Théry & Paulo R. Cunha: Environmental Policies and Forest Code: Changes and Repercussions on the Agriculture in Mato Grosso --- Regine Schönenberg, Korbinian Hartberger & Charlotte Schumann: Challenges and Chances of Social Transformation for GHG-Optimized Land- and Natural Resource Management Strategies: Stakeholder-Dialogues as Prerequisite for the Elaboration of Applicable Results --- José H. Benatti & Luly R. da Cunha Fischer: Land Use Regulations in the State of Pará: An Introductory Approach of Its Guidelines --- Martin Coy, Michael Klingler, Matthias Siebold & Thomas Berger: Socio-Economic Regional Change and Agro-Economic Development Along the BR-163 --- Edna Castro: Deforestation Along the BR-163: Socio-Environmental Conflicts and Ignored Governmental Politics
    Pages: Online-Ressource (174 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863951382
    URL: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?isbn-978-3-86395-138-2
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    Financing for Overcoming Economic Insecurity (2015)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    Keywords: Politics ; Politics and International Relations ; Insurance ; Economic Insecurity
    Description / Table of Contents: The world is witnessing the paradox of simultaneous increase in income and insecurity. According to available data, global average per capita income has increased in recent decades, while at the same time actual and perceived insecurity has also increased. This paradox is true for both developed and developing countries. However, the concrete form and causes of insecurity differs across these two groups of countries. To the extent that income levels in many developing countries are very low, economic insecurity in these countries takes a starker and chronic form. In Financing for Overcoming Economic Insecurity, leading experts examine the causes and consequences of rising economic insecurity and policy measures that can be adopted to overcome insecurity. The volume contains papers addressing issues of economic insecurity pertaining to both developed and developing countries and caused by both economic factors and natural hazards. It also discusses the issues at both macro and micro levels. The volume’s focus on policy measures, such as redistribution and reinvestment of profit income in developed countries and imposition of capital control and promotion of micro insurance in developing countries, should be of much help to policymakers as well as researchers.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 248 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781472544421
    URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544421
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    Multiscale Convection-Coupled Systems in the Tropics : A Tribute to Dr. Michio Yanai (2016)
    Boston, MA : American Meteorological Society
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    Description / Table of Contents: This volume consists of some papers presented at the AMS Symposium held to honor the memory of the late Professor Michio Yanai as well as additional works inspired by his research. By the nature of this volume, many of the contributed papers describe the development of tropical meteorology over the past half-century or so in connection with Professor Yanai’s influence on it. While most of the chapters address specific areas and discuss timely issues, in this prologue I will describe some of Professor Yanai’s contributions during the early period of his career from my own point of view. As this is a personal reminiscence, I would like to emphasize how Professor Yanai influenced me. Both Professor Yanai and I became graduate students at the University of Tokyo to begin our career as meteorologists in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Since we studied and worked together so closely for a long time, in this article I will call him Yanai-san as I have done in our personal interactions.
    URL: http://journals.ametsoc.org/toc/amsm/56
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    The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program : The First 20 Years (2016)
    Boston, MA : American Meteorological Society
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    Description / Table of Contents: This monograph provides the history of the birth and growth of the ARM Program. While ARM-funded scientists and others using ARM data have published many hundreds of papers in scientific journals, only three previously published papers provide any broad overview of the Program. Gerry Stokes and Steve Schwartz discussed the original conception and birth of the Program in an early paper that appeared shortly after the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site started collecting data, Tom Ackerman and Gerry Stokes provided a high-level overview of some of the main accomplishments of Program in its first decade, and Jim Mather and Jimmy Voyles described more recent activities that have greatly broadened the scope of the Program near the end of its second decade. However, these three papers only provide snapshots and are unable to delve into myriad of accomplishments, challenges, and decision points that the Program has faced and overcome along the way. This monograph aims to provide those details. To tell the story of ARM, a collection of ARM scientists and infrastructure members were solicited to provide their thoughts on various components of the Program. The first four chapters provide a high-level view of the origin, birth, and maturation of the ARM Program. Chapters 5 through 12 cover different components of the ARM infrastructure, including how the sites were selected, an overview of each of the sites including how the ARM Mobile Facility came to be, the history of airborne observations in the Program, a synopsis of the ARM data system and its evolution, and the Program’s data quality program. Chapters 13 through 30 capture the progress ARM has made on various scientific topics.
    URL: http://journals.ametsoc.org/toc/amsm/57
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    World Energy Outlook 2016 (2016)
    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The entry into force of the Paris Agreement has raised hopes and expectations of more concerted global efforts to tackle climate change, but how will the various country climate pledges made in Paris really affect the efficiency and carbon footprint of the energy sector? Will market dynamics change for oil, natural gas and coal - or might the slump in prices for some fuels be here to stay? How can governments address the impact of local pollution, often energy-related, on air quality? The World Energy Outlook 2016, released on 16 November, will shed light on all of these questions and more, all with the customary mix of rigorous quantitative modelling and insightful analysis. The WEO-2016 will include a particular focus on the following topical issues: -〉 The impact of COP21: WEO-2016 will track progress with the implementation of the different pledges made at COP21 and judge what they mean for long-term energy trends. Based on this assessment, it will examine and present policy options to bridge the gap and reach climate objectives. -〉 Major focus on renewables: renewable energy is vital to steer the energy system to the low-carbon future envisioned in the Paris agreement. This analysis will assess the rapid improvement in the competitiveness and economics of renewables, relative to fossil-fuels and other low carbon options, as well as the opportunities and questions that a rising share of renewable energy open up for the energy system as a whole. -〉 The road ahead for fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas remain the bedrock of global energy use but all face an uncertain period of adjustment, both to today’s market conditions and – over the longer term – to the prospect of a new policy landscape post-COP21. With lower prices bringing down the axe on many new projects, WEO-2016 will assess the impact on tomorrow’s market balances and the different pathways and risks that lie further ahead. -〉 Energy and water: Energy depends on water, and water requires energy. This analysis will assess current and future freshwater requirements for energy production, highlighting potential vulnerabilities and key stress points.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (667 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264264946
    URL: http://bib.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/weo2016.pdf
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    Corporate Data Quality : Voraussetzung erfolgreicher Geschäftsmodelle (2016)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Gabler
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    Keywords: Business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Management information systems ; E-business ; Electronic commerce ; E-commerce ; Business and Management ; Innovation/Technology Management ; e-Commerce/e-business ; Business Process Management ; e-Business/e-Commerce
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorwort --- 1. Datenqualität - eine Managementaufgabe --- 2. Fallstudien zur Datenqualität --- 3. Methoden und Werkzeuge des Datenqualitätsmanagements --- 4. Erfolgsfaktoren und Sofortmaßnahmen --- Glossar
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 205 Seiten) , 10 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662468067
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-46806-7
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    Antipodes : In Search of the Southern Continent (2016)
    Clayton, Victoria (Australia) : Monash University Publishing
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    Keywords: History ; Antipodes ; ancient geography ; southern exploration ; geographical exploration ; exploration by sea ; discoveries in geography ; discovery of Australia ; cartography ; historical cartography ; imaginative cartography ; southern continent
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Terra Australis. Antipodes charts these voyages—voyages both through the imagination and across the High Seas—in pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis. In doing so, the question is asked: how could so many fail to see the realities they encountered? And how is it a mythical land held the gaze of an era famed for breaking free the shackles of superstition? That Terra Australis did not exist didn’t stop explorers pursuing the continent, unwilling to abandon the promise of such a rich and magnificent land till it was stripped of every ounce of value it had ever promised. In the process, the southern continent—an imaginary land—became one of the shaping forces of early modern history. Includes 48 pages of b&w and colour images.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 264 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781925377330
    URL: http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:21816
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    International Development (2017)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: international development ; rural development ; food security
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Development for Food Security in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa by Hester Carina Schönfeldt, Nicolette Hall and Beulah Pretorius --- Chapter 2: A Study of Household Food security and Adoption of Biofortified Crop Varieties in Tanzania: The Case of Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato by Julius J. Okello, Kirimi Sindi, Kelvin Shikuku, Margaret McEwan and Jan Low --- Chapter 3: Current Review of Medical Research in Developing Countries: A Case Study from Egypt by Sherif M. Shehata, Nehal M. ElMashad and Azza M. Hassan --- Chapter 4: Comparing GDP Health and Military Expenditure, Poverty and Child Mortality of 71 Countries from Different Regions by Colin Pritchard and Steven Keen --- Chapter 5: Spot Improvement of Rural Roads Using a Local Resource- Based Approach: Case Studies from Asia and Africa by Yoshinori Fukubayashi and Makoto Kimura --- Chapter 6: Natural Disaster and International Development by Luke Strongman --- Chapter 7: A Study of the Relationship between Foreign Aid and Human Development in Africa by Gabriel Staicu and Razvan Barbulescu --- Chapter 8: Developing Competencies for Rural Development Project Management through Local Action Groups: The Punta Indio (Argentina) Experience by Ricardo Stratta Fernández, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado and Miriam López González
    Pages: Online-Ressource (180 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535131045
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/international-development
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    World Energy Outlook 2017 (2017)
    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The global energy scene is in a state of flux. Understanding the dynamic interplay of energy markets, technology and policy has never been more critical. The World Energy Outlook (WEO), widely regarded as the gold standard of energy analysis, provides strategic insight on what today’s policy and investment decisions mean for long-term trends. The 2017 edition of the WEO, which will be released on 14 November, will contain a full update of energy demand and supply projections through 2040 under different scenarios, and their consequences for energy security, investment, energy industries and the environment. It will also include in-depth analysis of: China’s energy outlook. China’s influence has long been felt in coal, oil and gas, as well as in nuclear power, but the country is also now firmly established as a global leader in renewable energy, efficiency and innovation. The WEO will examine China’s economic and energy transitions in detail, and consider how the country’s policy choices can shape not just national prospects, but also global outcomes. Natural gas. The outlook for gas markets is evolving rapidly under pressure from two revolutions: the shale revolution, led by the United States, and the LNG revolution that is testing traditional gas business and pricing models. It will also investigate the wider opportunities and uncertainties for gas in the transition to a cleaner energy system, including its role in tackling local pollution as well as the risk of methane emissions. In addition, the WEO-2017 series will feature two special analyses, to be released in October. The close links between energy and development, assessing today’s global picture for access to modern energy, the strategies and technologies that can enable countries to achieve energy for all by 2030, and the ways in which reliable energy can move communities from poverty towards prosperity. Prospects for energy in Southeast Asia, where infrastructure and investment have to keep up with rapid, sustained growth in energy demand. The report will cover the particular challenge of providing secure, clean and affordable energy to small island systems and remote settlements.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (763)
    ISBN: 9789264282308
    URL: http://bib.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/weo2017.pdf
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    Congruence of Personal and Organizational Values (2017)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: personal values ; organizational values ; congruence phenomenon ; organizational performance ; organizational climate
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Congruence of Personal and Organizational Values—How to Deal with? by Jolita Vveinhardt --- Chapter 2: Impact of Real and Propagated Values on Organisational Success by Eneken Titov and Ljudmila Umarova --- Chapter 3: Personal-Organizational Value Congruence as a Mediator Between Personality and Employee Attitudes by Doruk Uysal-Irak --- Chapter 4: Strengthening the Congruence of Personal and Organizational Values by Evelina Gulbovaite --- Chapter 5: Grading Intellectual Work Output by Fractional Approach to Excellence: A Score Sheet for Every Activity by Manfred Fehr
    Pages: Online-Ressource (88 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535136668
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/congruence-of-personal-and-organizational-values
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    Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications (2017)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: knowledge management ; KM ; organization ; knowledge creation ; knowledge sharing ; dissemination
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tacit Knowledge Sharing: A Literature Review Applied to the Context of the Brazilian Judiciary by José Roberto Ferretti and Maria da Conceição L. Afonso --- Chapter 2: Knowledge Sharing and Human Resource Development in Innovative Organizations by Michael Beyerlein, Rachele Collins, Shinhee Jeong, Christi Phillips, Suravee Sunalai and Lei Xie --- Chapter 3: Network Market Orientation, Knowledge Management and Born Globals’ Competitiveness by Diego Monferrer Tirado and Marta Estrada Guillén --- Chapter 4: Knowledge Management Hybrid Strategy with People, Technology and Process Pillars by Ivy Chan --- Chapter 5: Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals by Karla Olmos-Sánchez and Jorge Rodas-Osollo --- Chapter 6: Performance Management by Causal Mapping: An Application Field of Knowledge Management by Sarah Kölbel, Wolfgang Ossadnik and Stefan Gergeleit --- Chapter 7: Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval from Industrial Repositories by Antonio Martin, Mauricio Burbano and Carlos León --- Chapter 8: Affective Technology Acceptance Model: Extending Technology Acceptance Model with Positive and Negative Affect by Angela Lee Siew Hoong, Lip Sam Thi and Mei-Hua Lin --- Chapter 9: The Impact of the Internet of Things to Value Added in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations by Maja Meško, Jana Suklan and Vasja Roblek --- Chapter 10: Knowledge Management Trends in Biotechnology in Brazil by Maria de Fátima Ebole Santana --- Chapter 11: Exploring the Impact of Online Clinical Guidelines on Individual Knowledge Management Behaviors and Individual Net Benefits by Shofang Chang, Tain-Junn Cheng and Chung-Hsien Chan --- Chapter 12: Knowledge-Based Assignment Model for Allocation of Employees in Engineering-to-Order Production by Matjaz Roblek, Maja Zajec and Benjamin Urh --- Chapter 13: An Examination of the Knowledge Management Process in the Emerging Chinese Hotel Industry by Tommy Wong, Linda French and Mark Wickham --- Chapter 14: Widening the Understanding of Risk Approaches by Comparing Definitions from Different Disciplines by Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff, Peter Wiedemann, Balázs Ádám, Joachim Schüz, Kristian Breum Ølgaard, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama and Jesper Bo Nielsen
    Pages: Online-Ressource (274 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535136187
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/knowledge-management-strategies-and-applications
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    Management of Cities and Regions (2017)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: urbanizing ; local development ; urban planning
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Collaboration: Long-Term Partnerships for Local Development by Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber --- Chapter 2: Evolution of Marketing in Smart Cities through the Collaboration Design by Urška Starc-Peceny, Anita Maček and Rasto Ovin --- Chapter 3: Social Media Use and Citizen Engagement in Local Government of Thailand by Sataporn Roengtam --- Chapter 4: Urban Planning in Decentralization and Local Autonomy Era: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Local Government and Civic Group in Development and Budget Planning in Malang City (Indonesia) by Salahudin, Achmad Nurmandi and Jainuri --- Chapter 5: The Key Role of Integral Extension in Socio-Environmental Innovation towards Sustainable Rural Development by Aida Huerta-Barrientos --- Chapter 6: Export, Import, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions in Bangladesh: A Granger Causality Test under VAR (Restricted) Environment by Farhana Ferdousi and Md. Qamruzzaman --- Chapter 7: Water Challenges of an Urbanizing World by Sheetal Sharma --- Chapter 8: The Spatial Structure of Ecuador: Analysis Using Market Potentials by Jorge Guido Sotomayor-Pereira, Jesús López-Rodríguez and Laura Varela-Candamio --- Chapter 9: The Economic Geography of Most North-Western Region of Spain: Galicia and the Effect of Market Access on Regional Development Levels by Jesús López-Rodríguez and Guillermo Manso-Fernández --- Chapter 10: Some Perpetually Old and New Development Issues in the EU Regions: Competitiveness, Resilience, and Convergence: Where Do the New Member States Stand? by Marioara Iordan and Mihaela-Nona Chilian --- Chapter 11: Regional Analysis for European Structural and Investment Funds on the Case of Slovenia-Austria Cross-Border Cooperation 2014–2020 by Vito Bobek and Anita Maček
    Pages: Online-Ressource (226 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535136040
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/management-of-cities-and-regions
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    Pure and Applied Biogeography (2018)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: biogeography ; biodiversity crisis ; climate change ; water issues ; sustainable agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: The Main Directions and Tasks of Pure and Applied Biogeography in Solving the Global Problems of Our Time by Levente Hufnagel --- Chapter 2: Are Historical Biogeographical Events Able to Promote Biological Diversification? by Julián A. Velasco --- Chapter 3: Ecological Responses to Climate Change at Biogeographical Boundaries by Melinda Pálinkás --- Chapter 4: A Synopsis of Global Mapping of Freshwater Habitats and Biodiversity: Implications for Conservation by Ryan A. McManamay, Natalie A. Griffiths, Christoper R. DeRolph and Brenda M. Pracheil --- Chapter 5: Plant Antiherbivore Defense in Diverse Environments by Alina Morquecho-Contreras, Carmen Zepeda-Gómez and Hermilo Sánchez-Sánchez --- Chapter 6: Vachellia (Acacia) karroo Communities in South Africa: An Overview by Mamokete Dingaan and Pieter J. du Preez --- Chapter 7: Ecological Biogeography of West Usambara Mountains: A Study on the Influence of Abiotic Factors to Spatial Distribution of Plant and Animal Species by Joel Loitu Meliyo, Kenneth F.G. Masuki, Balthazar M. Msanya, Didas N. Kimaro and Loth S. Mulungu
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535137559
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/pure-and-applied-biogeography
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    Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer : Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society (2013)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Management ; Industrial management ; International law ; Intellectual property ; Law and legislation ; Economic policy ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation/Technology Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Universities and research institutes are increasingly expected to contribute to society by creating innovation from the returns of their research results and the establishment of new technologies. Toward that goal, Keio University in Japan held an international symposium titled "Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society." From that symposium the following contents are included in the present volume: 1) A showcase of ideas and case studies to promote future creation of innovation by universities and research institutes worldwide, including information on the R&D value chain, licensing, income generation, start-ups and mechanisms to encourage entrepreneurship, and the changing role of universities in fostering innovation. 2) Introduction of active research projects that aim to productize successful research results on an international level. For example, the book includes results of research on stem cell technologies and regenerative medicine as well as the realization and application of polymer photonics and the development of the core technology of polymer photonics. 3) Case studies from the U.K. in developing industry–academia collaboration with various business partners ranging from start-ups and spinout companies to large enterprises. 4) Reports of the achievements of the technological transfer activities at Keio University supported by the 5-year public fund, with suggestions for future prospects
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 128 pages) , 50 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431543060
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-54306-0
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    Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia (2015)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Climate change ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; Climate Change Management and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia --- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance --- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence --- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan --- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India --- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? --- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India --- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India --- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh --- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions --- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach --- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India --- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? --- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal --- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines --- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 314 pages) , 22 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812874207
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-420-7
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    Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Food ; Biotechnology ; Ethics ; Economic policy ; Nanotechnology ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Ethics ; Food Science ; Nanotechnology ; Biotechnology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 173 pages) , 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319146935
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-14693-5
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    Finance for Food : Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance (2014)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Macroeconomics ; Development economics ; Economic growth ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; Finance, general ; Economic Growth ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Big Picture: Global Trends Affecting Agricultural Finance --- Institutional and Process Innovations in Serving Rural Clients --- Dealing With Risks in Agricultural Finance --- Using Modern Technology for High-Quality Services in Rural Areas
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 295 pages) , 25 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783642540349
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-54034-9
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    Greening the Financial Sector : How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries (2012)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Macroeconomics ; Environmental economics ; Economics ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics ; Finance, general ; Environmental Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles --- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector --- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Finance --- The Roles of Wheather Insurance and the Carbon Market --- Mainstreaming Impact Over Time - Who Measures What for Whom? --- UNEP Perspectives --- Trading of Emission Certificates for Climate Protection: Using Markets and Private Capital for Development --- Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities --- Environmental Finance Through the Financial Sector - An Approach with Growing Potential - Experiences of KfW Entwicklungsbank
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 250 pages)
    ISBN: 9783642050879
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-642-05087-9
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    Global Business Strategy : Multinational Corporations Venturing into Emerging Markets (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Globalization ; Management ; Leadership ; International economics ; Production management ; Emerging Markets/Globalization ; Innovation/Technology Management ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; International Economics ; Operations Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Needs for New Global Strategies --- Part I. Global Business Strategy --- 2. Management Strategies for Global Businesses --- 3. Changes in the Global Economic Environment --- 4. Comparison of Economic Institutions in China and India --- 5. New Business Model as Response to Competition from Emerging Economies --- 6. India’s Neemrana Industrial Park for Japanese Firms --- Part II. Fundamentals Of Strategic Planning --- 7. Alliance-based Global Strategy --- 8. Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity --- 9. Marketing Theory in Global Business Context --- 10. Shiseido Marketing in China --- 11. International R&D Management --- 12. Multinationals’ R&D in China and India --- 13. Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency and Japanese Firms --- 14. Suzuki Motor’s Expansion in India --- 15. Strategy Integration at the Global Level
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 259 pages) , 48 illustrations, 45 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431554684
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55468-4
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    Digitale Transformation : Fallbeispiele und Branchenanalysen (2018)
    Wiesbaden : Springer Gabler
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    Keywords: Business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Information technology ; Business ; Data processing ; Business and Management ; IT in Business ; Innovation/Technology Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Charakteristika digitaler Transformation --- Technologietrends in der digitalen Transformation --- Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation auf den Wettbewerb --- Erfolgswirkung und Herausforderung digitaler Geschäftsmodellentwicklung --- Digitale Transformation aus der Sicht von IT-Entscheidern --- Digitale Transformation in ausgewählten Ländern im Vergleich
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 196 Seiten) , 38 Abbildungen, 6 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783658226244
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-658-22624-4
    Language: German
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    Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship : Creating New Paths for Understanding the Field (2017)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Business ; Entrepreneurship ; Organization ; Planning ; Business and Management ; Entrepreneurship ; Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Importance Of Trailblazing Scholarship For Understanding Entrepreneurship --- 2. Researching The Generation, Refinement, And Exploitation Of Potential Opportunities --- 3. Researching Entrepreneurial Failures --- 4. Researching At The Intersection Of Innovation, Operations Management, And Entrepreneurship --- 5. Researching Entrepreneurships’ Role In Sustainable Development --- 6. Researching At The Intersection Of Family Business And Entrepreneurship --- 7. Researching The Inter-relationship Of Health And Entrepreneurship --- 8. Researching Entrepreneurial Decision Making --- 9. Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 294 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319487014
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-48701-4
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    Climate Smart Agriculture : Building Resilience to Climate Change (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Political Economy/Economic Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction --- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates --- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change --- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning --- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE --- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam --- Chapter 8:  U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts --- Chapter 9:  Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts:  An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture --- Chapter 10:  Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa --- Chapter 11:  Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: 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
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 630 pages) , 107 illustrations, 97 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319611945
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-61194-5
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    Housing Market Dynamics in Africa (2018)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Africa ; Politics and government ; International economics ; Social policy ; Urban economics ; Economics ; Urban Economics ; Political Economy/Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; International Economics ; African Politics
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. The Housing Sector in Africa: Setting the Scene: The Political Economy --- 3. Housing Finance in Africa --- 4. Unlocking Land Markets and the Provision of Infrastructure for Affordable Housing in Africa --- 5. The Construction Cost Conundrum in Africa --- 6. Slum Upgrading and Housing Alternatives for the Poor --- 7. Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 272 pages)
    ISBN: 9781137597922
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-137-59792-2
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    Time Predictions : Understanding and Avoiding Unrealism in Project Planning and Everyday Life (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Project management ; Personnel management ; Management information systems ; Behavioral economics ; Economics ; Behavioral/Experimental Economics ; Human Resource Management ; Project Management ; Software Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- 1. Introduction: 1.1 A prediction success --- 1.2 Prediction disasters --- 2. How we Predict Time Usage: 2.1 Mental time travel --- 2.2 How did you make that prediction? --- 2.3 Time predictions are everywhere --- 2.4 How good are we at predicting time? --- 3. Predictions and the Uncertainty of the Future: 3.1 Precisely wrong or roughly right? --- 3.2 Communication of time predictions --- 3.3 Probability-based time predictions --- 3.4 Right-skewed time distributions --- 3.5 Relearning to add: 2 + 2 is usually more than 4 --- 3.6 How to predict the mean time usage --- 3.7 How time predictions affect performance --- 4. Overoptimistic Predictions: 4.1 Optimism, overoptimism, and overoptimistic predictions --- 4.2 The benefits of overoptimism --- 4.3 The desire to control time --- 4.4 Motivation to make accurate time usage predictions --- 4.5 Selection bias --- 4.6 Deception --- 4.7 Who makes the most realistic time predictions? --- 5. Time Prediction Biases: 5.1 The team scaling fallacy --- 5.2 Anchoring --- 5.3 Sequence effects --- 5.4 Format effects --- 5.5 The magnitude effect --- 5.6 Length of task description --- 5.7 The time unit effect --- 6. Uncertainty of Time Predictions: 6.1 Why are we overconfident? --- 6.2 What can we do to avoid overconfidence? --- 6.2.1 The use of alternative interval prediction formats --- 6.2.2 Learning from accuracy feedback --- 7. Time Prediction Methods and Principles: 7.1 Unpacking and decomposition --- 7.2 Analogies --- 7.3 Relative predictions --- 7.4 Time prediction models --- 7.5 Consider alternative futures --- 7.6 Combinations of time predictions --- 7.7 Let other people make the prediction? --- 7.8 Removing irrelevant and misleading information --- 7.9 From Fibonacci to t-shirt sizes: Time predictions using alternative scales --- 8. Time Predictions: Matching the Method to the Situation --- 9. How to Obtain Overoptimistic Time Predictions from Others
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 110 pages) , 12 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319749532
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-74953-2
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    World Atlas of Desertification : Rethinking Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management (2018)
    Luxembourg : Publication Office of the European Union
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    Keywords: environmental research ; environmental degradation ; research policy and organisation ; environment policy and protection of the environment ; adaptation to climate change ; arid zone ; atlas ; degradation of the environment ; demography ; desertification ; environmental policy ; environmental protection ; environmental research ; erosion ; natural disaster ; research report ; soil pollution ; soil protection ; soil science ; sustainable agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: The third edition of the World Atlas of Desertification (WAD3) takes a fresh look at land degradation – a phenomenon triggered by human land use that is likely to threaten our ability to make productive use of the Earth while still maintaining the critical global environmental goods and services in the future. Human activity is a main driver of global environmental changes. Where issues that signal global change coincide, they may lead to land transformations that can cause degradation of the land resource. Global telecoupled and dynamic human consumption patterns precipitate interaction of these issues and their impact at the local level. Accommodating this complexity, WAD3 offers an information framework from which to identify the nature of potential problems and pursue solutions that conform to local conditions. The two decades since publication of WAD2 saw a tremendous growth in our understanding of coupled-human and natural systems, and an overwhelming increase in global environmental datasets and analytical tools. Building on these advances, WAD3 portrays the dynamic human footprint on Earth and its consequences for the land resources. WAD3 identifies areas of concern where multiple lines of evidence converge that suggest potential problems so that they might be confirmed and suggest actions to reverse, arrest, or adapt to them.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: 3rd edition
    ISBN: 9789279753497
    URL: https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
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    Natural Hazards : Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Reduction (2018)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: risk management ; natural disasters ; floods ; disasters ; Tsunami
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Vulnerability, Urban Design and Resilience Management / by Bruno Barroca --- 2. Index of Proportional Risk (IRP) Flood-Risk Assessment Model and Comparison to Collected Data / by Luca Franzi, Gennaro Bianco, Alessandro Pezzoli and Angelo Besana --- 3. Insight into the Correlation between Land Subsidence and the Floods in Regions of Indonesia / by Heri Andreas, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Irwan Gumilar, Teguh P. Sidiq, Dina A. Sarsito and Dhota Pradipta --- 4. Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes and Rangelands and Forest Degradation on Flooding Using Watershed Modeling System / by Nafise Moghadasi, Iman Karimirad and Vahedberdi Sheikh --- 5. Extent of 2014 Flood Damages in Chenab Basin Upper Indus Plain / by Shakeel Mahmood and Razia Rani --- 6. Towards the Reduction of Vulnerabilities and Risks of Climate Change in the Community-Based Tourism, Namibia / by Selma Lendelvo, Margaret N. Angula, Immaculate Mogotsi and Karl Aribeb --- 7. Using the Monoplotting Technique for Documenting and Analyzing Natural Hazard Events / by Conedera Marco, Bozzini Claudio, Ryter Ueli, Bertschinger Thalia and Krebs Patrik --- 8. Tsunami Hazard Assessment for the Hokuriku Region, Japan: Toward Disaster Mitigation for Future Earthquakes / by Michihiro Ohori, Yuri Masukawa and Keisuke Kojima --- 9. Disaster Mitigation Model of Eruption Based on Local Wisdom in Indonesia / by Eko Hariyono and Solaiman Liliasari
    ISBN: 9781789848212
    URL: https://www.intechopen.com/books/natural-hazards-risk-assessment-and-vulnerability-reduction
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    World Energy Outlook 2011 (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: World Energy Outlook 2011 brings together the latest data, policy developments, and the experience of another year to provide robust analysis and insight into global energy markets, today and for the next 25 years. This edition of the IEA’s flagship WEO publication gives the latest energy demand and supply projections for different future scenarios, broken down by country, fuel and sector. It also gives special focus to such topical energy sector issues as: • Russia’s energy prospects and their implications for global markets. • The role of coal in driving economic growth in an emissions-constrained world. • The implications of a possible delay in oil and gas sector investment in the Middle East and North Africa. • How high-carbon infrastructure “lock-in” is making the 2°C climate change goal more challenging and expensive to meet. • The scale of fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy and their impact on energy, economic and environmental trends. • A “Low Nuclear Case” to investigate what a rapid slowdown in the use of nuclear power would mean for the global energy landscape. • The scale and type of investment needed to provide modern energy to the billions of the world’s poor that do not have it. WEO-2011 provides invaluable insights into how the energy system could evolve over the next quarter of a century. The book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the energy sector.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (659 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264124134
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/world-energy-outlook-2011.html
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    World Energy Outlook 1996 (1996)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 300 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264148167
    URL: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2008-1994/weo1996.pdf
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    World Energy Outlook 2002 (2002)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Pages: Online-Ressource (530 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264198350
    URL: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/publications/2008-1994/
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    World Energy Outlook 1994 (1994)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264140743
    URL: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2008-1994/weo1994.pdf
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    Handbook of Defense Economics, Volume 1 (1995)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444818874
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444818874
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    Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Volume 1 (2006)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-1012, I1-I28 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444513953
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444513953
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    Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 : Harnessing Electricity’s Potential (2014)
    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Starting from the premise that electricity will be an increasingly important vector in energy systems of the future, Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 (ETP 2014) takes a deep dive into actions needed to support deployment of sustainable options for generation, distribution and consumption. In addition to modelling the global outlook to 2050 under different scenarios for more than 500 technology options, ETP 2014 explores the possibility of “pushing the limits” in six key areas: - Solar Power: Possibly the Dominant Source by 2050 - Natural Gas in Low-Carbon Electricity Systems - Electrifying Transport: How Can E-mobility Replace Oil? - Electricity Storage: Costs, Value and Competitiveness - Attracting Finance for Low-Carbon Generation - Power Generation in India Since it was first published in 2006, ETP has evolved into a suite of publications that sets out pathways to a sustainable energy future in which optimal policy support and technology choices are driven by economics, energy security and environmental factors. - Topic-specific books and papers explore particularly timely subjects or cross-cutting challenges. - Tracking Clean Energy Progress provides a yearly snapshot of advances in diverse areas, while also showing the interplay among technologies. - Supported by the ETP analysis, IEA Technology Roadmaps assess the potential for transformation across various technology areas, and outline actions and milestones for deployment. Collectively, this series lays out the wide range of necessary and achievable steps that can be taken in the near and medium terms to set the stage for long-term energy policy objectives, clearly identifying the roles of energy sector players, policy makers and industry. Next editions will examine the role of technology innovation to meet climate goals (2015) and urban energy systems (2016). Who will benefit from using ETP 2014? Past experience shows that ETP publications attract wide and varied audiences, including experts in the energy field (e.g. technology analysts and academics), policy makers and heads of governments, as well as business leaders and investors. This reflects the value of the series’ detailed and transparent quantitative modelling analysis and well–rounded commentary, which ultimately support high-level policy messages.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (382 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264208001
    URL: http://bib-app.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/etp2014.pdf
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    Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 1 : Environmental Degradation and Institutional Responses (2003)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-519 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444500632
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444500632
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    Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1, Part B (2005)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1061-1822, I1-I46 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444520432
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444520432
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    Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 1 (1988)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444703378
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    Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 3, Part A (1995)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444823014
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    Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 1, Part A : Agricultural Production (2001)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (3-741)
    ISBN: 9780444507280
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444507280
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    Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 3 : Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets (2007)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (2251-3031)
    ISBN: 9780444518736
    URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444518736
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    Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 4 (1994)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444887665
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    Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4 (2007)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    ISBN: 9780444531001
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    World Energy Outlook 2014 (2014)
    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Does growth in North American oil supply herald a new era of abundance - or does turmoil in parts of the Middle East cloud the horizon? How much can energy efficiency close the competitiveness gap caused by differences in regional energy prices? What considerations should shape decision-making in countries using, pursuing or phasing out nuclear power? How close is the world to using up the available carbon budget, which cannot be exceeded if global warming is to be contained? How can sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector help to unlock a better life for its citizens? Answers to these questions and a host of others are to be found in the pages of World Energy Outlook 2014 (WEO-2014), released on 12 November in London. Bringing together the latest data and policy developments, the WEO-2014 presents up to date projections of energy trends for the first time through to 2040. Oil, natural gas, coal, renewables and energy efficiency are covered, along with updates on trends in energy-related CO2emissions, fossil-fuel and renewable energy subsidies, and universal access to modern energy services.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (726 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264208056
    URL: http://bib-app.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/weo2014.pdf
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    Energy Efficiency Policy and Carbon Pricing (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The main message of this paper is that while carbon pricing is a prerequisite for least-cost carbon mitigation strategies, carbon pricing is not enough to overcome all the barriers to cost-effective energy efficiency actions. Energy efficiency policy should be designed carefully for each sector to ensure optimal outcomes for a combination of economic, social and climate change goals. The main message of this paper is that while carbon pricing is a prerequisite for least-cost carbon mitigation strategies, carbon pricing is not enough to overcome all the barriers to cost-effective energy efficiency actions. Energy efficiency policy should be designed carefully for each sector to ensure optimal outcomes for a combination of economic, social and climate change goals. This paper aims to examine the justification for specific energy efficiency policies in economies with carbon pricing in place. The paper begins with an inventory of existing market failures that attempt to explain the limited uptake of energy efficiency. These market failures are investigated to see which can be overcome by carbon pricing in two subsectors – electricity use in residential appliances and heating energy use in buildings. This analysis finds that carbon pricing addresses energy efficiency market failures such as externalities and imperfect energy markets. However, several market and behavioural failures in the two subsectors are identified that appear not to be addressed by carbon pricing. These include: imperfect information; principal-agent problems; and behavioural failures. In this analysis, the policies that address these market failures are identified as complementary to carbon pricing and their level of interaction with carbon pricing policies is relatively positive. These policies should be implemented when they can improve energy efficiency effectively and efficiently (and achieve other national goals such as improving socio-economic efficiency).
    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/energy-efficiency-policy-and-carbon-pricing.html
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    Assessing the value of price caps and floors (2009)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This article assesses the long-term economic and climatic effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical global climate change mitigation policy. Based on emission trends, abatement costs and equilibrium climate sensitivity from IPCC and IEA reports, this quantitative analysis confirms that price caps could significantly reduce economic uncertainty. This uncertainty stems primarily from unpredictable economic growth and energy prices, and ultimately unabated emission trends.In addition, the development of abatement technologies is uncertain. Furthermore,this analysis shows that rigid targets may entail greater economic risks with little or no comparative advantage for the climate. More ambitious emission objectives, combined with price caps and price floors, could still entail significantly lower expected costs while driving similar, or even slightly better, climatic outcomes in probabilistic terms.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/assessing-the-value-of-price-caps-and-floors.html
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    Assessing the value of price caps and floors (2009)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This article assesses the long-term economic and climatic effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical global climate change mitigation policy. Based on emission trends, abatement costs and equilibrium climate sensitivity from IPCC and IEA reports, this quantitative analysis confirms that price caps could significantly reduce economic uncertainty. This uncertainty stems primarily from unpredictable economic growth and energy prices, and ultimately unabated emission trends. In addition, the development of abatement technologies is uncertain. Furthermore,this analysis shows that rigid targets may entail greater economic risks with little or no comparative advantage for the climate. More ambitious emission objectives, combined with price caps and price floors, could still entail significantly lower expected costs while driving similar, or even slightly better, climatic outcomes in probabilistic terms.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/assessing-the-value-of-price-caps-and-floors.html
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    Sectoral Market Mechanisms (2009)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper first reviews proposals for the design of sectoral and related market mechanisms currently debated, both in the UNFCCC negotiations, and in different domestic legislative contexts. Secondly, it addresses the possible principles and technical requirements that Parties may wish to consider as the foundations for further elaboration of the mechanisms. The third issue explored herein is domestic implementation of sectoral market mechanisms by host countries, incentives to move to new market mechanisms, as well as how the transition between current and future mechanisms could be managed.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (45 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/sectoral-market-mechanisms.html
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    Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable Mitigation Actions and Support (2009)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable Mitigation Actions and Support
    Pages: Online-Ressource (4 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/measurable-reportable-and-verifiable-mitigation-actions-and-support.html
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    The IEA Model of Short-term Energy Security (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Ensuring energy security has been at the centre of the IEA mission since its inception, following the oil crises of the early 1970s. While the security of oil supplies remains important, contemporary energy security policies must address all energy sources and cover a a comprehensive range of natural, economic and political risks that affect energy sources, infrastructures and services. In response to this challenge, the IEA is currently developing a Model Of Short-term Energy Security (MOSES) to evaluate the energy security risks and resilience capacities of its member countries. The current version of MOSES covers short-term security of supply for primary energy sources and secondary fuels among IEA countries. It also lays the foundation for analysis of vulnerabilities of electricity and end-use energy sectors. MOSES contains a novel approach to analysing energy security, which can be used to identify energy security priorities, as a starting point for national energy security assessments and to track the evolution of a country’s energy security profile. By grouping together countries with similar “energy security profiles”, MOSES depicts the energy security landscape of IEA countries. By extending the MOSES methodology to electricity security and energy services in the future, the IEA aims to develop a comprehensive policy-relevant perspective on global energy security. Ensuring energy security has been at the centre of the IEA mission since its inception, following the oil crises of the early 1970s. While the security of oil supplies remains important, contemporary energy security policies must address all energy sources and cover a a comprehensive range of natural, economic and political risks that affect energy sources, infrastructures and services. In response to this challenge, the IEA is currently developing a Model Of Short-term Energy Security (MOSES) to evaluate the energy security risks and resilience capacities of its member countries. The current version of MOSES covers short-term security of supply for primary energy sources and secondary fuels among IEA countries. It also lays the foundation for analysis of vulnerabilities of electricity and end-use energy sectors. MOSES contains a novel approach to analysing energy security, which can be used to identify energy security priorities, as a starting point for national energy security assessments and to track the evolution of a country’s energy security profile. By grouping together countries with similar “energy security profiles”, MOSES depicts the energy security landscape of IEA countries. By extending the MOSES methodology to electricity security and energy services in the future, the IEA aims to develop a comprehensive policy-relevant perspective on global energy security. This Working Paper is intended for readers who wish to explore the MOSES methodology in depth; there is also a brochure which provides an overview of the analysis and results.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (48 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/the-iea-model-of-short-term-energy-security.html
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    CO2 Capture and Storage : A key carbon abatement option (2008)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate change is a major challenge. Secure, reliable and affordable energy supplies are needed for economic growth, but increases in the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the cause of major concern. About 69% of all CO2 emissions, and 60% of all greenhouse gas emissions, are energy-related. Recent IEA analysis in Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 (ETP) projects that the CO2 emissions attributable to the energy sector will increase by 130% by 2050 in the absence of new policies or supply constraints, largely as a result of increased fossil fuel usage. The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report indicates that such a rise in emissions could lead to a temperature increase in the range of 4-7°C, with major impacts on the environment and human activity. It is widely agreed that a halving of energy-related CO2 emissions is needed by 2050 to limit the expected temperature increase to less than 3 degrees. To achieve this will take an energy technology revolution involving increased energy effi ciency, increased renewable energies and nuclear power, and the decarbonisation of power generation from fossil fuels. The only technology available to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large-scale fossil fuel usage is CO2 capture and storage (CCS). The ETP scenarios demonstrate that CCS will need to contribute nearly one-fi fth of the necessary emissions reductions to reduce global GHG emissions by 50% by 2050 at a reasonable cost. CCS is therefore essential to the achievement of deep emission cuts. Most of the major world economies recognise this, and have CCS technology development programmes designed to achieve commercial deployment. In fact, at the 2008 Hokkaido Toyako summit, the G8 countries endorsed the IEA’s recommendation that 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects need to be committed by 2010, with a view to beginning broad deployment by 2020. Ministers specifi cally asked for an assessment by the IEA in 2010 of the implementation of these recommendations, as well as an assessment of progress towards accelerated deployment and commercialisation. Current spending and activity levels are nowhere near enough to achieve these deployment goals. CCS technology demonstration has been held back for a number of reasons. In particular, CCS technology costs have increased signifi cantly in the last 5 years. In the absence of suitable fi nancial mechanisms to support CCS, including signifi cant public and private funding for nearterm demonstrations and longer-term integration of CCS into GHG regulatory and incentive schemes, high costs have precluded the initiation of large-scale CCS projects. The regulatory framework necessary to support CCS projects also needs to be further developed. Despite important progress, especially in relation to international marine protection treaties, no country has yet developed the comprehensive, detailed legal and regulatory framework that is necessary effectively to govern the use of CCS. CCS is also poorly understood by the general public. As a result, there is a general lack of public support for CCS as compared to several other GHG mitigation options. This report attempts to address some of these issues by collecting the best global information about the cost and performance of CO2 capture, transport and storage technologies throughout the CCS project chain. Chapters 1-4 contain this information, and use it to conduct a scenario analysis of the role of CCS in climate change mitigation. Chapter 5 discusses the fi nancial incentive mechanisms that governments can use to provide both short- and long-term incentives for CCS. This chapter also contains an expansion and update of the 2007 IEA publication Legal Aspects of CO2 Storage: Updates and Recommendations and examines the current state of public awareness and acceptance of the relevant technologies. Chapter 6 includes a review of the status of CCS policies, research and demonstration programmes, and CO2 storage prospects for several regions and countries. Chapter 7 concludes with a proposed CCS roadmap that includes the necessary technical, political, fi nancial and international collaboration activities to enable CCS to make the contribution it needs to make to global GHG mitigation in the coming decades.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (266 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/co2-capture-and-storage--a-key-carbon-abatement-option.html
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    The Contribution of Natural Gas Vehicles to Sustainable Transport (2010)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The transport sector is currently responsible for 23% of energy-related CO2 emissions, and transport associated CO2 emissions will more than double by 2050. This working paper evaluates the potential costs and benefits of using natural gas as a vehicle fuel for road transportation, as well as the policy related to its market development.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (84 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/the-contribution-of-natural-gas-vehicles-to-sustainable-transport.html
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    World Energy Outlook 2011 : Special Report - Are we entering a golden age ? (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: What impact will the return of high energy prices have on the fragile economic recovery? Will geopolitical unrest, price volatility and policy inaction defer investment in the oil sector and amplify risks to our energy security? What will renewed uncertainty surrounding the role of nuclear power mean for future energy and environmental trends? Is the gap between our climate actions and our climate goals becoming insurmountable? World Energy Outlook 2011 tackles these and other pressing questions. The latest data, policy developments, and the experience of another turbulent year are brought together to provide robust analysis and insight into global energy markets. WEO-2011 once again gives detailed energy demand and supply projections out to 2035, broken down by region, fuel, sector and scenario.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (130 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/weo-2011---special-report---are-we-entering-a-golden-age--.html
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    Medium-Term Oil and Gas Markets 2011 (2010)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Oil and gas markets have been marked by an increased divergence in recent months. On the one hand, oil market developments have generated an unpleasant sense of déja vu: rapid demand growth in emerging markets eclipsed sluggish supply growth to push prices higher even before the conflict in Libya tightened supplies still further. Oil prices around $100/bbl are weighing down on an already-fragile macroeconomic and financial situation in the OECD, pressuring national budgets in the non-OECD and causing price inflation of other commodities, as well as political concerns about speculation. There is an uncanny resemblance to the first half of 2008. On the other hand, in the world of natural gas an amazing disconnect has developed as demand recovered to well above pre-financial-crisis levels in most major regions. Gas markets have tightened in Europe and Asia, where prices are about twice the level seen in the United States, as the unconventional gas revolution is in full swing. From the upstream implications of the Arab Spring to the macroeconomic consequences of the eurozone crisis, energy markets are experiencing one of the most uncertain periods in decades. Medium-Term Oil and Gas Markets 2011 provides a comprehensive outlook for oil and gas fundamentals through 2016. The oil market analysis covers demand developments on a product-by-product and key-sector basis, as well as a detailed bottom-up assessment of upstream and refinery investments, trade flows, oil products supply and OPEC spare capacity. The gas market analysis offers a region-by-region assessment of demand and production, infrastructure investment, price developments and prospects for unconventional gas. It also examines the globalising LNG trade.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/medium-term-oil-and-gas-markets-2011.html
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    Medium-Term Oil and Gas Markets 2010 (2010)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: For the first time, the IEA has merged its medium-term market reports for oil and gas, thereby giving readers a broader perspective on global trends. Critical questions persist for both markets, including whether economic and energy demand outlooks are clearer than in mid-2009. For the first time, the IEA has merged its medium-term market reports for oil and gas, thereby giving readers a broader perspective on global trends. Critical questions persist for both markets, including whether economic and energy demand outlooks are clearer than in mid-2009. Do oil markets show a genuine structural shift in demand patterns? Will they sustain a nascent recovery in upstream spending evident in 2010? And how long will current levels of OPEC spare capacity persist? For the gas market, will demand recover from its collapse in 2009? How long will the gas glut last? Will unconventional gas revolutionise gas markets outside North America? And how is consumption changing in China, Russia and the Middle East? Medium-Term Oil and Gas Markets 2010 presents a comprehensive outlook for oil and gas market fundamentals over the next three to five years. The oil market analysis develops two demand scenarios that reflect uncertainties about the path of economic recovery after the global slow-down in 2008/09. Market balances are generated from detailed analysis of upstream investment projects, oil field decline rates, product-by-product demand trends, and refinery investment and operations. The gas market analysis assesses prices, unconventional gas, future demand developments and LNG markets, as well as investment across the gas value chain. With a focus on key producers (including Russia, the Caspian region and the Middle East) and rising LNG exporters (such as Australia), it examines implications for global gas markets.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (373 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/medium-term-oil-and-gas-markets-2010.html
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    The Impact of Wind Power on European Natural Gas Markets (2012)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Due to its clean burning properties, low investment costs and flexibility in production, natural gas is often put forward as the ideal partner fuel for wind power and other renewable sources of electricity generation with strongly variable output. This working paper examines three vital questions associated with this premise: 1) Is natural gas indeed the best partner fuel for wind power? 2) If so, to what extent will an increasing market share of wind power in European electricity generation affect demand for natural gas in the power sector? and 3) Considering the existing European natural gas markets, is natural gas capable of fulfilling this role of partner for renewable sources of electricity?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (54 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/the-impact-of-wind-power-on-european-natural-gas-markets.html
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    World Energy Outlook 2012 : Special Report - Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas (2012)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Natural gas is poised to enter a golden age, but this future hinges critically on the successful development of the world’s vast unconventional gas resources. North American experience shows unconventional gas - notably shale gas - can be exploited economically. Many countries are lining up to emulate this success. But some governments are hesitant, or even actively opposed. They are responding to public concerns that production might involve unacceptable environmental and social damage. This report, in the World Energy Outlook series, treats these aspirations and anxieties with equal seriousness. It features two new cases: a Golden Rules Case, in which the highest practicable standards are adopted, gaining industry a "social licence to operate"; and its counterpart, in which the tide turns against unconventional gas as constraints prove too difficult to overcome.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (150 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/weo-2012---special-report---golden-rules-for-a-golden-age-of-gas.html
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    Optimising Russian Natural Gas (2006)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The world’s largest gas producer and exporter, Russia has an enormous energy saving potential. At least 30 billion cubic meters – a fifth of Russian exports to European OECD countries - could be saved every year by enhanced technology or energy efficiency. As the era of cheap gas in Russia comes to an end, this potential saving is increasingly important for Russians and importing countries. And as domestic gas prices increase, efficiency investments will become increasingly economic – not to mention the incentive for Gazprom to enhance its efficiency against a backdrop of high European gas prices. Optimising Russian Natural Gas: Reform and Climate Policy analyses and estimates the potential savings and the associated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the oil extraction (flaring), gas transmission and distribution sectors. Achieving these savings will require linking long-standing energy efficiency goals with energy sector reforms, as well as climate policy objectives. The book also describes Russia’s emerging climate policy and institutional framework, including work still ahead before the country is eligible for the Kyoto Protocol’s flexibility mechanisms and can attract financing for greenhouse gas reductions. Optimising Russian Natural Gas: Reform and Climate Policy stresses the need for Russia to tap the full potential of energy savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions through a more competitive environment in the gas sector to attract timely investments.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (204 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/optimising-russian-natural-gas.html
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    Energy Technology Perspectives 2006 (2006)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: How much can technology contribute to securing adequate and affordable energy supplies and lower CO2 emissions? What energy technologies hold the most promise? How long will it take? At their 2005 summit in Gleneagles, G-8 leaders confronted these questions and decided to act with resolve and urgency. They called upon the International Energy Agency to provide advice on scenarios and strategies for a clean and secure energy future. Energy Technology Perspectives is a response to the G8 request. This innovative work demonstrates how energy technologies can make a difference in a series of global scenarios to 2050. It reviews in detail the status and prospects of key energy technologies in electricity generation, buildings, industry and transport. It assesses ways the world can enhance energy security and contain growth in CO2 emissions by using a portfolio of current and emerging technologies. Major strategic elements of a successful portfolio are energy efficiency, CO2 capture and storage, renewables and nuclear power. While technology does hold great promise for the future, we must act now if we are to unlock the potential of current and emerging technologies and reduce the impact of fossil fuel dependence on energy security and the environment. Energy Technology Perspectives provides detailed technology and policy insights to help policy makers craft sustainable solutions.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (484 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/energy-technology-perspectives-2006.html
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    Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 (2008)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The world needs ever increasing energy supplies to sustain economic growth and development. But energy resources are under pressure and CO2 emissions from today’s energy use already threaten our climate. What options do we have for switching to a cleaner and more efficient energy future? How much will it cost? And what policies do we need? This second edition of Energy Technology Perspectives addresses these questions, drawing on the renowned expertise of the International Energy Agency and its energy technology network. This publication responds to the G8 call on the IEA to provide guidance for decision makers on how to bridge the gap between what is happening and what needs to be done in order to build a clean, clever and competitive energy future. The IEA analysis demonstrates that a more sustainable energy future is within our reach, and that technology is the key. Increased energy efficiency, CO2 capture and storage, renewables, and nuclear power will all be important. We must act now if we are to unlock the potential of current and emerging technologies and reduce the dependency on fossil fuels with its consequent effects on energy security and the environment. This innovative work demonstrates how energy technologies can make a difference in an ambitious series of global scenarios to 2050. The study contains technology road maps for all key energy sectors, including electricity generation, buildings, industry and transport. Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 provides detailed technology and policy insights to help focus the discussion and debate in energy circles..
    Pages: Online-Ressource (500 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/energy-technology-perspectives-2008--.html
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    Energy Technology Perspectives 2010 (2010)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: ETP2010 will build on the success of earlier editions, by providing decision makers with more detailed practical information and tools that can help kick-start the transition to a more secure, sustainable and affordable energy future. The new publication will present: - Updated scenarios with greater regional detail providing insights on which new technologies will be most important in the different regions of the world; - Sectoral deep dives highlighting the key technological challenges and opportunities in each of the main energy-using sectors and the new policies that will be needed to realise change; - Roadmaps and transition pathways identifying the technical and policy barriers to accelerated deployment of the most important clean technologies and how these can be overcome.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (650 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/energy-technology-perspectives-2010.html
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    Experience with Energy Efficiency Requirements for Electrical Equipment (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper has been produced as part of the work programme in support of the Gleneagles Plan of Action (GPOA), where the IEA was requested to “undertake a study to review existing global appliance standards and codes”. In accordance with the G8 request, this study investigates the coverage and impact of forms of minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) and comparative energy labelling programmes; which comprise the cornerstone of most IEA countries national energy efficiency strategy. This scope also reflects governments’ aspirations to achieve ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, this study does not address endorsement labelling and associated voluntary programmes, although these are also important policy tools for national energy efficiency strategies.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (105 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/experience-with-energy-efficiency-requirements-for-electrical-equipment.html
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    Financing Energy Efficient Homes (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Existing buildings require over 40% of the world’s total final energy consumption, and account for 24% of world CO2 emissions (IEA, 2006a). Much of this consumption could be avoided through improved efficiency of building energy systems (IEA, 2006a) using current, commercially-viable technology. In most cases, these technologies make economic sense on a life-cycle cost analysis (IEA, 2006b). Moreover, to the extent that they reduce dependence on risk-prone fossil energy sources, energy efficient technologies also address concerns of energy security.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/financing-energy-efficient-homes.html
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    Sectoral Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper explores sectoral approaches as a new set of options to enhance the effectiveness of greenhouse gas reduction policies and to engage emerging economies on a lower emission path. It surveys existing literature and recent policy trends in international climate change discussions, and provides an overview of sectoral approaches and related issues for trade-exposed, greenhouse-gas intensive industries (cement, iron and steel and aluminium). It is also based on interviews conducted by the IEA Secretariat in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, and the United States. Sectoral approaches were also discussed during workshops on technology and energy efficiency policies in industry, following the IEA’s mandate under the Gleneagles Plan of Action.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (77 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/sectoral-approaches-to-greenhouse-gas-mitigation.html
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    Emissions Trading : Trends and Prospects (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper provides the latest developments of announced, proposed and existing greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes (ETS) around the world since 2006. It also examines different potential design options for ETS (e.g. coverage, allocation mode, provision for offsets), and how these options are treated in the existing, announced or proposed schemes.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (43 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/emissions-trading--trends-and-prospects.html
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    Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation : Scenarios for Integration (2006)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper offers a preliminary analysis of several scenarios for integration of sectoral approaches in international and national climate policy. We consider four broad types of sectoral approaches: • A global action, i.e. a unilateral move by industry to foster GHG improvements • A global agreement between industry and Parties to the UNFCCC • A series of national policies targeting a sector, with some intergovernmental co-ordination • A sectoral crediting mechanism whereby reductions recorded at a sector level may be eligible for emission credits
    Pages: Online-Ressource (77 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/sectoral-approaches-to-ghg-mitigation-scenarios-for-integration.html
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    Toward a Clean, Clever and Competitive Energy Future (2007)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: At the Gleneagles Summit in July 2005, the G8 heads of state asked the International Energy Agency (IEA) to identify measures to map out the path to a “clean, clever and competitive energy future.” This request came in recognition of the Agency’s strengths and offered the opportunity to draw on its existing expertise and programmes. We responded with a broad array of initiatives to develop strategies to mitigate climate change, secure clean energy and achieve sustainable development.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/toward-a-clean-clever-and-competitive-energy-future.html
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    Managing Elevated Risk : Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy—An Asian Perspective (2015)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Economic policy ; Development economics ; Finance ; Finance, general ; Economic Policy ; Development Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents --- Foreword --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview --- Chapter 2: The Three Phases of Global Liquidity --- 2.1: Conceptual and Measurement Issues --- 2.2: First Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.2.1: Round-trip Bank Flows to the US --- 2.2.2: Banking Sector Flows to the Rest of the World --- 2.2.3: Exchange Rates and Leverage --- 2.3: Second Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.4: The Case of Emerging Asia --- 2.5: Third Phase and Onward --- 2.6: References --- Chapter 3: Early Warning Indicators for Financial Vulnerabilities --- 3.1: Principles for Selection of Early Warning Indicators --- 3.2: Core and Noncore Liabilities --- 3.3: References --- Chapter 4: Emerging Asia’s Noncore Liabilities and Policy Effectiveness --- 4.1: Bank-led Flows, Noncore Liabilities, and Credit Growth --- 4.2: Reassessing Monetary Policy --- 4.3: Appendix --- 4.4: References --- Chapter 5: Capital Flows and Income Distribution --- 5.1: National Policy Remains Key --- 5.2: How Capital Flows Affect Income Inequality --- 5.3: Prioritization for a Multi-Objective Goal --- 5.4: Appendix --- 5.5: References --- Chapter 6: Policy Implications --- 6.1 Tailoring Policies to Vulnerabilities --- 6.2 Macroprudential Tools --- 6.2.1 Bank Capital-Oriented Tools --- 6.2.1.1 Capital Requirements that Adjust Over the Cycle --- 6.2.1.2 Forward-Looking Provisioning --- 6.2.1.3: Leverage caps --- 6.2.1.4: Loan-To-Value and Debt-Service-To-Income Caps --- 6.2.1.5: Loan-to-Deposit caps --- 6.2.1.6: Levy on Noncore Liabilities --- 6.2.1.7: Unremunerated Reserve Requirements --- 6.2.2: Relative Merits of URR versus Levies/Taxes --- 6.2.3: Relationship with other Stabilization Policies --- 6.3: Financial Integration and Institutional Design --- 6.4: Policy Choices --- 6.5: References
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 124 pages) , 69 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812872845
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-284-5
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    Global Business Strategy : Multinational Corporations Venturing into Emerging Markets (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Globalization ; Management ; Leadership ; International economics ; Production management ; Emerging Markets/Globalization ; Innovation/Technology Management ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; International Economics ; Operations Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Needs for New Global Strategies --- Part I. Global Business Strategy --- 2. Management Strategies for Global Businesses --- 3. Changes in the Global Economic Environment --- 4. Comparison of Economic Institutions in China and India --- 5. New Business Model as Response to Competition from Emerging Economies --- 6. India’s Neemrana Industrial Park for Japanese Firms --- Part II. Fundamentals Of Strategic Planning --- 7. Alliance-based Global Strategy --- 8. Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity --- 9. Marketing Theory in Global Business Context --- 10. Shiseido Marketing in China --- 11. International R&D Management --- 12. Multinationals’ R&D in China and India --- 13. Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency and Japanese Firms --- 14. Suzuki Motor’s Expansion in India --- 15. Strategy Integration at the Global Level
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 259 pages) , 48 illustrations, 45 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431554684
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55468-4
    Language: English
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    Saving Electricity in a Hurry (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: As demonstrated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami-triggered blackouts in Japan, electricity shortfalls can happen anytime and anywhere. Countries can minimise the negative economic, social and environmental impacts of such electricity shortfalls by developing emergency energy-saving strategies before a crisis occurs. This new IEA report Saving Electricity in a Hurry: Update 2011 highlights preliminary findings and conclusions from electricity shortfalls in Japan, the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Chile. It draws on recent analysis to: - reinforce well-established guidelines on diagnosing electricity shortfalls, identifying energy-saving opportunities and selecting a package of energy-saving measures; and - highlight proven practice for implementing emergency energy-saving programmes. This paper will be valuable to government, academic, private-sector and civil-society stakeholders who inform, develop and implement electricity policy in general, and emergency energy-saving programmes in particular.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (60 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/saving-electricity-in-a-hurry-.html
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    Advantage Energy (2011)
    Paris : OECD/IEA
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Increased focus has been placed on the issues of energy access and energy poverty over the last number of years, most notably indicated by the United Nations (UN) declaring 2012 as the “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All”. Although attention in these topics has increased, incorrect assumptions and misunderstandings still arise in both the literature and dialogues. Access to energy does not only include electricity, does not only include cook stoves, but must include access to all types of energy that form the overall energy system. This paper chooses to examine this energy system using a typology that breaks it into 3 primary energy subsystems: heat energy, electricity and transportation. Describing the global energy system using these three subsystems provides a way to articulate the differences and similarities for each system’s required investments needs by the private and public sectors.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (64 Seiten)
    URL: http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/advantage-energy.html
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    Globalization and Responsibility (2012)
    Rijeka : InTech
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    Keywords: globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: The book "Globalization and Responsibility" consists of 8 chapters. The chapters in the book offer a decentered and dynamic terminology. They show that globalization consists of not only an objective process, but also of a lot of statements that define, describe and analyze the different experiences of the process. The chapters are written by authors and researchers from different academic disciplines, cultures and social contexts, therefore different experiences and scientific analyses on the consequences of globalization have been unified, starting from the multicultural and social epistemology to ethics of responsibility. Each chapter can be read separately, but in a complex, interconnected global universe of intertextuality of our world.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535106555
    URL: http://www.intechopen.com/books/globalization-and-responsibility
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    Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Food ; Biotechnology ; Ethics ; Economic policy ; Nanotechnology ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Ethics ; Food Science ; Nanotechnology ; Biotechnology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 173 pages) , 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319146935
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-14693-5
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    Territoires périurbains : Développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud (2015)
    Gembloux (Belgique) : Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, Liege University
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    Keywords: Périurbain ; Périurbansiation ; Villes du Sud
    Description / Table of Contents: Nous assistons actuellement au peuplement des zones périurbaines de la planète par des centaines de millions d’individus. Cette évolution pose de redoutables problèmes et des difficultés inédites pour les politiques publiques. Si les effets de la périurbanisation sont relativement bien connus dans les pays du Nord, les analyses dédiées aux pays du Sud sont bien moins développées. L’ouvrage « Territoires périurbains : développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud » permet de lever un coin du voile sur cette problématique et sur les grands défis que la périurbanisation pose pour le Sud en général et pour l’Afrique centrale en particulier. L’ouvrage débute en cherchant à clarifier ce qu’il faut exactement entendre par « territoire périurbain ». À la suite de cette mise en contexte, il se poursuit par cinq parties organisées autour des problématiques des ressources naturelles, de la sécurité alimentaire, de la santé publique, des services publics et de l’aménagement des territoires. Pour chacune de ces problématiques, des chercheurs spécialisés issus de disciplines variées apportent des contributions qui, tout en soulignant l’ampleur des défis, permettent la mise en avant de solutions innovantes pour améliorer la gouvernance et le bien-être des populations. Cet ouvrage s’adresse d’abord aux chercheurs préoccupés par les défis du développement. En parallèle, par les pistes pour l’action publique qu’il esquisse, il ne manquera pas d’également intéresser les décideurs et les praticiens qui opèrent dans le contexte des territoires périurbains des pays du Sud.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9782870161364
    URL: http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/188554
    Language: English
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    Baffin Island : Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67 (2016)
    Calgary : University of Calgary Press
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    Keywords: Arctic ; Baffin Island ; Canada ; geography ; field research ; travel report
    Description / Table of Contents: A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their fieldwork resulted in vastly increased knowledge of the Far North-from its ice caps and glaciers to its lichens and microfossils. Drawing from the recollections of his Baffin colleagues as well as from his own memories, Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of both contemporary Arctic research and bureaucratic decision making. Along the way, his narrative illustrates the role played by the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning Line and other northern infrastructure, the crucial importance of his pioneering aerial photography, the unpredictable nature of planes, helicopters, and radios in Arctic regions, and of course, the vast and breathtaking scenery of the North. Baffin Island encompasses both field research and High Arctic adventure. The research trips to Baffin between 1961 and 1967 also served as a vital training ground in polar studies for university students; further, they represented a breakthrough in gender equality in government-sponsored science, thanks to the author's persistence in having women permitted on the teams. The book contains a special section detailing the subsequent professional achievements of the many researchers involved (in addition to the later career moves of Ives himself) and a chapter that delves deeper into the science behind their fieldwork in the North. Readers need not be versed in glaciology, however. Ives has produced a highly readable book that seamlessly combines research and adventure.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 234 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781552388310
    URL: https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781552388297
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    Soziale Sicherung im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Transformation : Eine partizipative Studie in Küstendörfern der Fidschi-Inseln (2016)
    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
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    Keywords: social transformations ; global environmental change ; Pacific Islands Countries ; social transformations ; global environmental change ; Pacific Islands Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Pazifikstaaten wie die Fidschi-Inseln sind wie kaum eine andere Region der Welt gekennzeichnet von gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und dem globalen Umweltwandel. Auf Basis eines partizipativen Forschungsdesigns, durchgeführt in ausgewählten Küstendörfern, untersucht dieser Band die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung und des Klimawandels auf die Lebensqualität ihrer Bewohner. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass die Dorfbewohner keine passiven Opfer externer Prozesse sind, sondern aktiv ihr Leben gestalten. Mittels neo-traditioneller Bewegungen gelingt es den Bewohnern weitestgehend, ein festes Wertefundament als Grundlage ihrer kulturellen Identität zu bewahren. Eine intakte Gemeinschaft steht dabei im Zentrum spiritueller, ökonomischer und sozialer Werte. Im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Transformation agieren die Gemeinschaften nicht mehr ortsgebunden, sondern bilden mithilfe moderner Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologien globalisierte Netzwerke – ohne dabei die Bezüge zu ihrer kulturellen Herkunft zu verlieren. Auswärts lebende Familienangehörige tragen so Wissen und materiellen Wohlstand in die Dorfgemeinschaften und erweitern die Handlungspotentiale und Lebensstandards der Küstendorfbewohner. Im Zuge der Wissensvermittlung erfolgt jedoch insbesondere die Darstellung des Klimawandels und seiner Gefahren verkürzt und nicht auf lokale Werte zurechtgeschnitten, sodass es auch zu Wahrnehmungsverzerrungen und Fehlanpassungen kommt. Im Kontext von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit rät diese Untersuchung daher zu kultureller Sensibilität und einer kritischen Reflektion ethnozentrischer Weltanschauungen, um die Lebensqualität in fidschianischen Dorfgemeinschaften nicht zu gefährden. In diesem Band werden ethnographische Ideale für eine kultur- und sozialgeographische Forschung im globalen Süden aufbereitet. Konzeptionell ist die Untersuchung in die kritische geographische Verwundbarkeits- und Transformationsforschung eingerahmt. In einem kulturräumlichen Überblick wird zunächst aus historisch-politischer Perspektive die Bedeutung postkolonialer Belastungen auf gegenwärtige Transformationsprozesse aufgezeigt. Das Herzstück bildet anschließend die ausführliche Analyse gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse auf die Lebensqualität in drei Küstendörfern der Fidschi-Inseln. | As other Pacific Islands Countries, Fiji is shaped by processes of social transformations and global environmental change. This study utilises ethnographic ideals for enhancing cultural and social geographic research in the global south. A participatory in-depth analysis of rural life in three Fijian coastal villages is at the core of this study. This is framed by a historic-political overview of the burden of Fiji's colonial past. Fijian coastal villagers are not passive victims of global social transformation and climate change. Through neo-traditional movements they actively form processes of social and cultural change. Rural Fijian norms, values and cultural identity crystallize in robust communities. Via modern forms of communication and transportation Fijians established globalised networks securing individuals' quality of life. Family members living far from their home villages remain in contact with their relatives. This way they keep their Fijian Identities as source of wellbeing and as well support the villagers' material wealth and knowledge to enhance capabilities. Merely regarding hazardous climate change impacts the passed on knowledge is spread abridged and poorly fitting into local value systems. Therefore, misperceptions and maladaptations are prevalent. In consequence this study pleads for development agencies to act culturally sensitive and to critically reflect ethnocentric worldviews in order not to harm Fijian values and wellbeing.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 232 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863952617
    URL: http://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-261-7
    Language: German
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