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Blockchain: Capabilities, Economic Viability, and the Socio-Technical Environment
Blockchain is widely considered a new key technology. The Foundation for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS) has proposed a comprehensive assessment of blockchain technologies. With this publication, TA-SWISS provides the much-needed social contextualisation of blockchain. The first, more technical part of the study takes an in-depth look at how blockchain functions and examines the economic potential of this technology. By analysing multiple real-world applications, the study sheds light on where the blockchain has advantages over traditional applications and where existing technologies continue to be the better solution. The second part of the study examines how blockchain became mainstream. It explores the origins of blockchain in the early history of information technology and computer networks. The study also reveals the impact blockchain has on industrial and public spaces. Finally, it discusses the social implications and challenges of blockchain against the background of a new socio-technical environment.
The Coworking (R)evolution
The digitalization of work processes and the generalization of IT are creating unprecedented opportunities. An increasing part of the workforce is experimenting with new forms of work, as freelancers, self-employed or highly skilled employees with greater autonomy. International in scope, this book comprehensively explores these new models of work, mobility and life trajectories, and the increasing role of non-metropolitan coworking spaces.
Blockchain and the Commons
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open-source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers, the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures that are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production, this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In partic...
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees
This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included.Each generic entry includes the family to which it is assigned, the synonyms of the Latin name, and the English, French, Spanish, trade and other names. For the English and French names the standard name is listed first, followed by other available names with, in parentheses, the countries where they are used. Where appropriate, names in additional languages are also included.Each infrageneric (species, subspecies, variety) entry includes, in addition, the distribution, height, type of foliage, ecological characteristics and main uses of the tree when available.In this volume only taxa indigenous on the North American continent are included, considered in a geographical, not in a political sense. This means from Alaska and Greenland to Panama, including Caribbean, but excluding Hawaii.
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
CRC World Dictionary of Palms
From the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses, folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists, conservationists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geographers, bird watchers, naturalists, historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and u...
Utopies locales - Les solutions écologiques et solidaires de demain
Le " monde d'après " annoncé par tant de prophètes pendant le confinement du printemps 2020 existe déjà. Il ne demande qu'à se déployer pour que les innombrables " utopies locales ", porteuses d'une autre manière de produire, de vivre et de consommer, deviennent la norme de l'économie de demain. Ce monde d'après est en grande partie mis en musique par des acteurs de l'économie sociale et solidaire. Cette foule d'initiatives citoyennes défriche les possibles et construit des solutions écologiques et solidaires face aux besoins et aux aspirations des habitants. Pôles territoriaux de coopération économique, tiers-lieux, revenu de transition écologique, énergies citoyennes, foncières solidaires, mobilités partagées : les expérimentations des associations, coopératives, mutuelles, fondations et autres entreprises sociales se multiplient dans les territoires. Elles ouvrent la voie à une " société post-croissance ", une société où primerait la finalité du bien-vivre.
A la reconquête du travail durable - L'économie sociale et solidaire en pionnière
Face à la crise de nos systèmes traditionnels et à la précarisation du marché du travail, il devient nécessaire de favoriser des modèles de travail plus durables. L'économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) a toujours été pionnière en la matière. Groupements d'employeurs, coopératives d'activités et d'emplois, Scop et Scic, Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée, tiers-lieux... L'ESS expérimente, innove, invente des modèles de travail et d'emploi plus protecteurs pour les travailleurs, plus ancrés dans les territoires, plus respectueux de l'humain. À ce titre, elle peut impulser une dynamique de changement inspirante pour l'ensemble de la société. Comment ces initiatives p...
