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Cities Under COVID-19: A Systems Perspective
The 15 international authors of this book live in Brazil, Canada, Cameroon, China, Cuba, European Union, Finland, Gaza Strip, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The authors are linked to the International Science Council’s Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme. In this book the authors analyse the management of COVID-19, which started in late 2019, in their cities. They explain their city’s political, social and economic context, the dynamics of how the pandemic unfolded, drawing on quantitative and visual data, and their reflections on how it was managed. The book concludes with an analysis of the similarities and differences among COVID-19 outcomes in these cities. Using a systems perspective to learn from these experiences can help all cities to improve the governance of pandemics and be better prepared for likely future ones.
Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme
This book is a collection of policy briefs produced from research presented at the 16th Conference on Urban Health in Xiamen, China, November 4–8, 2019, under the theme “People Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cities for Health and Well-Being”, co-organized by the Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWB) programme of the International Science Council (ISC). The UHWB programme takes an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and systemic view on issues of health and wellbeing in cities which include the urban economy and finance systems, education, employment, mobility and transport, food, energy and water resources, access to public services, urban planning, public spaces and urban green, as wel...
The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements
The Jevons Paradox, which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil fuels, but other resource use scenarios. For example, doubling the efficiency of food production per hectare over the last 50 years (due to the Green Revolution) did not solve the problem of hunger. The increase in efficiency increased production and worsened hunger because of the resulting increase in population. The implications of this in todays world are substantial. Many scientists and policymake...
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for understanding and identifying agricultural productivity growth potentials in marginalized areas.
2010
Up-to-date information on more than 5,000 institutions and approx. 10,000 persons in public life in Rhineland-Palatinate: authorities and departments of local, state and federal administration; jurisdiction; syndicates and other organizations from politics, business, academic life, the arts etc.; notaries, church offices, schools, universities, museums, libraries, hospitals, banks and mayors, District Administrators, chairpersons, presidents, directors, managing directors and other executives.
Rheinland-Pfalz Jahrbuch 2010
Das Rheinland-Pfalz Jahrbuch bietet aktuelle Informationen ber Aufbau und Aufgaben von ber 5.000 Beh rden, Ministerien und K rperschaften und der mit ihnen verbundenen Einrichtungen des ffentlichen Lebens in Rheinland-Pfalz: Beh rden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung; die Gerichtsbarkeit; Interessenverb nde und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw.; Notare, Kirchenbeh rden, Schulen, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Krankenh user, Kreditinstitute und ber 10.000 B rgermeister, Landr te, Vorsitzende, Gesch ftsf hrer, Pr sidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion. Ein umfangreiches Personenregister sowie ein Sach- und Institutionenregister erm glichen die gezielte Suche im Rheinland-Pfalz Jahrbuch.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume I
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: “This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail.” —Library Journal This is the first volume in a monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, reflecting years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—many thousands more than previously known—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site. This first volu...
Big World, Small Planet
“A carefully laid-out argument about the ecological limits of our planet—and the challenge these limits pose to our patterns of life and economic growth.”—Daniel C. Esty, coauthor of Green to Gold Big World, Small Planet probes the urgent predicament of our times: how is it possible to create a positive future for both humanity and Earth? We have entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on the planet—and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize Earth’s natural systems, with cascading consequences for human societies. In this extraordinary book, the authors combine the latest science with compelling storytelling and amazing photography...
