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Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2
This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.
Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences
This book introduces a new approach to environmental sociology, by integrating complexity-informed social science, Marxian ecological theory, and resilience-based human ecology. It argues that sociologists have largely ignored developments in ecology which move beyond functionalist approaches to systems analysis, and as a result, environmental sociology has failed to capitalise not only on the analytical promise of resilience ecology, but on complementary developments in complexity theory. By tracing the origins and discussing current developments in each of these areas, it offers several paths to interdisciplinary dialogue. Eoin Flaherty argues that complexity theory and Marxian ecology can enhance our understanding of the social aspect of social-ecological systems, whilst a resilience approach can sharpen the analytical power of environmental sociology.
Africa's Gene Revolution
As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Dr...
Bibliothèques numériques et crowdsourcing
Afin d’externaliser certaines tâches, les bibliothèques font désormais appel à des foules d’internautes, rendant plus collaborative leur relation avec les usagers. Ces internautes sont bénévoles ou rémunérés, travaillent consciemment, inconsciemment ou sous la forme de jeux. Ils représentent une force de travail et apportent des compétences, des connaissances et des ressources financières dont les bibliothèques ont grand besoin afin de réaliser des objectifs jusque-là inimaginables. Après avoir examiné les conséquences de ce nouveau modèle sur les bibliothèques, Bibliothèques numériques et crowdsourcing offre un panorama des projets dans les domaines de la numérisation à la demande et de la correction participative de la reconnaissance optique des caractères (OCR). Il présente également un état de l’art concernant les types de projets, la communication, le recrutement, les motivations des internautes, la sociologie des contributeurs, la qualité du travail, l’évaluation des projets et la conduite du changement.
Digital Libraries and Crowdsourcing
Instead of outsourcing tasks to providers using labor-intensive countries, libraries around the world increasingly appeal to the crowds of Internet users, making their relationship with users more collaborative . These internet users can be volunteers or paid, work consciously, unconsciously or in the form of games. They can provide the workforce, skills, knowledge or financial resources that libraries need in order to achieve unimaginable goals.
