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"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
My Father’s Shoes is, at its core, an anthology of short stories. The book is allegoric and the shoes are metaphoric. Unlike most anthologies, however, these stories are an amalgam of themselves. They integrate and coalesce. There is a rhythm and a cadence both in substance and in form. This book was initially written as a gift to my father. I wanted to share certain memories with him that were meaningful and lasting. I wanted him to know, from my perspective, just how important he was in my life. He never really understood the profound impact that he had on the lives of other people –especially his family. Because of that humility, or perhaps in honor of it, I wanted to him know that he...
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
"This research book is a novel, innovative and adequate reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about diverse issues related with Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities on different ways about Intelligent Optimisation, Industrial Applications on the real world, Social applications and Technology applications with a different perspective about existing solutions. Chapters report research results improving Optimisation related with Smart Manufacturing, Logistics of products and services, Optimisation of different elements in the time and location, Social Applications to enjoy our life of a better way and Applications that increase Daily Life Quality. This book is organised into three scopes of knowledge: (1) applications of Industry 4.0; (2) applications to improve the life of the citizens in a Smart City; and finally (3) research associated with the welfare of the working-age population and their expectations in their jobs correlated with the welfare - work relationship"--
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2022, held in Cuenca, Ecuador during November 28–30, 2022. The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computational intelligence and urban informatics for smart cities, Internet of things, optimization, smart production, and smart public services and smart monitoring and communications
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