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ICT in Agriculture (Updated Edition)
Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raisedlivestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity forrural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and to find employmentopportunities in a revitalized sector. ICT has unleashed incredible potential to improve agriculture, and it has found a footholdeven in poor smallholder farms.ICT in Agriculture, Updated Edition is the revised version of the popular ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook, first launched in 2011 anddesigned to support practitioners, decision makers, and development partners who work at the intersection of ICT and agriculture.Our hope is that this updated Sourcebook will be a practical guide to understanding current trends, implementing appropriateinterventions, and evaluating the impact of ICT interventions in agricultural programs.
Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies
There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development. This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments. Through a comparison of two NGO coalitions in Cambodia and Vietnam advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River, the book explores the intricate interactions of formal and informal rules and norms and how they influence advocacy strategies. A framework for analysis is proposed which serves as a tool for analysis by c...
Intelligent Systems and Applications in Business and Finance
This book presents a selection of current research results in the field of intelligent systems and draws attention to their practical applications and issues connected with the areas of decision-making, economics, business and finance. The nature of the contributions is interdisciplinary – combining psychological and behavioural aspects with the theory and practice of decision-support, design of intelligent systems and development of machine learning tools. The authors, among other topics, discuss the multi-expert evaluation with intangible criteria, suggest a redefinition of the standard multiple-criteria decision-making framework, propose novel methods for causal map analysis and new feature selection methods. The topics are selected to stress the potential of the up-to-date intelligent methods to deal with practical problems relevant in these areas and to provide inspiration for advanced students, researchers and practitioners in the respective fields.
I Sign, Therefore I Am
I Sign, Therefore I Am is the powerful story of a deaf young man struggling with his identity, and of his growth into a sign language user who is proud of his culture. Being the deaf child of hearing parents and the only deaf person in my early surroundings: these were the foundations for the identity crisis I underwent in my youth. The crisis could have had a tragic end, but fortunately in my case it did not. It took years of searching, however, to finally grow into my identity as a deaf person and to adopt Finnish Sign Language as my mother tongue. I wrote this book to share my life experiences with members of any linguistic or cultural minority. This is a highly topical issue in society, as such minorities are increasingly in the limelight. Many automatically assume that minorities have it bad, and that their members deviate - in a negative sense - from the majority population also in other ways. This book offers excellent opportunities for seeing the world through a deaf person ́s eyes and for correcting misguided views. At the same time, it provides compelling evidence of the benefits of deafness and sign language for both the deaf and the population at large.
Suomalaisen arvomaailman muutos, globalisaatio ja ajan henki
Teos asettaa 34 vuoden aikana tapahtuneen arvomuutoksen ja sen seuraukset sekä arkisiin että yhteiskunnallisiin asiayhteyksiinsä. Markkinoiden globalisaatio työntyi kuin huomaamatta jokapäiväiseen elämään ja alkoi muuttaa vakaina pidettyjä arvoja. Vähin erin tapahtuvia arvomuutoksia tutkitaan suhteessa digitalisaatioon, ympäristöongelmiin sekä mediakäytön pirstaloitumiseen. Ne yhdistetään myös taloussuhdanteisiin, väestörakenteen muutoksiin sekä populismin nousuun. Schwartzin arvoteoriaan perustuvan tutkimuksen sukupolven mittainen aikasarja (1981-2015) on niin pituudeltaan kuin aihepiireiltäänkin laajin olemassa oleva. Se kattaa liberaalin demokratian nousukauden alusta loppuun. Rajojen avautumisesta niiden sulkeutumiseen. Merkittävä yhteiskunnallinen muutosjakso houkutti tai pakotti ihmiset toimimaan uudella tavalla. Tai jäämään sivustakatsojiksi. Arvomuutokset yhdistetään arvokarttojen avulla arkisiin ilmiöihin, mikä auttaa lukijaa ymmärtämään omaa suhdettaan muuttuvaan maailmaan.
Myth and Mentality
The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditions, by performers and their audiences. With its myriad voices, this body of source material thus provides new avenues for the researcher seeking to penetrate popular thought. What does oral tradition tell us about the way its performers think and feel? What sorts of beliefs and ideas are transmitted in...
