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Free Download Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need by Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, Danielle L. Eiseman
English | April 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1501754629 | 264 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
Our Changing Menu helps us understand how to think about food, rather than what to think. The diversity of the co-authors’ experiences is woven together to create awareness and help us get involved in improving our diets, while reducing food waste and food’s impacts on climate change and the planet.― Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Markets, World Wildlife Fund

Free Download Jenifer Huang McBeath, Jerry McBeath, "Environmental Change and Food Security in China"
English | 2010 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1402091796 | PDF | 6,0 mb
Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition reached when a nation’s population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet its dietary needs and food preferences. It stresses China’s importance to global food security because of its population size. The chapter introduces the contents of the volume and then treats briefly food security in ancient and dynastic (211 bc-1912) China. It examines environmental stressors, such as population growth, natural disasters, and insect pests as well as imperial responses (for example, irrigation, flood control, storage and transportation systems). The chapter also briefly int- duces the Republican era (1912-1949) and compares environmental stressors and government responses then to those of the imperial period. Keywords Food system * Food security * Food production regions * Environmental stressors (Population growth * Natural disasters * Insect pests and Plant diseases * Deforestation * Climate change) * Irrigation systems * Flood control * Grand Canal 1. 1 The Problem of Food Security and Environmental Change Food is the material basis to human survival, and in each nation-state, providing a system for the development, production, and distribution of food and its security is a primary national objective. Many forces have influenced the food security of peoples since ancient times, with particular challenges from natural disasters (floods, famines, drought, and pestilence) and growing populations globally.

Free Download Change-Kompetenz jetzt!: Finde deine Strategie für die Arbeitswelt von morgen
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3648180886 | 267 Pages | PDF (True) | 16 MB
Neue Technologien, immer schnellerer Wandel und Polykrisen sind das neue Normal. Um hier bestehen zu können, gilt Change-Kompetenz als zentraler Futureskill. Everhard Uphoff beleuchtet das Thema Change neu und ganzheitlich, indem er den emotionalen Menschen in sich verändernden Systemen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Sein Buch beantwortet unter Berücksichtigung der "neuen Welt" die Frage, wie man seinen ganz persönlichen elementaren Futureskill entwickelt. Es zeigt, wie man auch in starren Systemen Flexibilität und Wandel bewirken und die Veränderungskompetenz selbst bei veränderungsscheuen Mitarbeitenden stärken kann. Anhand über 100 Interviews mit Führungskräften und Mitarbeitenden deckt das Buch zentrale Fehler auf, hinterfragt und aktualisiert veraltete Change-Modelle und schärft die Sinne für die zunehmende Geschwindigkeit auf Grund von technologischen Fortschritten wie z.B. ChatGPT.

Free Download 20 Inventions In Tech That Can Change The World: Discover the Groundbreaking Technologies Shaping Our Future
by Saanvi Kaur Sahni
English | December 13, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQGR5WSP | 102 pages | PDF | 52 Mb

Free Download Iason Pavlopoulos, "Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation and Infrastructure: A Gulf Coast Study "
English | ISBN: 1607414244 | 2010 | 331 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, & maintenance of transportation infrastructures. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding this issue. This book addresses these concerns for the region of the US Central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas & Mobile, Alabama.

Free Download Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet"
English | ISBN: 1541647467 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 16 MB
An "essential" (Times UK) and "meticulously researched" (Forbes) book by "the skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good

Free Download Business Process Models. Change Management By Christian Gerth (auth.)
2013 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 3642386032 | PDF | 7 MB
Driven by the need for a closer alignment of business and IT requirements, the role of business process models in the development of enterprise software systems has increased continuously. Similar to other software artifacts, process models are developed and refined in team environments by several stakeholders, resulting in different versions. These versions need to be merged in order to obtain an integrated process model. Existing solutions to this basic problem in the field of software configuration management are mainly limited to textual documents, e.g., source code. This monograph presents a generally applicable framework for process model change management, which provides easy-to-use comparison and merging capabilities for the integration of different process model versions. The framework supports popular modeling languages such as BPMN, BPEL, or UML Activity Diagrams. Differences between process models are represented in terms of intuitive, high-level change operations. Equipped with a sophisticated analysis of dependencies and a semantic-aware computation of conflicts between differences, the framework constitutes a comprehensive and practically usable solution for process model change management in the model-driven development of enterprise software systems.

Free Download Paul H B Godwin, "The Chinese Defense Establishment: Continuity And Change In The 1980s"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367290812 | EPUB | pages: 198 | 0.6 mb
Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership. In the 1970s, especially during the second half of that crucial decade, critical decisions were made that led to Beijing’s alignment with the West against the USSR and a revitalization of its armed forces. This book looks at Chi

Free Download Economics of Disasters and Climate Change: Risk and Uncertainties
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819794145 | 304 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14 MB
This book discusses the theory, method, and practice of risk economics and also examines climate change and disaster’s theoretical and practical implications on capital formation and accumulation in the contemporary economic system. It explores the theoretical and practical challenges of engaging with climate and disaster risk in the changing context of capital investments and market expansion. It explains the emergence of an at-risk society and its interface with economic decision-making. The critical issue the book explores is the implication of certainty over the return period of risk and its influence on the economic behaviour of the state and market institutions. Risk sharing and governing economic risks in the context of financial capitalism is a major theoretical issue the book engages with. It offers a new conceptual framework to see how risk economics evolves out of increasing climate and disaster risks and a counter-discourse on the mainstream economic theoretical standpoint on capital and explains the economics of capital replacement in vulnerable social systems. These broader perspectives will be valuable to economists, researchers, experts in disaster and climate risk, corporate professionals, economics educators, specialists in financial economics, and those involved in development policy-making. This book offers a detailed discussion of risk mitigation and its interface with sustainable development goals including climate action.

Free Download Decentralization Technologies: Financial Sector in Change
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031660463 | 509 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book connects decentralization technologies with the world of finance and financial services. Increasingly, the financial sector is data-driven, with tensions arising between technical innovations and regulators’ and consumers’ expectations. Fundamentally, financial markets are competitive data markets. The authors of this edited book first identify where changes in the regulatory and business regime give rise to novel requirements and needs for these data markets. Next, the authors introduce three key decentralization technologies -decentralized digital identities, distributed ledger technologies, and federated learning. They discuss privacy-enhancing technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and illustrate the demands of practical applications. The authors further provide explicit application examples to illustrate where and how these decentralization technologies allow to reflect business, customer, and regulatory requirements amid competitive markets. The volume concludes with an outlook on governance and the sustainability implications of decentralization.