Tag: Change

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.

Free Download Tony Fitzpatrick, "Climate Change and Poverty: A New Agenda for Developed Nations"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1447300866, 1447300874 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.1 mb
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Climate change is the main challenge facing developed countries in the 21st century. To what extent does this agenda converge with issues of poverty and social exclusion? Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the ‘ecosocial’ understanding of the causes and symptoms of, and solutions to, poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution. Unlike any other publication, the book therefore establishes a new agenda for both environmental and social policies which has cross-national relevance. It will appeal to students in social policy, public policy, applied social studies and politics and will also be of interest to those studying international development, economics and geography

Free Download Philip Hammond, "Climate Change and Post-Political Communication: Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138777501 | EPUB | pages: 150 | 0.9 mb
For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which is the subject of this book.

Free Download Hugh Compston, "Climate Change and Political Strategy"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415458706 | EPUB | pages: 174 | 0.6 mb
Although the science of climate change is well-established and there are well-known policy instruments that could significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without prohibitive economic costs, political obstacles to more determined action remain despite heightened concern among mainstream politicians and the public. This book analyses the political dynamics of climate policy in affluent democracies from a number of different theoretical angles in order to improve our understanding of which political strategies would be likely to enable national governments to make deep cuts in GHG emissions while avoiding significant political damage.