This open access book introduces H-UTokyo Lab’s ideas about the architecture for Society 5.0, including the process and organizational infrastructure for building smart cities that embody the Society 5.0 vision. It introduces six factors critical to the success of efforts to build people-centric sustainable smart cities. Each factor represents something needed to enable a local government to …
This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrial…
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who…
This chapter outlines the aims of the book, explains the reform concept that underpins our thinking and provides an overview of the Sector Focus Remediation Action (SFRA) approach. It also explains how we came to write the book and sets out its structure.
This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy with a view to future city missions. It provides a suite of research-informed chapters on urban pathways that are early signals and visions for how future cities can be shaped and transformed as well as chapters from policy, industry and intermediar…
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also c…
This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extend…
Seberapa lama manusia dapat hidup? Buku akses terbuka ini mendokumentasikan, memverifikasi, dan menghidupkan kemajuan perbatasan kelangsungan hidup manusia. Buku ini dengan hati-hati memvalidasi data tentang supercentenarian, yang berusia 110 tahun ke atas, dan semi-supercentenarian, yang berusia 105-109 tahun, yang disimpan dalam Basis Data Internasional tentang Umur Panjang (IDL). Bab-bab dal…
Komunikasi semakin bergerak melampaui 'cara melihat' ke 'cara merasakan'. Buku Akses Terbuka ini memberikan wawasan dan implikasi desain sosial untuk penelitian dan desain HCI yang mengeksplorasi komunikasi sentuh yang dimediasi secara digital. Buku ini menawarkan peta berorientasi sosial untuk membantu menavigasi lanskap sosial yang kompleks dari sentuhan yang dimediasi secara digital untuk k…
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic and environmental aspects. Aquaponic systems, which combine aquaculture and vegetable food production offer alternative technology solutions for a world that is increasingl…