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Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
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…
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- 978-3-030-30131-6
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- XIII, 102
Society - Water - Technology: a Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering…
This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and portrays an application to the Lower Jordan Valley (Middle East) and the Fergana Valley (Central Asia). Both areas are characteri…
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- 9783319189703
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Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for…
The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise and seeming success of authoritarian states, rise of populist and protectionist trends, and evolv…
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- International Studies in Entrepreneurship
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- XI, 367
The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe’s entrepreneurial e…
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- 978-3-662-61007-7
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- XVI, 252
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- 650.1
Advances in Energy System Optimization : Proceedings of the 2nd International…
The papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids, and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies. While most papers have a cle…
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- 978-3-030-32157-4
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- Trends in Mathematics
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- 510 ADV
Balanced Urban Development : Options and Strategies For Liveable Cities
water resources; hydrology; sustainable development; urban planning
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- 9783662489574
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- 650
Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications: 12th International Conference, Eu…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The were organized in topical sections on haptic science, haptic technology…
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- 9783030581473
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- XVIII, 557
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Enhanced Living Environments; Algorithms, Architectures, Platforms, and Systems
Buku akses terbuka ini disiapkan sebagai Publikasi Akhir dari COST Action IC1303 "Algoritma, Arsitektur, dan Platform untuk Lingkungan Hidup yang Ditingkatkan (AAPELE)". Konsep Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) mengacu pada area Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) yang lebih terkait dengan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK). Solusi ELE yang efektif memerlukan algoritme, arsitektur, platform, d…
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- 978-3-030-10752-9
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- 1 online resource (339 Pages)
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- 304.2 GAN e
High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications: Selected…
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project. Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, sc…
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- 9783030162726
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- XIV, 352
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CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology: New Appro…
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outco…
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- 9783030134174
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- XV, 323
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