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    • Driving Digital Transformation

    Publication Type: eBook

    Abstract: This book traces the experience of digital economic transformation in seven developing countries, providing insights for policymakers and practitioners in similar situations as well as lessons for outsiders trying to support government reform efforts m...

    The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Lehmann, Harry; Hinske, Christoph; de Margerie, Victoire; Slaveikova Nikolova, Aneta

    Abstract: The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource ...

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    Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Oyinlola, Muyiwa; Kolade, Oluwaseun

    Abstract: Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives...

    Local Communities and the Mining Industry

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Brunet, Nicolas D.; Longboat, Sheri

    Abstract: This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia. Mining’s ...

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    Chapter 4 Exploring the environmental and social impact of informal market practices in the apparel industry

    Publication Type: eBook

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    Abstract: This chapter explores global apparel consumption and its dependence on production supply chains in low-income countries where unsustainable and informal market practices are rampant. Recent life cycle studies of garments show that over 80 percent of en...

    Innovation and Regional Technological Convergence

    Publication Type: eBook

    Abstract: This open access book explores the role of innovation in technological convergence processes in the EU regional space and shifts the focus from absolute and conditional income convergence to technological convergence and its determinants. Presenting ne...

    Public Innovation and Digital Transformation

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Väyrynen, Hannele; Helander, Nina; Jalonen, Harri

    Abstract: Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book a...

    Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Meyer, Silke; Ströhle, Claudius

    Abstract: This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate w...

    Robots and AI

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Ing, Lili Yan; Grossman, Gene M.

    Abstract: Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation, and AI affect international gro...

    Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Publication Type: eBook

    Authors:
    • Otsuka, Keijiro; Mano, Yukichi; Takahashi, Kazushi

    Abstract: This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven cou...

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