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  • Authors : Koontz, Christie; Gubbin, Barbara (2010)

  • The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective services, relevant collections, and accessible formats within the context and requirements of the local community. In this exciting and complex information world it is important for prof...

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  • Authors : Matyas, Laszlo (2017)

  • If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind the rest of the world in its ability to generate growth and innovation. Much of the European economic research itself often trails behind that of the USA, which sets much of the agenda in mainstream economics. This book, also availa...

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  • Authors : Pinstrup-Andersen (2016)

  • Food price volatility is a major challenge facing the global agricultural sys- tem today, most vividly illustrated during the global food crisis of 2007–9 when prices spiked for key staple commodities such as wheat, rice, maize and soybeans. Given the variety of reactions by countries experiencing food. price shocks, the crisis offered an excellent natural experiment for generating knowledge on responses to price volatility in particular, and on the...

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  • Authors : Ephraim Nkonya; Alisher Mirzabaev; Joachim von Braun (2016)

  • This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation...

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  • Authors : Jong-Dae Park (2019)

  • Part I Te Paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa: Disillusionment and Dilemma, Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and Recipients. Part II Rethinking the Root Causes of Africa’s Under-Development: Review of Conventional Explanations, Uncovering the Main Root Cause: The Mindset Factor. Part III Africa’s Forgotten Mission of Nation-Building: What are Missing, Finding the Missing Links, Reasons for Optimism and the Tasks at Hand. Part IV Understanding Korean Develo...

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  • Authors : Arkebe Oqubay (2015)

  • Made in Africa presents the findings of original field research into the design, practice, and varied outcomes of industrial policy in different sectors in Ethiopia. The book explores how and why the outcomes of industrial policy are shaped by particular factors in different industries. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of ‘industrial policy’, which has recently found renewed favour among economists and international organizations, and of t...

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  • Authors : Iris Lewandowski (2018)

  • Part I Bioeconomy Concepts and Research Methods: Bioeconomy Concepts, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Bioeconomy. Part II Knowledge Base for Biobased Value Chains: Biobased Resources and Value Chains, Primary Production, Processing of Biobased Resources, Markets, Sustainability Management and Entrepreneurship. Part III Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Modelling and Tools Supporting the Transition to a Bioeconomy, Environmental Economics, the Bioeconomy and the Role of G...

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  • Authors : Prabhu Pingali; Anaka Aiyar; Mathew Abraham (2019)

  • This open access book examines India's economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a "Food Systems Approach (FSA)." Despite economic progress, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity and micro-nutrient deficiency indicate a future public health crisis. This book explores the challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified productio...

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  • Authors : Douglas Arent; Channing Arndt (2017)

  • Sustainable energy transitions involve the shift of resources between competing industrial sectors and political constituencies. Stakeholders in this process have varying degrees of political and economic power, and understanding how political economic factors influence clean energy transitions is crucial to effective policy formulation and facilitating transitions to sustainable energy systems. This book is the distilled essence of the cross-cutting academic project. A volume&#...