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  • Plan de exportación para las PYMES pecuarias ovinas y caprinas de Venezuela

    by Eddie ...
    El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo general el Diseñar un plan de exportación de productos cárnicos (ovino y caprino) de las pymes ganaderas de Venezuela dirigido a los países del Caribe. Metodológicamente, se enmarca en el Área de Trabajo "Plan de negocios", Grupo de Investigación "Gestión de los Negocios y Responsabilidad Social Empresarial" que forma parte de la línea de ... Read more

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  • The Boy and the Mask

    by Chase Edwards ...
    As my gift to others on my 75th birthday, I am self-publishing this very short story. This true story begins with a baby boy's encounter of being terrified by 2 older boys who are wearing masks on Halloween night in either 1946 or 1947. The story continues as the narrator tells it from the way he perceives the baby is maturing and adjusting to masks. You may wonder if this child's trauma will ... Read more

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  • Local Communities and the Mining Industry

    Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities

    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    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 contribution to economic development varies greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes ... Read more

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  • Energy Demand Challenges in Europe

    Implications for policy, planning and practice

    This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all citizens, focusing on households as the main unit of analysis. The book revolves around ten contributions that each summarise national trends, ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor

    The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the geopolitical drivers and potential consequences of the development of clean hydrogen value chains. ... Read more

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  • Solar PV: A Gender Perspective

    This report, the third in IRENA’s gender perspective series, examines the participation of women in the solar PV sector. ... Read more

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  • Wi-Fi Enabled Healthcare

    Focusing on the recent proliferation of Wi-Fi in hospital systems, this book explains how Wi-Fi is transforming clinical work flows and infusing new life into the types of mobile devices being implemented in hospitals. Drawing on years of consulting with hospitals in the US and abroad, and with first-hand experiences from one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States, it covers the ... Read more

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  • Supply Chain Operations in the Arctic

    Implications for Social Sustainability

    Series series Routledge Advances in Production and Operations Management
    The extant corpus of research on supply chain sustainability in the Arctic exhibits a conspicuous neglect of the social dimension, rendering it the most underprivileged among the three pillars of sustainability. A deep dive into the Arctic, this edited volume endeavors to fill this opulent lacuna by placing the unjustly forsaken concept of social sustainability at the forefront of supply chain ... Read more

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  • Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases

    Case Studies from Japan

    Edited by Katsunori Kondo ...
    Series series Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan. With the highest life expectancy and the largest elderly population in the world, Japan has witnessed health inequality by region and social class becoming more ... Read more

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  • Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

    Series series Progressive Energy Policy
    This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these ... Read more

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  • Disrupting Finance

    FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies
    This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technologies ... Read more

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  • Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)

    23–26 January 2018, National University of Lesotho On occasion of NULISTICE 2018

    Series series Springer Proceedings in Energy
    This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation on renewable energy between Africa and Europe – in academia, as well as the private and public sectors.Addressing thematic areas such as• Grid-connected renewable energy;• ... Read more

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  • Biofuels and Sustainability

    Holistic Perspectives for Policy-making

    Series series Science for Sustainable Societies
    This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using sustainability science. This interdisciplinary perspective (social science-natural science) means that the strategies and policy options proposed will have significant impacts on the economy and society alike. Biofuels are expected to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas ... Read more

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  • Managing Sustainable Luxury and Digitalization

    Technology Trends and Ethical Challenges in the Swiss Luxury Watch Business

    Series series Routledge Studies in Luxury Management
    This book offers new transdisciplinary perspectives on luxury, exploring the topical phenomenon of digitally retouched (censored) and blockchain-secured (sensored) luxury watches and outlining implications that emerge for the field of luxury studies and managerial practice.Based on a cross-disciplinary approach, the book integrates theoretical and empirical perspectives to advance the readers’ ... Read more

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  • The Car Show

    This e-book details the most interesting and important characteristics of the automobiles, car maintenance, styling features, car body style, the standard classification of the cars, an history of the automobiles, introduction in the automotive industry, and the traffic code, rules and signs.An automobile, usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck, is a wheeled vehicle that ... Read more

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  • A Pathway to Decarbonise the Shipping Sector by 2050

    This report explores the options and actions needed to progress towards a decarbonised maritime shipping sector by 2050 identifying a realistic pathway to reach the 1.5°C climate goal. ... Read more

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  • Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water

    A Guide to Their Public Health Consequences, Monitoring and Management

    Edited by Ingrid Chorus, Martin Welker ...
    Cyanobacterial toxins are among the hazardous substances most widely found in water. They occur naturally, but concentrations hazardous to human health are usually due to human activity. Therefore, to protect human health, managing lakes, reservoirs and rivers to prevent cyanobacterial blooms is critical.This second edition of Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water presents the current state of knowledge on ... Read more

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  • Renewable Energy Market Analysis: Africa and Its Regions

    The report lays out a pathway to a renewable-based energy system and shows that the transition promises substantial gains in GDP, employment, and human welfare in each region of the African continent. ... Read more

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  • 中欧能源杂志秋季刊

    2020, #3

    Series Book 3 - 2020
    中欧能源合作平台项目出版。Published by EU China Energy Cooperation Platform© European Union. All Rights Reserved ... Read more

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  • World Energy Transitions Outlook 2022: 1.5°C Pathway

    This report guides policy makers to stay on the the 1.5°C path to 2050, explores the socio-economic impacts of the transition and suggests ways to speed progress towards universal access to clean energy. ... Read more

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  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • Renewable Energy Policies for Cities

    The report outlines ways in which cities can catalyse the shift to a low-carbon future, in turn supporting regional and national governments with the achievement of sustainable energy targets. ... Read more

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  • Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

    by Glyn Moody ...
    Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up.Walled Culture is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history ... Read more

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  • English for Engineers: Quotes and Jokes

    by Pamela Kenney ...
    Series Book 1 - English for Engineers
    Are you the boring employee who just drones on and on about work endlessly? Become more memorable (and likeable) with your ability to share a joke once in a while.Think of all the social situations at work: talking with clients before a meeting, bumping into the vice president in the elevator, chatting with co-workers over coffee. Every one of these is an opportunity to network and build ... Read more

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