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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “akio hosono”
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  • SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth

    Insights from International Cooperation

    by Akio Hosono ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations document ... Read more

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  • Development for Sustainable Agriculture

    The Brazilian Cerrado

    Edited by Akio Hosono, Carlos Magno Campos da Rocha, Yutaka Hongo ...
    Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Workers, Managers, Productivity

    Kaizen in Developing Countries

    Edited by Akio Hosono, John Page, Go Shimada ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries; compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship between workers and ... Read more

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  • Getting to Scale

    How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People

    Edited by Laurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas, Johannes Linn ...
    The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach millions of poor people.Getting to Scale explores what it takes to expand the reach of development ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Chile’s Salmon Industry

    Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods

    Edited by Akio Hosono, Michiko Iizuka, Jorge Katz ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first to analyze Chile’s salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods. The book highlights important aspects of learning and capacity development, environmental sustainability, institutions, and social welfare or inclusiveness.With aquaculture now providing almost half the global fish harvest, Chile’s salmon farming and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado

    Edited by Akio Hosono, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Alan Bojanic ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil’s Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropriate because Cerrado agriculture has been developed from scratch in a vast, previously barren area (204.7 million ha.) in which a spatial ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    Edited by Tomás Chacón Rebollo, Rosa Donat, Inmaculada Higueras ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, the scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and ... Read more

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  • The Last of Rosa

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    Set in the near future the world as we know it has turned toxic. Global warming has left the majority of the planet uninhabitable. Skyscraper cities form the last strongholds against the fast-growing deserts that have taken over the globe. The survival of humankind is challenged by diseases, water shortages and food scarcity. In one of the massive battery farms that grow food for the living, Rosa ... Read more

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  • Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

    A Comparative Network Analysis

    Edited by Berit Karseth, Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for ... Read more

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  • Multimedia Forensics

    Edited by Husrev Taha Sencar, Luisa Verdoliva, Nasir Memon ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainment ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of the Ghetto (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Study of the Jewish Quarter in New York

    by Hutchins Hapgood, Maeve Westcroft ...
    The Spirit of the Ghetto is a vivid study of New York's Jewish Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, attending to its theatres, sweatshops, cafés, synagogues, newspapers, and political clubs. Hapgood writes in a hybrid mode—part literary journalism, part urban sociology, part impressionistic portraiture—capturing the tensions between tradition and modernity, poverty and ... Read more

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  • Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains

    Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools

    Edited by Joanna Kołodziej, Matteo Repetto, Armend Duzha ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architectures, ... Read more

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