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Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231003196
Author : Aurona Gerber,Richard Baskerville
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031328084
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2023, which was held in Pretoria, South Africa, from May 31–June 2, 2023. The 29 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Design-oriented Research for Society 5.0 (Theme Track); Design of Systems Using Emerging Technologies; Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI); Healthcare Systems and Quality of Life; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Emerging DSR Methods and Processes; Education and DRS; Human Safety and Cybersecurity; Co-Desing and Collective Creativity for Addressing Grand Challenges; and Sustainability and Responsible Design.
Author : Department of Science and Technology, South Africa,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123852464
Contains papers from OECD-South Africa Workshop on International Science and Technology Co-operation for Sustainable Development, 21-22 November 2005, held at Kwa-Maritane, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.
Author : Sobratee-Fajurally, N.,Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on West and Central African Food Systems Transformation
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The report creates contexts for a systemic understanding of the CGIAR Transforming agric-food system (TAFS-WCA) initiative starting with work package (WP) 3 and expanding the causality effects across the other WPs of the Initiative. The main focus of WP3 is inclusive landscape management, whereby access to and proper use of land and water resources is a prerequisite to building a healthy, productive environment for resilient agri-food systems and livelihoods. Mapping synergies with other Work Packages ensure that respective contributions are integrated and impactful. The process intends to provide policymakers, researchers, and practitioners with a strategic framework to activate solutions temporarily with a stakeholder-defined suite of scenarios.
Author : Alexandros Gasparatos,Merle Naidoo,Abubakari Ahmed,Alice Karanja,Kensuke Fukushi,Osamu Saito,Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811553585
The aim of this two-volume book series is to highlight some of the most pervasive sustainability challenges that Sub-Saharan Africa faces. The two volumes contain 20 chapters that illustrate very diverse sustainability challenges throughout the continent, adopting interdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches, and methods from the natural and the social sciences. The very diverse case study chapters are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and interdisciplinary approach the two volumes provide an authoritative source about the major sustainability challenges in the continent, and how to mobilise such perspectives to develop appropriate solutions. The two volumes have a uniquely broad focus that fills a major gap in the emerging Sustainability Science scholarship. Parts I-II highlight specific case studies on major sustainability challenges from Eastern and Southern Africa. Part III synthesizes the main lessons learnt from the chapters in the two edited volumes.
Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0850927420
Through country case studies centred around Sub-Saharan Africa; this book provides critical insights into why science and technology should be popularised; what and whose science and technology systems should be introduced and promoted; and how science and technology should be implemented and practised.
Author : Walter Leal Filho,Rudi Pretorius,Luiza Olim de Sousa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030746933
This book serves the purpose of documenting and promoting African experiences on sustainable development, which encompasses both, formal and non-formal education. Sustainable development is very important to Africa, but there is a paucity of publication which documents and promotes experiences from African countries. Due to their complexity, the interrelations between social, economic and political factors related to sustainable development, especially at universities, need to be better understood. There is also a real need to showcase successful examples of how African institutions are handling their sustainability challenges. It is against this background that this book has been produced. It is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies and private companies, undertaking research and/or executing projects focusing on sustainability from across Africa. As African nations strive to pursue the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it is imperative to cater for the information needs seen across the continent and foster the dissemination of experiences and case studies, which may support both, on-going and future efforts. The scope of the book is deliberately kept wide, and we are looking for contributions across the spectrum of sustainable development from business and economics, to arts and fashion, administration, environment, languages and media studies.
Author : Alexandros Gasparatos,Abubakari Ahmed,Merle Naidoo,Alice Karanja,Kensuke Fukushi,Osamu Saito,Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811544583
The aim of this 2-volume book is to highlight how Sustainability Science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces. The volumes collect a number of local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences. These are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges such using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach the proposed volume will provide an authoritative source that will pack in a single volume a large amount of information on how Sustainability Science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts. While there have been general books about sustainability science, none has had a strong African focus. As a result the 2-volume set fills a major gap in the Sustainability Science scholarship. This volume sets the stage for the series. Part I introduces key sustainability challenges in Africa. Parts II‐III highlights specific case studies related to these challenges from West and Central Africa.
Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030465902
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004506
Author : Alina Mihaela Dima,Elena Rodica Danescu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031282553
Through the lens of multi- and interdisciplinarity, this book highlights the potential of progress in cloud computing technologies, metaverse development, and digital transformation in charting a path to economic and social recovery, governance process and societal evolution enabling to tackle the global polycrises triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The book is an outcome of the 5th International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, ICESS 2022, Bucharest, Romania.
Author : Doris Schroeder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031578960
Author : R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137493071
This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with specific reference to South Africa in both the past and the present.
Author : Giuseppe Faldi,Axel Fisher,Luisa Moretto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030849061
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.
Author : Artemis Skarlatidou,Muki Haklay
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781787356122
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, ‘geographic citizen science’ is being approached from different angles. Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds. Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area.