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Author: Simon Marvin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351862677 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 456
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All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the governance of sustainability transitions through urban living labs. Notably, urban living labs are proliferating rapidly across the globe as a means through which public and private actors are testing innovations in buildings, transport and energy systems. Yet despite the experimentation taking place on the ground, we lack systematic learning and international comparison across urban and national contexts about their impacts and effectiveness. We have limited knowledge on how good practice can be scaled up to achieve the transformative change required. This book brings together leading international researchers within a systematic comparative framework for evaluating the design, practices and processes of urban living labs to enable the comparative analysis of their potential and limits. It provides new insights into the governance of urban sustainability and how to improve the design and implementation of urban living labs in order to realise their potential.
Author: Simon Marvin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351862677 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 456
Book Description
All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the governance of sustainability transitions through urban living labs. Notably, urban living labs are proliferating rapidly across the globe as a means through which public and private actors are testing innovations in buildings, transport and energy systems. Yet despite the experimentation taking place on the ground, we lack systematic learning and international comparison across urban and national contexts about their impacts and effectiveness. We have limited knowledge on how good practice can be scaled up to achieve the transformative change required. This book brings together leading international researchers within a systematic comparative framework for evaluating the design, practices and processes of urban living labs to enable the comparative analysis of their potential and limits. It provides new insights into the governance of urban sustainability and how to improve the design and implementation of urban living labs in order to realise their potential.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309127106 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 70
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The world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes are already affecting many aspects of human society and the natural world. In this book, the National Research Council provides a broad overview of the ecological impacts of climate change, and a series of examples of impacts of different kinds. The book was written as a basis for a forthcoming illustrated booklet, designed to provide the public with accurate scientific information on this important subject.
Author: B. Jank Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 1483105636 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 598
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Instrumentation, Control and Automation of Water and Wastewater Treatment and Transport Systems 1993 comprises a selection of manuscripts on the development of control strategies and their applications and on the status and future directions of Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (ICA) in the water and wastewater industry. The book starts by providing an overview of the status, the constraints and the future prospects for ICA in water and wastewater treatment and transport based on the survey responses of experts from 16 different countries. The text continues by presenting the need for dynamic modeling and simulation software to assist operations staff in developing effective instrumentation control strategies and to provide a training environment for the evaluation of such strategies. The book also covers the critical variables in system success; the use of an enterprise-wide computing that emphasizes the importance of strategic planning, performance measures, and human factors associated with the suggested implementation of applied technology; and the use of part-time unmanned operation at a large wastewater treatment plant. A functional approach based on the utility's water and wastewater functional requirements; the collection system monitoring and control; water distribution and control systems; dynamic modeling and simulation; and process control strategy and development are also considered. This book will be beneficial to biochemists, wastewater technologists, and public health authorities.
Author: I. C. Robledo Publisher: I. C. Robledo ISBN: 8827593527 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 125
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Are You Ready to Change Your Life Around? Does it seem like everyone else is zooming ahead in life, but that you are like a hamster on a wheel – in motion, but not getting anywhere? Millions of people around the world feel like this too. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way…. Whether you want to earn more money, lose weight, meet new friends, or make another life change, Ready, Set, Change will help you accomplish this and more. A problem with the advice you may get from friends and family is that too often, it won’t actually apply to your personal situation. Now there is a tested and proven system to make progress in key areas of your life. The best part is you will be able to make changes that work for you, specifically, not just for a “general audience”. Internationally bestselling author I. C. Robledo has discovered a way to make long-lasting improvements in many areas of his life. He knows that making a change is not always easy, but with the proven systems inside you will have the road map you need to create the life you want. Inside, you will discover: - What “life experiments” are, and why they are the best way to make the biggest improvements in the shortest time - How to take control of your life, instead of being a victim of circumstances - Why failures aren’t as bad as most people think, and how to use them to your advantage - How the author’s life experiments led him to multiply his focus, come up with hundreds of creative ideas per day, and design the perfect life schedule - Why the language you use and the questions you ask will impact your ability to change Change your life for the better with Ready, Set, Change. Ready, Set, Change will help you to change your mind and life however you need to, to get to where your heart desires for you to land. Experimenting in daily life has so many perks and can help with all facets of life. Most of us think of experiments as happening in the laboratory with scientists, but it doesn’t hurt for us to develop an experimental mindset in our daily lives. Taking this approach will open us up to new worlds of achievement, mastery, and success. This book is ideal for high school and college students, gifted and talented students, standardized test takers, teachers, educators, adult learners, independent learners and self-starters, school administrators, managers and leaders, and parents. It’s also perfect for people who like to experiment with everyday life to see what variables they can control and manipulate in order to maximize results. If you like experimentation of any kind, you will find a way to get to the next level here. Similar authors you may have enjoyed include Sean Patrick, Daniel Coyle, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pressfield, Walter Isaacson, Michael Michalko, Ed Catmull, David McRaney, Tony Buzan, Barbara Oakley, Joshua Foer, Sanjay Gupta, Harry Lorayne, Edward de Bono, Joseph Murphy, John C. Maxwell, Robert Greene, Peter Hollins, Peter C. Brown, Jim Kwik, and Josh Waitzkin. Similar genres of books you tend to read will be nonfiction, self-help, self-improvement, personal development, mind and brain improvement, philosophy, applied psychology, biographies and memoirs, education, learning, academic, textbooks, health, mind & body, business and investing, religion and spirituality, and Christian books. If you liked The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi, or Change Yourself: How to Control Your Life and Recreate Your Destiny by Robin Sacredfire, then you won’t want to miss this book. Ready, Set, Change is available as an eBook and audiobook. Pick up your copy today by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking BUY NOW.
Author: Abate, Gashaw Tadesse Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 10
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The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to address a wide array of development issues has gained considerable attention among governments, practitioners, and researchers in recent years (Lwoga and Sangeda 2019). While early studies focused on mobile phones and text messaging, attention is quickly shifting to other media, including video. Many studies on the use of video as a medium explore how increased access and consumption of information can lead to behavior changes that ultimately result in welfare-improving outcomes. This study explores whether video-mediated extension leads to the increased, sustained uptake of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and practices by small-scale farmers. Over the two-year period of 2017–2018, the Government of Ethiopia and Digital Green conducted the large-scale rollout of a video-mediated extension approach. We examine the impact of this rollout on a range of outcome indicators, including whether targeting the video-mediated approach to both spouses of a household was more effective than targeting the (typically male) household head alone. Our main outcomes of interest include farmer uptake of the subject technologies and the yield gains resulting from these technologies. Our study provides insights into the mechanisms behind the observed effects and an analysis of the approach’s cost effectiveness. Our results demonstrate that the video-mediated extension approach led to increases in farmer uptake of improved agricultural technologies and practices. In the first year of the experiment, we find an overall 6 percentage point increase in technology uptake, which translates into a 10 percent increase over the mean of the control group. An analysis of uptake by type of technology shows that the video-mediated approach resulted in an increase of 13, 20, and 15 percent over control group means for row planting, precise seeding rate, and urea top/side dressing, respectively. These results endure in the second year of the experiment, pointing to farmers’ effective uptake of the technology beyond a mere trial in one production season. Upon exploring the mechanisms that explain these adoption effects, we find that the video-mediated extension approach led to an increase in extension reach, with a 35 percent increase in farmers’ attendance at extension sessions (likely due to interest in the video medium). Among farmers assigned to the video-mediated extension approach, we also find a higher level of technical understanding of focal agricultural technologies and practices. While our results suggest greater participation and knowledge gains among (typically female) spouses who also participated in the video-mediated extension approach, we do not find clear evidence that targeting both spouses led to higher rates of technology uptake.
Author: Stefan H. Thomke Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1633697118 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 252
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Don't fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer experiences without running these experiments? They fly blind. That's what Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows in this rigorously researched and eye-opening book. It guides you through best practices in business experimentation, illustrates how these practices work at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions: What makes a good experiment? How do you test in online and brick-and-mortar businesses? In B2B and B2C? How do you build an experimentation culture? Also, best practice means running many experiments. Indeed, some hugely successful companies, such as Amazon, Booking.com, and Microsoft, run tens of thousands of controlled experiments annually, engaging millions of users. Thomke shows us how these and many other organizations prove that experimentation provides significant competitive advantage. How can managers create this capability at their own companies? Essential is developing an experimentation organization that prizes the science of testing and puts the discipline of experimentation at the center of its innovation process. While it once took companies years to develop the tools for such large-scale experiments, advances in technology have put these tools at the fingertips of almost any business professional. By combining the power of software and the rigor of controlled experiments, today's managers can make better decisions, create magical customer experiences, and generate big financial returns. Experimentation Works is your guidebook to a truly new way of thinking and innovating.
Author: Claes Wohlin Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642290442 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 249
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Like other sciences and engineering disciplines, software engineering requires a cycle of model building, experimentation, and learning. Experiments are valuable tools for all software engineers who are involved in evaluating and choosing between different methods, techniques, languages and tools. The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to empirical studies in software engineering, using controlled experiments. The introduction to experimentation is provided through a process perspective, and the focus is on the steps that we have to go through to perform an experiment. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides a background of theories and methods used in experimentation. Part II then devotes one chapter to each of the five experiment steps: scoping, planning, execution, analysis, and result presentation. Part III completes the presentation with two examples. Assignments and statistical material are provided in appendixes. Overall the book provides indispensable information regarding empirical studies in particular for experiments, but also for case studies, systematic literature reviews, and surveys. It is a revision of the authors’ book, which was published in 2000. In addition, substantial new material, e.g. concerning systematic literature reviews and case study research, is introduced. The book is self-contained and it is suitable as a course book in undergraduate or graduate studies where the need for empirical studies in software engineering is stressed. Exercises and assignments are included to combine the more theoretical material with practical aspects. Researchers will also benefit from the book, learning more about how to conduct empirical studies, and likewise practitioners may use it as a “cookbook” when evaluating new methods or techniques before implementing them in their organization.
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