Powering Prosperity

Author : Indranil Ghosh
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642933090
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powering Prosperity written by Indranil Ghosh and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world’s wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities “hollowed out” by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their feet. How can we even begin to contemplate solutions to such immense and persistent problems? In Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor, an entrepreneur, and an MIT-trained scientist, to provide a new framework for understanding the world’s challenges and the choices societies must make to address them. Central to Dr. Ghosh’s roadmap for positive change is a more inclusive form of governance, a collaborative model of long-term investment between public and private capital, and the empowerment of local communities to unleash their innovative and entrepreneurial energy.

Author : Indranil Ghosh
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 9781642933086
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powering Prosperity written by Indranil Ghosh and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For better or worse, the choices citizens make today will shape human history for decades to come. Since the Global Financial Crisis, we have been approaching a crossroad in modern human history. The top 1 percent of people own more than half of the world’s wealth, while hundreds of millions suffer in extreme poverty. Governments quarrel over the politics of environmental policy, even as climate change poses an existential threat to life on the planet. And communities “hollowed out” by the forces of globalization still struggle to stand on their feet. How can we even begin to contemplate solutions to such immense and persistent problems? In Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor, an entrepreneur, and an MIT-trained scientist, to provide a new framework for understanding the world’s challenges and the choices societies must make to address them. Central to Dr. Ghosh’s roadmap for positive change is a more inclusive form of governance, a collaborative model of long-term investment between public and private capital, and the empowerment of local communities to unleash their innovative and entrepreneurial energy.

Author : K. R. Rao
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319751344
Total Pages : 1443 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wind Energy for Power Generation written by K. R. Rao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 1443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This far-reaching resource covers a full spectrum of multi-faceted considerations critical for energy generation decision makers considering the adoption or expansion of wind power facilities. It contextualizes pivotal technical information within the real complexities of economic, environmental, practical and socio-economic parameters. This matrix of coverage includes case studies and analysis from developed and developing regions, including North America and Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle-East and Africa. Crucial issues to power generation professionals and utilities such as: capacity credits; fuel saving; intermittency; penetration limits; relative cost of electricity by generation source; growth and cost trends; incentives; and wind integration issues are addressed. Other economic issues succinctly discussed inform financial commitment to a project, including investment matrices, strategies for economic evaluations, econometrics of wind energy, cost comparisons of various investment strategies, and cost comparisons with other energy sources. Due to its encompassing scope, this reference will be of distinct interest to practicing engineers, policy and decision makers, project planners, investors and students working in the area of wind energy for power generation.

Author : Nidhi Tandon
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 1780772882
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises, Power, and Poverty written by Nidhi Tandon and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Haykel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194191
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saudi Arabia in Transition written by Bernard Haykel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

Author : Mary Gowan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071927396
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Human Resource Management written by Mary Gowan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management for Competitive Advantage delves into the essential principles and practices of human resource management with a focus on gaining a competitive edge in the modern business landscape. A wide variety of learning tools in each chapter keeps students engaged and helps them bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and real-world applications.

Author : Mary Gowan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071927434
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Resource Management written by Mary Gowan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage Human Resource Management: Managing Employees for Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition offers a strategic framework—applicable across large and small organizations—to efficiently recognize and empower the right talent in a rapidly evolving business environment. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, authors Mary Gowan, Beverly DeMarr, and Jannifer David enable students to learn about the various practices and tools that can be used for effective employee management, as well as how to leverage them in different situations. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It′s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

Author : Heidi M. Neck
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071858114
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Business written by Heidi M. Neck and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by bestselling authors Heidi M. Neck, Christopher P. Neck, and Emma L. Murray, Introduction to Business explores the fundamental building blocks of modern business while addressing social impact, ethics, and the power of innovation throughout. Cases on startups, small businesses, and corporations will ignite student interest as they learn from today’s most forward-looking organizations. Regardless of your students’ career aspirations, they will develop the mindset and skillset they need to succeed in their professional journeys.

Author : Christopher Grant Kirwan
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128170255
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence written by Christopher Grant Kirwan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence offers a comprehensive view of how cities are evolving as smart ecosystems through the convergence of technologies incorporating machine learning and neural network capabilities, geospatial intelligence, data analytics and visualization, sensors, and smart connected objects. These recent advances in AI move us closer to developing urban operating systems that simulate human, machine, and environmental patterns from transportation infrastructure to communication networks. Exploring cities as real-time, living, dynamic systems, and providing tools and formats including generative design and living lab models that support cities to become self-regulating, this book provides readers with a conceptual and practical knowledge base to grasp and apply the key principles required in the planning, design, and operations of smart cities. Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence brings a multidisciplinary, integrated approach, examining how the digital and physical worlds are converging, and how a new combination of human and machine intelligence is transforming the experience of the urban environment. It presents a fresh holistic understanding of smart cities through an interconnected stream of theory, planning and design methodologies, system architecture, and the application of smart city functions, with the ultimate purpose of making cities more liveable, sustainable, and self-sufficient. Explores concepts in smart city design and development and the transformation of cities through the convergence of human, machine, and natural systems enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) Includes numerous diagrams to illustrate and explain complex smart city systems and solutions Features diverse smart city examples and initiatives from around the globe

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722360
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muckrakers written by Louis Filler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Louis Filler's classic account carries the muckraking tradition through World War II, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, Korea, Vietnam, Ralph Nader, and Watergate.