A Fragile Future

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Fragile Futures

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Author : Vito Tanzi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-19

Fragile Futures written by Vito Tanzi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Business & Economics categories.

Governments have not adequately prepared for unpredictable events such as climate change and pandemics, which require global responses.

Fragile Future

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Author : Ahmed Rashid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Fragile Future written by Ahmed Rashid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.

Insatiable Curiosity

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Author : Helga Nowotny
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-08-13

Insatiable Curiosity written by Helga Nowotny and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.

An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity. Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of untrammeled curiosity; innovation, however, responds to the needs and desires of society. Innovation, argues influential European science studies scholar Helga Nowotny, tames the passion of science, harnessing it to produce “deliverables.” Science brings uncertainties; innovation successfully copes with them. Society calls for both the passion for knowledge and its taming. This ambivalence, Nowotny contends, is an inevitable result of modernity. In Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny explores the strands of the often unexpected intertwining of science and technology and society. Uncertainty arises, she writes, from an oversupply of knowledge. The quest for innovation is society's response to the uncertainties that come with scientific and technological achievement. Our dilemma is how to balance the immense but unpredictable potential of science and technology with our acknowledgement that not everything that can be done should be done. We can escape the old polarities of utopias and dystopias, writes Nowotny, by accepting our ambivalence—as a legacy of modernism and a positive cultural resource.

Wilted

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Author : Julie Guthman
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-08-20

Wilted written by Julie Guthman and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Social Science categories.

Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth‐highest‐grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted, Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit’s production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.

Fragile Futures

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Author : Helle Samuelsen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-02-02

Fragile Futures written by Helle Samuelsen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-02 with Social Science categories.

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better future. Based on more than twenty years of research engagement with Burkina Faso, it is an ethnography of how rural citizens address ambiguities of sickness and care and try to secure a decent future for themselves and their families.

Economics For A Fragile Planet

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Author : Edward Barbier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-31

Economics For A Fragile Planet written by Edward Barbier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.

"Rethinking markets, institutions and governance"--Cover.

The New Humanitarians In International Practice

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Author : Zeynep Sezgin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-14

The New Humanitarians In International Practice written by Zeynep Sezgin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-14 with Business & Economics categories.

As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in their transnational organizational environment. It develops and applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular, it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology and international relations to identify both the structural and the situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and activities of these actors, and their different levels of commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research, organizational sociology, international relations, development studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action, development cooperation and migration issues.

Back To The Postindustrial Future

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Author : Felix Ringel
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-03-26

Back To The Postindustrial Future written by Felix Ringel and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-26 with Social Science categories.

How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

The State Development And Identity In Multi Ethnic Societies

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Author : Nicholas Tarling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-03

The State Development And Identity In Multi Ethnic Societies written by Nicholas Tarling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-03 with Philosophy categories.

This book examines ethnic communities, identity, economy, society and state, and the links between them, in a range of countries across Asia, challenging the widely held belief that an authoritarian political system is necessary to ensure communal co-existence in developing countries where ethnic minorities have a considerable economic presence.

Global Heritage Assemblages

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Author : Christoph Rausch
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-25

Global Heritage Assemblages written by Christoph Rausch and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Architecture categories.

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book describes how various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger and the Republic of the Congo, showing how this engagement produces problematizations of ‘the modern’, which ultimately indicate a need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing, epochal and spatial culture.