The Clear Focus Initiative
The Clear Focus Initiative

Author: George Hohbach

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 3755788365

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The Clear Focus Initiative: based on excerpts from George Hohbach’s book “Why Symmetry Runs the Positive Circular Economy”, the Clear Focus Initiative demonstrates: Albert Einstein scientifically revealed that simple LOCAL SYMMETRY is the core principle of Nature, i.e., the cosmos. This is the principle that humanity needs maximum conscious clarity about. Local Symmetry is infinitely rich and inherently circular. This empowers each individual and consequently humanity as a whole with 3 simple, nature-based organizing principles to see with holistic awareness how a prosperous, eco-intelligent future for all-planet, people, business, AI-can be realized right now. The 3 steps of awareness to fully and clearly resonate & reconnect with Nature: Why local symmetry dictates Nature’s holistic design (order) How local symmetry underpins biodiversity and informs the nature-based, holistic design of the eco-intelligent Circular Economy-from regenerative agriculture to product design and manufacturing to AI How local symmetry is the core principle of Natural Law-centering around the local individual-and provides first-principle-based, measurable guidance for International Environmental Law, or simply conscious, holistic behavior

Stop Walking in Circles
Stop Walking in Circles

Author: Les Taylor

Publisher: Achievement Solutions, LLC

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0978654021

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Walking in Circles is the perfect metaphor for what happens to an individual or an organization that does not have a plan for getting them from where they are now to where they want to be. A five-year study from the Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany proved that absent some type of map or compass, people who are lost actually do walk in circular patterns. It's also true that individuals or organizations who do not have a plan for improving performance and productivity will, year after year, end up right back where they started.

Partnership, Collaborative Planning and Urban Regeneration
Partnership, Collaborative Planning and Urban Regeneration

Author: John McCarthy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1317083598

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Approaches to urban regeneration have changed dramatically throughout Europe and the USA over recent decades, drawing on notions of public-private partnership, growth coalitions and local spatial alliances. In this engaging book John McCarthy provides critical consideration of such theories in terms of their application to practice. He shows how these notions are used to explain the nature and underlying processes of urban development and to further objectives for urban regeneration. To test their applicability, he examines the case of Dundee, including the role of the Dundee Partnership, a model for many aspects of partnership working. The resulting conclusions suggest ways in which the practice of urban regeneration can be improved in terms of inclusion, equity and sustainability.

"Proof," Policy, and Practice

Author: Paul E. Lingenfelter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1000979156

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How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics, longing for more influence, may wrongly fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully. Policy makers and practitioners may doubt that academics can deliver ideas that will reliably yield desirable results. This book bridges the divide. It argues that unrealistic expectations lead to both unproductive research and impossible standards for “evidence-based” policy and practice, and it offers promising ways for evidence to contribute to improvement. It analyzes the utility and limitations of the different research methods that have been applied to policy and practice, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of educational reform strategies. It explains why using evidence for “accountability” often makes things worse rather than better.Paul Lingenfelter offers educational researchers and policy makers a framework for considering such questions as: What problems are important and accessible? What methods will be fruitful? Which help policy makers and practitioners make choices and learn how to improve? What information is relevant? What knowledge is valid and useful? How can policy makers and practitioners establish a more productive division of labor based on their respective capabilities and limitations? He cautions against the illusion that straight-forward scientific approaches and data can be successfully applied to society’s most complex problems. While explaining why no single policy or intervention can solve complex problems, he concludes that determination, measurement, analysis, and adaptation based on evidence in specific situations can lead to significant improvement. This positive, even-handed introduction to the use of research for problem-solving concludes by suggesting emerging practices and approaches that can help scholars, practitioners, and policy leaders become more successful in reaching their fundamental goals.

Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Advanced Information Systems Engineering

Author: Jelena Zdravkovic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 3319190695

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2015, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2015. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: social and collaborative computing; business process modeling and languages; high volume and complex information management; requirements elicitation and management; enterprise data management; model conceptualisation and evolution; process mining, monitoring and predicting; intra- and inter-organizational process engineering; process compliance and alignment; enterprise IT integration and management; and service science and computing. The book also contains the abstracts of 3 keynote speeches and 5 tutorials, presented at the conference.

Development and Poverty Reduction
Development and Poverty Reduction

Author: Yongnian Zheng

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 100065009X

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Although the absolute number of poor people in the world has declined significantly in recent decades, poverty reduction continues to be a very important issue. There still are very large numbers of poor people, relative poverty is an increasingly concerning problem, and progress on poverty reduction varies enormously from one part of the world to another. Factors contributing to poverty reduction include economic growth, economic integration, and specific poverty-reduction programs, which are often initiated by Western countries. This book considers poverty reduction from a global perspective. Development and Poverty Reduction looks at a wide range of specific subjects, across all continents. It highlights in particular how the issues are perceived from a non-Western perspective and especially how the rise of China is both having a profound impact on poverty reduction globally and also changing the overall way in which development and poverty reduction are approached. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues
Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues

Author: Bullen, Mark

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2006-09-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1591409527

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Higher education institutions around the world are increasingly turning to e-learning as a way of dealing with growing and changing student populations. Education for the knowledge society means new skills and knowledge are needed and it means that lifelong learning has become a necessity. Higher education institutions are looking to e-learning to provide convenient and flexible access to high quality education and training that is needed to meet these emerging demands. As they implement e-learning, however, institutions are struggling with the many pedagogical, organizational and technological issues. Making the Transition to E-learning: Strategies and Issues provides insights and experiences from e-learning experts from around the world. It addresses the institutional, pedagogical, and technological issues that higher education institutions are grappling with as they move from conventional face-to-face teaching to e-learning in its diverse forms.

Key Regulatory Initiatives in EU Sustainable Banking
Key Regulatory Initiatives in EU Sustainable Banking

Author: Alexandra-Cristina Hanganu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9004543198

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With temperature exhibiting a growing trend and posing threats to future generations, the Paris Agreement set a cap level of no more than 2°C for the temperature increase, emphasizing the need for cross-national participation to combat climate change. At the European level, the European Commission pledged to make Europe achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century. However, to deliver on its commitment, extensive financial support and engagement from both private and public-sector players were acknowledged as requisites. Therefore, through their funding mechanism, banks assumed a leading role in financing the transition to a green economy. However, a new challenge of systemic nature – i.e. ESG risks – emerged, gaining regulatory attention and subsequently triggering numerous regulatory reforms. Therefore, this study explores the current European regulatory environment addressing sustainability, aiming to identify whether such regulatory frameworks can be considered a strategic opportunity, or contrastingly, a strategic burden for credit institutions.