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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9264115625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInducing environmental innovation is a significant challenge to policy-makers. This book examines the challenges and illustrates them in three sectoral studies: alternative fuel vehicles, solid waste management and recycling, and green chemistry.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789264115613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInducing environmental innovation is a significant challenge to policy-makers. This book examines the challenges and illustrates them in three sectoral studies: alternative fuel vehicles, solid waste management and recycling, and green chemistry.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9264174575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a series of papers that explore the extent to which technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving climate change mitigation objectives.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9264226885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report evaluates Spain's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on biodiversity and the environmental performance of the private sector.
Author: Pietari Kääpä
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317232763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years the widely held misconception of the media as an ‘ephemeral’ industry has been challenged by research on the industry’s significant material footprint. Despite this material turn, no systematic study of this sector has been conducted in ways that considers the role of the media industries as consumers and users of a range of natural resources. Filling this gap, Environmental Management of the Media discusses the environmental management of the media industries in the UK and the Nordic countries. These Nordic countries, both as a set of small nations and as a regional constellation, are frequently perceived as some of the ‘greenest’ in the world, yet, not only is the footprint of the media industries practically ignored in academic research, but the very real stakes of the industries’ global impact are not comprehensively understood. Here, the author focuses on four key areas for investigating the material impact of Nordic media: (1) resources used for production and dissemination; (2) regulation of the media; (3) organizational management; and (4) labour practices. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that combines ecocritical analysis with interrogation of the political economy of the creative industries, Kääpä argues that taking the industries to task on their environmental footprint is a multilevel resource and organizational management issue that must be addressed more effectively in contemporary media studies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of media, communication and environmental studies.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2011-05-25
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 926411131X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries’ efforts to achieve green economic growth and development.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-11-28
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9264308113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is a joint effort by the OECD, UN Environment and the World Bank Group, supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. It focuses on how governments can move beyond the current incremental approach to climate action.
Author: Lynam, John
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0896292126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book—prepared by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), which is led by IFPRI—offers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution, current status, and future goals of agricultural research and development in Africa, including analyses of the complex underlying issues and challenges involved, as well as insights into how they might be overcome. Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is at a prospective tipping point. Growth has accelerated in the past decade, but is unsustainable given increasing use of finite resources. The yield gap in African agriculture is significant, and scenarios on feeding the world’s population into the future highlight the need for Africa to expand its agricultural production. Agricultural Research in Africa: Investing in Future Harvests discusses the need to shift to a growth path based on increased productivity—as in the rest of the developing world— which is essential if Africa is to increase rural incomes and compete in both domestic and international markets. Such a shift ultimately requires building on evolving improvements that collectively translate to deepening rural innovation capacity.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9264239812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell-timed and targeted innovation boosts productivity, increases economic growth and helps solve societal problems. But how can governments encourage more people to innovate more of the time? And how can government itself be more innovative? The OECD Innovation Strategy provides a set of ...
Author: Benedict Kingsbury
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 983
ISBN-13: 0192559095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japan-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPPA) of 2018 is the most far-reaching 'megaregional' economic agreement in force, with several major countries beyond its eleven negotiating countries also interested. Still bearing the stamp of the original US involvement before the Trump-era reversal, TPP is the first instance of 'megaregulation': a demanding combination of inter-state economic ordering and national regulatory governance on a highly ambitious substantive and trans-regional scale. Its text and ambition have influenced other negotiations ranging from the Japan-EU Agreement (JEEPA) and the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to the projected Pan-Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). This book provides an extensive analysis of TPP as a megaregulatory project for channelling and managing new pressures of globalization, and of core critical arguments made against economic megaregulation from standpoints of development, inequality, labour rights, environmental interests, corporate capture, and elite governance. Specialized chapters cover supply chains, digital economy, trade facilitation, intellectual property, currency levels, competition and state-owned enterprises, government procurement, investment, prescriptions for national regulation, and the TPP institutions. Country studies include detailed analyses of TPP-related politics and approaches in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Contributors include leading practitioners and scholars in law, economics, and political science. At a time when the WTO and other global-scale institutions are struggling with economic nationalism and geopolitics, and bilateral and regional agreements are pressed by public disagreement and incompatibility with digital and capital and value chain flows, the megaregional ambition of TPP is increasingly important as a precedent requiring the close scrutiny this book presents.
