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This book addresses increasing concerns regarding the relationship
between social capital and disaster, highlighting conceptual
definitions related to social capital and disaster, family,
community, vulnerability, disaster experience, and preparedness.
Focusing on a contemporary case of disaster management in Malaysia,
the authors explore and establish linkages between the level of
social capital and disaster preparedness among the indigenous Orang
Asli people. Taking the case of the Orang Asli families as a point
of departure, the book presents solutions for mobilizing social
capital for disaster preparedness through multi-stakeholder
involvement, promoting participation in awareness programs,
ensuring indigenous people’s access to resources, and proposing a
prioritization of local values and culture in enabling proper
planning and coordination for more disaster-resilient communities
in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and beyond. The book is broadly
relevant to cases in similar economic settings where indigenous
people are lagging behind in disaster preparedness. An excellent
resource for sociologists, this pioneering book collates various
concepts and theories relating to social and ecological networks
and systems, family resilience, and stress and coping mechanisms.
It is relevant to researchers focused on disasters in developing
countries, globally, particularly those focused on indigenous
communities.Â
Shedding light on current transformations in payment mechanisms and
transparency of hospital performance data and prices, this volume
of Advances in Health Care Management presents findings on hospital
profitability, cost, and organizational structures. Divided into
two sections: 'Reimbursement, Cost and Profitability' and 'The Move
Towards Transparency', the chapters employ a variety of research
methodologies to explore the impact of transformation in payment
and debt structures, profitability, and horizontal or vertical
integration on outcomes such as price, clinical outcomes, and
health plan selection. The authors examine recent changes including
the redesign of the U.S. health care system to achieve higher
value, and the establishment of mechanisms that transform
reimbursement models and promote consumerism through transparency
of data. Additionally, the volume takes a look at the emerging
trend of transparency between health care stakeholders such as
patients, health care staff, hospitals, insurance companies, and
the government, providing a valuable insight into how the future
might look.
This book introduces the influence and impacts of green economy and
green growth on sustainable economic development. Combining
empirical and theoretical information, it provides detailed
descriptions of state-of-the-art approaches, methods and
initiatives from around the globe that illustrate green policies
and demonstrate how green growth can be implemented on an
international scale. It also includes analyses of specific issues,
such as public policies and sustainable development plans that
influence industry and increase trade in environmental goods and
services - the way to a greener economy, green tourism, green
agriculture, green learning and green equilibrium in modern
society. Matters such as green procurement, environmentally
oriented implementation strategies, and the importance of employee
skills in the development of a sustainable future workforce are
described, as well as a selection of tools that can be used to
foster sustainable growth, green economies and green growth. The
book also offers a timely contribution to the dissemination of
approaches and methods that improve the way we perceive and utilize
natural resources and the technologies designed to protect them.
Puts forward new ideas for creating a more sustainable future.
This book analyzes Africa's unprecedented economic growth, the
state of its financial sector, and the varied opportunities for
Islamic finance investors. It considers the role - potential and
realized - of Islamic finance in fostering financial inclusion in
areas such as banking, microfinance, capital market development,
insurance, and private equity business. The book stresses that
investing in Africa through Islamic finance will open new markets,
ensure higher profit margins, diversify risk, and create business
competition; and that these changes that will provide financial
products that can satisfying the desires and beliefs of all
consumers and unlock the real potential of the continent's
financial system. The book also looks into the rise of
international interest in Africa and concludes by scrutinizing the
challenges impeding further economic growth, as well as the
specific barriers that need to be addressed in order to promote the
implementation of Islamic finance. Investors, policymakers, and
academics ready to confront these challenges will find much of
value in this book.
This book introduces the influence and impacts of green economy and
green growth on sustainable economic development. Combining
empirical and theoretical information, it provides detailed
descriptions of state-of-the-art approaches, methods and
initiatives from around the globe that illustrate green policies
and demonstrate how green growth can be implemented on an
international scale. It also includes analyses of specific issues,
such as public policies and sustainable development plans that
influence industry and increase trade in environmental goods and
services - the way to a greener economy, green tourism, green
agriculture, green learning and green equilibrium in modern
society. Matters such as green procurement, environmentally
oriented implementation strategies, and the importance of employee
skills in the development of a sustainable future workforce are
described, as well as a selection of tools that can be used to
foster sustainable growth, green economies and green growth. The
book also offers a timely contribution to the dissemination of
approaches and methods that improve the way we perceive and utilize
natural resources and the technologies designed to protect them.
Puts forward new ideas for creating a more sustainable future.
This book analyzes Africa's unprecedented economic growth, the
state of its financial sector, and the varied opportunities for
Islamic finance investors. It considers the role - potential and
realized - of Islamic finance in fostering financial inclusion in
areas such as banking, microfinance, capital market development,
insurance, and private equity business. The book stresses that
investing in Africa through Islamic finance will open new markets,
ensure higher profit margins, diversify risk, and create business
competition; and that these changes that will provide financial
products that can satisfying the desires and beliefs of all
consumers and unlock the real potential of the continent's
financial system. The book also looks into the rise of
international interest in Africa and concludes by scrutinizing the
challenges impeding further economic growth, as well as the
specific barriers that need to be addressed in order to promote the
implementation of Islamic finance. Investors, policymakers, and
academics ready to confront these challenges will find much of
value in this book.
This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on
food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and
following a top-down approach. Importantly, looking at the
sustainable food production, the authors compared the cost-benefit
of adaptation costs from 2015 to 2065. It was found that a 15%
adaptation capacity is more efficient for Malaysia in order to
combat the climate change effects on the food sector. This book has
developed a quantitative adaptive model namely, the Malaysian
Climate and Economy (MCE) model, based on the dynamic Computable
General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling structure to examine food
sustainability and adaptation strategies. Malaysia experiences an
unusual combination of droughts and extreme rainfall events that
can be attributed to climate change. These unusual events and
consequences leave Malaysian policymakers looking for ways to make
Malaysia self-sufficient in terms of agriculture. It is assumed
that climate change effects may result in increasing food
insecurity and vulnerability in the future. Policy measures are in
place to lessen the likely climatic effects overall, but there is
an urgent need to develop an adaptation policy for the future.
Niggerology 101 is a must read book; for every Afrikan man, woman,
and child. Niggerology 101 is the powerful new book, which both
honesty, and analytically scrutinizes both the word nigger, and the
mutant creations which evolved out of this word. The word nigger
all and them that illogically identify themselves as niggers and
niggas are a dysfunctional and devastatingly direct cultural
offense, to all constructive and socially progressive Afrikan
peoples. Day after day, that abominable word, nigger, is
frivolously tossed around with more and more casualness, and daily,
those of us for whom this iniquitous word was premeditatedly
fashioned; descend deeper, and deeper into the destructively
demoralizing depths of despair, despondency, and desperation.
Unbeknownst to most; Afrikans are the deliberate, and the
intentional targets of their wicked abomination. Nigger is an
iniquitous incantation, designed by malevolent people, to lead
Afrikan people into the throes damnation, devastation, and
ruination, upon its very invocation Certain vocalizations possess
enormous amounts of power, for the spoken word is a very
influential medium. The words we speak, constructed in deliberately
premeditated patterns, can lead us to hope, health, and happiness,
or death, destruction, and despair. The word nigger is an evil word
fashioned from the depths evil to constantly produce, reproduce and
broadcast the type of iniquitous damage that nigger encompasses.
Nigger has that much power AmeriKKKa long ago initiated her
unconstructive paradigm to fabricate niggers, and construct faux
nigger realities, and the slaves have long since fallen prey to
their nigger agendas. AmeriKKKa produces nigger music, nigger
movies, nigger fashions, and a host of the nigger things, for them
niggers, and niggas to do. Our oppressors have fashioned
paradoxical nigger paradigms, premeditated, by design to function
on the basic principles of, "trust, trick, and trap." They induce
Afrikans to trust those people which enslaved and oppress them; and
trick them into falling for the forged fallacies, and dreams of
being prosperous niggers, getting nigger rich; and trap niggers,
into the never-ending cycles of, forever chasing superficial
shadows, and faux fantasies designed to eviscerate, incarcerate,
and surreptitiously annihilate all Afrikan people. This book/lesson
plan is a tutorial of essays, observations and poetry intended to
assist in the stimulation, education, and revitalization of the
Afrikan mind, body, and soul. This book is being created as a
heartfelt effort to guide back the innumerable multitudes of
Afrikans, who have candidly succumbed to the carefully crafted
deceptions of bigoted oppressors. This book/lesson plan is being
written especially for those who think that they can change
definitions; by endeavoring to put positive spins on sin. You can't
put positive spins on sin. "Where my niggas at?" They are lost,
within AmeriKKKa's ghettoes, jails, penitentiaries, and the prisons
of their own minds Mustafa Rasul Al-Amin
Across the world, companies are trying to create a sustainable
platform through a supply chain to minimize the environmental
impact of their product lines and services on the world's
ecosystem. Enhancing eco-awareness at every operational level of
business operations can positively improve a specific
organization's reputation and legitimize business operation.
Furthermore, sustainable supply chain operations also positively
contribute to financial performance by enhancing productivity and
cost-saving. Emerging Trends in Sustainable Supply Chain Management
and Green Logistics provides relevant practical and theoretical
frameworks and the latest empirical research results in sustainable
supply chain management and considers the strategic role of green
logistics and supply chain management, proper treatment of
end-of-life products recycling, emerging trends, and improvements
in supply chain management and logistics operations. Covering key
topics such as green purchasing, circular economy, and sustainable
development, this reference work is ideal for industry
professionals, business owners, managers, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
Across the world, companies are trying to create a sustainable
platform through a supply chain to minimize the environmental
impact of their product lines and services on the world's
ecosystem. Enhancing eco-awareness at every operational level of
business operations can positively improve a specific
organization's reputation and legitimize business operation.
Furthermore, sustainable supply chain operations also positively
contribute to financial performance by enhancing productivity and
cost-saving. Emerging Trends in Sustainable Supply Chain Management
and Green Logistics provides relevant practical and theoretical
frameworks and the latest empirical research results in sustainable
supply chain management and considers the strategic role of green
logistics and supply chain management, proper treatment of
end-of-life products recycling, emerging trends, and improvements
in supply chain management and logistics operations. Covering key
topics such as green purchasing, circular economy, and sustainable
development, this reference work is ideal for industry
professionals, business owners, managers, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
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