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`In this book, Tamm Hallstroem and Bostroem provide us with useful
tools to make sense of the proliferation of new rules and standards
established by multi-stakeholder initiatives. Focusing on cases of
the International Organization for Standardization, the Forest
Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council, they
examine struggles in the development of legitimate authority for
these standards. Their critical analysis highlights the obstacles
and problems these initiatives face and seeks to correct what they
see as overly optimistic assessments of these developments in the
current literature.' - Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo,
Canada `This book contributes to the lively contemporary
exploration of transnational governance in the making. It brings a
welcome focus on practices, strategies and conflicts in complex
multi-stakeholder processes of standardization. As such, it answers
current calls, in the literature, to take the question of power
seriously - power struggles in the process of governance making but
also power and authority as a result of that process. The question
of power and authority in the context of transnational governance
in the making is, undoubtedly, our collective new frontier. The
type of well-crafted and theoretically informed comparative study
proposed by Kristina Tamm Hallstroem and Magnus Bostroem is just
what we need today to move forward on this frontier.' - Marie Laure
Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France This enriching book provides
a novel analysis of the organizational processes behind the
establishment, maintenance, and challenges of non-state authority.
In doing so, it compares three transnational, multi-stakeholder
standard-setting processes: those of the Forest Stewardship
Council, the Marine Stewardship Council, and the International
Organization for Standardization on the subject of social
responsibility (ISO 26000). The authors theorize the fragility of
authority defined as legitimate power. They examine the problematic
nature of the long-term transnational multi-stakeholder work upon
which this authority is based, including the risks of being ruled
out by competing rule setters or being split apart by the
centrifugal forces inherent in the multi-stakeholder logics.
Scholars of organization studies, sociology, political science, and
related disciplines will find this eloquent book of great
importance to their field. Practitioners, including standardization
experts, managers, management consultants, movement intellectuals,
as well as policymakers, should not be without this important book.
This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have
influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society
relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering
these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to
environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on
concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience,
environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are
well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a
multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize
underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key
questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do
they take into account society-environment relations? What social,
cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What
actions or practices do the concepts inspire? The transdisciplinary
engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts of
environment-society relations represented in these chapters is
needed in all spheres of society-in academia, policy and
practice-not the least to confront current tendencies of
anti-reflexivity and denialism.
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October Child (Paperback)
Linda Bostroem Knausgard; Translated by Saskia Vogel
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From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostroem Knausgard was periodically
confined to a psychiatric ward and subjected to electroconvulsive
therapy, resulting in the loss of memories. This is the story of
her struggle against mental illness and isolation "(Bostroem
Knausgard's) first openly autobiographical book becomes an act of
self-examination powerful enough to match if not surpass those of
her ex-husband's."--The Guardian From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostroem
Knausgard was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she
was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at
this "factory" progressed, the writer's memories began to
disappear. What good is a writer without her memory? This book,
based on the author's experiences, is an eloquent and profound
attempt to hold on to the past, to create a story, to make sense,
and to keep alive ties to family, friends, and even oneself.
Moments from childhood, youth, marriage, parenting, and divorce
flicker across the pages of October Child. This is the story of one
woman's struggle against mental illness and isolation. It is a raw
testimony of how writing can preserve and heal.
During the past ten years, evidence has developed to indicate that
seawater convects through oceanic crust driven by heat derived from
creation of lithosphere at the Earth-encircling oceanic ridge-rift
system of seafloor spreading centers. This has stimulated multiple
lines of research with profound implications for the earth and life
sciences. The lines of research comprise the role of hydrothermal
convection at seafloor spreading centers in the Earth's thermal
regime by cooling of newly formed litho sphere (oceanic crust and
upper mantle); in global geochemical cycles and mass balances of
certain elements by chemical exchange between circulating seawater
and basaltic rocks of oceanic crust; in the concentration of
metallic mineral deposits by ore-forming processes; and in
adaptation of biological communities based on a previously
unrecognized form of chemosynthesis. The first work shop devoted to
interdisciplinary consideration of this field was organized by a
committee consisting of the co-editors of this volume under the
auspices of a NATO Advanced Research Institute (ARI) held 5-8 April
1982 at the Department of Earth Sciences of Cambridge University in
England. This volume is a product of that workshop. The papers were
written by members of a pioneering research community of marine
geologists, geophysicists, geochemists and biologists whose work is
at the stage of initial description and interpretation of
hydrothermal and associated phenomena at seafloor spreading
centers.
Introduction: Green Consumerism, Green Labelling?
The Historical Context Key Trends
Green Labels and other Eco-Standards: A Definition
The Consumers Role: Trusting, Reflecting or Influencing?
Our Cases
Sceptical and Encouraging Arguments
Policy Contexts and Labelling
Three Framing Strategies: From a Complex Reality to a Categorical
Label
Organizing the Labelling
Dealing with Mutual Mistrust
Green Labelling and Green Consumerism: Challenges and Horizons
As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with alarms
about food contamination, over-fishing, clear-felled forests, loss
of biodiversity, climate change, chemical pollution, and other
environmental and health-related risks. This book is an analysis of
a primary set of tools aimed at dealing with these risks: green
labels and other eco-standards. The authors address political,
regulatory, discursive, and organizational circumstances and raise
the questions: how can ecological complexities be translated into a
trustworthy and categorical label? Is there a mismatch between the
production and consumption of green labels? Is it possible to
achieve broad public participation in environmental issues through
labelling? This is a timely book that provides a social and
policy-oriented analysis of the challenges for green consumerism
through green labelling.
As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about
food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other
environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green
and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does
green labelling offer ways toward a greener and more democratic
society?
During the past ten years, evidence has developed to indicate that
seawater convects through oceanic crust driven by heat derived from
creation of lithosphere at the Earth-encircling oceanic ridge-rift
system of seafloor spreading centers. This has stimulated multiple
lines of research with profound implications for the earth and life
sciences. The lines of research comprise the role of hydrothermal
convection at seafloor spreading centers in the Earth's thermal
regime by cooling of newly formed litho sphere (oceanic crust and
upper mantle); in global geochemical cycles and mass balances of
certain elements by chemical exchange between circulating seawater
and basaltic rocks of oceanic crust; in the concentration of
metallic mineral deposits by ore-forming processes; and in
adaptation of biological communities based on a previously
unrecognized form of chemosynthesis. The first work shop devoted to
interdisciplinary consideration of this field was organized by a
committee consisting of the co-editors of this volume under the
auspices of a NATO Advanced Research Institute (ARI) held 5-8 April
1982 at the Department of Earth Sciences of Cambridge University in
England. This volume is a product of that workshop. The papers were
written by members of a pioneering research community of marine
geologists, geophysicists, geochemists and biologists whose work is
at the stage of initial description and interpretation of
hydrothermal and associated phenomena at seafloor spreading
centers.
This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have
influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society
relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering
these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to
environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on
concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience,
environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are
well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a
multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize
underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key
questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do
they take into account society-environment relations? What social,
cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What
actions or practices do the concepts inspire? The transdisciplinary
engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts of
environment-society relations represented in these chapters is
needed in all spheres of society-in academia, policy and
practice-not the least to confront current tendencies of
anti-reflexivity and denialism.
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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XV - 15th International Symposium, IDA 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, October 13-15, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Henrik Bostroem, Arno Knobbe, Carlos Soares, Panagiotis Papapetrou
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R2,825
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the
15th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, which
was held in October 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. The 36 revised full
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75
submissions. The traditional focus of the IDA symposium series is
on end-to-end intelligent support for data analysis. The symposium
aims to provide a forum for inspiring research contributions that
might be considered preliminary in other leading conferences and
journals, but that have a potentially dramatic impact.
This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to
the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for
a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of
responsibility and accountability. There is increasing pressure for
accountability, driven by such factors as the globalization of
markets, media reports of corporate misconduct, environmental
destruction and the violation of human rights. In response, this
book focuses on the development of accountability tools and
techniques as well as on the organizational arrangements and
political struggles behind such endeavours. This unique study
theorizes the emerging accountability and corporate social
responsibility movement at the transnational level. It focuses on
an increasingly recognized aspect of transnational organizational
life, which is often mentioned in recent literature, yet sparsely
analysed. Organizing Transnational Accountability will be an
important and invaluable read for researchers, policymakers and
students of social anthropology, sociology, organization theory,
political science and critical accounting at graduate levels and
above.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Quantum mechanics has radically changed our classical conception of
information and communication. The elementary unit of information,
the "bit," is replaced by the "qubit" which is a superposition of
zero and one. Several qubits can be entangled among each other so
that each qubit alone is neither zero nor one, nor any
superposition of it. If qubits are used to encode messages then
these "quantum messages" do not behave like ordinary ones. They
cannot be compressed without loss of information, and the process
of reading disturbs their content. Such apparent weaknesses,
however, give rise to a revolutionary concept of secure
communication... This book reviews the basic concepts of quantum
information, develops a theoretical framework for variable-length
quantum messages, derives some theorems, and introduces a novel
secure communication scheme, the so-called "Ping-Pong protocol,"
which has attracted some interest in the scientific community and
has recently been experimentally realized. The reader should be
roughly familiar with probability theory, linear algebra and basic
quantum mechanics.
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