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This book explores the link between environmental knowledge
management and the sustainability challenges being faced by
organisations, individuals and society. Comprising both theoretical
and empirical chapters, the volume describes how knowledge
management and organisational learning can help achieve a
sustainable tourism sector. Environmental knowledge has become one
of the most important resources for organisations in the current
competitive environment. Organisations need to turn their knowledge
into agile structures to respond to the challenges resulting from
current and future environmental challenges, and from increased
competitiveness and social changes. It is therefore important for
business decision-making processes to be based on environmental
knowledge instead of relying on unconfirmed, often biased
information. In this vein, reliable knowledge structures and a
framework become an imperative for sustainable development.
Development of these innovations shall be addressed through
systematic mechanisms such as integration of sustainability and
environmental issues, attention to technological innovation,
improved absorptive capacity, targeting social challenges as well
as investment in human resource development. The book will be of
great value to students and researchers of social sciences with a
focus on tourism, human geography, marketing, knowledge management
and environmental studies. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable
Tourism.
Research on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication
of quality research. This 30th volume features insightful and
original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. Mobility and Inequality Trends begins
by illustrating the trajectory of income inequality in the world
over the course of recent decades before the second paper makes a
crucial distinction between 'bad' inequality, which is detrimental
to society, and 'good' inequality, which is beneficial. Focus then
shifts to bad inequality, one paper covering the relationship
between intergenerational elasticity and inequality of opportunity,
and the second studying the relationship between intergenerational
mobility and life satisfaction in Spain. The volume then progresses
to defend the use of intermediate views of inequality when
constructing indicators of social welfare obtained through the use
of average income and the Gini coefficient before investigating the
advantage of using a multifaceted approach to income mobility
measurement. To conclude Mobility and Inequality Trends presents an
intensive exploration of income inequality in China and then
studies the effects of the policy measure "Minimum Living Income.
Finally, the last paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
on economic stimulus policies.
Stochastic Process Optimization using Aspen (R) Plus Bookshop
Category: Chemical Engineering Optimization can be simply defined
as "choosing the best alternative among a set of feasible options".
In all the engineering areas, optimization has a wide range of
applications, due to the high number of decisions involved in an
engineering environment. Chemical engineering, and particularly
process engineering, is not an exception; thus stochastic methods
are a good option to solve optimization problems for the complex
process engineering models. In this book, the combined use of the
modular simulator Aspen (R) Plus and stochastic optimization
methods, codified in MATLAB, is presented. Some basic concepts of
optimization are first presented, then, strategies to use the
simulator linked with the optimization algorithm are shown.
Finally, examples of application for process engineering are
discussed. The reader will learn how to link the process simulator
Aspen (R) Plus and stochastic optimization algorithms to solve
process design problems. They will gain ability to perform
multi-objective optimization in several case studies. Key Features:
* The book links simulation and optimization through numerical
analyses and stochastic optimization techniques * Includes use of
examples to illustrate the application of the concepts and specific
guidance on the use of software (Aspen (R) Plus, Excel, MATLB) to
set up and solve models representing complex problems. *
Illustrates several examples of applications for the linking of
simulation and optimization software with other packages for
optimization purposes. * Provides specific information on how to
implement stochastic optimization with process simulators. * Enable
readers to identify practical and economic solutions to problems of
industrial relevance, enhancing the safety, operation,
environmental, and economic performance of chemical processes.
Stochastic Process Optimization using Aspen (R) Plus Bookshop
Category: Chemical Engineering Optimization can be simply defined
as "choosing the best alternative among a set of feasible options".
In all the engineering areas, optimization has a wide range of
applications, due to the high number of decisions involved in an
engineering environment. Chemical engineering, and particularly
process engineering, is not an exception; thus stochastic methods
are a good option to solve optimization problems for the complex
process engineering models. In this book, the combined use of the
modular simulator Aspen (R) Plus and stochastic optimization
methods, codified in MATLAB, is presented. Some basic concepts of
optimization are first presented, then, strategies to use the
simulator linked with the optimization algorithm are shown.
Finally, examples of application for process engineering are
discussed. The reader will learn how to link the process simulator
Aspen (R) Plus and stochastic optimization algorithms to solve
process design problems. They will gain ability to perform
multi-objective optimization in several case studies. Key Features:
* The book links simulation and optimization through numerical
analyses and stochastic optimization techniques * Includes use of
examples to illustrate the application of the concepts and specific
guidance on the use of software (Aspen (R) Plus, Excel, MATLB) to
set up and solve models representing complex problems. *
Illustrates several examples of applications for the linking of
simulation and optimization software with other packages for
optimization purposes. * Provides specific information on how to
implement stochastic optimization with process simulators. * Enable
readers to identify practical and economic solutions to problems of
industrial relevance, enhancing the safety, operation,
environmental, and economic performance of chemical processes.
Research on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication
of quality research. This 28th volume features insightful and
original papers from the 8th Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The first paper of this volume
illustrates the trajectory of income inequality in wealthy
countries over the course of recent decades, while the second
carries out a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution
through taxes and transfers across OECD countries over the last two
decades. The next two papers cover the topic of income mobility,
one interpreting the Bartholomew index of mobility in terms of a
directional mobility index, and the second providing a framework
for the measurement of income mobility over a range of time
periods. A fifth paper studies the potential equalization of rising
educational attainment. The next paper investigates the effect the
number of children within different age groups has on poverty. In
the seventh, it is shown that a social planner who seeks to
efficiently reduce the aggregate relative deprivation of the
population, coincides with the Rawlsian social planner. Finally,
the last paper generalizes the Oaxaca-Blinder approach to measure
wage discrimination under imperfect information.
"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient
pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine "Juan
Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary
grandmaster of Colombia" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books A
morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author
of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins
(shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned
photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow
guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental
reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret.
And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in
1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman:
Aurelia de Leon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the
Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive
country's deep conservatism. The characters in Songs for the Flames
are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly,
sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are
irrevocably changed by the experience. Translated from the Spanish
by Anne McLean
Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains
papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the
effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income,
and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions.
Other papers address the evolution of wealth inequality (Piketty's
"r-g"), the decomposition of the determinants of wage
bi-polarization, a multidimensional analysis of food insecurity in
Israel, and the "paradox of progress" (educational) in Latin
America. Three papers address the intergenerational transmission of
inequality, two of which focus on Europe and one which considers a
wide variety of countries. The final two papers explore inequality
(mis) perceptions and the influence of the political structure on
stated inequality preferences.
This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality
and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to
deliver social mobility. It contains ten papers, some of which were
presented at the third meeting of The Theory and Empirics of
Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at Queen Mary University of
London, London, October 2016. The volume begins with theoretical
issues at the frontier of the literature. Three papers discuss the
impact of social welfare policies on poverty measurement, and with
innovations on the measurement of relative bipolarisation. Two
papers address the conceptualisation of multidimensional poverty by
incorporating inequality within the poor, and that of chronic
poverty for time dependent analyses, with applications to India and
Haiti, and Ethiopia respectively. The second half of the volume
consists of empirical contributions, using novel techniques and
datasets to investigate the dynamics of poverty and welfare. These
studies track the dynamics of poverty using unique datasets for
China, the Caucasus and Italy. The volume concludes with
investigations about within-household inequalities between siblings
due to the unequal effects of conditional cash transfers in
Cambodia and a cross-country study on the effect of historical
income inequality on entrepreneurship in developing countries.
The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and
methodological insights into the key issues in the field of
economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical
subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of
the Alfaguara Prize Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 'A
powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he
didn't choose to fight' The Times 'The story is compelling but
through Vasquez's vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by
the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting
... A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in
a country scrabbling to regain its soul' Financial Times No sooner
does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in
Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a
secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows
until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara's
investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s,
marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped
Colombia in a living nightmare.
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of
widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first
paper addresses the impact of "asset meltdown" on the wealth of the
US middle class, with disparate racial and ethnic impacts. The
second studies poverty and inequality in the US in the aftermath of
the Great Recession. The next topic is on the evolution of poverty
and inequality in the world. One paper proposes a new methodology
to measure global poverty and inequality, while the second analyzes
the importance of considering not only the desperately poor but
also those just above the subsistence level. Great interest for
inequality researchers lies on the use of wealth data. Two
approaches to this issue are presented. Firstly, several papers
study wealth inequality directly. Secondly, a paper uses annuitized
wealth data to augment the income measure of economic well-being.
An emerging field in the study of economic well-being is the use of
self-reported status and perceptions data. Three papers employ this
type of data, investigating happiness inequality, perception of
income inequality, and the existence of a "Great Gatsby Curve" for
job mobility.
Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the
measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to
widespread concern that health disparities reflect social
injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus
on inequality in income to the more encompassing analysis of
inequality in wellbeing. Researchers interested in the extent and
causes of variation in wellbeing cannot but turn their analytical
gaze on health inequalities. This volume contains methodological
and empirical contributions from leading experts in health
economics and economic inequality that add further momentum to a
thriving field of research. The focus is on methods for the
measurement of health inequalities (income related,
multidimensional and inequalities of opportunity) as well as the
analysis of their causes. The collection is essential reading for
researchers already working on health inequality and provides an
immediate reconnaissance of the frontiers for those entering this
exciting field.
This volume contains both theoretical and applied on the concept of
equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee
its members equal access to advantage regardless of their
circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that
access into actual advantage by the application of effort.
Theoretical papers discuss to what extent some of the measures of
inequality of opportunity meet the reward and the compensation
principles, a new methodology for evaluating long-term income
distributions, the implications of partial observability of
individuals' circumstances on the measurement of inequality of
opportunity and the advantages of applying segregation indices to
study inequality in life chances. The applied work investigates how
governments affect inequality of opportunity through the design of
their tax and transfer schemes in 15 European countries, the
changing role of circumstances for measuring inequality of
opportunity in Chile, the existence of a poverty trap in Haiti and
its consequences for equality of opportunity, and the correlation
between circumstances and effort in the measurement of inequality
of opportunity in U.S. during the period 1969-2007.
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Retrospective (Paperback)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez; Translated by Anne McLean
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"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He
thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke
made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In
October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera
is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a
difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died;
his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace
agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In
the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall
the events that marked the family's life, and especially his
father's, his sister Marianella's and his own. From the Spanish
Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America,
and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla
movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a
series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a
devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned
the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.
Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel. Translated
from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Advances and Developments in Biobutanol Production is a
comprehensive reference on the production and purification of
biobutanol, from the fundamentals to the latest advances. Focusing
on selection of biomass, choice of pretreatments, biochemistry and
design of fermentation, purification and biofuel application, the
book also provides details on biorefinery design, lifecycle
analysis, and offers perspectives on future developments. Through
detailed analysis, chapters show readers how to overcome the
challenges associated with the correct selection of raw material
and adequate biomass pretreatment, the selection of microorganisms
for fermenting biomass sugars, the purification of effluent coming
from fermentation, and the high energy demands of production.
Solutions are supported by step-by-step guidance on methodologies
and processes, with lab and industry-scale case studies providing
real-world examples of their implementation. This book provides
readers with a unique and comprehensive reference on the production
of biobutanol for biofuel that will be of interest to graduates,
researchers and professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable
energy.
This book describes for first time the synthesis and intensified
process design in the production of top biofuels. The production of
biofuels is not new. In 2019, global biofuel production levels
reached 1,841 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, in stark
comparison to the 187 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day
that was produced in 2000. Growth has largely been driven by
policies that encourage the use and production of biofuels due to
the perception that it could provide energy security and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in relevant sectors. From a technical
point of view, almost all fuels from fossil resources could be
substituted by their bio-based counterparts. However, the cost of
bio-based production in many cases exceeds the cost of
petrochemical production. Also, biofuels must be proven to perform
at least as good as the petrochemical equivalent they are
substituting and to have a lower environmental impact. The low
price of crude oil acted as a barrier to biofuels production and
producers focussed on the specific attributes of biofuels such as
their complex structure to justify production costs. Also, the
consumer demand for environmentally friendly products, population
growth and limited supplies of non-renewable resources has now
opened new windows of opportunity for biofuels. The industry is
increasingly viewing chemical production from renewable resources
as an attractive area for investment. This book uniquely introduces
the application of new process intensification techniques that will
allow the generation of clean, efficient and economical processes
for biofuels in a competitive way in the market.
Improvements in Bio-Based Building Blocks Production Through
Process Intensification and Sustainability Concepts discusses new
information on the production and cost of bio-based building
blocks. From a technical point-of-view, almost all industrial
materials made from fossil resources can be substituted using
bio-based counterparts. However, the cost of bio-based production
in many cases exceeds the cost of petrochemical production. In
addition, new products must be proven to perform at least as good
as their petrochemical equivalents, have a lower environmental
impact, meet consumer demand for environmentally-friendly products,
factor in population growth, and account for limited supplies of
non-renewables. This book outlines the application of process
intensification techniques which allow for the generation of clean,
efficient and economical processes for bio-based chemical blocks
production.
Intensified processes have found widespread application in the
chemical and petrochemical industries. The use of intensified
systems allows for a reduction of operating costs and supports the
"greening" of chemical processes. However, the design of
intensified equipment requires special methodologies. This book
describes the fundamentals and applications of these design
methods, making it a valuable resource for use in both industry and
academia.
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Translated by Anne McLean
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"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He
thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke
made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In
October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera
is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a
difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died;
his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace
agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In
the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall
the events that marked the family's life, and especially his
father's, his sister Marianella's and his own. From the Spanish
Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America,
and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla
movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a
series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a
devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned
the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.
Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel. Translated
from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Failed knowledge management projects have one element in common:
they fail to focus on the organization's core business functions
and instead choose functions that are easy or might produce
'low-hanging fruit'. As a result, often even successful knowledge
management projects add little value to the organization as they
fail to address the pain points of the heart of the business. So
how can knowledge management professionals position themselves for
greatest success? In this practical guide, expert authors Alexeis
Garcia-Perez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Denise Bedford, Margo
Thomas, and Susan Wakabayashi demonstrate how professionals can map
knowledge resources to support business critical capabilities, and
increase the impact of knowledge management projects. They also
explain how to avoid investing in resources with low value, and how
to develop strategies and action plans for different types of
resources. Providing practical guidance for professionals, and
including mini-case studies of successes and failures, this is an
essential book for any knowledge management professional,
researcher or student.
* National Bestseller
* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of
the "New York Times Book Review"
* One of NPR's 6 Best Books of the Summer
* "Esquire "recommends "The Sound of Things Falling" "if you read
only one book this month"
* Starred early reviews from" Publishers Weekly," "Booklist,"
"Library Journal," and "Kirkus"
* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others
From a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de force -
an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez has been hailed not only as one of South
America's greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most
acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought,
award-winning novel, Vasquez confronts the history of his home
country, Colombia. In the city of Bogota, Antonio Yammara reads an
article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once
owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The
article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar's
Medellin cartel and government forces played out violently in
Colombia's streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio
witnessed a friend's murder, an event that haunts him still. As he
investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and
his friend's family have been shaped by his country's recent
violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s
and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking
trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare. Vasquez is "one
of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,"
according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and "The Sound
of Things Falling "is his most personal, most contemporary novel to
date, a masterpiece that takes his writing--and will take his
literary star--even higher.
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