Record thumbnail image Addressing climate challenges with innovation :
Title | Record thumbnail image Addressing climate challenges with innovation : PDF eBook |
Author | World Intellectual Property Organization |
Publisher | WIPO |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Science |
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This guide is designed to help young people better understand the ways in which they can use innovation in the climate crisis response. Created to facilitate group discussions and inspire action, the guide incorporates theoretical resources and practical tools for using green technologies and intellectual property to empower youth in their efforts to address climate change.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Title | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Gates |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2021-02-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0385546149 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
World Development Report 2010
Title | World Development Report 2010 PDF eBook |
Author | World Bank |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2009-11-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0821379887 |
In the crowded field of climate change reports, 'WDR 2010' uniquely: emphasizes development; takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation; highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape; and proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.
Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
Title | Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Edwards |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2016-02-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 131700552X |
Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise. After an introduction setting out the range of questions and problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and ways of thinking about photographs in museums. Shifting the emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the space of the gallery, this is followed by a series of case studies of exhibitionary practices and the museum strategies that support them. The third section focuses on the role of photographs in the museum articulation of ’difficult histories’. A final section addresses photograph collections in a digital environment. New technologies and new media have transformed the management, address and purposing in photographs in museums, from cataloguing practices to streaming on social media. These growing practices challenge both traditional hierarchies of knowledge in museums and the location of authority about photographs. The volume emerges from PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded project on museums and the photographic legacy of the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural Europe.
Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1472 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Law |
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Title | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Office of Management and Budget |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1058 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Economic assistance, Domestic |
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Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.
Resources in Education
Title | Resources in Education PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1994-06 |
Genre | Education |
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