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		<title>e-Transformation: Enabling New Development Strategies</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/12/07/e-transformation-enabling-new-development-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could information and communication technology (ICT) become the transformative tool for a new style of global development? Could ICT promote knowledge-based, innovation-driven, and smart, adaptive, participatory development? As countries seek a way out of the present period of economic contraction, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way organizations have learned to use ICT to transform their business models and strategies. This integration offers a new path to development that is responsive to the challenges of our times. In e-Transformation, Nagy Hanna identifies the key ingredients for the strategic integration of ICT into national development, with examples from around the world. He draws on his rich experience of over 35 years at the World Bank and other aid agencies to outline the strategic options involved in using ICT to maximize developmental impact—transforming public service institutions, networking businesses for innovation and competitiveness, and empowering communities for social inclusion and poverty reduction. He identifies the key interdependencies in e-transformation and offers a holistic framework to tap network effects and synergies across all elements of the process, including leadership, cyber policies, institutions, human resources, technological competencies, information infrastructure, and ICT uses for government, business, and society. Integrating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acting in an Uncertain World</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/26/acting-in-an-uncertain-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about &#8220;technical democracy.&#8221; They show how &#8220;hybrid forums&#8221;—in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together—reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded. The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Mad Cow Disease in the United Kingdom. They discuss the implications for political decision making in general, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change and Armed Conflict</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/26/climate-change-and-armed-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: &#8216;cold wars&#8217; and &#8216;hot wars&#8217;. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Design of Climate Policy</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/17/the-design-of-climate-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kyoto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change policy often take note of two issues: the feasibility and desirability of international cooperation on climate change policies, given the failure of the United States to ratify Kyoto and the very limited involvement of developing countries, and the optimal timing of climate policies. In this book essays by leading international economists offer insights on both these concerns. The book first considers the appropriate institutions for effective international cooperation on climate change, proposing an alternative to the Kyoto arrangement and a theoretical framework for such a scheme. The discussions then turn to the stability of international environmental agreements, emphasizing the logic of coalition forming and demonstrating the applicability of game-theoretical analysis. Finally, contributors address both practical and quantitative aspects of policy design, offering theoretical analyses of such specific policy issues as intertemporal carbon trade and implementation of a sequestration policy, and then by formal mathematical models examining policies related to the rate of climate change, international trade and carbon leakage, and the shortcomings of the standard Global Warming Potential index. Contributors: Philippe Ambrosi, David F. Bradford, Barbara Buchner, Carlo Carraro, Parkash Chander, Stéphane De Cara, Damien Demailly, A. Denny Ellerman, Johan Eyckmans, Michael Finus, Elodie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Food: Production and Use</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/16/world-food-production-and-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comprehensive look at food production and consumption worldwide This global overview of agriculture discusses all of the primary aspects of food production and relates that information to human nutritional needs. It covers everything from food crop production to food preparation. Beginning with a detailed description of representative farms in different climates, World Food: Production and Use: Describes how and where food is produced and who produces it Compares and contrasts different farming systems and describes how local culture and environment influence food production and use Contains detailed information on human nutrition Features specific information on: grain crops; vegetables; root crops; fruits, berries and nuts; and farm animals and fish Discusses factors that impact food production, including weather, soil, fertility, and water Includes a chapter on increasing food supplies Addresses some of the issues surrounding Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs)]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/15/poverty-dynamics-interdisciplinary-perspectives/</link>
		<comments>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/15/poverty-dynamics-interdisciplinary-perspectives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists. The contributions included highlight the need to conceptualise poverty from a multidimensional perspective and promote Q-Squared research approaches, or those that combine quantitative and qualitative research. The first part of the book provides a review of the research on poverty dynamics in developing countries. Part Two focuses on poverty measurement and assessment, and discusses the most recent work of world-leading poverty analysts. The third part focuses on frameworks for understanding poverty analysis that avoid measurement and instead utilize approaches based on social relations and structural analysis. There is widespread consensus that poverty analysis should focus on poverty dynamics and this book shows how this idea can practically be taken forward.]]></description>
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		<title>Killing in War</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/13/killing-in-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and that the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that in most cases it is morally wrong to fight in a war that is unjust.]]></description>
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		<title>An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/08/189/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (generally referred to by the short title The Wealth of Nations) is the magnum opus written by Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith and was first published in 1776. It is an account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a rhetorical piece written for the generally educated individual of the 18th century &#8211; advocating a free market economy as more productive and more beneficial to society. The work is credited as a landmark work in history and economics due to its comprehensive, largely accurate characterization of economic mechanisms that survive in modern economics; and also for its effective use of rhetorical technique, including structuring the work to contrast real world examples of free and fettered markets.]]></description>
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		<title>Contagion and Chaos</title>
		<link>http://bookpasta.net/blog/2009/11/08/contagion-and-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bookpasta.net/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. InContagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as &#8220;disease amplifiers.&#8221; Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as Mad Cow Disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present [...]]]></description>
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