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"Rapid urbanization poses significant challenges for cities worldwide, demanding sustainable development solutions. However, traditional city management approaches often struggle to address the complex interplay of economic growth, technology, and environmental considerations. The lack of comprehensive guidance and practical strategies hinders the establishment of smart and sustainable cities, putting long-term urban sustainability and the well-being of present and future generations at risk.Management, Technology, and Economic Growth in Smart and Sustainable Cities provides a timely and essential solution to the intricate challenges faced by urban areas. Edited by renowned academic scholar Jorge Ruiz Vanoye, this book features practical contributions from experts across diverse fields. By leveraging mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, and advanced technologies, it offers tangible strategies and insights for the optimal management of smart and sustainable cities. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and executives involved in smart and sustainable city development, this book covers key topics such as smart governance, energy, healthcare, transportation, education, farming, industry, environment, and society. It equips readers with practical guidance and innovative solutions, empowering them to navigate the complexities of modern urban management, drive efficient resource utilization, enhance the quality of life, and foster sustainable economic growth."--

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Sensing, Automating, Mediating -- 1 Atmospheric Mediation: From Smart Dust to Customizable Governance -- The Politics of Verticality -- Vertical Mediation -- Atmospheric Mediation -- "Framelessness" -- Environmentality -- Automated Mediation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The Other Side of the Smart Phone: MEMS Sensors and the Tiny Matters of Mediation -- Manufacturing MEMS -- Drawing Relations -- Teardowns -- There's an App for That -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 EugenicTech: Three Perspectives on the (B)anality of AI -- Dominant Representations of AI Infrastructure as Enforced Neurotypicality -- Human in the Loop and the Banality of AI Evil -- Google's DeepDream and the Anality of AI -- Mario Klingemann's Expulsive AI -- Notes -- 4 Coding and Encoding Streamed Media: The Cultural Infrastructure of the Netflix Recommender System -- Algorithm as Infrastructure, Infrastructures as Algorithmic -- The Tale of the Netflix Recommender System -- The Configuration of Algorithmic Infrastructures -- Classification -- Categorization -- Codification -- The Power of Cultural Infrastructures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Engaging Opacity: Spotify and the Poiesis of Algorithmic Backends -- Opacity and Accountability -- Data Profiling as Interpellation -- The Missing Half-Second -- Feeding Forward -- Ethics on the Fly through Inauthentic Worlds -- Notes -- Part II: Datafying, Serving, Distributing -- 6 The Social Mapping of Hyperscale Data Center Regions: Placemaking, Infrastructuring, Curating -- Placemaking and Economic Development -- Infrastructuring -- Curating -- Infrastructural Geographies of Data Centers and Social Mapping of Their Regional Hosts -- Notes -- 7 Cross-sectoral Relations in VoD Markets: Frontend, Backend, and Deepend in India.

"This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention. No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. The handbook includes the current state of knowledge, the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challenges, as well as current and future priorities to identify where we need to go from here to prevent femicide/feminicide specifically, and male violence against women and girls overall. This transnational, multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral handbook will contribute to research, policy, and practice globally at a time when it is needed the most. The handbook brings a visible, global focus to the growing concern about femicide/feminicide, underscoring the importance of adopting a human rights framework in working towards its prevention, in an increasingly unstable global world for women and girls"--

Ce livre résulte d'une étude financée par le Fonds National de la Recherche d'Afrique du Sud. Il explore les facteurs de propagation de la COVID-19 en Afrique subsaharienne et son impact sur les systèmes socio-économiques et sanitaires. Il rassemble des articles rédigés pendant et après la crise sanitaire, offrant une perspective à chaud et une analyse rétrospective des enjeux de gouvernance pendant la pandémie. L'ouvrage examine les politiques de développement, les relations entre les zones urbaines et rurales, les vulnérabilités des systèmes alimentaires et de production, ainsi que les limites de la gouvernance dans diverses régions, y compris au Sénégal. Les auteurs soulignent l'importance de prendre en compte la vulnérabilité et la pauvreté des communautés locales en Afrique pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandémie. Ils ont également démontré la résilience de ces communautés face à la crise

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Geographic Transformations -- 1: Bangladesh in Transformation: Geography, People, Economy, and Environment -- 1.1 Context -- 1.2 Processes of Transformation -- 1.3 Consequences of Transformation -- 1.4 Addressing Strategies -- 1.5 Book Structure -- References -- 2: The Thirsty Pleistocene Landscape and Challenges for Water Resource Management Plan -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Geography and Geology -- 2.3 Challenges of Water Resource Management Plan -- 2.3.1 Rainfall Climatology -- 2.3.2 Drought Effect -- 2.3.3 Groundwater Table (GWT) Scenario -- 2.4 Factors Influencing Stress on Groundwater Resource -- 2.4.1 Rainfall Vs. Depth of GWT -- 2.4.2 Effect of Drought on GWT -- 2.4.3 Cultivated Land, Irrigated Area and Crop Production -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Land Use Transformation in Active Delta -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Study Area -- 3.3 General Land Use Transformation -- 3.4 Changes in Agriculture -- 3.5 Expansion of Shrimp Farming on Cropped Lands -- 3.6 Increase in Soil Salinity -- 3.7 Physical Dynamics and Impact on Economic System -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Bangladesh Delta Plan: Anatomy of a Long-Term Development Strategy -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Challenges of the Bangladesh Delta -- 4.2.1 Climate Change -- 4.2.2 Floods -- 4.2.3 Drought -- 4.2.4 River Bank Erosion -- 4.2.5 Sea-Level Rise and Salinity Intrusion -- 4.2.6 Cyclones and Storm Surges -- 4.3 Vision, Mission and Goals of the Delta Plan -- 4.3.1 Vision -- 4.3.2 Mission -- 4.3.3 Goals at National Level -- 4.3.4 Delta Specific Goals (BDP 2100) -- 4.4 Natural Hazards Hotspots and Strategies Under BDP 2100 -- 4.5 Financial Arrangement for Combating Climate Change, Water Resource Management and Environmental Sustainability.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Pedagogic Discourse toward Sustainability -- 1 Recontextualizing Sustainability: Regulative and Instructional Discourses -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Pedagogical Practices to Facilitate Sustainable Thinking -- 1.2.1 The Complex Influence of the Regulative Discourse -- 1.2.2 The Potential Capacity of the Instructional Discourse -- 1.3 As a Matter of Final Reflection: Recontextualizing the Concept of Sustainability -- References -- 2 Learning Culture, Competencies and Consequences for Sustainability Education -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Complexity as a Characteristic of Global Challenges -- 2.3 Necessary Competencies -- 2.4 Consequences for Education -- 2.4.1 Constructivist-Oriented Teaching and Learning Processes -- 2.4.2 Transformative Learning -- 2.4.3 Solution-Oriented Didactics -- 2.4.4 Lifelong Learning -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Uncertainty and Transformative Education for Sustainable Development -- 3 Dealing with Uncertainty in a Transformative Education for Sustainability -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Facets of Uncertainty Relevant to Teaching and Learning -- 3.2.1 Uncertain Scientific Knowledge -- 3.2.2 Uncertainties Regarding Appropriate Paths of Social and Ecological Transformation -- 3.2.3 Knowledge Uncertainty as an Individualized Experience -- 3.3 Transformative Education as Productive Uncertainty -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Education for Sustainable Development in a Culture of Digitality -- 4.1 Introduction-Sustainability as a Social Media Trend for the Young Generation? -- 4.2 The Network of Sustainability, Digitalization, and Geography (Education) -- 4.2.1 Sustainability, Digitalization, and Education -- 4.2.2 Geography, Sustainability, and Education.

"In het Nederlandse taalgebied schrijven hoogleraren praktisch nooit hun memoires. Maar na een buitengewoon veelzijdige loopbaan en als man van de (academische) theorie en de (politionele en criminologische) praktijk vormt Cyrille Fijnaut een zeer welkome en leerrijke uitzondering op de regel. In 'Over grenzen' biedt hij een indringend en onthullend inzicht in zijn lange en unieke loopbaan op het kruispunt van wetenschap, beleid en actie in België en Nederland. Onder heel veel meer komen geruchtmakende en nog steeds actuele kwesties langs zoals de georganiseerde misdaad, de veiligheid en beveiliging van Pim Fortuyn en het onderzoek naar de Bende van Nijvel, die nog altijd de gemoederen bezighouden. Daarnaast laat hij duidelijk zien welke strijd moet worden geleverd om in de Lage Landen een academische loopbaan te ontplooien. Openhartig deelt hij de zeer uiteenlopende ervaringen die hij heeft opgedaan tijdens zijn lange carrière met het geven van colleges, het besturen van universiteiten, het verrichten van velerlei onderzoeken en het verlenen van diensten aan talrijke instellingen en verenigingen. Een boek ter lering en vermaak." --