1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968762203321

Titolo

Are "green" jobs decent?

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2012

ISBN

92-2-127502-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

p. 131-248 : ill

Collana

International journal of labour research ; ; vol.4, no.2

Disciplina

363.7023

Soggetti

Job creation

Women in sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editorial: What policies for a green economy that works for social progress? -- Green Growth and Green New Deal policies in the Republic of Korea: Are they creating decent green jobs? -- Green and decent? Working conditions in the waste sector in Europe and implications for trade union policy -- The reality and challenges of green jobs in China: An exploration -- Working conditions in "green jobs": Women in the renewable energy sector -- Climate jobs and manufacturing in South Africa.

Sommario/riassunto

This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research focuses on the question of whether the jobs that are emerging in the efforts to reach sustainable development can be described as "decent". A series of case studies is presented which demonstrates that this seems to be far from the case.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299703103321

Titolo

Informatics and Communication Technologies for Societal Development : Proceedings of ICICTS 2014 / / edited by Elijah Blessing Rajsingh, Anand Bhojan, J. Dinesh Peter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Springer India : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

81-322-1916-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Disciplina

004

005.7

620

621.382

Soggetti

Telecommunication

Computers and civilization

Computer networks

Communications Engineering, Networks

Computers and Society

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crowd Counting using Wireless Infrared Distance Sensors for Indoor Environments -- Target Detection in Infrared Images using Block-based Approach -- Participatory and Collaborative Design in the Creation of Applications for Societal Development -- Cloud Service Brokers: Addressing the New Cloud Phenomenon -- Hybrid Intelligent System for Lung Cancer Type Identification -- Auditing Mechanism to Verify the Integrity of Remote Data in Cloud -- An Efficient and Secure Location Update Protocol using Fractal Based Public Keys in Mobile IP Networks -- A Novel Based Multi Agent Brokering Approach for Job Scheduling In Cloud Environment -- A Comprehensive Survey on Data Intensive Computing and Map Reduce Paradigm in Cloud Computing Environments -- Efficiently Scheduling Hadoop Cluster in Cloud Environment -- FTMXT: Fault Tolerant Immediate Mode Heuristics in Computational Grid -- Assurance System in Traditional Body Area



Network for Medical Diligence -- Ensemble Classifier for Concept Drift Data Stream -- Automatic Adaptation of Frames using NSEW Affine Translation -- Tracking of Unique Colored Objects: A Simple, Fast Visual Object Detection and Tracking Technique -- Iteration Free Fractal Image Compression using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Based Classification -- A Resilient Digital Watermarking Exploiting Spatial and Frequency Domain against Image Hackers.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume comprises research papers presented at the International Conference on Informatics and Communication Technologies for Societal Development (ICICTS 2014) held at Karunya University, India. The content focuses on the recent advancements in image or signal processing, computer vision, communication technologies, soft computing, advanced computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery. The primary objective of this volume is to facilitate advancement and application of the knowledge and to promote ideas that solve problems faced by society through cutting-edge technologies. The chapters contain selected articles from academicians, researchers, and industry experts in the form of frameworks, models, and architectures. Practical approaches, observations, and results of research that promotes societal development are also incorporated. This volume will serve as a useful compendium for interested readers and researchers working towards societal development from the technologicalperspective.