1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910713873503321

Autore

Farrell John

Titolo

Is there a future for internal combustion engines? / / John Farrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Golden, Colo.] : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Collana

NREL/PR ; ; 5400-76092

Soggetti

Internal combustion engines - United States

Energy consumption - United States

Electric vehicles - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"NATSO Connect, Denver, Colorado."

Slideshow presentation.

"Funding provided perdominately by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technology Office and Fuel Cell Technologies Office"--Page 4 of cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911007352703321

Titolo

Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk : Grassroots Voices in Africa Under COVID-19 / / edited by Kazuyo Hanai, Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu, Laban Kithinji Kinyua, Yoichi Mine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9644-55-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 175 p. 17 illus., 7 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

361.61

Soggetti

Social policy

Regional economics

Space in economics

Africa - Politics and government

Africa - Economic conditions

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

Social Policy

Regional and Spatial Economics

African Politics

African Economics

African Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- COVID-19 as Downside Risk -- Risk Perceptions of COVID-19 in African seven countries -- Middle-class experience of COVID-19 in South Africa -- Agriculture and comparison of COVID-19 perception in rural and urban.

Sommario/riassunto

This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022–2024. It also elucidates the people’s resilience in overcoming the risks within their



political, social, and cultural context. Although research on COVID-19 has been conducted in various fields, particularly in the medical field, the analytical perspective of this book is unique. COVID-19 prevention policies are considered to have seriously increased other risks, such as hunger, other infectious diseases, interruption of education, and various types of human rights violations, including increased conflict, violence against civilians, and political abuse. Therefore, this book argues that COVID-19 prevention policies, as well as the pandemic itself, should be regarded as the downside risk that triggers the deterioration of the other potential risks to vulnerable people. Depicted here is the account of how trust in government, community, and family, within the existing political, social, and cultural environment, created pandemic politics, as elections during the pandemic instrumentalized and politicized government prevention measures. Economic distress threatened people's lives more than COVID-19 during lockdowns and severe behavioral restrictions, and the spread of misinformation discouraged people from being vaccinated. This book will be useful to policy makers and practitioners in international society who are preparing for the next pandemic based on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.