"Too big to fail", or, Systemically important financial institutions / / Barnett E. Harrison and Heathe Carter, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162783803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Nova Science Pub Inc, , [2012]; ©2012
• ISBN: 1-62081-709-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Collana: Financial institutions and services; Business economics in a rapidly-changing world
• Disciplina: 332.10973
• Soggetti: Financial institutions - Government policy - United States; Financial institutions - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reassembling rubbish : worlding electronic waste / / Josh Lepawsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793246603321
• Autore: Lepawsky Josh <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : The MIT Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-262-34638-9; 0-262-34637-0; 9780262535335
• Descrizione fisica: 1 PDF (240 pages)
• Disciplina: 628.4/4
• Soggetti: Electronic waste
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-207) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Waste/Non-Waste -- The discard test -- Charting flows of electronic waste -- Looking again in a different way -- Weighty geographies.
• Sommario/riassunto: An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste. The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish , Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an innovative analysis of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics, Lepawsky reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste, mapping the complex flows of electronic materials. He counters the assumption that e-waste is a post-consumer problem, pointing out that waste occurs at all stages of electronic materials' existence, and calls attention to the under-researched world of reuse and repair. Lepawsky explains that there are conflicting legal distinctions between electronic waste and non-waste, and examines a legal case that illustrates the consequences. He shows that patterns of trade do not support the dominant narrative of e-waste dumping but rather represent the dynamic ecologies of repair, refurbishment, and materials recovery. He asks how we know waste, how we measure it, and how we construe it, and how this affects our efforts to mitigate it. We might not put so much faith in household recycling if we counted the more massive ; amounts of pre-consumer electronic waste as official e-waste. Lepawsky charts the "minescapes," "productionscapes", and "clickscapes" of electronics, and the uneven "discardscapes" they produce. Finally, he considers both conventional and unconventional e-waste solutions, including decriminalizing export for reuse, repair, and upgrade; enabling ethical trade in electronics reuse, repair, refurbishment, and recycling; implementing extended producer responsibility; and instituting robust forms of public oversight.

Recent developments in foresight methodologies / / Maria Giaoutzi, Bartolomeo Sapio, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910438081903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-91136-1; 1-4614-5215-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Complex networks and dynamic systems ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): GiaoutziMaria; SapioBartolomeo
• Disciplina: 658.4/09; 658.409
• Soggetti: Forecasting - Methodology
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Theorizing about foresight methodologies -- pt. III. System content issues -- pt. IV. Foresight tools and approaches.
• Sommario/riassunto: Foresight is an area within Futures Studies that focuses on critical thinking concerning long term developments, whether within the public sector or in industry and management, and is something of a sub-section of complexity and network science. This book examines developments in foresight methodologies and relates in its greater part to the work done in the context of the COSTA22 network of the EU on Foresight Methodologies. Foresight is a professional practice that ; supports significant decisions, and as such it needs to be more assured of its claims to knowledge (methodology). Foresight is practiced across many domains and is not the preserve of specialized ‘futurists’, or indeed of foresight specialists. However, the disciplines of foresight are not well articulated or disseminated across domains, leading to re-inventions and practice that does not make best use of experience in other domains. The methodological development of foresight is an important task that aims at strengthening the pool of the tools available for application, thereby empowering the actors involved in foresight practice. Elaborating further on methodological issues, such as those presented in the present book, enables the actors involved in foresight to begin to critique current practice from this perspective and, thirdly, to begin to design foresight practice. The present trends towards methodological concerns indicates a move from ‘given’ expert-predicted futures to one in which futures are nurtured through a dialogue among “stakeholders.” The book has four parts, each elaborating on a set of aspects of foresight methodologies. After an introductory section, Part II considers theorizing about foresight methodologies. Part III covers system content issues, and Part IV presents foresight tools and approaches.