1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691811603321

Titolo

Older workers [[electronic resource] ] : policies of other nations to increase labor force participation : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. General Accounting Office, , [2003]

Soggetti

Older people - Employment - United States

Older people - Employment - Government policy - Japan

Older people - Employment - Government policy - Sweden

Older people - Employment - Government policy - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2003).

"February 2003."

Paper version available from: General Accounting Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

"GAO-03-307."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789049503321

Titolo

An innovative accounting framework for the food-energy-water nexus : application of the MuSIASEM approach to three case studies / / Mario Giampietro [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Rome] : , : Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

92-5-107957-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (91 p.)

Collana

Environment and natural resources management paper ; ; 56

Altri autori (Persone)

GiampietroM (Mario)

Soggetti

Food supply - Case studies - Statistical methods

Agriculture - Case studies - Statistical methods

Agriculture and energy - Case studies - Statistical methods

Water-supply - Case studies - Statistical methods

Water use - Case studies - Statistical methods

Power resources - Case studies - Statistical methods

Biomass energy - Mauritius

Grain - India - Punjab

Electric power - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"October 2013."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [73]-77).

Nota di contenuto

""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MUSIASEM AS A TOOL TO ANALYZE THE NEXUS BETWEEN FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER SECURITY""; ""1.1. MUSIASEM AND ITS UNDERLYING CONCEPTS""; ""1.2. HOW THE TOOL WORKS""; ""1.3. THE LINK OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLOW TO LAND USE""; ""APPLICATION TO CASE STUDIES""; ""2.1. CASE STUDY - THE REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS""; ""2.2. CASE STUDY - THE INDIAN STATE OF PUNJAB""; ""2.3 CASE STUDY - SOUTH AFRICA""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""3.1. ADDED VALUE OF THE APPROACH""; ""3.2. PROBLEMATIC POINTS OF THE APPROACH""; ""REFERENCES""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958836503321

Titolo

The humanities in architectural design : a contemporary and historical perspective / / edited by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-134-99963-1

1-134-99964-X

1-282-57172-9

9786612571725

0-203-85944-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Classificazione

ARC 768f

Altri autori (Persone)

BandyopadhyaySoumyen

Disciplina

720.104

Soggetti

Architectural design

Humanities

Architecture and society

Design and technology

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1; Freedom in the shadow of uncertainty; Chapter 1 The responsibility of architectural design; Chapter 2 in Humanities: Ethics in architectural praxis; Chapter 3 Cultivating architects: History in architectural education; Chapter 4 The architect as humanist; Chapter 5 Migration, emancipation and architecture; Part 2; The spectre of technology; Chapter 6 Fantasies of the end of technology; Chapter 7 Le Corbusier and the other humanities

Chapter 8 Humanist machines: Daniel Libeskind's "Three Lessons in Architecture"Chapter 9 Draw like a builder, build like a writer; Chapter 10 The word made flesh: In the name of the surveyor, the nomad, and the lunatic; Part 3; Measures of awareness; Chapter 11 Creative inspirations or intellectual impasses?: Reflections on relationships between architecture and the humanities; Chapter 12 The human mind



and design creativity: Leon Battista Alberti and lineamenta; Chapter 13 Renaissance visual thinking: Architectural representation as a medium to contemplate "real appearance"

Chapter 14 Neoplatonism at the Accademia di San Luca in RomeChapter 15 Who's on first?; Part 4; The challenges of instrumental knowledge; Chapter 16 Architecture as a humanistic discipline; Chapter 17 The situational space of André Breton's atelier and personal museum in Paris; Chapter 18 L'histoire assassinée: Manfredo Tafuri and the present; Chapter 19 Nature choreographed; Chapter 20 The birth of modernity out of the spirit of music?: Henry van de Velde and the Nietzsche Archive; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.Written by leading academics in the fields of history, theory and philosophy of design, these essays draw profound meanings from cultural practices and beliefs. These are as diverse as the designs they inspire and include religious, mythic, poetic, political, and philosophical references. This timely and important book is not a benig