The pivot : addressing global problems through local action / / Steve Hamm

• Autore: Hamm Steve
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : 36 figures
• Disciplina: 361.1
• Soggetto topico: Social problems; Social action; Social change
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Mission -- Poem: An Imagined Letter from COVID-19 to Humans -- 2. The Core Team -- Profile: Shulamit Morris-Evans, British Extinction Rebellion activist -- 3. The Scrum -- Profile: Waël Alafandi, Syrian refugee studying in France -- 4. Struggles -- Profile: Anh Nguyen, Vietnamese fish exporter studying in Sweden -- 5. Remapping the World -- Profile: Tom Rossiter, American architect and photographer -- 6. The Theory of Everything -- Profile: Anna Panagiotou, Greek archaeologist -- 7. Rethinking Resilience -- Profile: Sharmin Sarah Mim, Bangladeshi teacher-trainer -- 8. Talking to Robots -- Profile: Shay Hershkovitz, Israeli political scientist and start-up executive -- 9. Points of Light -- Profile: Gamelilhe Sibanda, Zimbabwean technical adviser to the United Nations -- 10. Places -- Profile: Paola Bay, Italian artist and designer -- 11. Bright Ideas -- Profile: Ian Mabbett, Welsh university professor and inventor -- 12. Connecting -- Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm, who embedded in the group from the start, tells the remarkable story of a collaborative experiment seeking to make societies more sustainable and resilient.
• Titolo autorizzato: The pivot
• ISBN: 0-231-55383-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554275103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II