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  • 1
    UID:
    gbv_1785444034
    Format: 1 online resource (620 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319282015
    Content: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview -- 1.1 The Relevance of Food Price Volatility -- 1.2 Understanding the Linkages Between Food Security, Price Volatility, and Extreme Events -- 1.2.1 The Concept of Food Security -- 1.2.2 Food Price Volatility -- 1.2.3 Extreme Events -- 1.3 Conceptual Framework of Volatility, Food Security Impacts, and Policy Responses -- 1.4 Contribution and Contents of the Book -- 1.5 Implications for Policymaking -- 1.5.1 Policies to Prevent and Reduce Excessive Price Volatility -- 1.5.1.1 Agricultural Markets: Information, Transparency, and Regulation -- 1.5.1.2 Stocks, Trade, and Regional Cooperation -- 1.5.1.3 Biofuel Policies, Energy Prices, Climate Change, and Technological Change -- 1.5.2 Social Protection and Nutrition Policies -- 1.5.3 New International Institutional Arrangements -- 1.6 Implications for Future Research -- References -- Part II Food Price Volatility at International Food Commodity Markets -- 2 Volatile Volatility: Conceptual and Measurement Issues Related to Price Trends and Volatility -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Price Levels and Price Variability -- 2.3 Different Measures and Concepts -- 2.3.1 Prices in Real or Nominal Terms -- 2.3.2 World Prices: In What Currency? -- 2.3.3 Domestic Prices and World Prices -- 2.3.4 Time Horizons -- 2.3.5 The Selection of Food Indices and Food Prices -- 2.3.6 Trends and Volatility: Different Approaches -- 2.3.7 Trends and cycles -- 2.3.8 Shorter-term Variations -- 2.3.9 Expected and Historical Volatility -- 2.3.10 Scaling the Shocks -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Drivers and Triggers of International Food Price Spikes and Volatility -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Conceptual Framework -- 3.3 Estimation Methods -- 3.4 Data -- 3.5 Results and Discussion.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783319281995
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783319281995
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Ressources Internet. ; Electronic books
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  • 2
    UID:
    gbv_1785443895
    Format: 1 online resource (442 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319257181
    Content: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Innovation for Marginalized Smallholder Farmers and Development: An Overview and Implications for Policy and Resear... -- Introduction -- Defining Small Farms Comprehensively -- Determinants of ``Smallness´´ of Farms -- Patterns and Change of Small Farms -- Size and Productivity -- Persisting Rural Poverty and Untapped Potential -- Innovation Strategies for the Rural Poor -- Overview: Innovative Intensification and Diversification for and with Marginalized Small Farmers -- Conclusions and Implications for Policy and Research -- References -- Part I: Innovation for the Rural Poor: Theory, Trends and Impacts -- Chapter 2: Institutional and Technological Innovations in Polycentric Systems: Pathways for Escaping Marginality -- Innovation in Polycentric Systems -- Marginality in Polycentric Systems -- Pathways Out of Marginality: Institutional and Technological Innovations -- Enabling and Inhibiting Functions of Institutions -- Horizontal and Vertical Value Creating Institutions in Polycentric Order -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Innovations for Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Trends -- Introduction -- Current FNS Situation -- The Main Features of Technological and Institutional Innovations for FNS -- The Impacts of Innovations -- The Impact of New Platform Technology -- ICT -- Biofortification -- The Impact of Traditional Technology Through the Home Garden -- Future Trends and Priorities of FNS Innovation: A Stakeholder Survey -- General FNS Awareness -- Agricultural Innovations and FNS -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4: Psychology of Innovation: Innovating Human Psychology? -- Creative Process, Marginality and the Need to Innovate/Renovate -- Innovation as the `Lava´ from the Fount of Creativity: Few Behavioral Characteristics.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783319257167
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783319257167
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Internet resource. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books
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  • 3
    UID:
    gbv_1785446584
    Format: 1 online resource (388 pages)
    ISBN: 9789400770614
    Content: This book focuses on marginality - chronic deprivation of resources, freedom of choice and opportunity - as a root of poverty and deprivation. Offers new insight into local, national and global causes of poverty, and explores promising actions to address it.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789400770607
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789400770607
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books
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  • 4
    UID:
    gbv_1785445219
    Format: 1 online resource (695 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319191683
    Content: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement: An Introduction and Overview -- Abstract -- Land Degradation: A Global Problem -- Why Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement -- Scale of Global Land Degradation -- Costs of Action and Inaction -- Policies for Global and Regional Consideration -- Lessons Learnt and Implications -- Taking Action Against Land Degradation Due to Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) -- Strengthening Community Participation for SLM -- Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Rule of Law -- Improving Access to Markets and Rural Services -- Improving Land Tenure Security -- Going Forward -- References -- 2 Concepts and Methods of Global Assessment of the Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Conceptual Framework -- The Methodological Framework -- Analysis of Causes of Land Degradation -- Cost and Benefits of Action Versus Inaction Against Land Degradation -- Sampling Framework for Case Studies -- Conclusions and Reflections -- References -- 3 Institutional Framework of (In)Action Against Land Degradation -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Review of Institutional Causes of Land Degradation -- Analysis of the Cases -- Analytical Framework: Layered Approach of Institutional Economic Analysis -- Institutional Framework of Action Against Land Degradation -- Building on Customs/Traditions, or ``L1 Actions'' -- Reforms of the Institutional Environment, or ``L2 Actions'' -- Reforms of Governance, or ``L3 Actions'' -- Improving Resource Allocation, or ``L4 Actions'' -- Explaining Actors' Land Use Decision---Actor Oriented Approach -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Biomass Productivity-Based Mapping of Global Land Degradation Hotspots -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- The Conceptual Framework.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783319191676
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783319191676
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Case studies. ; Electronic books
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  • 5
    UID:
    gbv_178543389X
    Format: 1 online resource (261 pages)
    ISBN: 9783030541736
    Content: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- AI, Robotics, and Humanity: Opportunities, Risks,and Implications for Ethics and Policy -- Introduction -- Message from Pope Francis -- Foundational Issues in AI and Robotics -- Overview on Perspectives -- Intelligent Agents -- Consciousness -- AI and Robotics Changing the Future of Society -- Work -- AI/Robotics: Poverty and Welfare -- Food and Agriculture -- Education -- Finance, Insurance, and Other Services -- Robotics/AI and Militarized Conflict -- Implications for Ethics and Policies -- AI/Robotics: Human and Social Relations -- Regulating for Good National and International Governance -- Toward Global AI Frameworks -- Protecting People's and Individual Human Rights and Privacy -- Developing Corporate Standards -- Part I Foundational Issues in AI and Robotics -- Differences Between Natural and Artificial CognitiveSystems -- Introduction -- Strategies for the Encoding of Relations: A Comparison Between Artificial and Natural Systems -- Encoding of Relations in Feed-Forward Architectures -- Encoding of Relations by Assemblies -- A Comparison Between the Two Strategies -- Assembly Coding and the Binding Problem -- Computing in High-Dimensional State Space -- Information Processing in Natural Recurrent Networks -- Concluding Remarks -- Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Effective Universal Induction -- Introduction -- Learning from Data: The Problem of Induction -- Learning Frameworks -- The Asynchronous Learning Framework -- Solomonoff Induction -- The Synchronous Learning Framework -- Effective Universal Induction -- Caveats -- The Structure of Uncertainty -- Formalizing Uncertainty -- The Algebra of Truth Bearers -- Uncertainty: The Boolean Case -- Axioms for Uncertainty -- A General Agent Architecture: AIXI -- Defining Intelligence -- The Quest for a Standard Reference Machine.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783030541729
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Robotics, AI, and humanity Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021 ISBN 9783030541729
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783030541750
    Language: English
    Keywords: Künstliche Intelligenz ; Robotik ; Ethik ; Konferenzschrift ; Electronic books
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  • 6
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    Metzingen : Brunnquel-Verl. der Bibel- und Missionsstiftung
    UID:
    gbv_464039770
    Format: 158 S , Abb., Kt
    Language: German
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