Tag: Industry

Untapped Knowledge in India’s E-Waste Industry A Roadmap to Strengthen the Informal Economy


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 117 Pages | ISBN : 3031502957 | 2.1 MB
This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India’s "informal processors," which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India’s electronic waste. The research includes insight from more than ninety interviews with forty-nine key stakeholders working within India’s e-waste processing industry.

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The Political Economy of Industry Organizations and Mercosur’s North-South Trade Negotiations


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 363 Pages | ISBN : 3031502760 | 9 MB
This book addresses two of the most relevant yet understudied questions in field of International Political Economy (IPE): 1) what explains the trade policy preferences of the organizations that represent economic producers in the political sphere?; and 2) how they are formed? Specifically, it focuses on the evolution of the preferences of industry peak organizations in Brazil and Argentina, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) -and the Sao Paulo Federation of Industries (FIESP) – in the first case, and the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) in the second, regarding Mercosur’s preferential trade agreements (PTA) negotiation agenda between 2010 and 2020. The author proposes a novel explanation, which combines elements from the open economy politics (OEP) paradigm with insights from ideational IPE. This book will appeal to research scholars, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, policymakers and professionals working in the fields of trade and industrial policies, trade agreements and negotiations, regionalism and government-business relations.

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Tourism Development Issues for a Vulnerable Industry


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English | ISBN: 1873150962 | 2004 | 308 pages | PDF | 1014 KB
As the travel industry develops at warp speed, challenges for practitioners and academics have grown exponentially. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this collection discusses some present trends in the development of tourism. The first section explores and sharpens some of the tools of the trade with special attention to content analysis and public-private ownership of tourist attractions. In the second part the focus is on the challenges posed by globalisation and the emergence of new nation states. The final chapters discuss new attractions such as space tourism and the impact of cultural events on urban destinations. Both the introduction and the conclusion assess a number of trends that delineate the future from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Digital Transformation Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819981174 | 375 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 48 MB
This book focuses on computing for Industry 4.0 illustrating different domains with the purpose of integration with existing domains for automation of processes. It gives readers an idea about the various challenges and design structure for computing of Industry 4.0. The contents include contributions from experts in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cloud computing, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence across the world, contributing their knowledge to identify the different characteristics of the above domains.

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Advertising as a Creative Industry


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English | ISBN: 1032203013 | 2023 | 102 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1049 KB + 5 MB
At the crossroads of culture and commerce, the advertising industry is a regime of paradoxes. This book examines the place of advertising in today’s creative industries, exploring the major challenges advertisers confront as they engage with other creative sectors. Izabela Derda, author, media scholar, and industry expert, offers insights into how the industry keeps deconstructing its own creative processes and collaborative models as it attempts to stay relevant.

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Non-Thermal Technologies for the Food Industry Advances and Regulations


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032399732 | 392 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
Depending on the mechanisms involved in non-thermal technologies (such as ozonization, irradiation, ultrasound processing, plasma processing, and advanced oxidative processes), interaction with food molecules differs, which might lead to desirable reactions. Non-Thermal Technologies for the Food Industry: Advances and Regulations explores the possibility of using non-thermal technologies for various purposes such as shelf-life extension, reduced energy consumption, adhesion, and safety improvement. Further, it reviews the present status of these technologies, international regulations, and sustainability aspects in food processing including global case studies.

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Emerging Technologies for the Food Industry Volume 2


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774914263 | 291 Pages | PDF (True) | 12.4 MB
With changing consumer preferences and a focus on developing resilient food systems, food processing is finding its place in key policies, government interventions, global trade, and the overall food and nutritional security. Given this, this new 3-volume set presents a compilation of emerging and futuristic food processing technologies, introducing fundamental concepts of food technology, trending applications, and a range of interdisciplinary concepts that have found numerous interwoven applications in the food industry.

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