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  • Urban Public Transport Systems Innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era

    Global South Perspectives, Reflections and Conjectures

    by Trynos Gumbo, Thembani Moyo, Bongumusa Ndwandwe, Brightnes Risimati, Siphiwe Given Mbatha ...
    This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).The book also highlights how collaborative engagement can improve new transport projects in cities of the Global South. It demonstrates how integration concerns remain in ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Beyond Smart Cities

    How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate

    by Tim Campbell ...
    The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Technologies for Development

    From Innovation to Social Impact

    Edited by Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and ... Read more

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  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

    by Richard Heeks ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Digital Economy

    Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments

    by Edward J. Malecki, Bruno Moriset ...
    Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s.The Digital Economy offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from the perspective of real firms. A geographic approach emphasizes how IT has made businesses less dependent on ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

    Edited by Sungsup Ra, Shanti Jagannathan, Rupert Maclean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies.The book is a testimonial to the importance of ... Read more

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  • Integrated Transport

    From Policy to Practice

    Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister ...
    Travel is an essential part of everyday life and today most journeys are multimodal. It is the total travel experience that counts and integrated transport must reduce the inconvenience of transfers between modes. Most research and many publications on transport policy advocate sustainable transport, but the priority given to integration has been negligible. Yet integration is one of the most ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks

    Changes in the International Political Economy

    Edited by Jeffrey Neilson, Henry Yeung Wai-Chung, Bill Pritchard ...
    The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of rapid change. The emergence of globalised production and distribution systems, which bring together diverse constellations of economic actors through a complex regime of global corporate governance, state regulation and new international divisions of labour, demands corresponding and innovative explanatory models. Global value chains ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility

    Global Report on Human Settlements 2013

    by Un-Habitat ...
    Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick?

    by Leonidas G. Anthopoulos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book investigates the role of smart cities in the broader context of urban innovation and e-government, identifies what a smart city is in practice and highlights their importance to the welfare of society. The book offers specific, measurable, and action-oriented public sector planning and management principles and ideas for smart governance in the era of global urbanization and innovation ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edited by Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Social and Community Informatics

    Humans on the Net

    by Gunilla Bradley ...
    As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people’s use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives. Gunilla Bradley, an internationally recognized expert in this field, has researched this area for many years and here, authors this indispensable volume on the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD