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As India switches away from a coal-based to a more sustainable energy use pattern, which pathway will it adopt? What is the nature of challenges that it will face, and who will be affected? Who will gain? This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.

Including contributions from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, it draws on different disciplines, ranging from science and technology to economics and sociology, and situates the issue of low carbon transition within an interdisciplinary framework. India has committed to gradual decarbonisation of its economy. This book takes this as its starting point and uses a wide-angle lens, incorporating macro as well as micro views, to understand the possible next steps as well as trade-offs that will inevitably be posed. It incorporates the perspectives of all stakeholders ranging from central and state governments, public and private sector firms, on the one hand, to individuals and local communities, on the other, to explore their role in the transition, their interests, and how these will change and evolve.

This timely volume will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental studies, development studies, environmental economics, political studies, and Asian studies. It will also be useful to academics, practitioners, and policymakers working on issues related to climate change, sustainable development, energy policy and economics,and public policy.

"Korea's Platform Empire explores the evolution of digital platforms in South Korea's media sphere, and their global political, economic, cultural, and technological influence. With a focus on Korea in the context of the global platform revolution, the book takes a methodical look at the broader social implications, and the impact on cultural production. The authors explore various facets of the media and cultural industries - looking beyond social media to news broadcasting and the music industry - and look at the policy and regulations behind this shifting technological advancement. This book will appeal to students and scholars working on media industries, digital media, platform studies, information and technology studies, Korean and East Asian media studies, and the creative and cultural industries"--

This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows. Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This constant expansion of the extractive frontier into new territories leads to forms of place-based resistance, negotiation and struggle in which competing territorial projects and claims are at stake. This book uncovers the underlying trends and dynamics of these territorialities in dispute', and the socio- ecological resistance movements that are emerging as marginalized communities struggle to reclaim their territorial rights and defend and protect their right of access to the global commons. A focus on territorialities in dispute renders visible the unsustainable expansion of extractivist territories and opens up new horizons to learn from these processes and to consider post-extractivist/post-development imaginings of another world and alternate futures - as well as the challenges to their realisation. This book will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of international development, political ecology, critical geography, social anthropology as well as to activists engaged in socio-ecological/eco-territorial movements

"This book is intended to provide a detailed perspective on techniques and challenges in detecting the urban materials using hyperspectral data including systematic perspective on spectral properties of the materials and methods. It adopts process chain approach in describing the topic and explains image processing steps from reflectance calibration to final insights. The objective of the book is to provide in depth information on hyperspectral remote sensing of urban materials covering global case studies as applicable. It covers complete processing chain of hyperspectral data specifically in urban environment and gives more information about the mapping and classification of urban scenes. The book includes information from basic imaging spectroscopy to the advanced methods such as deep learning for imaging spectroscopy and reviews detailed spectral characteristics of urban materials commonly found in world cities. It also discusses advanced supervised methods such as deep learning with due focus on hyperspectral data analysis. This book is aimed at professionals and graduate students in Hyperspectral Imaging, Urban Remote Sensing, and Hyperspectral Image Processing"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- PART I Big picture considerations: decolonising media and communication studies education in sub-Saharan Africa -- 1 Connecting the dots: decolonising communication and media studies teaching and learning in sub-Saharan Africa -- 2 Towards centring African languages in media and communication courses in postsecondary institutions in Africa -- PART II Rethinking classrooms: implications for students, instructors, and instruction -- 3 Decolonising and reimagining instructor-student relationships in a communication and media studies fourth-level seminar -- 4 De-Westernisation and de-sacralisation as imperatives for the decolonisation of cinema teaching in sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 Decolonising from the margins to the centre: Ghanaian communication classrooms in perspective -- PART III Reflections on curricula and syllabi: possibilities and impossibilities -- 6 Reflections on a decolonised communication and media studies curriculum -- 7 Towards a decolonised human, university, and curriculum: some critical notes -- 8 'An-Other'-centred film curricula: decolonising film studies in Africa -- 9 Decolonising the curricula and the space in Africa: an interdisciplinary approach -- 10 Should curricula be the same? Towards media studies curriculum reforms in Kenya -- 11 Decolonisation deferred? An analysis of the Education 5.0 doctrine, the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education-approved media and communication curriculum and selected writings by Zimbabwean media academics -- 12 Proposals for a decolonised course outline for a theories and methods course in communication and media studies -- 13 Reformatting and decolonising postsecondary educational priorities in South Africa in view of COVID-19 -- PART IV Beyond classrooms.

Juvenile justice -- historical approaches -- Child in conflict with law -- an analysis, causes and prevention -- Legal framework for juveniles in India -- Juvenile justice in global perspective -- The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 -- key provisions -- Judicial trends on juvenile delinquency with special reference to Nirbhaya case.

Introduction -- Creating John F. Kennedy's Bold Experiment -- Cameroon and the U.S. in the Context of the Cold War. -- Change Agents in Education and Healthcare -- Volunteers in Agroforestry and Small Enterprise Development -- From Both Sides of the Atlantic: Reflections about Peace Corps Service -- Conclusion-Rekindling the Hope in US-African Relations.

1. Understanding the Oil & Gas Sector and its Processes: Upstream and Downstream 2. IT technologies Impacting the Petroleum Sector 3. Data Handling Techniques in Petroleum Sector 4. Predictive Modelling Concepts in Petroleum Sector 5. Supply Chain Management in Oil and Gas Business 6. Prescriptive Analytics and its Application in Oil and Gas Business 7. Future Challenges in Petroleum Sector 8. Oil & Gas Industry in context of Industry 4.0

1. Unser Blick auf den Status quo -- 2. Circular Economy und Bioökonomie -- 3. Das Narrativ der Circular Economy und Bioökonomie -- 4. Natur und ihre Erkenntnis -- 5. Natürliche, technische und ökonomische Systeme -- 6. Metaphern, Analogien und Modellübertragungen -- 7. Circular Economy und Bioökonomie: Weltbild und Weltanschauung -- 8. Wieviel Kreislauf ist möglich? -- 9. Fazit.