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"A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it."

"Trying to make sense of the regulatory landscape in healthcare can be difficult. The many federal and state entities and their rules may work together, yet they sometimes contradict one another. Mastering Healthcare Regulation will help readers understand and ultimately navigate the numerous layers of regulatory oversight within the healthcare system. This book clarifies laws and regulations with straightforward explanations and case studies that place readers in the shoes of regulatory decision-makers."

"After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while also simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state - such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a "national festival" - that provides an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent"--

"Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economy-from independence and indemnity to the US occupation and current crisis after the assassination of President Moïse. This book provides new perspectives on Haiti's political economy and demystifies major forces that shape Haiti today."

"China is now considered a tech superpower in many areas. This book illustrates certain aspects and case studies of China's technological developments and further analyzes them under various areas like coal energy, housing, connectivity, digital and space technologies. Furthermore, it examines technological developments in the periphery of China, focusing especially on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). This book does not pretend to be comprehensive in its coverage albeit surveys a spectrum of sectors in China and Hong Kong to get an idea of their developments. By peering into China through the mainland continental perspective and also looking into China from its periphery (e.g., "Greater China" perspectives from HKSAR), this book provides readers with the broad contours of technological development in China through a multidisciplinary area studies perspective."

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics', public policy mismanagement, deceptive online and offline communication tactics, and conspiracy narratives, which end up disrupting community social cohesion.

This book surveys IP and innovation policies in Africa's past and present, providing frameworks and measures that will help Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Africa. Its objective is to facilitate technological learning, accelerate absorption and adaptation fit to an African context, and catapult African LDCs down the road of innovation.

Front Cover -- The Potential of Microbes for a Circular Economy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction to circular economy-a unique approach -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 History of circular economy -- 1.3 Principles of the circular economy concept -- 1.4 Conceptual differences between linear and circular economy -- 1.5 Benefits of circular economy -- 1.6 Need for circular economy in agriculture -- 1.7 The importance of circular economy in agriculture-food streams -- 1.8 Potential of microbes in circular economy -- 1.8.1 Promises of macrofungi in circular economy -- 1.9 Microorganisms are the key tool in agro waste bioconversion -- 1.10 Challenges and opportunities -- 1.11 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Framework for implementing circular economy in agriculture -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What is a circular economy? -- 2.3 Differences between a linear economy and a circular economy -- 2.3.1 Linear economy -- 2.3.1.1 Resource extraction (take) -- 2.3.1.2 Manufacturing (make) -- 2.3.1.3 Consumption (use) -- 2.3.1.4 Disposal (dispose) -- 2.4 Challenges of the linear economy -- 2.4.1 Circular economy -- 2.4.1.1 Reduce-reuse-recycle model -- 2.4.1.2 Resource efficiency -- 2.4.1.3 Sustainability and resilience -- 2.4.1.4 Long-term focus -- 2.4.1.5 Waste as a resource -- 2.5 Why do we need a circular economy? -- 2.6 The circular economy: a vital response to the global waste challenge -- 2.7 Importance of circular economy in agriculture -- 2.7.1 Environmental restoration -- 2.7.2 Resource optimization -- 2.7.3 Sustainable development -- 2.8 Definition and principle of circular agriculture -- 2.9 Benefits of circular agriculture -- 2.10 Framework for implementing circular economy in agriculture -- 2.11 Step 1: understand and assess -- 2.12 Step 2: identify opportunities and challenges.