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Global oil production is expected to reach a peak before the year 1990. Abundant coal supplies in the US appear to be something of a mixed blessing, due to the increasingly well-recognized social & environmental problems of mining & burning coal. Nuclear power is more expensive than it appeared a decade ago, in part because of the formidable safety & environmental hazards posed. Given that supplies of energy are unevenly distributed across the globe, if energy prices coninue to rise over the next decade the potential for violent international conflict is very real. Current knowledge about world energy supply & demand is reviewed, & implications for energy research & development in the US & abroad are considered. Reasons solar energy may look even more attractive from a global perspective than it does from a US-centered view are suggested. Its successful exploitation on a world scale requires careful attention to foreign countries' goals & constraints. 1 Table, 2 Figures. HA.

Introduction: pluriverse: proposals for a world of many worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena -- Opening up relations / Marilyn Strathern -- Spiderweb anthropologies : ecologies, infrastructures, entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez -- The challenge of ontological politics / Isabelle Stengers -- The politics of working cosmologies together while keeping them separate / Helen Verran -- Denaturalizing nature / John Law and Marianne Lien -- Humans and Terrans in the Gaia war / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Overview -- Advancing development objectives through data -- Aligning data governance with the social contract -- Moving toward an integrated national data system -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Advancing development objectives through data -- Chapter 1: Harnessing the value of data for the poor -- The untapped potential of data to serve development objectives -- A brief history of data -- A data typology -- The economics of data and political economy issues -- Data for development: A conceptual framework -- A data governance framework to enforce the social contract for data -- Putting it all together: Establishing an integrated national data system -- Organization of this Report -- Notes -- References -- Spotlight 1.1: Helping communities to gain the ability to collect and analyze their own data -- Spotlight 1.2: The importance of good data in helping low- and middle-income countries to manage debt during and after the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 2: Data as a force for public good -- The central role of public intent data -- Public intent data and development: Three pathways for adding value -- Gaps in the coverage, quality, and usability of public intent data -- Why data gaps persist: The political economy of public intent data -- Realizing the potential of public intent data -- Notes -- References -- Spotlight 2.1: Deploying data to curtail violence against women and girls -- Spotlight 2.2: The role of international organizations in improving public intent data -- Chapter 3: Data as a resource for the private sector -- Creating value and solving development challenges through data-driven business models -- The role of data in the production process of firms -- Data-driven businesses and the technologies that help them create value.

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