Alternative Paths Toward a Low Carbon World

NOTA DI LAVORO 62 . 2010 Alternative Paths toward a Low Carbon World

Alternative Paths Toward a Social Actor Concept

Over the course of analyzing data from a series of socio-technical ICT studies, we have developed a multi-dimensional concept of a social actor to guide qualitative data collection and analysis. Three information and communication technology (ICT) studies have been used to develop and refine the concept: a mid-1990's study of online information services use, a 4year study of intranet developmen...

Toward Deadline Aware Low Carbon Supply Chain

Reduction of CO2 emissions and moving toward a low carbon economy is the great challenge of our time. Aside from the ecological impact, low carbon solutions offer a huge business opportunity. At the same time, organizations must remain competitive and compliant to business rules. One of the important quality criteria in supply chain is temporal compliance. Tasks must be executed within agreed u...

China’s Low Carbon Transformation: drivers, challenges, and paths

National climate change mitigation actions and objectives could be taken from both active and passive considerations. China has multiple objectives to develop a low carbon economy and to decrease carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP, including mitigation of global climate change, security of energy supply, promotion of sustainable development (environmental protection, poverty alleviation, e...

A network of paths toward innovation

Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA E-mail: [email protected] Any mention of neutral change and adaptation in the same breath inevitably brings to mind the battles over the causes of molecular evolution that have been so prominent and long-running in the field. While these arguments have evolved with the development of new models and new technologies, the ce...