Towards sustainable public FM: collective building of capabilities

Organisational Capabilities for Sustainable Production

This study brings together insights from the research literatures on organisational capabilities and learning by doing to examine the response of Irish manufacturers to tightened environmental regulation in the 1990s. Using a fine-grained data set on firms’ technology and management practices, we test whether those practices over time resulted in the creation of learned ‘static’ capabilities, t...

Building human capabilities: education

51 Chapter 1 emphasized the importance of knowledge acquisition as a cornerstone of human development. This chapter focuses on building human capabilities for knowledge acquisition in Arab countries through education. The assessment of the state of education using such indicators as enrolment and illiteracy rates and per capita expenditure reveals tangible achievements but also significant area...

Towards sustainable public health surveillance for enteric fever.

Enteric fever that results from infection by the typhoidal Salmonellas (Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A, B and C) is a life-threatening preventable illness. Surveillance of enteric fever is important to understand current burden of disease, to track changes in human health burden from increasing antimicrobial resistance and to assess the impact of efforts to reduce disease burden. S...

Challenging Times for Public Health Towards Attaining Sustainable Development Goals

Towards Sustainable Evolution for the TLS Public-Key Infrastructure

Motivated by the weaknesses of today’s TLS public-key infrastructure (PKI), recent studies have proposed numerous enhancements to fortify the PKI ecosystem. Deploying one particular enhancement is no panacea, since each one solves only a subset of the problems. At the same time, the high deployment barrier makes the benefit-cost ratio tilt in the wrong direction, leading to disappointing adopti...