Abstract The future of sustainable development is the bioeconomy with both global and local renewable energy solutions. updated Bioeconomy Strategy Green Deal serves as prove European Commission commitment for transformation towards a climate-neutral Union. This process characterized an enormous complexity should be studied thoroughly designing transition pathways. Scientifically sound methods ...

This paper examines issues surrounding the production of a Carnival music video VCD in the home studio of the Bolivian indigenous (originario) musician and cultural activist Gregorio Mamani. On the one hand, continuities with rural productive practices suggest a model for the ‘home studio’ more resembling a ‘cottage industry’ than the kind of ‘isolated’ activity separate from family life that P...

Waterlogging and salinization arise in arid areas largely because two essential resources, irrigation water and the assimilative capacity of unconfined aquifers, are not priced or allocated correctly to reflect scarcity values and opportunity costs. Farm-level and project-level models of crop production are examined to identify policies that will encourage farmers to consider opportunity costs ...

Occupational accidents are wasteful and non-value-adding (NVA) events in any form of production system. Since Lean principles aim to reduce NVA elements of work processes, it follows that safeguarding construction workers from occupational hazards would be a natural outcome of the Lean Construction ideal of waste elimination. A literature review of the conference proceedings of the Internationa...

Recent innovations in digital technologies have exponentially increased the opportunities for collaborative ethnographic filmmaking between anthropologists and our interlocutors. In this article, I focus on a relatively unexplored aspect of these emergent forms of collaboration: the unruliness of circulation in the digital age. I draw on long-standing anthropological debates about controlling t...

Culture is a powerful, latent, and often unconscious set of forces that determine both of our individual and collective behavior, ways of perceiving, thought patterns, and values. Organizational culture in particular matters because cultural elements determine strategy, goals, and modes of operating. Many international managerial theories or production methods work well locally, but can not rec...

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, firm managers told a crew of tree planters that the piece rate had yet ...