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Nelson P: Governance Across Time in
Mining and Earth Resource Systems

Governance Across Time in Mining and Earth Resource Systems

The Persistence of Responsibility

What if the biggest obstacle to solving our problems is nothing more than a failure to believe that we can?Rick Caruso has spent his life stepping optimistically into places where other people see no way forward by asking a deceptively simple question: What can we do to make this better? From his appointment as Commissioner to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and later the City's troubled Police Department, to the creation of his bold and innovative real estate ventures including L.A.'s world-renowned retail center The Grove, Caruso built a reputation for finding steadfast solutions even in the face of staunch adversity. By employing the great teachers of experience and curiosity, he continues to do what he can to improve Los Angeles, the city he loves, and in Breaking New Ground, he shares lessons learned along the way--while offering us all a path forward to a better future.Again and again, Caruso discovered that breakthroughs rarely come from knowing everything at the outset. They come from asking better questions, bringing the right people into the room, listening without ego, separating ideology from reality, and refusing to give up until workable solutions emerge. Ultimately, they require a steadfast dedication to the belief that there is always a solution and that defeat is not an option.Breaking New Ground is the story of how his philosophy was forged--from the examples of immigrant grandparents and a father who lost one fortune and built another, to Caruso's own successes, failures, public battles, family life, faith, and unexpected turns through business and government.Caruso is less interested in prescribing a formula for becoming successful than in exploring how successful problem-solvers think: how they distinguish what matters from what merely makes noise; how they balance conviction with compromise; how they recognize when conventional wisdom has stopped working; and how they remain fearless enough to see difficult decisions through.Part memoir, part argument, and part blueprint for action, Breaking New Ground offers a timely proposition for anyone confronting a problem that feels too complicated, entrenched, or divisive to solve.There is always another way forward. Sometimes you simply have to be willing to build it.

It’s Not too Late to Build Toward a Better Future!

The Power of Finding Steadfast Solutions

Breaking New Ground

Preya Bhattacharya offers the first full-length assessment of the impact of microfinance on post-conflict women's empowerment in the Balkans. In so doing, she provides vital new insights into what women's microfinance contributes to macroeconomic development in the former Yugoslavian countries of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. At the same time, she develops a uniquely clear, concise approach to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which she uses to make sense of an extensive, exhaustive raw set of available data and research. This methodology not only offers a way of using both micro and macroeconomic data to revisit Amartya Sen's theory of development as freedom, but also provides a framework for other researchers to assess the impacts of microfinance on women's development throughout the world, and particularly in the Global South. For its original focus, its clear and streamlined methodological approach, and its global implications, this book provides a go-to source for researchers, students, and practitioners of international development, gender studies, and economics and finance.

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Microfinance and Post-conflict Women's Empowerment in the Balkans

The purpose of this book is to explain the concept of portfolio, program, and project investment management and to provide the knowledge and the necessary understanding to effectively undertake the process. It begins by explaining how to understand the business problem the organization is trying to resolve with its strategy objectives. It then looks at financial management, particularly how to calculate the whole-of-life program and project capital and operational costs used to measure value for money from the investment. This information is used to inform program and project business case options analysis, investment appraisal of the initiative, and portfolio prioritization through the entire corporate portfolio management process. This book details the investment management process and how it integrates with an adapted corporate portfolio management process and benefits management process that focuses on a clear line of sight - an industry technique that ensures the achievement of strategy objectives through benefits realization. In addition, it explores specific cognitive bias that impacts and unduly influences the investment decision-making process. Finally, it describes several leading-edge techniques to make it easier to implement and sustain the discipline of portfolio, program, and project investment management.

How to Achieve Strategic Objectives through Benefits Realization

Portfolio, Program, and Project Investment Management

ISO 9001 2026 Beyond Compliance: A Practical Guide to Transitioning and Improving Organizational Performance provides organizations with a comprehensive roadmap for successfully transitioning from ISO 9001:2015 to ISO 9001:2026 while transforming their quality management system from a compliance obligation into a strategic business management tool. Written in response to the first major revision of the world's most widely adopted quality management system standard in over a decade, this book addresses enhanced emphasis on organizational context, climate change, quality culture, ethical behavior, digitalization, cybersecurity, and data-driven decision-making, helping organizations achieve meaningful improvements in performance, customer satisfaction, and operational effectiveness.Readers gain access to practical implementation guidance, transition strategies, and real-world examples that demonstrate how to apply ISO 9001:2026 as a framework for leadership engagement, customer focus, strategic alignment, and operational excellence. Comprehensive appendices provide operational perspectives on risk-based thinking, organizational knowledge, competency development, digital systems integration, AI and cybersecurity considerations, organizational resilience, and continual improvement. These features are important because they enable organizations to understand not only what the standard requires, but how to apply quality management principles effectively in complex, technology-driven business environments to achieve sustainable business results.This book is written for Quality Managers, Quality Directors, Operations Managers, Plant Managers, Chief Operating Officers, Management Representatives, Internal Auditors, Continuous Improvement Managers, Management Systems Consultants, and senior leaders responsible for implementing, maintaining, or improving ISO 9001-based quality management systems.

A Practical Guide to Transitioning and Improving Organizational Performance

ISO 9001 2026 Beyond Compliance

Everyone is talking about sustainability, yet its concrete meaning and consequences are often unclear. This handbook explains how global goals, climate change, and policy in the UN, EU 27, Germany, US, UK, and China fit together and shape our future.
It leads the reader from core concepts and key international agreements through a concise stock taking and long term outlook to concrete instruments for a more sustainable world. The handbook focuses on the real impact of global and European measures on economies, societies, and the planet. The role of Germany, the US, UK, and China is presented in each case.
Prof. Fieber assesses the achievements of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. The countries responsible for global warming are identified and their contributions to improving the situation are compared. In addition, the advantages of liberal democracy over autocracy for achieving greater sustainability in one's own country and worldwide are a subject of this book.
The author¿s aim is to sharpen reader¿s awareness of the necessity for climate action while showing that ambitious sustainability policy can secure stable ecological, social, and economic foundations for future generations. 
It should also be made clear that every individual can contribute to greater sustainability. Taken together, government policy and these personal contributions can bring about a significant improvement in sustainability worldwide.

Goals, Climate Change, Politics

Sustainability

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and exploits workersSeeing Like a Supply Chain is a compelling investigation into the hidden networks that drive our global economy. Miriam Posner presents a blow-by-blow account of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, revealing how the system's built-in ambiguity shields companies from accountability while exploiting workers.Drawing on more than a decade of research, Posner shows how computation converged with the growth of global trade to allow for a lightning-quick, astoundingly efficient supply chain that lets corporations source products without any notion of where their goods are actually being produced. At a time when multinational firms fear the reputational damage of human rights violations in the making of their products, the supply chain's shroud of vagueness is a feature, not a bug. Posner shows how this is technically accomplished-and how the strategic disavowal of information extends through every step of that chain.

The Hidden Life of Logistics

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

Banking, Money and International Finance

The emergence of financial technologies has unlocked a myriad of possibilities for reshaping governance systems, from the grassroots level of micro-governance to the broader scope of national and transnational governance. This book thoroughly examines the significant impact of cutting-edge financial technology on enhancing worldwide access to financial services. In an era marked by persistent governance challenges, it highlights the transformative potential of AI-driven solutions in fostering more equitable economic participation. Overcoming traditional banking barriers to serve underserved and unbanked communities, the book investigates the fourth wave of fintech innovation depicted by AI, blockchain technologies and decentralized systems. The book begins by presenting the fundamentals of digital innovation, particularly emphasising the transformative role of AI-powered financial tools in improving banking experiences for various global communities. It emphasizes the role of digital payment platforms in bridging the gap between urban and rural populations, as well as the way blockchain technology and smart contracts are setting new benchmarks for transaction security and transparency. Its primary focus is on the strategies for overcoming financial exclusion. Cybersecurity compliance, ethical AI, data governance, and regulatory coordination are considered essential for creating trustworthy digital financial systems. Additionally, it thoroughly examines the alternative credit scoring methods that use non-traditional data to transform lending and presents the opportunities and challenges that will shape the future of finance, with a particular emphasis on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), sustainable blockchain solutions, and artificial intelligence collaborations. For scholars, researchers and policymakers working to create a more accessible and sustainable financial future, the book offers a thorough overview of the state of inclusive fintech today and a predictive outlook on how technology can promote global economic equity.

Financial Innovation for Inclusive and Equitable Digital Economies

The Shingo Model Series

Designing Systems That Shape Workplace Culture and Performance

Build Excellence

Landslide Science: Geospatial Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Management presents a detailed exploration of the latest advancements in landslide research, offering a thorough examination of the latest geospatial technologies and methodologies. The book begins with a comprehensive exploration of landslides, starting with an understanding of their nature, including characteristics, types, and historical perspectives. Factors triggering or influencing landslides are examined, such as rainfall, earthquakes, and topographical influences. Remote sensing techniques for landslide investigation are detailed, covering detection, monitoring, and imagery data processing methods using various sensors and technologies. In addition, spatial landslide assessment and mapping are discussed, including inventory mapping, susceptibility assessment, and hazard assessment utilizing different approaches and uncertainty validation methods. Engineering-based landslide analysis focuses on geotechnical aspects, hydrogeological influences, and methodologies for simulations and slope stability analysis. The book also addresses landslide impacts and risk management strategies, covering vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, environmental consequences, prevention, mitigation strategies, and community engagement.

Geospatial Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Management

Landslide Science

Plant Chemistry

Nanocellulose has emerged as one of the most promising sustainable nanomaterials of the twenty-first century due to its exceptional mechanical strength, biodegradability, renewability, and wide-ranging applications. Derived from abundant biomass and agricultural residues, nanocellulose presents innovative solutions to pressing global challenges, including resource depletion, environmental pollution, and the need for sustainable materials within a circular bioeconomy framework.Sustainable Utilization of Nanocellulose and its Derivatives provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the production, modification, and advanced applications of nanocellulose. The book explores sustainable extraction technologies from agricultural and agro-industrial residues such as wheat, rice, hemp straw, bamboo, and banana waste, highlighting resource recovery and waste valorization strategies. It further covers surface modification and characterization techniques, nanocellulose-based composites, hydrogels, films, and coatings, along with emerging applications in food packaging, environmental remediation, biomedical engineering, drug delivery systems, energy storage and photovoltaic devices. The volume also addresses current challenges and future opportunities related to the large-scale production and commercialization of nanocellulose. Bridging fundamental science and technological innovation, this book serves as an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, material scientists, environmental engineers, and industry professionals seeking sustainable solutions for a circular and bio-based future.

Sustainable Utilization of Nanocellulose and its Derivatives

The concept of a "smart grid" has evolved over the years as a sustainable way to modernize and improve the efficiency and reliability of the traditional electrical power system. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamental concepts of smart grids and related advanced key technologies. It also covers the modeling and simulation of various smart grid architectures, using various software tools and packages, with a focus on the design of energy management, control, and optimization strategies. It includes various case studies on smart grid development to help readers understand the practical applications of the technology and how it can be implemented in different settings.Features<ul> <li>Addresses the most recent research and developments of smart grids and microgrids from an interdisciplinary approach.</li> <li>Discusses methods and tools for the design and optimization of smart grids.</li> <li>Offers in-depth coverage of smart grid technologies, and practical guidance on the implementation of smart grids.</li> <li>Explains advanced smart grid modeling, monitoring, control, and protection, and advanced algorithms.</li> <li>Includes several case studies, practical examples, and interactive diagrams and illustrations to make the concepts more engaging and accessible to a wider audience.</li> <li>Provides comprehensive coverage of cybersecurity aspects and challenges that smart grid technology is facing.</li> </ul>This is an essential resource for undergraduate or graduate courses covering modern power systems and the concept of smart grids. It also serves as a source for several training courses for utility engineers who aim to expand their knowledge on smart grids.

Modeling, Design, Optimization, and Control

Smart Power Networks

Studienkurs Wirtschaft

Das Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und vermittelt kompakt und verständlich die zentralen Grundlagen eines nachhaltigen, modernen Wirtschaftens im digitalen Wandel. Behandelt werden digitale Wertschöpfung und Geschäftsmodelle, New Work, Kultur und Rollenwechsel, Governance und Verantwortung. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Change-Management als Kern der Transformation - mit gängigen Modellen (u. a. Lewin, Kotter, ADKAR) und ihrer Anwendung auf typische Transformationssituationen. Didaktisch klar strukturiert arbeitet der Band mit Querverweisen, Schaubildern, Kapitelzusammenfassungen sowie Wissens-, Verständnis- und Diskussionsfragen zur Prüfungsvorbereitung.

Prof. Dr. Sandra Niedermeier ist Professorin für Digitalisierung in Bildung und Gesellschaft an der Hochschule Kempten, promovierte pädagogische Psychologin und leitet das Institut für digitale Transformation in Arbeit, Bildung und Gesellschaft (IDT). Sie ist zudem Studiendekanin der Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft sowie KI- und E-Learning Beauftragte der Hochschule.

Digitale Transformation

Governance Across Time in Mining and Earth Resource Systems

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