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Chapter 9c - Crowd-sourcing Technologies
Crowdsourcing can be used to increase resource capacity and adaptive capacity in communities to improve resilience to shocks. Governments and civil society are making use if these technologies to access...
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Chapter 9b - Reshoring Economic Activity
There are various types of reshoring of industries and the motivations are based on changing market conditions and global threats. Reshoring has increased in recent years based on higher costs of labour...
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Chapter 9a - Civil Society Campaigns
Civil society represents a broad range of actors and issues but they are connected across local and global networks. This page explores the Arctic campaign led by Greenpeace International and its regional...
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Chapter 8e - Environmental Issues with Global Food Systems
Agribusiness with its intensive farming systems, including widespread application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, monocultures, plantations and livestock farmed at industrial scales, has had huge...
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Chapter 8d - The Global Shift and Pollution
The global shift has seen heavy industry and manufacturing move from developed countries to NICs and with it, its pollution. With poor environmental regulation, emerging economies have failed to control...
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Chapter 8c - Global Flows and Carbon Footprints
The global flows of food, goods and people are big contributors to global carbon emissions and are set to increase due to more complex supply chains and business models. text In an analysis conducted...
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Chapter 8b - Localised Pollution from Global Flows
Global flows in materials, commodities and people cause localised pollution. Rather than reducing pollution and despite increased regulations, shipping freight and cruise ships are increasing their emissions...
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Chapter 8a - Transboudary Pollution - Plastic
Plastic waste has reached crisis point, with huge quantities of plastic waste around the world just discarded. Vast floating islands of plastic, called gyres can be found in five ocean locations. The...
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Chapter 7d - Disruptive Technologies
Technology is accelerating innovation across many industry sectors. Sometimes innovations advance efficiencies and increase profit. Other innovations are highly disruptive to traditional business models....
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Illegal Flows of Finance Develping Countries
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