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Navigating the Circular Age of a Sustainable Digital Revolution

Umair Tanveer

In the face of rapid digitalization and environmental challenges, the world stands at a critical juncture. The relentless pace of technological advancement has brought unparalleled convenience and efficiency but has also contributed to unsustainable consumption patterns, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. Despite growing awareness, many industries need help integrating sustainable practices into their operations, hindered by a lack of understanding, resources, and clear guidelines. Moreover, the complexity of the circular economy and the ethical dimensions of digitalization pose significant challenges, requiring innovative solutions and comprehensive guidance. Navigating the Circular Age of a Sustainable Digital Revolution offers a timely and comprehensive solution to these pressing challenges. By exploring the intricate relationship between technology and sustainability, this book provides a roadmap for businesses, policymakers, and individuals to embrace sustainable practices in the digital era. Researchers and scholars gain profound insights from this book into the dynamics between digitalization and sustainable practices while policymakers find nuanced analyses to shape regulatory frameworks. Business leaders and professionals discover practical guidance for sustainable business models and digital transformation, and technology practitioners align their fields with sustainable advancements. Ultimately, the book empowers individuals and organizations to shape a future where technology and sustainability coexist, fostering a more sustainable and prosperous world.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798369328279
Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Promoting Responsible Tourism With Digital Platforms

Youssef El Archi

In the age of digital transformation, the tourism industry faces a pressing challenge: balancing the growing demand for travel with the imperative to protect the environment and preserve local cultures. The rise of digital platforms has revolutionized how people plan, book, and experience travel, but it has also intensified concerns about overtourism, cultural commodification, and environmental degradation. Without thoughtful intervention, these trends threaten to undermine the destinations travelers seek to explore. Promoting Responsible Tourism With Digital Platforms offers a comprehensive solution by exploring how digital platforms can be leveraged to promote responsible travel practices. By examining case studies, theoretical frameworks, and the latest technological advancements, the book provides actionable insights for policymakers, industry professionals, and travelers alike. It serves as a roadmap for integrating responsible tourism principles into the digital landscape, ensuring that tourism remains sustainable and beneficial for all stakeholders.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798369332863
Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Multidisciplinary Analysis of Digital Transformation and Global Market Dynamics

Ahdi Hassan

In today's fast-evolving digital landscape, businesses, governments, and societies are grappling with the complex challenges of digital transformation. From shifting market dynamics to integrating new technologies, the need for a comprehensive understanding of these changes has never been greater. Traditional industries, such as transport and logistics, face the daunting task of re-engineering themselves to remain competitive in a digitally driven world. Furthermore, the economic security of regions and nations is increasingly dependent on data analytics and risk assessment, making it crucial for policymakers to adapt to this new paradigm. Multidisciplinary Analysis of Digital Transformation and Global Market Dynamics offers a compelling solution to these pressing challenges. By consolidating insights and empirical findings from the GDTM conference series, this book provides a holistic understanding of the impact of digital transformation on markets globally. It dissects critical topics such as the development of transport and logistic activities in the digital age, the economic security of regions, and the digitalization of traditional industries like business and banking. Professionals in fields ranging from technology to urban planning can benefit from its examination of business models reshaping traditional industries and the role of business ecosystems in this transformative journey.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798369334232
Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital Society

In today's rapidly evolving society, there has been an increase in technologies and systems available to support the elderly throughout various aspects of life. We have come a long way in the quality of life we can offer our aging populations in recent years due to these technological innovations, medical advancements, and research initiatives. However, further study of these developments is crucial to ensure they are utilized to their utmost potential in securing a healthier elderly population. The Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital Society discusses the current challenges of aging in the modern world as well as recent developments in medicine and technology that can be used to improve the quality of life of elderly citizens. Covering a wide range of topics such as smart homes, remote healthcare, and aging in place, this reference work is ideal for healthcare professionals, gerontologists, therapists, government officials, policymakers, researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, instructors, and students.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781668452950
Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Intermediate Horizons

Mark Vareschi

This innovative collection examines how book history and digital humanities (DH) practices are integrated through approach, access, and assessment. Eight essays by rising and senior scholars practicing in multiple fields—including librarians, literature scholars, digital humanists, and historians—consider and reimagine the interconnected futures and horizons at the intersections of texts, technology, and culture and argue for a return to a more representative and human study of the humanities.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780299338145
Publication Date: Mar 2024
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Digital Currency Assets and Challenges to Financial System Stability

Adekunle Alexander Balogun

In today's rapidly changing financial landscape, a formidable challenge looms large—digital currencies. The surge in popularity of virtual currencies has sparked a global debate, captivating the attention of investors, regulators, and scholars alike. However, a pressing concern persists amidst this digital revolution: the potential for unregulated digital currencies to facilitate the laundering of illicit funds, ranging from organized crime profits to terrorism financing and government corruption. This growing threat not only jeopardizes the integrity of our financial systems but also disrupts the socioeconomic and political order as we know it. Digital Currency Assets and Their Impact on Financial System Stability is the key to unlocking a profound understanding of the challenges posed by digital currencies and, more importantly, discovering intelligent solutions to safeguard our financial ecosystem. With meticulous research and expert insights, this book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of digital currencies' structure, potential disruptions, and capacity to reshape the financial landscape. Is it the primary objective? To provide a platform for scholars, investors, regulators, and researchers to delve into the risks, dangers, and threats stemming from unregulated digital currencies and to propose innovative strategies for mitigating these challenges.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798369307700
Publication Date: Jan 2024
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Fading Neon Lights

Brian Sze-hang Kwok

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789629375928
Publication Date: May 2023
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Digital Systems Projects

Prawat Nagvajara

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798823303378
Publication Date: Feb 2023
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Impact of Digital Twins in Smart Cities Development

Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes

Recently, a new digital twin consortium has been established that aims to deploy digital twin technology in new markets as well as in the development of smart cities. Designing smart cities, smart communities, and smart ecosystems powered by optimal digital twin deployments is a vision that currently only futurists can entertain and requires some time to reach large-scale adoption. However, it is incumbent upon us as a society to educate and train future generations on how to leverage digital twin technologies in order to optimize our daily lives as well as increase our efficiency, productivity, and safety. Impact of Digital Twins in Smart Cities Development provides insights regarding the global landscape for current digital twin research and deployments and highlights some of the challenges and opportunities faced during large-scale adoptions. Critical domains such as ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, inclusion, diversity, and sustainability are also addressed and considered. Covering topics such as digital identity and digital economics, this reference work is ideal for urban planners, engineers, policymakers, industry leaders, scientists, economists, academicians, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and students.

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781668438336
Publication Date: Feb 2023
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Practical Digital Design

Bruce Reidenbach

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781612497662
Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Managing Grey Literature

Michelle Leonard

Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase this unique material.

Imprint: ALA Editions
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780838948811
Publication Date: Jan 2022
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Innovations in Digital Libraries

Pramod Kumar Singh

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781774690345
Publication Date: Dec 2021
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Paper Electronic Literature

Richard Hughes Gibson

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781625346001
Publication Date: Oct 2021
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Exhibiting Digital Animalities

Matthew Brower

Imprint: PUBLIC Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780921344551
Publication Date: Aug 2021
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Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries

Megan Lotts

This book shows academic and public libraries the many benefits of nurturing a culture of creativity, offering hands-on guidance on encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, launching active-learning events that highlight collections and services, fostering goodwill and trust-building, and forming partnerships that promote library visibility.

Imprint: ALA Editions
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780838949474
Publication Date: Jun 2021
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Welcome to the World of Single-Slope Column-Level Analog-to-Digital Converters for CMOS Image Sensors

Albert Theuwissen

CCMOS image sensors (CIS) have come a long way over the past decennia. The combination of an image sensor with on-chip column-level ADCs demonstrates exceptional performance as far as speed and power are concerned. This monograph gives an overview and background of the various developments of the SS-ADCs.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781680838121
Publication Date: Jun 2021
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