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From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further accelerate as electric vehicles become less expensive than traditional automobiles. Understanding the implications of the energy transition will prepare us for the many changes ahead.This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the extraordinary growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implications for industries, countries, and the climate. Written in a straightforward style with easy-to-understand visual aids, the book illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of renewable energy based on business fundamentals and analysis of the economic forces that have given renewables a tailwind. Usher dissects the winners and losers, illustrating how governments and businesses with a far-sighted approach will reap long-term benefits while others will trail behind. Alongside the business and finance case for renewable energy, he provides a timely illustration of the threat of catastrophic climate change and the perils of delay. A short and powerful guide to our energy present and future, this book makes it clear that, from both economic and environmental perspectives, there is no time to lose.

Renewable energy sources --- hernieuwbare energie --- duurzaamheid --- duurzame energiebronnen --- klimaat --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Renewable energy sources. --- E-books

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Project management. --- Industrial project management --- Management

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This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education. The text explores the different ways in which learning conveys meaning and is given meaning. Given this, lifelong learning therefore is a way, and a significant way, in which learning is fashioned. The text then explores the notion that, if learning is lifelong and lifewide, what precisely is learning as distinct from other social practices and how those practices are given meaning as learning.

onderwijspolitiek --- Didactics --- curriculumontwikkeling --- Curriculum development --- Teaching --- onderwijssociologie --- onderwijsfilosofie --- Sociology of education --- School management --- didactiek --- Philosophy --- Adult education --- Learning, Psychology of --- Learning --- Psychology of learning --- Educational psychology --- Comprehension --- Learning ability --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Education --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- Psychological aspects --- Adult education. --- Learning, Psychology of. --- Curriculum planning. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Sociology of Education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Learning & Instruction. --- Philosophy. --- Instructional systems --- Planning --- Curricula --- Design --- Education—Philosophy. --- Educational sociology. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- Curriculums (Courses of study). --- Education—Curricula. --- Learning. --- Instruction. --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Learning process --- Core curriculum --- Courses of study --- Curricula (Courses of study) --- Curriculums (Courses of study) --- Schools --- Study, Courses of --- Government policy --- Aims and objectives

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At the core of the many debates throughout cognitive science concerning how decisions are made are the processes governing the time course of preference formation and decision. From perceptual choices, such as whether the signal on a radar screen indicates an enemy missile or a spot on a CT scan indicates a tumor, to cognitive value-based decisions, such as selecting an agreeable flatmate or deciding the guilt of a defendant, significant and everyday decisions are dynamic over time. Phenomena such as decoy effects, preference reversals and order effects are still puzzling researchers. For example, in a legal context, jurors receive discrete pieces of evidence in sequence, and must integrate these pieces together to reach a singular verdict. From a standard Bayesian viewpoint the order in which people receive the evidence should not influence their final decision, and yet order effects seem a robust empirical phenomena in many decision contexts. Current research on how decisions unfold, especially in a dynamic environment, is advancing our theoretical understanding of decision making. This Research Topic aims to review and further explore the time course of a decision - from how prior beliefs are formed to how those beliefs are used and updated over time, towards the formation of preferences and choices and post-decision processes and effects. Research literatures encompassing varied approaches to the time-scale of decisions will be brought into scope: a) Speeded decisions (and post-decision processes) that require the accumulation of noisy and possibly non-stationary perceptual evidence (e.g., randomly moving dots stimuli), within a few seconds, with or without temporal uncertainty. b) Temporally-extended, value-based decisions that integrate feedback values (e.g., gambling machines) and internally-generated decision criteria (e.g., when one switches attention, selectively, between the various aspects of several choice alternatives). c) Temporally extended, belief-based decisions that build on the integration of evidence, which interacts with the decision maker's belief system, towards the updating of the beliefs and the formation of judgments and preferences (as in the legal context). Research that emphasizes theoretical concerns (including optimality analysis) and mechanisms underlying the decision process, both neural and cognitive, is presented, as well as research that combines experimental and computational levels of analysis.

Management Theory --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Decision Making --- Belief --- data-generating process --- Evidence Accumulation --- Problem Solving

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Designed to succeed previous books on the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties,this new work includes contributions from leading EU lawyers assessing the Nice Treaty and the Post-Nice process, which is rapidly developing in the lead-up to the next Intergovernmental conference. The book's central theme is the discussion of a European Constitution and European Constitutionalism. The new constitutional balance after institutional reform, the Luxembourg courts after Nice, the future of the three pillar Treaty structure and the Human Rights charter are the other main topics. Among the contributors are the editors, Professor Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Professor Noreen Burrows (Glasgow), Professor Jürgen Schwarze (Freiburg), Professor Paul Craig (Oxford), Professor Jo Shaw (Manchester) Steve Peers (Essex) Professor Piet Eeckhout (King's College, London) and Professor Alan Dashwood (Cambridge)

Constitutional law --- European Union. --- E.U. --- Treaty on European Union --- Traité de Nice --- Traktat Nicejski --- Tratado de Nice --- Tratado de Niza --- Tratatul de la Nisa --- Treaty of Nice --- Vertrag von Nizza --- Europe --- Economic integration. --- 341.2422 --- Ud3 --- E-books --- Droit constitutionnel --- Intégration économique --- Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne (2000) --- Institutions européennes. --- Traité de Nice (2001) --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Intégration économique. --- European Union --- Economic integration --- Constitutional law - European Union countries --- Europe - Economic integration --- Politique et gouvernement --- Intégration économique