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World Energy Outlook 2019
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ISBN: 9264973001 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : International Energy Agency,

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The World Energy Outlook series is a leading source of strategic insight on the future of energy and energy-related emissions, providing detailed scenarios that map out the consequences of different energy policy and investment choices. This year's edition updates the outlooks for all fuels, technologies and regions, based on the latest market data, policy initiatives and cost trends.


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Energy Efficiency 2019
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ISBN: 9264353364 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris, France : International Energy Agency Publications,

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Since 2015, improvements in global energy intensity have been weakening each year. Energy Efficiency 2019 examines the reasons for this slowdown, which has major implications for consumers, businesses, governments and the environment. The rate at which energy-using technologies are becoming more efficient is slackening, and at the same time societal changes are adding to energy demand faster than technological change can keep up. On top of this, progress on policy and investment remains flat. In addition to tracking trends in energy efficiency policy, investment, and technology, this year's report highlights how the digitalisation of our homes, businesses and transport systems provides immense opportunities to improve energy efficiency in systems and end uses. However, policy makers must engage with a range of challenging issues if the world is to harness digitalisation for greater energy efficiency. The IEA explores these with its new Readiness for Digital Energy Efficiency policy framework, presented in this report for the first time. Energy Efficiency 2019 is the authoritative tracker of global energy efficiency trends, providing policy makers and others in the energy sector with crucial insights into the status of global energy efficiency.


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Inclusive consumption : immigrants' access to and use of public and private goods and services
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Oslo : Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget),

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Consumption plays a powerful role in the social and economic integration of immigrants. Most research on integration has addressed integration through work. Inclusive Consumption adopts a different approach, exploring the inclusive and exclusive potentials of markets and consumption. The book's chapters cover consumption of food, shelter, clothes, mobile phones, leisure activities, employment agency services, physiotherapy education and health services. The key institutions of the welfare society - private and public markets, work, education, and health - are thereby addressed. The book is aimed at students, researchers and professionals with an interest in broader perspectives on social integration of immigrants. The book's contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines: sociology, social anthropology, ethnology, political science, media studies, journalism, social and rural development, social work, nursing, physiotherapy and textile engineering. With this edited collection, the editors and authors hope to expand the horizons of the debate on social integration of immigrants beyond the prevailing focus on the role of work. An inclusive and open definition of the factors relevant for integration will broaden and enrich the production of knowledge, the development of policy instruments and the public understanding of one of our greatest contemporary challenges.


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Adaptation-Aware Architecture Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficiency for Software Systems
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Germany : KIT Scientific Publishing,

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This work presents an approach for the architecture analysis of energy efficiency for static and self-adaptive software systems. It introduces a modeling language that captures consumption characteristics on an architectural level. The outlined analysis predicts the energy efficiency of systems described with this language. Lastly, this work introduces an approach for considering transient effects in design time architecture analyses.


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Études de marché
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ISBN: 231140671X 2311410261 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Vuibert,

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Véritable référence, ce manuel couvre l'ensemble du champ des études de marché. Il a été labellisé par la Fnege en 2017. Depuis sa première édition en 1995, cet ouvrage est devenu le manuel français de référence. Il présente la totalité du processus d'étude, du projet au rapport, ainsi qu'un très vaste panel de méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives d'analyse de données. Ponctués par un test de connaissance, les différents chapitres mettent l'accent sur les concepts clés en s'appuyant sur de nombreux exemples et études de cas. La nouvelle édition propose des mises à jour sur les évolutions de la discipline dont le digital (bases de données, focus groups, plateformes de cocréation, observation digitalisée, panels, questionnaires administrés en ligne, etc.) et de nouveaux exemples et études de cas.


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L'essor des classes moyennes dans les pays en développement et émergents : une étude comparative des enjeux d'identification, de caractérisation et de politiques publiques
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Agence française de développement,

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La densification rapide des groupes à revenu intermédiaire dans les économies en développement est certainement un événement majeur du début du 21ème siècle (Kharas, 2010). Ce projet de recherche a pour objectif de proposer un examen approfondi des classes moyennes, de leurs caractéristiques, comportements, aspirations et attentes, ainsi que des implications de leur essor en matière de design des politiques publiques. L'étude porte sur quatre pays, le Brésil, la Côte d'Ivoire, la Turquie et le Vietnam, présentant des niveaux et trajectoires de développement différents. Premièrement, les résultats montrent qu'il est délicat, dans une perspective comparative, d'établir une délimitation monétaire commune des classes moyennes de revenu. Compte tenu des différences de niveau de développement économique entre les pays, les intervalles monétaires pertinents doivent être adaptés à la réalité de la distribution locale des revenus afin de rendre comparable les ménages des classes moyennes. En dépit de différences considérables de revenu, les classes moyennes s'apparentent bien à des classes de consommation, ce qui se traduit par des dépenses de consommation élevés qui se déplacent et se diversifient vers l'éducation, le logement et la santé. La relative satisfaction des besoins immédiats autorise la formulation d'aspirations à la promotion de soi et des siens, qui sont partout associées à une valorisation de l'effort individuel. Ensuite, au-delà de ces éléments de proximité, l'étude comparative souligne la forte hétérogénéité interne de chaque classe moyenne nationale, notamment au regard des différences significatives qui existent entre elles en termes de statut dans l'emploi, de niveau d'éducation ou de revenu. Chaque ensemble national se caractérise par l'existence de quatre à six groupes bien spécifiques pouvant s'expliquer par l'historicité des trajectoires propres à chaque société. Les différentes classes moyennes nationales entretiennent des rapports ambigus et complexes avec l'Etat, le pouvoir et les politiques publiques. D'un côté, la très forte hétérogénéité socio-économique des classes moyennes nationales limite leur capacité d'organisation collective et d'influence politique. D'un autre côté, l'étude constate l'absence de politique officielle et globale de promotion de la classe moyenne en tant que groupe social dont l'influence pourrait être reconnue stratégique dans la trajectoire présente et future de développement économique.


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Water consumption, tariffs and regulation
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ISBN: 1780404689 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, England : IWA Publishing,

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Erfolgreiches Energiemanagement nach DIN EN ISO 50001:2018 : Lösungen zur praktischen Umsetzung
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ISBN: 3410289798 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin ; Wien ; Zürich : Beuth Verlag GmbH,

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Residential Water Demand : Alternative Choices for Management
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ISBN: 1487597932 1487596219 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy. Adoption of the recommendations presented would mean higher prices to householders, but a considerable saving of hundreds of millions of tax dollars over the next three decades. The present policy uses a 'requirement approach' in which future water needs are calculated by extrapolation of past trends and an assumption that demand is inelastic. This leads to excessive levels of water use and over-investment in water supply, sewage collection, and treatment systems. The resultant misallocation of resources can be corrected by adoption of a demand/management approach in which investment policy is guided by consumer demand and alternative pricing arrangements are used as a management tool. Dr. Grima examines several alternative choices for management, such as metering, increasing marginal prices, sewerage charges, seasonal charges, and an increasing price block schedule, and describes the results of each. Water managers in Canada are strongly challenged to begin a fundamental rethinking of their basic policies. (Department of Geography Research Publication 7)


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Development of a ship-based CO2 transport chain
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ISBN: 373696000X Year: 2019 Publisher: Gottingen : Cuvillier Verlag,

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