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Cheaper electricity with renewable energy - Costing a 15% target for 2020 for South Africa
South Africa has about a quarter of the world’s best sunlight of all land mass (around 25% of the highest category of insolation, i.e. solar power potential). This national resource, as well as bount
Organisation: WWF
Publish Date: 2009
Checking Out the Future: Perspectives from the Library Community on Information Technology and 21st-Century Libraries
Checking Out the Future: Perspectives from the Library Community on Information Technology and 21st-Century Libraries explores how many library professionals are recognizing the need to evolve during
Organisation: American Library Association
Publish Date: February 2010
Child Malnutrition: An Overview of Trends, Issues, and Policy Prescriptions
The overall objective of this study is to address the questions which would help the policy makers use resources wisely to reduce child malnutrition as quickly as possible between now and 2020.
Organisation: Interfaces
Publish Date: 2006
Child Malnutrition: Trends and Issues
Approximately, one out of every three children under five in developing countries is malnourished. Data clearly shows that the worst affected region is South Asia.
Organisation: Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Publish Date: 2010
Childhood Obesity around the Globe - Prevalence, Trends, and Causal Pathways
This presentation deals with the increasing trend globally of obesity in children and adults. Overnutrition is overtaking undernutrition in many low middle income countries (LMICs)
Organisation: Universsity of Auckland, New Zealand
Publish Date: 2013
China's Space Programme
When China launched an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon in January 2007 to destroy one of its inactive weather satellites, most reactions from academics and U.S. space experts focused on a potential mili
Organisation: New University of Lisbon
Publish Date: 2010
CIO Strategies for Consumerization: The Future of Enterprise Mobile Computing
CIO Strategies for Consumerization: The Future of Enterprise Mobile Computing
Organisation: Dell CIO Insight Series
Publish Date: 2011
Cities in Africa Part 1
Just short of 40 % of Africa’s population lived in cities at the end of 2010, making it the world’s least urbanised region. This figure will increase dramatically in the coming decades, a trend that
Organisation: Siemens & UN HABITAT
Publish Date: August 2011
Cities in Africa Part 2: Climate Change
Africa’s cities are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Creating low carbon economies is the only way to meet climate challenges while addressing broader developmental concern
Organisation: Siemens & UN HABITAT
Publish Date: November 2011
Cities in Africa Part 3
Discusses sustainable development in cities with Lagos in Nigeria as example and focusing on the continent’s effort in improving urban slums by the reduction of urban poverty.
Organisation: Siemens & UN HABITAT
Publish Date: January 2012