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  • Book cover of The Social Footprints of Global Trade

    This book discussing in detail the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the global economy using the comprehensive Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) technique. The content is presented in two parts, the first of which offers an introduction to social accounting and how it has been developed over the past few years with details on the methodologies and databases used. The second part of the book describes the footprints of the social accounts that have the highest impact on people’s well-being (employment, income, working conditions,and inequality) and how they are linked to international trade. The need for reporting on such indicators falls within the purview of corporate/national social responsibility (part of the Triple Bottom Line). The book offers a valuable contribution to the literature for researchers and students engaged in the social sciences, human rights, and the implications of international trade on labour in developing countries.iv>

  • Book cover of Stop Saying I'm Fine

    There is a deep well of pain, loneliness, self-loathing, trauma, and shame sitting behind the happy smiles and filtered social media feeds that so often characterize our generation. Many of us have become experts at pretending we’re fine. Our shiny social media feeds and screen-deep smiles certainly give off a happy illusion. But we are not fine. Taylor has heard countless stories from her generation of our fetal positions on cold-tile floors, immobilized by anxiety. She personally knows this place well. At eighteen, she, too, found herself in an anxiety-induced fetal position behind a locked bathroom stall, wondering, “What did Jesus mean when he promised me full life?” Stop Saying I’m Fine is a generational call to honesty, healing, and to a spiritual hunger that defies superficial Christianity and engages our deeper aches and heart questions. In these pages, we’ll dig beneath the bedrock of our anxiety into the pain of our experiences. Together, we’ll learn how to connect to the stillness that exists beneath the chaos, and we’ll find that the wholeness and healing we long for isn’t as distant as it may seem. For the young adult who feels trapped inside their anxiety For the parent or caregiver who aches to understand For the wounded heart that can’t seem to move on For the weary one who has tried and failed a thousand other ways

  • Book cover of Enough for All Forever
    Joy Murray

     · 2012

    Enough for All Forever is a handbook for learning about sustainability. It has been written specifically for educators: classroom practitioners; school and system administrators and managers; those who develop curriculum; academics; and others who share the goal of environmental equity for all. It is about integrating sustainability into teaching and learning at all levels. The focus of the book is how to live sustainably, in harmony with a planet that has finite resources. This is not a 'one size fits all' handbook. Rather, it is a broad collection of work from over fifty different authors, all of them experts in their field and all committed to doing something about sustainability.

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    We use the input-output tables in constant prices extended with carbon dioxide (CO) emissions for examining the development of China, a country undergoing rapid growth. We undertake this empirical analysis in terms of a new and therefore rarely applied methodology: instead of average coefficients characterizing the average (old) technology operating throughout a particular reporting year, we calculate marginal coefficients -- in monetary and CO terms -- that capture the additional (new) technology installed after that year. Marginal coefficients are increasingly recommended in the literature for applications such as consequential life cycle assessment, where they are supposed to lead to more realistic results, especially in prospective analyses. Our work provides a first, broad overview about the magnitude and distribution of these coefficients across recent years in China's rapidly growing economy for which marginal coefficients could be expected to differ greatly from average coefficients. We find that (1) marginal coefficients can differ substantially from average coefficients, thus lending support to the need expressed in the literature for coining consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) and similar prospective assessment in marginal rather than average terms; (2) marginal CO emissions coefficients differ more from their average counterparts than marginal monetary coefficients, showing that for China, within-sector technological solutions to emissions abatement have played a more important role than the reorganization of supply structures; and (3) there exists considerable scatter and variation of marginal coefficients across years, which to a certain extent precludes the identification of clear temporal and sectoral trends.

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  • Book cover of Siren Head Coloring Book

    Siren Head Coloring Book 30+ drawings. Features! Key highlights of this book: ✅ Vivid images: black-and-white paper filled with 30 artistic illustrations and stunning designs. ✅ Single-Sided Pages: Bleeding is no longer an issue because all pages are printed on single sides. ✅ Fulfill your passion: All pages contain various appealing images to satisfy your creativity which helps you become a great coloring master. ✅ The greatest gift ever: Giving the appropriate gift to the appropriate person to spread love, laughter, and joy. Share this book with your loved one or your friends. ✅ Beautifully illustrated simple designs to inspire your creative mind. ✅ Varied and unique illustrations to keep you coloring for hours. Specifications: 30 ready-to-color illustrations of Minimalist Art Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 Inches Suitable for Coloring Pens, Pencils, Markers

  • Book cover of The Lonely Scarecrow

    The Lonely Scarecrow is a heart-warming story that will appeal to children from two to seven years of age, and especially to beginner readers. It is a tale of understanding and acceptance, and it emphasizes the importance of friendship in everyday life. The characters, particularly the scarecrow and the farmer, not only learn from each other but they also learn valuable lessons from experience. It all happens on a farm somewhere in Canada, and touches on the determination and inventiveness of farm folk. Flowers and crops are planted, but problems appear before they can be harvested. All is not well. The farmer, accompanied by his little brown dog and armed with his wife's practical advice, sets out to solve these nagging problems. At first his efforts are unsuccessful. More drastic measures are needed! So the farmer and his wife go up to the attic to build a handsome scarecrow who will surely scare away intruders and save the crops! The newly created scarecrow has a lot to learn as his character develops as the central figure of the story. He learns life's lessons through his own experience and the experience of others. He looks for friendship with the creatures and people around him that provide meaning in his life. In true fairytale fashion the story has a happy and successful ending.

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    The use of global, multiregional input-output (MRIO) analysis for consumption-based (footprint) accounting has expanded significantly over the last decade. Most of the global studies on environmental and social impacts associated with consumption or embodied in international trade would have been impossible without the rapid development of extended MRIO databases. We present an overview of the developments in the field of MRIO analysis, in particular as applied to consumption-based environmental and social footprints. We first provide a discussion of research published on various global MRIO databases and the differences between them, before focusing on the virtual laboratory computing infrastructure for potentially making MRIO databases more accessible for collaborative research, and also for supporting greater sectoral and regional detail. We discuss work that includes a broader range of extensions, in particular the inclusion of social indicators in consumption-based accounting. We conclude by discussing the need for the development of detailed nested MRIO tables for investigating linkages between regions of different countries, and the applications of the rapidly growing field of global MRIO analysis for assessing a country's performance toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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    In this study, we innovatively apply multiregional input-output analysis to calculate corruption footprints of nations and show the details of commodities that use the most employment affected by corruption (EAC), as they flow between countries. Every country's corruption footprint includes its domestic corruption and the corruption imported by global supply chains to meet final demand. Our results show that, generally, the net corruption exporters are developing countries, with the exception of Italy where corruption is likely to be more affected by political and cultural factors than economic factors. China is the largest gross corruption exporter, and India follows close behind, with clothing as one of the industries in which the most people are affected by corruption. This is because: (1) China and India are major clothing exporters, thus many workers are employed in the clothing industry within the country as well as in countries providing intermediate commodities by supply chains, and (2) corruption is high in China and India. Our results can be useful to identify where regulations to combat corruption can have the greatest impact. More important, the method we use can be applied to link corruption to other economic and social aspects of trade, such as working conditions, thus making it possible to find avenues for tackling the problem that are not usually considered in anticorruption strategies.

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    "This journal provides a guided day-by-day format to journal your own progress to wellness. It contains over 30 healthy recipes that are easy to use for any meal as well as recipes for snacks, smoothies, juices and treats" ; "Splattered throughout the journal are a number of handy tips and hints. These will teach you growing tips such as how to grow microgreens even if you don't have a garden, information about the value of many foods including sea vegetables, and additional information about nutrition such as which foods contain the highest amounts of antioxidants"--Back cover.