Robotics, AI, and humanity : science, ethics, and policy

This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robot…

Economics of land degradation and improvement: a global assessment for sustai…

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ISBN/ISSN

9783319191683

Collation

xviii, 686p.: ill.

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Call Number

333.7 ECO e

Food price volatility and its implications for food security and policy

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as wel…