Books: 'Infrastructure failure'

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1965-, Stern Eric, and Svedin Lina 1974-, eds. Auckland unplugged: Coping with critical infrastructure failure. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2003.

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Newlove, Lindy. Auckland unplugged: Coping with critical infrastructure failure. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.

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1948-, Hossain Anwar, Haque M. Shamsul, and Association of Management Development Institution of Bangladesh., eds. Management Forum 2002: Institutional governance, failure in building socio-economic infra-structure : papers presented in AMDIB Management Forum 2002, Dhaka, July 25-26, 2002. Dhaka: Association of Management Development Institutions of Bangladesh, 2003.

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Mehl, Bronislav Ruben. Successes and failures: Flowing sweet waters. New York: Vantage Press, 1993.

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Bartoli, Gianni, Francesco Ricciardelli, and Vincenzo Sepe, eds. WINDERFUL Wind and INfrastructures. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/8884531381.

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WINDERFUL (an acronym for Wind and INfrastructures: Dominating Eolian Risk For Utilities and Lifelines) is the title of a research project carried out by eight Italian Universities from the end of 2001 to the end of 2003. The project was centred on how "to keep a city running and ensuring quality services during and after major windstorms", avoiding "major failures" of engineering facilities and main infrastructures. The book reports the main results obtained in the project, and for each typology the tool for assessing its reliability are discussed, together with the criteria for its improvement.

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V, Welch Gregory, and Schrieber Randall R, eds. Aging power delivery infrastructures. New York: M. Dekker, 2001.

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Ettouney, Mohammed. Infrastructure health in civil engineering: Applications and management. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012.

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Analysis of the cost of infrastructure failures in a developing economy: The case of the electricity sector in Nigeria. Nairobi: African Economic Research Consortium, 2005.

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Illinois. Special Task Force on the Condition and Future of the Illinois Energy Infrastructure. Blackout solutions: Final report of the Special Task Force on the Condition and Future of the Illinois Energy Infrastructure. [Springfield, Ill.]: Illinois Special Task Force on the Condition and Future of the Illinois Energy Infrastructure, 2004.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure. Collapse of the New York State Thruway bridge over the Schoharie Creek: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One hundredth Congress, first session, May 4, 1987. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Natural gas service outages in New Mexico: Hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, to receive testimony regarding recent natural gas service disruptions in New Mexico and the reliability of regional energy infrastructure, Albuquerque, NM, February 21, 2011. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2011.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous Materials, and Pipeline Transportation. The Bellingham, Washington, hazardous liquid pipeline incident: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous Materials, and Pipeline Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, October 27, 1999. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2000.

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United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development. Implications of power blackouts for the nation's cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection: Joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development and the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security of the Select Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, September 4, 2003 and September 23, 2003. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2005.

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Silvertip Pipeline oil spill in Yellowstone County, Montana: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, July 14, 2011. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2012.

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Biometric IDs for pilots and transportation workers: Diary of failures : hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April 14, 2011. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2011.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment., ed. National levee safety and dam safety programs: Joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 8, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2007.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation. Computer outages at the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, September 26, 1995, Aurora, Illinois. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1996.

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Eastin, Joshua, and Kendra Dupuy, eds. Gender, climate change and livelihoods: vulnerabilities and adaptations. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247053.0000.

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Abstract This book applies a gender lens to examine the implications of climate change for livelihoods in vulnerable states. The goals are to enhance awareness of climate change as a gender issue, and to highlight the importance of gender in identifying livelihood vulnerabilities and in designing more robust climate adaptation measures, especially in climate-sensitive industries such as agriculture. The contributions in this book examine how the consequences of climate change affect women and men in different ways, and address the implications of climate change for women's livelihoods and resource access. The book is organized into two main sections. The first section (Chapters 2-8) examines disparities in the vulnerability of women's and men's livelihoods to climate change. The chapters in this section address issues such as gender inequalities in the household distribution of labour; differential access to agricultural livelihood inputs and assets; gender-based threats to personal safety and security; and gendered vulnerability to and experiences with climate disasters, food insecurity, and infrastructure development. The second section (chapters 9-16) takes a gender-based view of various climate adaptation initiatives in areas that rely on agriculture for subsistence and production. The contributions in this section address gender-inclusive participation in climate policy planning and decision making, the role of gender in livelihood adaptation measures, and any successes, failures, or opportunities for improvement that emerge from these efforts.

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Successes and failures of Amtrak and the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Railroads of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, March 6, 2002. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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(Editor), John E. Cromwell, ed. Costs of Infrastructure Failure. American Water Works Association, 2002.

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Karen M.E. Emde (Contributor), Daniel Smith (Contributor), James A. Talbot (Contributor), Les Gammie (Contributor), Susan Ancel (Contributor), Nelson Fok (Contributor), and Janet Mainiero (Contributor), eds. Estimating Health Risks From Infrastructure Failure. American Water Works Research Foundation, 2006.

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Newlove, Lindy, Eric Stern, and Lina Svedin. Auckland Unplugged, Coping with Critical Infrastructure Failure. Lexington Books, 2005.

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ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Buildings, Bridges, and Infrastructure. ASM International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.bldgs.9781627082198.

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Ho, Pin-Han, János Tapolcai, Péter Babarczi, and Lajos Rónyai. Internet Optical Infrastructure: Issues on Monitoring and Failure Restoration. Springer, 2016.

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Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh. SAGE Publications India Pvt, Ltd., 2014.

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Collier, Richard S. Banking on Failure. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859673.001.0001.

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This book seeks to explain why and how banks ‘game the system’. More specifically, its objective is to account for why banks are so often involved in cases of misconduct and why those cases often involve the exploitation of tax systems. To do this, a case study is presented in Part I of the book. This case study concerns a highly complex transaction (often referred to as ‘cum-ex’) designed to exploit a flaw at the intersection of the tax system and the financial markets settlements system. It was entered into by a very large number of banks and other financial institutions. A number of factors make the cum-ex transaction remarkable, including the sheer scale of the financial amounts involved, the large number of banks and financial institutions involved, the comprehensive failure of the controls infrastructure in this highly regulated sector, and the fact that authorities across Europe have found it so difficult to deal with the transaction. Part II of the book draws out the wider significance of cum-ex and what it tells us about modern banks and their interactions with tax systems. The account demonstrates why the exploitation of tax systems by banks is practically inevitable due to a variety of systemic features of the financial markets and of tax systems themselves. A number of possible responses to the current position are suggested in the final chapter.

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Ocampo, José Antonio, and Paola Arias. Colombia’s System of National Development Banks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827948.003.0007.

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The major feature of Colombia’s national development banks is that they constitute a system of multiple, specialized institutions, created at different times to promote sectors that were considered strategic for the country’s development. This chapter analyses the characteristics of the system of national development banks in Colombia currently composed of four specialized institutions: FDN (for infrastructure), FINDETER (local development), BANCOLDEX (industry and foreign trade), and FINAGRO (agriculture). The chapter explores the history, current structure, and main features of the system. It also looks at how the system is managing three major market failures: infrastructure financing (the major case of market failure in long-term financing), financial inclusion, and the promotion of entrepreneurial growth.

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Richardson, Seth. Messaging and the Gods in Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0010.

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This chapter addresses worshippers’ messages to Mesopotamian gods and explores the duality of this kind of communication. Richardson classifies “genres” of communication according to the roles assigned to worshippers and gods and according to the places of these genres in an elaborate communications infrastructure of formulae, personnel, and locales. Richardson also discusses the problem of failure of communication, and describes the protocols with which to account for failures. He identifies a characteristic Mesopotamian style for religious communications: it is at once elaborate and pessimistic, and so it contrasts with Mesopotamian commercial letters, which are straightforward, if not optimistic.

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Estimating health risks from infrastructure failures. Denver, Colo: Awwa Research Foundation, 2006.

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Karen, M. E. Emde (Compiler), Daniel W. Smith (Compiler), and James A. Talbot (Compiler), eds. Estimating Health Risks from Infrastructure Failures (Awwarf Report). IWA Publishing, 2007.

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Ettouney, Mohammed M., and Sreenivas Alampalli. Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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I-35W Bridge Collapse: A Survivor's Account of America's Crumbling Infrastructure. Potomac Books, Incorporated, 2018.

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Mars, Maurice. Telemental Health in South Africa. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190622725.003.0004.

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South Africa is a large and diverse nation with the majority of the population living in rural areas. It was an early leader in telemedicine on the African continent, but telemedicine stagnated for nearly ten 10 years after failure of a National Telemedicine System. This chapter reviews the provision of mental health services through videoconference-based telemental health and mHealth in South Africa. The use of this technology to provide Tele-education to improve staff knowledge and raise awareness, and the provision of forensic services are also discussed. In addition, obstacles to implement these services in south African context, including political will, infrastructure, and legal and ethical issues discussed with possible solutions.

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Welch, Gregory, Randall R. Schrieber, and H. Lee Willis. Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures (Power Engineering). CRC, 2001.

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Aging Power Delivery Infrastructures Second Edition Power Engineering Willis. CRC Press, 2012.

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US GOVERNMENT. Implications of Power Blackouts for the Nation's Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee on Cybersecur. Government Printing Office, 2005.

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Keohane, Georgia Levenson. Capital and the Common Good. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231178020.001.0001.

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Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has helped governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources meet the needs of the poor and underserved and build a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity. Capital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education, maternal health, and job training. Revisiting the successes and missteps of these efforts, Georgia Levenson Keohane argues that innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision-making as it is about money. When it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future.

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Hardt, Heidi. Conclusion: Toward Total Recall in International Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672171.003.0008.

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Chapter 8 offers a summary of the findings discussed in earlier chapters and directions for future research. The chapter first reiterates the argument that institutional memory develops in international organizations (IOs) from elites’ reliance on informal processes, such as networks, because formal learning infrastructure can disincentivize reporting. The chapter then identifies the book’s theoretical and empirical contributions to scholarship on IOs, organizational learning and organizational change. Subsequent sections proceed to discuss how the book’s argument can be applied to explain institutional memory in other IOs beyond NATO. The chapter then presents a series of policy recommendations to strengthen institutional memory. Examples include realigning incentives in the institutional design of organizations’ formal learning infrastructure and means of supporting existing informal learning processes. The chapter then provides concluding remarks about the importance of transnational interpersonal networks for protecting IOs’ institutional memory of the past to prevent future failures.

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Ettouney, Mohammed M., and Sreenivas Alampalli. Structural Health in Civil Engineering. CRC, 2008.

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Scharfman, Jason. Hedge Fund Due Diligence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607371.003.0019.

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This chapter provides an overview of hedge fund due diligence challenges facing investors with a specific focus on the operational due diligence process. Operational due diligence is the process of evaluating the operational risks in place at a hedge fund. In recent years, due to a series of hedge fund failures and frauds, operational risks have become increasingly important. Risk mitigation techniques include information technology infrastructure; evaluations by the board of directors; business continuity planning; hedge fund service provider assessment, valuation, and fund operations; and back-office procedures. Another component of the operational due diligence process involves performing background investigations on key personnel. By seeking to evaluate these types of operational risk, investors can better diagnose and avoid losses from these hedge fund operational failures and outright fraud.

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Bianconi, Ginestra. Interdependent Multilayer Networks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753919.003.0011.

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This chapter characterizes interdependent multilayer networks and their increased fragility. Interdependent networks are stylized models that can represent different complex systems, ranging from global infrastructures to molecular networks in the cell. When a fraction of nodes is initially damaged, interdependent networks are affected by dramatic cascades of failures that suddenly dismantle the multilayer network. The theory beyond this phenomenology is discussed in a pedagogical way by characterizing the percolation, discontinuous and hybrid transitions. The interplay between structure and function is studied in this context by considering multiplex networks without and with link overlap, and the effect of built-in correlations in the multilayer network structure. Finally, partial interdependencies and redundant interdependencies are discussed as major strategies to reduce the fragility of interdependent networks.

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Phiri, Mwanda, and Shimukunku Manchishi. Special economic zones in Southern Africa: white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? The case of Zambia and South Africa. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/917-4.

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The successful use of special economic zones as economic tools for export-led industrial development in East Asia propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate infrastructure financing and provision and weak local supplier capabilities. Special economic zones in Lusaka, Zambia, face similar constraints but are further hampered by inadequate business services provision, burdensome regulations and business procedures, a fragmented incentive framework, institutional coordination failures, and a weak design that does not leverage strategic anchor industries for greater agglomeration economies, thus rendering them more of white elephants.

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Hardt, Heidi. NATO's Lessons in Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672171.001.0001.

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In crisis management operations, strategic errors can cost lives. Some international organizations (IOs) learn from these failures, whereas, others tend to repeat them. Given high rates of turnover and shorter job contracts, how do IOs such as NATO retain any knowledge about past errors? Institutional memory enhances prospects for reforms that can prevent future failures. The book provides an explanation for how and why IOs develop institutional memory in international crisis management. Evidence indicates that the design of an IO’s learning infrastructure (e.g. lessons learned offices and databases) can inadvertently disincentivize IO elites from using it to share knowledge about strategic errors. Under such conditions, IO elites - high-level civilian and military officials - view reporting to be risky. In response, they prefer to contribute to institutional memory through the creation and use of informal processes such as transnational interpersonal networks, private documentation and conversations during crisis management exercises. The result is an institutional memory that remains vulnerable to turnover since critical knowledge is highly dependent on a handful of individuals. The book draws on the author’s interviews and a survey experiment with 120 NATO elites, including assistant secretary generals, military representatives and ambassadors. Cases of NATO crisis management in Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine serve to further illustrate the development of institutional memory. Findings challenge existing organizational learning scholarship by indicating that formal learning processes alone are insufficient to ensure learning occurs. The book also offers policymakers a set of recommendations for strengthening the learning capacity of IOs.

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Narayanamoorthy, A. Farm Income in India. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190126131.001.0001.

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The Green Revolution resulted in spectacular advancements in Indian agriculture. Having achieved food security for its citizens, the country has now become a net exporter of different agricultural commodities. But sadly, this does not reflect the real state of the Indian agricultural sector. In truth, our farmers are plagued by crop failures, poor income, and indebtedness. Such is their misery that they are of late driven to commit suicide. In this book, the author identifies poor returns from crop cultivation as the root cause of farmers’ problems. Using vast temporal and spatial data, the author explores further and attempts to address some very pertinent questions facing Indian agriculture today: What is the current trend in farm income? Are the returns from irrigated crops better than un-irrigated crops? Does increased productivity guarantee increased income? Has the agricultural price policy benefitted farmers? To what extent does rural infrastructure development help in increasing farm income? Has the rural employment guarantee scheme affected farm profitability? The answers will help us determine if we can double farm income by 2022–3, a target set by the present union government.

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Pickard, Victor. Democracy without Journalism? Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190946753.001.0001.

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Democracy without Journalism? is about the ongoing journalism crisis and the policies we need to confront it. It exposes the historical roots, market failures, and policy inaction that led to the loss of local journalism and the proliferation of misinformation through both social media and mainstream news. In underscoring these threats to democracy, the book also draws attention to the growing problem of monopoly control over digital infrastructures in general and the rise of platform monopolies in particular, especially the “Facebook problem.” The book proposes that now is an opportune moment to address core weaknesses in US news and information systems and push for alternatives. Above all, the book argues that to understand the underlying pathologies in our news media and the reforms that are needed, we must penetrate to the roots of systemic problems. Toward this aim, Democracy without Journalism? emphasizes the structural nature of journalism’s collapse. The book concludes with an in-depth discussion of new models for journalism, emphasizing the need for a publicly owned and democratically governed media system. Ultimately, the goal is to reinvent journalism.

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Bianconi, Ginestra. Multilayer Networks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753919.001.0001.

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Multilayer networks are formed by several networks that interact with each other and co-evolve. Multilayer networks include social networks, financial markets, transportation systems, infrastructures and molecular networks and the brain. The multilayer structure of these networks strongly affects the properties of dynamical and stochastic processes defined on them, which can display unexpected characteristics. For example, interdependencies between different networks of a multilayer structure can cause cascades of failure events that can dramatically increase the fragility of these systems; spreading of diseases, opinions and ideas might take advantage of multilayer network topology and spread even when its single layers cannot sustain an epidemic when taken in isolation; diffusion on multilayer transportation networks can significantly speed up with respect to diffusion on single layers; finally, the interplay between multiplexity and controllability of multilayer networks is a problem with major consequences in financial, transportation, molecular biology and brain networks. This field is one of the most prosperous recent developments of Network Science and Data Science. Multilayer networks include multiplex networks, multi-slice temporal networks, networks of networks, interdependent networks. Multilayer networks are characterized by having a highly correlated multilayer network structure, providing a significant advantage for extracting information from them using multilayer network measures and centralities and community detection methods. The multilayer network dynamics (including percolation, epidemic spreading, diffusion, synchronization, game theory and control) is strongly affected by the multilayer network topology. This book will present a comprehensive account of this emerging field.

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Nehring, Daniel, Gerardo Gómez Michel, and Magdalena López, eds. A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America? Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529200997.001.0001.

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In the mid-1970s, Latin America entered a period of profound social and economic crisis, marked by the rise of brutal military dictatorships across much of the region and the near-collapse of some of Latin America’s largest economies, in Mexico and Brazil. In response to this crisis, governments across the region adopted neoliberal structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards, under the auspices of international organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These reforms typically entailed sweeping cuts to public health and welfare programmes, the privatisation of large parts of the public infrastructure, the redistribution of wealth to economic elites, and a notable growth in poverty. As a result, these structural adjustment programmes faced growing resistance from the early 1990s onwards. Social and political movements, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, formulated powerful challenges to neoliberal orthodoxy, while the election to government of left-wing populist leaders such as Hugo Chávez (1998), Evo Morales (2005) or Rafael Correa (2006) opened the door to experiments with a range of anti-neoliberal political programmes. The failures of these programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and anti-neoliberal elites and social movements have by the mid-2010s resulted in growing social instability. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. It looks at a wide range of cultural forms, such as literature, underground cinema, street fairs and self-help books to explore how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in during a profound crisis of the social. In this context, the book emphasises the role which neoliberal and anti-neoliberal narratives of self and social relationships may come to play in popular culture and everyday lived experience in Latin America today.

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