Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges
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Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges

Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience

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eBook - ePub

Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges

Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience

About this book

Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience

This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world. The authors examine the challenges of education, energy, healthcare, national security, and urban resilience. The book covers challenges in education including America's use of educational funds, standardized testing, and the use of classroom technology. On the topic of energy, this book examines debates on climate, the current and future developments of the nuclear power industry, the benefits and cost decline of natural gases, and the promise of renewable energy. The authors also discuss national security, focusing on the issues of nuclear weapons, terrorism and cyber security. Urban resilience is addressed in the context of natural threats such as hurricanes and floods.

  • Studies the usage of a globalized benchmark for both student and pedagogical performance
  • Covers topics such as surveillance, operational capabilities, movement of resources, and the pros and cons of globalization
  • Examines big data, evolving medical methodologies and effects on the medical educational curriculum, and the positive effects of electronic records in healthcare data

Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges: Education, Energy Healthcare, Security, and Resilience serves as a reference for government officials, personnel in security, business executives and system engineers.

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Yes, you can access Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges by Elisabeth Pate-Cornell,William B. Rouse,Charles M. Vest in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Index

  1. accounting practices
  2. ACORE
  3. Acuitus
  4. administrative structure
  5. affordability
    1. universal
  6. Affordable Care Act
  7. affordable housing
  8. Afghanistan
  9. Africa
  10. agencies
    1. city
    2. federal
    3. state
  11. aircraft industry
  12. air quality
  13. air traffic control system
  14. Alaska
  15. all-hazards preparedness plan
  16. alliances, hostile
  17. Al Qaeda
  18. America COMPETES Act
  19. American Council on RenewableEnergy
  20. American Red Cross
  21. Amsterdam
  22. anthrax
  23. approach, integrated
  24. Arab Awakening
  25. Arizona
  26. Army War College
  27. Asia
  28. Association of American MedicalColleges
  29. athletics
  30. ATM data
  31. atomic bomb
  32. attackers, foreign
  33. Augustine, N.R.
  34. Australia
  35. automation
  36. automobile accidents
  37. automobiles
  39. Bacow, L.S.
  40. balance of power
  41. Bangladesh
  42. banks
  43. Barber, B.R.
  44. Barrett, C.R.
  45. Bartik, T.
  46. base load-generating capacity
  47. basic research
  48. Battle of Ypres
  49. Batty, M.
  50. Baumol, W.J.
  51. Bedroussian, A.
  52. beliefs
  53. best available technology
  54. Bettencourt, L.M.
  55. big data
  56. bin Laden, Osama
  57. bio-based fuels
  58. biodiesel
  59. biofuels, advanced
  60. biological weapons
  61. biomass
    1. power
  62. bird flu
  63. black market
  64. black swans
  65. Bloomberg, M.
  66. Bok, D.
  67. Bombay
  68. Bosnia
  69. Bowen, W.G.
  70. Bracken, P.
  71. Brenner, J.
  72. brewing bubbles
  73. British Raj
  74. Brook, D.
  75. Brunei
  76. Brussels
  77. bubble, higher education
  78. building with nature
  79. bulk chemicals
  80. bulk power
  81. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  82. Burton, W.N.
  83. Burundi
  84. Bush, G.W.
  85. Bush, V.
  86. Byrne, D.
  88. California
  89. California Institute of Technology
  90. caliphate
  91. Cambodia
  92. Cameroon
  93. Canada
  94. cancer
  95. capital costs
  96. carbon
    1. capture
    2. tax
  97. carbon dioxide
    1. emissions
  98. cardiovascular disease
  99. career ladders
  100. Carnegie Institution for Science
  101. Caro, R.A.
  102. Carter, A.
  103. Casadevall, A.
  104. Casalino, L.P.
  105. change
    1. forces
    2. inertia
    3. needs
  106. charter schools
  107. checks and balances
  108. chemical weapons
  109. Chen, C.-Y.
  110. Chicago
  111. Chief Financial Officer
  112. Chief Urban Designer
  113. children
    1. low-income
  114. China
  115. Christenson, C.M.
  116. chr...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Introduction and Overview
  8. Can America Still Compete?
  9. Section I: Education
  10. Section II: Energy
  11. Section III: Healthcare
  12. Section IV: Security
  13. Section V: Resilience
  14. Conclusions
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement