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The Rise of the Common City
On the culture of commoning
2022 || Paperback || Louis Volont e.a. || ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers
Artists and creative workers have long been attracted to urban environments. Yet the ‘creative city’ of the 21st century comes with its own pitfalls. From precarity at the level of the worker to gentrification at the level of the city: the creative engine starts to sputter. Therefore, after or even against the creative city, this book explores the rise of the ‘common city’. What is the value of commoning for cultural practices in urban contexts? The volume defends the hypothesis that ...
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Transitiong to a Circular Economy
Changing Business Models and Business Ecosystems
2022 || Paperback || Jean Mansuy e.a. || ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers
We are living on a finite planet. Mankind is overstepping planetary boundaries, however. In 2021, worldwide consumption has exceeded the yearly bio-capacity of the Earth (what we call the overshoot day) on the 29th of July. For industrialised countries, the situation is far worse: In 2022, Belgium reached that overshoot day on the 26th of March. In the face of these urgent challenges of sustainable resource use, there is wide agreement on the need for a transition, a fundamental societal shif...
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The economic and strategic impact of standards
A Belgian perspective
2022 || Paperback || Caroline Buts e.a. || ASP - Academic and Scientific Publishers
Standards play an important role within society, shaping many transactions between consumers and companies, citizens and governments, as well as customer/supplier relationships in the broadest sense. This book investigates the economic and strategic importance of standards in a small, strongly globalised economy. The case of Belgium is developed from both a macro-economic and micro-economic perspective.
Based on an econometric model, the macro-economic part quantifies the impact of standards ...