"Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustain ability, "Green IT," offering both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action." "Tomlinson contrasts the broad ranges of time, space, and complexity against which environmental concerns play out with the relatively narrow horizons of human understanding; it's hard for us to grasp thousand-year projections of global climatic disruption or our stake in melting icecaps thousands of miles away. IT can bridge the gap between human scales of understanding and environmental scales." "Tomlinson offers many examples of efforts toward sustainability supported by IT - from fishers in India who maximized the sales potential of their catch by coordinating their activities with mobile phones to the installation of smart meters that optimize electricity use in California households - and discusses three detailed studies of specific research projects that he and his colleagues have undertaken: EcoRaft, an interactive museum exhibit to help children learn principles of restoration ecology; Trackulous, a set of Web-based tools with which people can chart their own environmental behavior; and GreenScanner, an online system that provides access to environmental-impact reports about consumer products. Taken together, these examples illustrate the significant environmental benefits that innovations in information technology can enable."--BOOK JACKET.

"Using a rigorous and concise framework, this book teaches the foundations ofmodernmacroeconomic theory and its methods. It is ideally suited for students taking a first graduate course inmacroeconomics as part of anMBA, finance, or economics degree. The book explains recent advances of modern macroeconomic theorywith respect to growth, business cycles, and asset pricing by focusing on aspects of firmand household behavior that are embedded in modern macroeconomic studies. Throughout the book data issues are discussed in detail:where to find the data, howto download it, and the correspondence of datawithmodelpredictions.Themathematical level assumes that students have taken a course in calculus.With its emphasis on dynamic intertemporalmacroeconomics and the use of data, the book provides studentswith a core toolkit thatwill equip them both for more advanced study and for professional careers as economists. Additional resources (including PowerPoint slides for each chapter, detailed answers to all the questions in the book, and links to useful sites) are available online atwww.cambridge.org/macro4mba"--Provided by publisher.

"This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition. Concepts of good governance, transparency and accountability are woven into the text of every chapter, and the needs and potential obstacles to greater decentralization and democracy are highlighted. Each volume is self-contained with its own Trainer's Guide, exercises and web resources. Chapters are divided into basic and advanced concepts and the detailed relationship of each topic to the others covered in the series is explained"--Publisher's description.