Understanding carbon lock-in

GC Unruh - Energy policy, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper narrative argues that industrial economies have been locked into fossil fuel-
based energy systems through a process of technological and institutional co-evolution …

[图书][B] The economics of contracts: Theories and applications

E Brousseau, JM Glachant - 2002 - books.google.com
A contract is an agreement under which two parties make reciprocal commitments in terms
of their behavior to coordinate. As this concept has become essential to economics in the …

[图书][B] Universal Access to E-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications.

RH Anderson - 1995 - ERIC
E-mail has swept the communications and information world, providing instantaneous global
information and data exchange. However, an information elite still exists, made up of those …

Copyright's communications policy

T Wu - Mich. L. Rev., 2004 - HeinOnline
There is something for everyone to dislike about early twenty-first century copyright. Owners
of content say that newer and better technologies have made it too easy to be a pirate. Easy …

'Territorial deregulation': local authorities at risk from technical networks

JM Offner - International journal of urban and regional research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Technical networks (transport, telecommunications, energy etc.) possess paradoxical
virtues. They produce 'structuring effects' on space, obtaining comparative advantages for …

Prospects for electronic democracy in the United States: rethinking communication and social policy

A Calabrese, M Borchert - Media, culture & society, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
The subject of democratic communities in cyberspace, and the possible role of government
in supporting them, has been of great interest to a growing number of scholars (Barber …

[图书][B] Broadband telecommunications and regional development

TH Grubesic, EA Mack - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our
understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of …

After Privatisation?–The Many Autonomies of Private Law

G Teubner - From Dissonance to Sense, 2019 - api.taylorfrancis.com
From Dissonance to Sense: Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law Page 1 3
After Privatisation? - The Many Autonomies of Private Law* GUNTHER TEUBNER' ‘The logic of …

Closing the digital divide: understanding racial, ethnic, social class, gender and geographic disparities in Internet use among school age children in the United States

PF Cleary, G Pierce, EM Trauth - Universal Access in the Information …, 2006 - Springer
The purpose of this study is to explore the dynamics underlying disparities in Internet use
among school age children in the US. The analysis found that a broad range of …

Impediments to the implementation of universal service funds in Africa–A cross-country comparative analysis

EO Arakpogun, R Wanjiru, J Whalley - Telecommunications Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The liberalisation of the telecommunications sector has undoubtedly contributed to the
spread and adoption of mobile telephony across Africa but evidence also points to the fact …