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Saving Electricity in a Hurry : Dealing with Temporary Shortfalls on Electricity Suppliers
2005
Saving Electricity in a Hurry describes some of the recent power blackouts – from Norway to New Zealand and from Tokyo to Arizona – and the policies these regions used to quickly reduce their power consumption. It shows that countries can quickly reduce electricity consumption without...
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Saving Electricity in a Hurry : Dealing with Temporary Shortfalls on Electricity Suppliers
2005
Blackouts are normally the result of imbalances in electricity supply and demand. A brief blackout is mostly an inconvenience, but persistent shortfalls--those lasting days, weeks, or months--can cause economic disruption and danger to human life in our technology-rich societies. This...
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Redefining "urban" : a new way to measure metropolitan areas
2012
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Applying the Degree of Urbanisation : A Methodological Manual to Define Cities, Towns and Rural Areas for International Comparisons
OECD; The European Commission; OECD; United Nations …; … - 2021
country along an urban-rural continuum. The degree of urbanisation classification defines cities, towns and semi-dense areas …
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OECD Framework for the Classification of AI systems
OECD - 2022
As artificial intelligence (AI) integrates all sectors at a rapid pace, different AI systems bring different benefits and risks. In comparing virtual assistants, self-driving vehicles and video recommendations for children, it is easy to see that the benefits and risks of each are very...
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The Environmental Goods and Services Industry : Manual for Data Collection and Analysis
1999
Globally, the environmental goods and services industry is growing rapidly in response to environmental pressures and the shift towards business and government strategies that are more sustainable over the long term. However, the industry which supplies the goods and services that enable...
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Developing sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies
OECD - 2020
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ISCED 2011 Operational Manual : Guidelines for Classifying National Education Programmes and Related Qualifications
2015
a similar level of educational content. UNESCO’s International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is the … reference classification for organising education programmes and related qualifications by education levels and fields. The … education systems. ISCED 2011 is the second major revision of this classification (initially developed in the 1970s and first …
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Redefining "Urban" : A New Way to Measure Metropolitan Areas
2012
This report compares urbanisation trends in OECD countries on the basis of a newly defined OECD methodology which enables cross-country comparison of the socio-econimic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in OECD countries. The methodology is presented and results from its...
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