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BOOK DRAFT: Sector Perspective on Society and Economy
BOOK DRAFT material for Sector Perspective on Society and Economy. Some of the material was used in the BURGESS BOOK
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BOOK DRAFT: Sector Perspective on Society and Economy
BOOK DRAFT material for Sector Perspective on Society and Economy. Some of the material was used in the BURGESS BOOK
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Chapter 1. Sector Perspective
This chapter describes the importance of a multi-sector approach ... how a single sector initiative frequently fails because some other sector is not functional.
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This chapter also highlights the importance of sector specific technical capacity.
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Chapter 2. Sectors: Governance ... Government
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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The legislative functions of government
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The executive functions of government
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The enforcement of law and order
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Chapter 3. Sectors: Infrastructure
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Elements of the transport infrastructure
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Elements of the communications infrastructure
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Elements of the energy infrastructure
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Elements of the housing and real estate infrastructure
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Chapter 4. Sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Crop Agriculture
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Livestock agriculture
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Fisheries
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Post harvest processing
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Post harvest marketing
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Chapter 5. Sectors: Industrial Sector
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Manufacturing
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Construction
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Tourism
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Chapter 6. Sectors: Trade and Logistics
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Ocean and air shipping
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Ports and airports
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Warehousing
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Internal rail and truck
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Wholesale
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Retail
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Chapter 7. Sectors: Service Sectors
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Banking and insurance
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Healthcare
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Education
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Chapter 8. A lot more issues
Afterword
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This chapter starts the dialog about how sector activity should be incorporated into activities to progress society and the economy.
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SECTORS / INDUSTRIES
SECTORS / INDUSTRIES ARE WHERE PRODUCTIVITY MATTERS
LINKS BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION, DEPLETION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND IMPROVEMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL
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ALL THE PROCESSES
THE IMPACT OF ACTIVITIES / STREAMS / SECTORS
These are responsible for the amazing improvement in quality of life and standard of living over the past 200 years, and also responsible for the degradation of the environment. The efficiency of these are the key to a better world.
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STREAMS / STRANDS / STRINGS (SS)
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STREAMS: MINING / MANUFACTURING / LOGISTICS
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ACADEMIA / UNIVERSITIES / RESEARCH
A critical component of a successful 21st century knowledge economy
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ACADEMIA
Potentially a source of a lot of knowledge, but much of the work is academic without being valuable.
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AGRICULTURE
The link between LAND and natural raw materials including FOOD
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AGRICULTURE SECTOR
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AIR / ATMOSPHERE
Air and the atmosphere are part of NATURAL CAPITAL, essential for a healthy life and a climate equilibrium that has been supporting humankind for many thousands of years.
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AIR
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ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT
Undervalued but something of vital importance in a post industrial economy
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BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
A service to facilitate economic transactions ... a lubricant but NOT a fuel nor the engine
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BANKING AND FINANCE
Hugely profitable, but services essential to the “south” are not available because the profits not big enough.
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BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR
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BANKING
BANKING is a STRAND in the modern socio-enviro-economic system. There is a widely held belief that the banking sector creates wealth, but this is not real. The banking sector merely consolidates wealth created in other sectors and enables the concentration of wealth by those who are in positions of power and influence.
BANKING is a lubricant for the functioning of the socio-enviro-economic, but neither the engine for the system nor the fuel!
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Insurance sector.
Insurance is an industry whose purpose if to address the issue of risk, and enable risk to be managed because financial provisions have been made.
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Chapter 7. Sectors: Service Sectors
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Banking and insurance
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Healthcare
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Education
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CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
The education of children sets the stage for the future of a society
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EDUCATION
The education sector is critical to the future performance of the economy, but badly underfunded and good education is far from being accessible to all.
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Education sector
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Chapter 7. Sectors: Service Sectors
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Healthcare
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Education
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CONSTRUCTION
The link between the infrastructure we have and the new infrastructure we will have
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CONSTRUCTION
Local construction companies ought to be a driver of local economic performance, but they are often displaced by outside contractors.
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Chapter 5. Sectors: Industrial Sector
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Mining
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Manufacturing
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Construction
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Tourism
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Enterprise sector.
A simple way to describe the private for profit organizations that can be the driver of sustainable socio-economic progress.
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FOREST
An essential part of the global ecosystem ... habitat for biodiversity and important for climate control
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Forestry sector
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GOVERNMENT
An essential part of a civilized society and important for the performance of the system
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GOVERNANCE ... GOVERNMENT
Chapter 2 of the Burgess Book. This includes Policy Administrations, Government Accounting, Public Finance etc. ...
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GOVERNMENT
This ought to be facilitating socio-economic progress, but too much is constraining progress. Not enough accounting and accountability.
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Chapter 2. Sectors: Governance ... Government
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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The legislative functions of government
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The executive functions of government
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The enforcement of law and order
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS STREAM
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HEALTH
The health sector is critical to the health of the population, and seriously underfunded in the face of some pandemic health issues.
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Health sector.
The health sector is critical to the health of the population, and seriously underfunded in the face of some pandemic health issues.
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Health ... Malaria
The health sector is critical to the health of the population, and seriously underfunded in the face of some pandemic health issues.
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Chapter 7. Sectors: Service Sectors
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Banking and insurance
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Healthcare
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Education
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HOUSING
Shelter is an essential basic need
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Housing sector.
Housing is a sector that can be a useful driver of economic progress. There is a big need for affordable housing, especially in urban areas.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure makes a major contribution to the performance of the socio-enviro-economic system
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Chapter 3 of a draft Burgess Book from 2008. This includes Housing, Seaports, Airports, Roads and Bridges, Telecom and Internet, Electricity, Water etc. ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Getting infrastructure upgraded can be a driver of the economy, but only if it is done with some understanding of the dynamics of development and the damage caused by economic distortion.
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Chapter 3. Sectors: Infrastructure
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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Elements of the housing and real estate infrastructure
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
An important complement to national security and essential for a better world for everyone
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Relief and development sector.
A shorthand to cover all the activities of the official relief and development organizations, governments, NGOs, etc. that work on disaster relief and socio-economic progress.
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TRADE
Trade is a major link for the global socio-enviro-economic system
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International trade sector.
There needs to be a lot more of fair (equitable) trade than merely free trade.
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JOBS / EMPLOYMENT
The link that enables a person to contribute to society AND pay for quality of life
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JOBS / EMPLOYMENT
Where there is employment and well paying jobs, and a lot of economic. social and relief and development problems go away. This ought to be a major priority but there is a lot of misunderstanding about what is jobe creation and what is job destruction.
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EMPLOYMENT
An essential STRAND in the modern socio-enviro-economic system
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EMPLOYMENT
A big ISSUE in the functioning of the modern economy, and also in its increasing dysfunction
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KNOWLEDGE / TECHNOLOGY
A fundamental constraint on progress and performance ... but way ahead of decision makers and investors
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LAND
Land is a component of NATURAL CAPITAL, and a limitation on growth and the performance of the socio-enviro-economic system
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LAND
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LAW
Rule of law is a foundation for socio-enviro-economic stability and performance
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LEGAL AND JUSTICE SECTOR
Too often underfunded and unable to function well. Not well integrated with traditional systems of justice.
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MANUFACTURING PROCESSES / PRODUCTION
The efficiency of manufacturing processes determines a lot about both society and the environment
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INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
Chapter 5 of a draft Burgess Book from 2008. This includes Energy (oil and gas, electricity, coal, renewables) Minerals and Mining, Manufacturing, Construction, etc. ...
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Chapter 5. Sectors: Industrial Sector
This chapter expands on the many components of these sectors including:
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MEDIA / NEWS / INFORMATION
The 4th Estate and a vital part of a healthy society
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Manufacturing sector.
The sector can be a valuable part of the economic mix. It is not going to be success except in places that commit to an efficient economic environment.
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MILITARY / MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
A critical part of national security, but only a part
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MILITARY
More sunlight is needed in connection with military equipment and supplies and how they are used.
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Military
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MINING / NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION
An essential part of the PRODUCT stream, with important impact on the natural environment
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MINING SECTOR
A sector that ought to produce huge value for the “south”, but it needs work to allow it to achieve value for the “south”
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Mining
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Chapter 5. Sectors: Industrial Sector
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OCEANS
Part of NATURAL CAPITAL and a critical part of the biosphere and natural circulations
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OCEANS
Transport is part of the infrastructure that is in great disrepair in the “south” and costly to the society.
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POLICE
POLICE ... the thin blue line that is so important for domestic safety and a civil society
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POLICE
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POST USE WASTE CHAIN
WASTE MANAGEMENT / CIRCULAR ECONOMY / RECYCLING
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POST USE WASTE CHAIN
WASTE is a
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PRODUCT
STUFF THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE
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PRODUCTS
PRODUCTS are a key link between the PLANET or Natural Capital and People or Human Capital. Product is both goods and services, and it is these that deliver people what they need to improve and maintain their quality of life and standard of living
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Professional services are essentially overhead and too much a drag on socio-enviro-economic performance
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Accountancy.
Accountancy is ... TO COME
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Architecture.
TO COME
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Engineering Consultancy
TO COME
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Law
TO COME
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Medicine
TO COME
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Public Relations
TO COME
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RECREATION / SPORTS
Important for quality of life
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RETAIL
The critical interaction involving the product and the eventual buyer that will use the product
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Retail sector.
Look at the retail sector and a lot can be learned about the state of socio-economic progress.
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SERVICE SECTORS
Chapter 7 of the Burgess Book. These sectors include health, education, sanitation, police, etc. ...
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SKILLS TRAINING
A complementary aspect of education
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Social sectors.
These sectors include health, education, etc. that are needed to improve the status of the population.
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TECHNOLOGY
Knowledge and technology has been the enabler of progress for all of humankind, and never moreso than now
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TECHNOLOGY
Knowledge and technology has been the enabler of progress for all of humankind, and never moreso than now
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TELECOM / COMMUNICATIONS
Telecom and communications can be the foundation for an informed knowledge economy, or a channel for massive misinformation
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Telecom sector.
The telecom sector has evolved a lot in the recent years, and change continues. Getting relief and development friendly telecom is critical to success.
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2012 ... Top Ten largest telecom companies in Africa
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TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Travel and tourism can be a way for the world to come together
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Tourism sector.
Tourism has great potential for the “south” but it needs management and development of destinations.
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WASTE
Water is part of NATURAL CAPITAL and essential for life but potable water is scarce and insufficient for unlimited exploitation
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WASTE
Waste is one of the biggest inefficiencies in the modern socio-enviro-economic system. Waste exists at every stage of the supply chain, during the various manufacturing processes, during the use of the product and then in the post use waste cycle.
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WATER AND SANITATION
Water is part of NATURAL CAPITAL and essential for life but potable water is scarce and insufficient for unlimited exploitation
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WATER
Water is sometimes considered as a separate sector because of its vital importance to the viability of the area
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Natural resources sector.
Natural resources of all sorts are abundant in the “south” but not exploited much for the benefit of the “south” but mainly for the benefit of foreign investors and their foreign staff.
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Public sector, private sector.
If it is government it is the public sector, if it is not, it is the private sector.
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Luxury sector.
This sector has a high profit derived from the huge disposable income of people with great wealth. Mainly involved with obscenely expensive baubles and toys.
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Productive sector.
These sectors include mining, manufacturing, agriculture, fisheries, etc. that make things needed for society locally or internationally.
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Put banksters in jail ... Credit card revolt ... Thomas Jefferson (cartoon)
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Chicken
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries ... Chicken ... U.S. Government Buys $40 Million Worth of Chicken Nobody Wants ... August 2011
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The following is from tha C$) / LSE report of 2016 (page 8)
Box 1.1 List of 13 key sectors examined in the co-benefits literature
Overall, 13 key sectors and 55 sub-sectors were reviewed for co-benefits. Economy & Development,
Social Inclusion and Environment were not included as sectors, but wereinsteadcaptured as co-benefits across the 13 sectors.
1. Health
• Health efficiency
• Children
• Elderly
• Care services
• Pharmaceuticals
• Malnutrition
2. Land use planning
• Planning rules
• Infrastructure planning
• Regeneration
• Green spaces
3. Transport
• Rail
• Metro
• Roads
• Parking
• Road safety
• Cycling
• Walking
• E-mobility
• Shared mobility
• Multimodality
• Airports
• River transport
• Freight
• New technology
4. Water
• Water quality
• Water pollution
• Water distribution
• Flood protection
• Sewerage
5. Buildings
• Energy efficiency
• Building standards
• New technology
6. Digital
7. Energy
• Energy security
• Low carbon energy
• Energy regulation
• Smart grids & energy
distribution
• Distributed energy
8. Education
• Childcare
• Schools
• Higher education
9. Tourism, Culture and Sport
• Tourism
• Culture
• Sport
10. Food security
• Food distribution
• Food safety
11. Air quality
• Carbon emissions
• Air pollution
12. Waste
• Household waste
• Industrial waste
• Recycling
• Landfill
• Incineration
13. Disaster & emergency
• Contingency planning
• Resilient infrastructure
• Fire & emergency services
Five strategic sectors
The co-benefits identified in the sectoral literature review were grouped into five strategic sectors:
- Health,
- Mobility,
- Resources,
- Buildings, and
- Economy.
These strategic sectors were then divided into:
- city goals,
- policy actions and
- co-benefits.
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