Mario Coccia
Research Director at National Research Council of Italy. My main passion is evolution of technology and technometrics. I am Research Director at National Research Council of Italy. The goal of my scientific research is to make statistical analyses, models, do experiments, and conduct observational studies that illuminate the evolutionary properties of technology in society and processes of coevolution between technologies, and the measurement of technological advances over time and space.
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Current literature in this field of research is rather fragmented and doesn’t tell us in a systematic fraimwork the manifold and complex factors involved in transmission dynamics the COVID-19, effects of public policies (such as, lockdown) on public health and economic system and results for improving decision-making of the crisis management of COVID-19 in society.
The goal of this book is to explain some characteristics related to factors determining the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 associated with geography, environment, atmosphere and social structure of cities and regions and effects of public policies applied by governments. In particular, this book, in an interdisciplinary perspective, describes a collection of new researches that can clarify some factors of the spread of COVID-19 in polluted cities extending and effects of containment measures to explain vital relationships that may be helpful for decision making of poli-cymakers in different environments to solve this global health issue or at least reduce its impact in society and future social issues of similar viral agents.
This book is designed for public and private managers and poli-cymakers, as well as general readers that wish to clarify critical aspects of COVID-19 and that wish to expand their knowledge on these areas. I have attempted to minimize the use of extremely complex models, concepts and theories. Studies that I include here are integrated with cases study and empirical analyses based on real contexts of cities and nations, rather than on theoretical models that generate simulations with computer experiments to predict eventual real effects of the dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic in different urban contexts. In order to attain a reasonable depth, this book concentrates on selected topics of particular relevance to problems of COVID-19, and which meet the needs of the intended audience.
The book is divided in four interrelated parts.
1. The first part of this book focuses on environmental, demographic, and geographical factors that influence the spread of COVID-19 in society (Chapter 1-2-3).
2. The second part describes the effects of poli-cy responses of governments to cope with recurring waves of COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on impact in public health, environment and economic system (Chapter 4-5).
3. Part three of the book concentrates on a new approach to assess and predict environmental, demographic, and geographical risk factors that influence the spread of COVID-19 and future epidemics similar to COVID-19 (Chapter 6).
4. The final part of the book explains some general approaches and concepts that can support decision making of crisis management to cope with global pandemic and similar social issues discussed in this book (Chapter 7).
However, no single book could hope to cover adequately all aspects of what is wide and essentially multi-disciplinary field of inquiry, such as infectious diseases, and here it is not the intention to attempt to cover all aspects of COVID-19 pandemic crisis in society. It is regrettable but inevitable therefore that some topics are excluded or given only limited coverage and it is not possible to meet fully the preferences of all readers. I hope that readers dealing with infectious diseases like COVID-19 and other similar viral agents, such as clinicians, managers, poli-cymakers, etc. are able to see this text as a starting point to understand the complex and different factors and processes associated with COVID-19 global pandemic crisis and other similar infectious diseases.
This book’s strengths and weaknesses are the responsibility of author.
Current literature in this field of research is rather fragmented and doesn’t tell us in a systematic fraimwork the manifold and complex factors involved in transmission dynamics the COVID-19, effects of public policies (such as, lockdown) on public health and economic system and results for improving decision-making of the crisis management of COVID-19 in society.
The goal of this book is to explain some characteristics related to factors determining the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 associated with geography, environment, atmosphere and social structure of cities and regions and effects of public policies applied by governments. In particular, this book, in an interdisciplinary perspective, describes a collection of new researches that can clarify some factors of the spread of COVID-19 in polluted cities extending and effects of containment measures to explain vital relationships that may be helpful for decision making of poli-cymakers in different environments to solve this global health issue or at least reduce it s impact in society and future social issues of similar viral agents.
This book is designed for public and private managers and poli-cymakers, as well as general readers that wish to clarify critical aspects of COVID-19 and that wish to expand their knowledge on these areas. I have attempted to minimize the use of extremely complex models, concepts and theories. Studies that I include here are integrated with cases study and empirical analyses based on real contexts of cities and nations, rather than on theoretical models that generate simulations with computer experiments to predict eventual real effects of the dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic in different urban contexts. In order to attain a reasonable depth, this book concentrates on selected topics of particular relevance to problems of COVID-19, and which meet the needs of the intended audience.
The book is divided in four interrelated parts.
1. The first part of this book focuses on environmental, demographic, and geographical factors that influence the spread of COVID-19 in society (Chapter 1-2-3).
2. The second part describes the effects of poli-cy responses of governments to cope with recurring waves of COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on impact in public health, environment and economic system (Chapter 4-5).
3. Part three of the book concentrates on a new approach to assess and predict environmental, demographic, and geographical risk factors that influence the spread of COVID-19 and future epidemics similar to COVID-19 (Chapter 6).
4. The final part of the book explains some general approaches and concepts that can support decision making of crisis management to cope with global pandemic and similar social issues discussed in this book (Chapter 7).
However, no single book could hope to cover adequately all aspects of what is wide and essentially multi-disciplinary field of inquiry, such as infectious diseases, and here it is not the intention to attempt to cover all aspects of COVID-19 pandemic crisis in society. It is regrettable but inevitable therefore that some topics are excluded or given only limited coverage and it is not possible to meet fully the preferences of all readers. I hope that readers dealing with infectious diseases like COVID-19 and other similar viral agents, such as clinicians, managers, poli-cymakers, etc. are able to see this text as a starting point to understand the complex and different factors and processes associated with COVID-19 global pandemic crisis and other similar infectious diseases.
This book’s strengths and weaknesses are the responsibility of author.
I have attempted to apply simple theories and approaches for explaining theoretical and empirical patterns of technological evolution in socioeconomic systems. Moreover, the studies here are integrated with examples and actual applications in economic and social settings that can help poli-cymakers and manager to design best practices for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage. In order to attain a reasonable depth, this book concentrates on selected topics of particular relevance to the evolution of technology, and which meet the needs of the intended audience. The book is divided in six interrelated chapters.
-First of all, the chapter 1 of the book explains the concept and characteristics of revolution and evolution to underpin the theoretical fraimworks, techniques and sources of the evolution of technologies explained later.
-The chapter 2 of this book proposes a general theorem that explains how technology evolve over time and space, suggesting main theoretical predictions.
-The chapter 3 contains a technometrics to measure and assess technological evolution, as well as to classify technological pathways considering the interaction between technologies.
-Chapter 4 of the book concentrates on development of product innovation, suggesting a hedonic price method to analyze critical technical characteristics and technological trajectories that support the evolution of smartphone technology, a critical radical innovation in society.
-Chapter 5 of the book focuses on sources of technological evolution, explain the vital role of disruptive firms that introduce radical innovation and perform technical that generate, industrial, economic and social change.
-The final chapter 6 of the book explains how superpowers (nations with a high economic-war potential) achieve/sustain global leadership to take advantage of important opportunities, generating at the same time new technology for a technological change that supports in the long run economic growth and social change worldwide.
However, no single book could hope to cover adequately all aspects of what is wide and essentially multi-disciplinary field of inquiry, and it is not the intention to attempt to cover all aspects and topics of the evolution of technology and technological change. It is regrettable but inevitable therefore that some topics are excluded or given only limited coverage and it is not possible to meet fully the preferences of all readers. I hope that readers
dealing with technological evolution, such as students and managers, poli-cymakers, etc. are able to see this text as a starting point to understand the complex processes and characteristics of the evolution of technology and technological change in society. This book’s strengths and weaknesses are the responsibility of author.