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International Futures

by Barry B. Hughes
March 2019
Beginner to intermediate
330 pages
13h 52m
English
Academic Press
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Glossary II: Modeling-Related Concepts, Tools, and Databases

AQUASTAT Food and Agriculture Organization’s global water information system

BBOE billion barrels of oil equivalent

CBR crude birth rate

CDR crude death rate

COPDAB Conflict and Peace Data Bank

DALYs disability-adjusted life years

DataGator Pardee Center data analysis tool

EDGAR Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research

EJ exajoules

FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Organization database

FBIC formal bilateral influence capacity index

GAMS General Algebraic Modeling System

GEMPACK General Equilibrium Modeling PACKage

GPI global power index

GUI graphical user interface

HDI Human Development Index

ISCED International Standard Classification of Education

KEDS Kansas Event Data System

LES linear expenditure ...

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ISBN: 9780128134221