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The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education

This book is discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities ...

The Early Years : Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy

The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government ...

The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment

Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, ...

The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries

This book examines the current state of elective placements of medical undergraduate students in developing countries and ...

The Ethics of Intensification : Agricultural Development and Cultural Change

This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached ...

The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Self-governance, Service, the General Representation of Interests and the Dual System of Professional Education

This book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, ...

The Great Mindshift : How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations go Hand in Hand

This book describes the path ahead. It combines system transformation research with political economy and change leadership ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Contested Collaboration

This handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested ...

The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security

This book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing ...

The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource ...

Towards Environmental Innovation Systems

The book brings together research communities from different disciplines and countries, and offers an exchange about theoretical ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management : Challenges and Prospects

The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses ...

Transformation Literacy : Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations

This book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations ...

Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change

Almost 50% of the total area of Austria is forested, and the forests are dominated by commercially valuable stands of Norway ...

Tropical Forest Ecology

Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests ...

Tropical Homegardens

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this ...

Turning Hydropower Social : Where Global Sustainability ConventionsMatter

This book concerns footprints of the international environmental conventions in action. Hydropower projects have been selected ...

Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

Urban Transport Development

Urban Transport Development is a contribution to the ongoing global discussion on the future of urban transport. The main ...

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