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Mapping Sustainability

Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain

  • New ways of looking at ‘sustainable development’ in integrated and wholistic terms
  • New ways of looking at the specific aspects of sustainability in some detail
  • New research methods designed and implemented, with new results generated
  • Introduction and reasoning of a new knowledge management system organized around topics for sustainability

Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 11)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Mapping Sustainability

      • Nazli Choucri
      Pages 3-28
    3. Global Knowledge e-Networking

      • Nazli Choucri
      Pages 29-48
    4. Global Workflow Strategy

      • Nazli Choucri, Farnaz Haghseta, Toufic Mezher
      Pages 49-66
    5. Global e-Partnerships and Strategic Collaboration

      • Nazli Choucri, Farnaz Haghseta, Carlos I. Ortiz
      Pages 67-82
  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
    2. Organizational Innovation

      • Farnaz Haghseta, Nazli Choucri
      Pages 85-99
    3. GSSD-Arabic

      • Toufic Mezher
      Pages 123-141
    4. GSSD-China

      • Shao Yubin, Huang Jing
      Pages 143-150
  4. Part Three

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
    2. Visualization

      • Carlos I. Ortiz
      Pages 231-260
    3. Exploring e-Governance

      • Dinsha Mistree
      Pages 261-275
    4. Growing Clean?

      • Anne-Katrin Wickboldt
      Pages 277-300
    5. Globalization and International Trade

      • Behram F. T. Mistree, Dinsha Mistree
      Pages 301-336
    6. Synergy for Sustainability

      • Wallace R. Baker
      Pages 337-365

About this book

Challenges and Focus This book focuses on three interdependent research initiatives designed to facilitate the management of transitions toward sustainable development. These initiatives consist of: (a) mapping sustainability as a domain of kn- ledge; (b) contributing to the development of global knowledge e-networking and extending the knowledge value chain; and (c) exploring new methods to expand our knowledge and to improve e-networking practices. While the activities differ in nature, scale and scope, they are highly interconnected. It is our hope that, jointly, they will contribute to our common quest for a su- ainable future. Our underlying objectives are to contribute to the provision, mana- ment, and sharing of knowledge, and to enhance the value of knowledge and its uses by different constituencies in diverse contexts and at different stages of development. The central theme of this book, connecting its different parts, is about ways of transcending critical barriers to the effective uses of knowledge and e-networking. Of special relevance is the development of new approaches to the provision and transmission – from local sources to global networks and from global sources to local networks. In many ways, this is a book of theory and methods, as well as policy and performance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • MIT, Cambridge, USA

    Nazli Choucri

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