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The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2011
New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change.
Jan-Peter Voß, Basil Bornemann
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Can China’s Resource-Saving and Environmentally Friendly Society Really Improve the Efficiency of Industrial Land Use?

open access: yesLand, 2021
The Chinese government is committed to its goal of building a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society (RES). The hope is that establishing an RES will accelerate social and economic development, improve resource utilization, and transform ...
Wenfang Pu, Anlu Zhang, Lanjiao Wen
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Habitual accountability routines in the boardroom: How boards balance control and collaboration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
open3siCorporate accountability is a complex chain of reporting that reaches from external stakeholders into the organization’s management structure.
Amedeo Pugliese   +3 more
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Involving Risk Reduction Practitioners and Other Experts in the Management of Super-Catastrophes via an Online Interactive Platform

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Super-catastrophes that lead to extensive disruption and loss amplification are frequently due to domino effects crossing natural, technological, and socio-economic systems. Although secondary effects of natural disasters are often considered in official
Arnaud Mignan   +3 more
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Children and young people’s experiences and perceptions of self-management of type 1 diabetes: A qualitative meta-synthesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this review was to conduct a meta-synthesis of the experiences and perceptions of self-management of type 1 diabetes of children and young people living with type 1 diabetes (CYPDs).
Gallagher, Pamela   +6 more
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Forest management after the economic transition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Germany and Scandinavia represent two paradigmatic forest management traditions, based on management for volume and management for profit, respectively.
Brukas, Vilis, Weber, Norbert
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2010 CGIAR Financing Plan: TMT Recommendations to the ExCo 17 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is a draft paper of the TMT recommendations based on information provided by the Centers for the purpose of consultation with the Alliance and the donors. The draft was circulated to the Centers and received excellent comments.
CGIAR Transition Management Team
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Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
Environmental problems caused by human activities are increasing; biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, soils are being irreversibly damaged, freshwater is increasingly in short supply, and the climate is changing.
Christoph Kueffer   +10 more
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Urban transition in China: Examining the coordination between urbanization and the eco-environment using a multi-model evaluation method

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
The coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment plays an important role in advancing China’s urbanization. This study applies systems theory to build a set of indicators for urbanization and the eco-environment and uses the entropy method to ...
Xiuli Liu   +4 more
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Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union

open access: yesScientific Data
We present field-level land-use data from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), featuring extended thematic details on farm-level indicators and organic cultivation.
Clemens Jänicke   +4 more
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