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Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2009
This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social "transitions": the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach.
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jan Rotmans
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign direct investment: a tool or a target for industrial policy in Eastern Countries? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Is there any linkage between industrial policy and the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern European countries? This is the core question which is analysed and discussed in this paper.
Soares, M. Isabel R. T.
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Forestry in the Next Millennium: Challenges and Opportunities for the USDA Forest Service [PDF]

open access: yes
Throughout the globe, forestry faces predictable trends associated with the transition from reliance on natural forests to ones created through human stewardship.
Binkley, Clark
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Transition Management

open access: yes, 2004
«Challenges to Collective Security» Working Papers from NUPI’s UN Programme: The emerging consensus on the need to establish more effective United Nations mechanisms for managing the transition from conflict to peace, and on the importance of addressing the nexus between development and security, is not sufficiently reflected in the organisational ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Strengthening entrepreneurship through coaching and developing competencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Strengthening entrepreneurship is an important strategy for stimulating the transition to sustainable agriculture. But how is that done? One example is the Interactive Strategic Management method, which supports entrepreneurs in the creation and ...
Beldman, A.C.G.
core   +1 more source

Does Internet use help to achieve sustainable food consumption? Evidence from rural China

open access: yesSustainable Futures
Internet use is widely studied as an important socio-economic factor influencing agricultural productivity, income, the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, and farmer welfare, but scant attention is given to its influence on sustainable food ...
Jian Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A complex systems methodology to transition management [PDF]

open access: yes
There is a general sense of urgency that major technological transitions are required for sustainable development. Such transitions are best perceived as involving multiple transition steps along a transition path.
Floortje Alkemade   +3 more
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Dataset on measuring perception about fertilizer subsidy policy and factors behind differential farm level fertilizer usage in Bangladesh

open access: yesData in Brief, 2019
The dataset explicates farmer׳s perceptions about fertilizer subsidy policy in Bangladesh and the factors that affect farm level fertilizer usage. Primary data were collected from 300 farm households from three regions of the country belonging to four ...
Mahmuda Nasrin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable deltas in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What are the possible trajectories of delta development over the coming decades? Trajectories will be determined by the interactions of biophysical trends such as changing sediment supplies, subsidence due to compaction of sediment and climate change ...
A Chapman   +42 more
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Viewpoint planning with transition management for active object recognition. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Neurorobot, 2023
Sun H   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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