Global Technology: Changes and Implications: Summary of a Forum
National Academy of Engineering and Steve Olson
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Engineers know what they mean by the word technology. They mean the things engineers conceive,...
Green Growth and Travelism: Concept, Policy and Practice for Sustainable Tourism
Min Jiang, Terry DeLacy, Geoffrey Lipman and Shaun Vorster
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The green growth paradigm emerged from evolving global strategies that coherently promote a more...
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): Meeting the Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation and Governance
Marie Hrabanski and Denis Pesche
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Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of...
Growth with Financial Stability: Central Banking in an Emerging Market
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It is widely believed that the Indian economy witnessed near stagnation in real GDP growth from...
Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones
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Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in...
The Political Economy of Employment Relations: Alternative Theory and Practice
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Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal...
Transition to Agricultural Market Economies: The Future of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine
Andrew Schmitz and William H. Meyers
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Countries of the former Soviet Union - specifically Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine - have great...
Coasts in Crisis: A Global Challenge
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Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and...
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data
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Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the...
Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics
Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes
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Changing relations between science and democracy - and controversies over issues such as climate...