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The Global Health System: Actors, Norms, and Expectations in Transition
(Public Library of Science, 2010)
The article discusses the changing quality of global health institutions. It cites the factors that affect the change including variety of civil society, nongovernmental organizations, and private firms, changing relationships ...
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market ...
Boundary Work for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
(National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ...
Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)
The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forward toward common goals ...
Evolution of Models to Support Community and Policy Action with Science: Balancing Pastoral Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Savannas of East Africa
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife ...
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010)
We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some ...
Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet
(Elsevier, 2010)
Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster social-ecological
sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current ...
Towards a Structural View of Resilience
(IIASA, 1975-08)
The result of resilience is persistence: the maintenance of certain characteristic behavioral properties in the face of stress, strain and surprise. But the origins of this resilient behavior lie in the structure of the ...
Johannesburg and Beyond
(2002)
Toward a Science of Sustainability
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
This report presents an overview of research horizons in sustainability science. Its motivation is to help harness science and technology to foster a transition toward sustainability – toward patterns of development that ...