What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected event, or change, or technological innovation creates a discontinuity; organizations and individuals must reframe taken-for-granted assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search fo…
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This work explores how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book explains that the tools and concepts we use for making games are intimately connected to what games can and do mean"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "sustainability."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure - not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding th…
This text is an examination of how widely distributed and specialized activities of the brain are flexibly and effectively coordinated.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle--reputable educational institutions, but not considered equal to the elite and entrenched upper echelon of the Ivy Leagu…
This volume offers a range of perspectives on a simple problem How does the brain choose efficiently and adaptively among options to ensure coherent, goal-directed behaviour?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.