Co-Cities: innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities

"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Russia-China Relations

This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…

Emerging practices in intergovernmental functional assignment

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Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management

This title develops and applies an innovative theoretical framework that links domestic economic vulnerabilities to national policy positions and international management in the context of Atlantic fisheries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and …

"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The evolved apprentice: How evolution made humans unique

"A Bradford book."Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor adv…

Investors and exploiters in ecology and economics :principles and applications

Experts from the natural and social sciences examine the coexistence of productive and exploitative behavior strategies observable in many species at many levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Moral sentiments and material interests :the foundations of cooperation in ec…

Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Structures of scientific collaboration / of Scientific Collaboration

How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…

Forgotten values :the World Bank and environmental partnerships

An examination of the conflict between values and bureaucracy in World Bank biodiversity partnerships that sheds light on this model of global environmental governance. Multi-stakeholder partnerships have become an increasingly common form of global governance. Partnerships, usually between international organizations (IOs) or state agencies and such private actors as NGOs, businesses, and acad…