Mapping Sustainability

by Choucri, Nazli; Mistree, Dinsha; Haghseta, Farnaz; Mehzer, Toufic; Baker, Wallace R.

• ISBN13: 9781402060700
• ISBN10: 140206070X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This book focuses on three interdependent challenges related to managing transitions toward sustainable development, namely (a) mapping sustainability for global knowledge e-networking, (b) extending the value chain of knowledge and e-networking, and (c) engaging in explorations of new methods and venues for further developing knowledge and e-networking. While each of these challenges constitutes fundamentally different types of endeavors, they are highly interconnected. Jointly, they contribute to our expansion of knowledge and its applications in support of transitions toward sustainable development. The central theme of this book revolves around ways of transcending barriers that impede the use of knowledge and knowledge networking in transitions toward sustainability. In order to transcend these barriers, we examine the potential contributions of innovations in information technologies as well as computation and representation of attendant complexities. A related theme addresses new ways of managing information and systematic observation for the purpose of enhancing the value of knowledge. Finally, this book shows applications of new methodologies and related findings that would contribute to our understanding of sustainablity issues that have not yet been explored. In many ways, this is a book of theory and of practice; and it is one of methods as well as policy and performance.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
	p. 1
Mapping Sustainability	p. 3
Global Knowledge e-Networking	p. 9
Global Workflow Strategy	p. 49
Global e-Partnerships and Strategic Collaboration	p. 67
	p. 283
Organizational Innovation	p. 85
Information and Communication Technology in the Arab Region	p. 101
GSSD-Arabic	p. 123
GSSD-China	p. 143
Strategies for Re-Engineering Global Knowledge e-Networks	p. 151
The Value of Knowledge for Extended Enterprises	p. 177
GSSD-Enterprise for Multinational Corporations	p. 209
	p. 229
Visualization	p. 231
Exploring e-Governance	p. 261
Growing Clean?	p. 277
Globalization and International Trade	p. 301
Synergy for Sustainability	p. 337
Financial Risks and Climate Change	p. 367
Global Agenda! Version 1.0	p. 379
Basic versus Complex Logic in International Relations	p. 395
Conclusion: Mapping Sustainability, Knowledge e-Networking, and the Value Chain	p. 407
Appendices	p. 423
	p. 425
	p. 461
	p. 471
	p. 473
Index	p. 479
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