Mapping Sustainability

This book focuses on three interdependent challenges related to managing transitions toward sustainable development. These are: mapping sustainability for global knowledge e-networking, extending the value chain of knowledge and e-networking, and 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.

Challenges and Focus This book focuses on three interdependent research initiatives designed to facilitate the management of transitions toward sustainable development. These initiatives consist of: (a) mapping sustainability as a domain of kn- ledge; (b) contributing to the development of global knowledge e-networking and extending the knowledge value chain; and (c) exploring new methods to expand our knowledge and to improve e-networking practices. While the activities differ in nature, scale and scope, they are highly interconnected. It is our hope that, jointly, they will contribute to our common quest for a su- ainable future. Our underlying objectives are to contribute to the provision, mana- ment, and sharing of knowledge, and to enhance the value of knowledge and its uses by different constituencies in diverse contexts and at different stages of development. The central theme of this book, connecting its different parts, is about ways of transcending critical barriers to the effective uses of knowledge and e-networking. Of special relevance is the development of new approaches to the provision and transmission from local sources to global networks and from global sources to local networks. In many ways, this is a book of theory and methods, as well as policy and performance.

New ways of looking at 'sustainable development' in integrated and wholistic terms New ways of looking at the specific aspects of sustainability in some detail New research methods designed and implemented, with new results generated Introduction and reasoning of a new knowledge management system organized around topics for sustainability

Contenu
One.- Mapping Sustainability.- Global Knowledge e-Networking.- Global Workflow Strategy.- Global e-Partnerships and Strategic Collaboration.- Two.- Organizational Innovation.- Information and Communication Technology in the Arab Region.- GSSD-Arabic.- GSSD-China.- Strategies for Re-Engineering Global Knowledge e-Networks.- The Value of Knowledge for Extended Enterprises.- GSSD-Enterprise for Multinational Corporations.- Three.- Visualization.- Exploring e-Governance.- Growing Clean?.- Globalization and International Trade.- Synergy for Sustainability.- Financial Risks and Climate Change.- Global Agenda! Version 1.0.- Basic versus Complex Logic in International Relations.- Conclusion: Mapping Sustainability, Knowledge e-Networking, and the Value Chain.