Humankind today is challenged by numerous threats brought about by the speed and scope of global change dynamics. A concerted and informed approach to solutions is needed to face the severity and magnitude of current development problems. Generating shared knowledge is a key to addressing global challenges. This requires developing the ability to cross multiple borders wherever radically different understandings of issues such as health and environmental sanitation, governance and conflict, livelihood options and globalisation, and natural resources and development exist.

Global Change and Sustainable Development presents 36 peer-reviewed articles written by interdisciplinary teams of authors who reflected on results of development-oriented research conducted from 2001 to 2008. Scientific activities were – and continue to be – carried out in partnerships involving people and institutions in the global North, South and East, guided by principles of sustainability. The articles seek to inform solutions for mitigating, or adapting to, the negative impacts of global dynamics in the social, political, ecological, institutional and economic spheres.

Global Change and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of Regional Experiences from Research Partnerships

edited by Hans Hurni and Urs Wiesmann 

Publisher: Geographica Bernensia, Bern, Switzerland, 2010

Hurni H, Wiesmann U, editors; with an international group of co-editors. 2010. Global Change and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of Regional Experiences from Research Partnerships. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol. 5. Bern, Switzerland: Geographica Bernensia, 578 pp. [ISBN: 978-3-905835-13-7]

Language
English

For the print version, please send your order to: nccr-north-south@cde.unibe.ch(price: CHF 45.00 / EUR 30.00, excluding postage)

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