Karma Matters: Business Sustainability is Beyond Just Lasting!

By Jayantee Mukherjee Saha & Chris Rowley How can businesses remain sustainable? What is business sustainability all about? What are some of the impacts of...

The Eco-Business Market Advantage

By Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister “When sustainability burst onto the scene it was in the responsibility category, something that a company should do because...

Putting Research into Use (RIU): Technology Development for the Poor Farmer in Low Income...

By Norman Clark The Research Into Use programme aims to help agricultural research projects put its existing stock of knowledge into practical use rather than...

Regional Innovation: How To Be Smart, Sustainable and Robust

By Michele Mastroeni, Joyce Tait& Alessandro Rosiello The encouragement of innovation has been pursued by many different governments and levels of government, as innovation is...

The Role of Urban Spaces in the Creation of Value

By Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, discusses how urban landscape design plays an important role in the creation...

Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century

By Roger Brownsword & Morag Goodwin The authors of Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012) examine both the challenges...

Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance in Putin’s Russia

By Alena Ledeneva In her new monograph Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, Alena Ledeneva seeks to decode and reveal how informal...

Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities

By Shinya Hanaoka This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...

How Rapidly Should Africa Go Green? The Tension Between Natural Abundance And Economic Scarcity.

By Paul Collier & Anthony J. Venables Africa is the green continent: its CO2 emissions per person are less than one tonne pa, one-fifteenth of...

China’s Global Tectonic Shifts: The Dawn of a New Era

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann China has new political leadership. The newness of the new era, however, is by no means limited to the new leadership. The...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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