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The context for creating, sharing and accessing knowledge is rapidly changing at global and local levels as new technologies and approaches are introduced. These changes are driven and enabled by digital technologies, but who wins and who loses, and how do we ensure that development takes place in an equitable manner, and we move towards the kind of societies in Africa that citizens themselves would...
The paper studies decision analysis for urban construction from the perspective of harmonious symbiosis between urban construction and its environment. The purpose is to promote the harmony and sustainability of urban construction and development. A symbiotic city model is proposed, regarding the whole of urban construction projects and the environment as a living symbiont, and showing symbiotic relations...
Crowd sourcing, citizen journalism and social networks are Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) that have ushered in civil society's participation in the ICT equation. However, the participation of civil society has been limited to creating content and, to some extent, capturing data about events around the community. An area that has been neglected is the inclusion of these new players...
The mainstreaming of Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) has been one of the most visible changes inthe domain of software in the last decade. Starting out as arallying point for techno-activists, FOSS is today a valued optionsupported by Governments, Businesses as well as the civil societyin most parts of the word. The State of Kerala in southernIndia, already quite unique on a variety of social,...
Today, the "green wave" is sweeping the globe and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gradually accepted by companies and CSR has gradually become an important core component of competitiveness. How to scientificly evaluate the situation of Chinese enterprises to fulfill their CSR? How to efficiently Standardized CSR disclosure? These problems are urgently needed to solve. This paper,...
The purposes of this paper are to analyze sustainable improvement processes for old urban communities and to establish a resident participation mechanism for community improvement. In China, particularly in cities with a long history, there exist many old urban communities with environmental, social and economical problems against the background of rapid urbanization. Although the policies endeavored...
It is necessary for sustainable development of rural tourism to strengthen the community participation by virtue of home and abroad experience. Firstly, this paper reviews the application of property rights theory in tourism researches. And then, the existing problems in the course of community participation of rural tourism are analyzed, which includes the following four aspects: ambiguous property...
Environmental resource is a kind of special goods that has a superior externality. It has a short of supply and an abuse of demand. Thus, this document started from gambling among different economical individual, which based on scientific decision of public policy, and seek for the innovation of public policy for a sustainable development among economic, society and environment.
High Vocational Education(HVE) enjoys a sound development momentum in China in recent years, and innovation has become the main power to push the continuous economic development too. Since that HVE is closed to social-economic development, it should play an approach to educate innovation ideas to learners. In order to orient HVE for sustainable development in China based on innovation perspective,...
A systems approach to integrative adaptive management of brownfields on Alberta's oil sands development sites is presented. In particular, the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) is utilized to understand underlying development conflicts among stakeholders, which arise due to competing economic, environmental and societal objectives. The conflict model provides a formalized hypothesis-testing...
Present estimates put the number of people without access to electricity at just over a quarter of the World population, approximately 1.6 Billion people with most of them residing in rural areas of developing countries. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates suggest that even by the year 2030, there will still be 1.4 Billion people without electricity unless there are dramatic changes in...
The interests of sustainable development of China's economy requires us to protect the environment, cherish resources, but the reality of international competitiveness requires us to maintain a competitive advantage, therefore, the coordinate development between economy and environment protection is our inevitable choice. Strict environmental regulation policies of developed countries are not only...
Most of the African countries have less than 10% of electrification and 90% of the electrified areas are confined to capital city, so that access to electricity is only confined to main towns. With the initiative of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), an attempt was made to deviate from the accepted norms of project financing, but participatory development of rural villages...
This paper studies the design of Pigovian Taxes as a routeway to balance the interests of ecotourism development & community welfare in China. Aiming at the problem of information asymmetry in application of Pigovian Taxes, the paper indicates the argument that the balance of ecotourism development and community interests can be achieved though government feasible measures. The interests balance...
The role of information in promoting development has been well researched and documented, and there has been much interest in harnessing ICT (information & communications technology) for this purpose. The dynamics of this transfer and its overall effectiveness depends on social capital and how the synergies generated by social capital can impact the co-ordination between member-nodes which is...
Community radio (CR) is a participatory medium and a subset of radio broadcasting. It is an inexpensive and popular way for disseminating content (information, news, entertainment, etc.) CR is designed to increase availability of localized information, media access and empowerment, and even market based growth and societal resource distribution for the community. We examine the sustainability of CR...
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