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Science and Technology in Indian Agriculture: History, Evolution and Emerging Challenges
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
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Establishing Criteria and Organizing guidelines for Advancing Standards in Biochar production and consumption using Renewable and Innovative Clean Alternatives
Biomass is the primary energy source for cooking and heating in many developing countries, including Ghana, where nearly 70% of the population rely on fuelwood, charcoal, animal droppings, and agricultural waste.
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Life From, For and To Water
Bogardi, J. J. 2025. Life From, For and To Water. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78791-1
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Towards re-conceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reconceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demands a nuanced understanding of regions diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts.
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Life cycle sustainability assessment of (de)centralized power grids
Many parts of Africa are today not connected to an electricity grid.
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Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development
Lettau, Meike, Christopher Yusufu Mtaku and Eric Debrah Otchere. 2022. Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Polic...
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Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples
Bogardi, Janos J., Joyeeta Gupta, Wasantha K. D. Nandalal, Léna Salamé, Ronald R. P van Nooijen, Navneet Kumar, Tawatchai Tingsanchali, Anik...
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Rescue: from global crisis to a better world
Goldin, Ian. 2021. Rescue: from global crisis to a better world. Hodder & Stroughton. https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ian-goldin/rescu...
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Reversible Technologies
Despite tremendous economic growth rates, especially in rural areas of South Africa and in its neighbouring countries, there is still a subsistence economy predominant.
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Leapfrogging Africa: Sustainable Innovation in Health, Education and Agriculture
Klingholz, Reiner, Sabine Sütterlin, Alisa Kaps and Catherina Hinz. 2020. Leapfrogging Africa: Sustainable Innovation in Health, Education a...
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STIAS Series Volume 14: Transformational Infrastructure for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa
Transformational Infrastructure for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa Desta Mebratu & Mark Swilling (Editors) African Sun Me...
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Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management: From Economic Principles to Practical Governance
Child, Brian. 2019. Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management: From Economic Principles to Practica...
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Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry in Africa
Abegaz, Berhanu. 2016. Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry in Africa. Nature Chemistry 8(6):518–22. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/1...
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The Importance of Grasslands in Providing Ecosystem Services: Opportunities for Poverty Alleviation
Egoh, Benis N, Jan Bengtsson, Regina Lindborg, James M Bullock, Adam P Dixon, and Mathieu Rouget. 2016. The Importance of Grasslands in Prov...
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Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate
Lutz, Wolfgang. 2017. Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate. Proceedings of the National Aca...
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Education First! From Martin Luther to Sustainable Development
Lutz, Wolfgang and Reiner Klingholz. 2017. Education First! From Martin Luther to Sustainable Development. African SUN Media. http://www.afr...
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STIAS Series Volume 9: Education First! From Martin Luther to Sustainable Development
Education First! From Martin Luther to Sustainable Development Wolfgang Lutz & Reiner Klingholz SUN PRESS (2017, 202 pp) ISBN: 978‑1‑92...
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Sustainable Transformation in Health, Education and Agriculture: How Africa Could Profit from Leapfrogging
African countries rank low in almost all development indicators.
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Transformative Infrastructure for Wellbeing Economy Development in Africa
The need for transformational change in national development efforts received unprecedented global consensus and support in 2015 resulting in the adoption of Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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Retooling Development Pathways for Sustainability transition in Africa
We are continuously witnessing a confluence of socio-economic and social-ecological crisis manifested in the form of growing environmental degradation, persistent economic stagnation, increasing unemployement and growing disparities between and within countries.
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African Leapfrogging Index to Sustainability (ALIS)
Centre for Complex Systems in Transition of Stellenbosch University and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics of Lund University are currently developing a regional project on Distributed Renewable Economy for Africa’s Transformation.
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3D Print a House for Development (3D - H - 4D): Prototyping Climate Change Adaptation in African Urban Planning
The news that a Chinese company has successfully 3D printed ten houses in 24 hours rapidly, cheaply and with a bare-bones workforce offers a window into the future for sustainable development in Africa’s urban planning.
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Distributed Renewable Economy for Africa’s Transformation
Human history over the millennia has been shaped by major social transformation processes.
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Mobilizing for Natural Resource Management at the Micro-level in Rural Africa
Natural resource management (NRM) involves efforts by different institutions to formulate and implement laws, policies and legislation to ensure viable use of natural resources.
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The transition to Green Economy: Africa’s leapfrogging opportunity
Africa is currently recognized as the fastest growing region in the world while a number of African countries are listed amongst the fastest growing economies in the region over the last decade.
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Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.
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Social-ecological systems and biosphere stewardship
Humanity interacts with the dynamics of the biosphere in new ways.
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How to survive the post growth century
The 20th century will be seen by historians as the century of growth.