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This open access book reimagines a deeper sustainability in dynamic organization. Offering multiple perspectives on arts, design thinking, leadership, knowledge and project management, Reimagining Sustainable Organization addresses our need for thinking and coping differently when facing the many unknowns of real-life enterprises in society. Drawing on process philosophy, real-world case studies, and examinations of business practices as well as management research, the authors explore knowledge creation towards reimagining sustainable organization. The book includes frameworks and conceptual tools as well as insights for further explorations. This book will be of interests to students, scholars and teachers, and practitioners who are studying sustainable organization, greener management, leadership ideas, or knowledge and project management. It covers future pressing issues also for the professionals involved in co-creative work across organizational boundaries. This is an open access book.

Business & the environment, ‘Green’ approaches to business --- Business strategy --- Project management --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy of leadership --- Cocreation --- knowledge management --- leadership --- value creation

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity of government agencies, private enterprises, political activists, local communities, and international NGOs be effectively combined to produce the major breakthroughs in sustainability that the SDGs envision. Co-Creation for Sustainability sets out a strategy of partnership, with an emphasis on how global goals can be translated into local action. Co-creation brings multiple parties together--including citizens--to collaboratively engage in innovative problem-solving. The book explains this strategy and describes how to foster the conditions necessary for its success. It details how leaders can spur co-creation and manage and overcome its practical challenges. Written to inspire public and private changemakers to find fundamental solutions to the pressing challenges that confront our social and natural environment, Co-creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Partnerships provides intellectual resources and practical advice relevant for those who aspire to harness the talents, energy and perspectives of different sectors to build the momentum we need to realize a sustainable future.

Business ethics & social responsibility --- Business & the environment, ‘Green’ approaches to business --- Ownership & organization of enterprises --- United Nations;Millennium Development Goals;Goal 17;Local Action;Public and Private Actors;Global Governance;Stakeholder Analysis --- Sustainable development. --- Cooperation. --- Business & Economics --- Business ethics & social responsibility. --- Development --- Sustainable Development.

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This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from dedicated laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.

Demography. --- Population. --- Social sciences—Statistical methods. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Population and Demography. --- Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy. --- Human Migration. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Open access --- Agent-based modelling --- Bayesian demography --- Migration modelling --- Model-based approaches --- Uncertainty quantification --- Forced migration --- Computational experiments --- Model calibration and sensitivity --- Free access --- Statistical methods.

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Children today face significant challenges in response to living in a globalised world and the impact of environmental threats to the planet. As such, there is an increasing need for schools to have a global perspective and to cultivate a critical sense of environmental and social responsibility in students. Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in schools is frequently promoted as a route to achieving this, as it has the potential to empower learners to develop the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills, or competences to respond to the complex socio-environmental issues. However, there remains a general lack of pedagogical consensus as to how to teach either about or for ESE within school contexts.To develop effective ESE pedagogies, some educators look to transformative learning theory to encourage learners to move beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge to a change in worldview which not only affects their deeper level of understanding but, importantly for ESE, builds their capacity to think critically and plays an active role in providing a sustainable transformation of society. This book explores the pedagogy and practice of ESE, particularly focus on transformative pedagogies. Exploring themes including the attitudes of the teachers who are implementing transformative pedagogies, the tensions and emotional loads that teachers experience when seeking to develop their professional identity in the context of ESE, and how learning through ESE-informed practice involves and is intimately connected with emotions, this book will be of significant value for researchers and practitioners globally looking to develop transformative ESE practice.

education --- didactics --- teaching --- learning --- pragmatism --- sustainability commitment --- sustainability --- sustainable development --- cultural diversity --- teacher quality --- transculturalism --- educational transformation --- Environmental and Sustainability Education --- geography teacher --- teacher identity --- Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) --- secondary schools --- Initial Teacher Education (ITE) --- selective traditions --- teaching traditions --- teaching habits --- environmental and sustainability education --- functions of teaching --- functions of education --- ESD teaching approaches --- transformative sustainability learning --- collaborative reflection --- sport and the environment --- sport ecology --- n/a

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This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been developed, adopted and critiqued in Nordic human geography in relation to a wide range of themes, concepts and approaches. The book also traces institutional developments, distinct geographical traditions and intellectual histories, as well as authors’ own experiences as geographers in and beyond the Nordic area. The chapters together introduce and engage with debates and discussions that permeate Nordic geography and allows readers a glimpse of geographical thinking and the role of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic countries. By providing insights into how geographical ideas emerge, travel and are translated and adapted in specific contexts, the book contributes to debates about historical-geographical situatedness and theorisations of geography.

Human geography --- Social theory --- Geography --- History of Nordic geography --- Socio-spatial theory in Nordic Geography --- Debates within Nordic geography --- History of geographical thought --- Theoretical geographical perspectives and approaches --- Radical and Critical Geography --- History of university developments in the Nordic countries --- Auto-biographical reflections among Nordic geographers --- Nordic small state geopolitics --- Nordic racial exceptionalism --- Regional planning --- Geography and landscape --- Marxist theorisation of geography --- Mobility and rural-urban transformations --- Nordic gender geography --- Urban space --- Nordic social and cultural geography --- Politicisizing nature in Nordic geography --- Tourism studies in Nordic geography