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Sustainability is an urgent developmental task for our society and is attracting increasing attention. Therefore, higher education institutions (HEIs) are also called upon to deal theoretically, conceptually, methodically, critically, and reflectively with the associated challenges and the processes and conditions of transformation in order to contribute to sustainable development. How can complex organisations such as HEIs succeed in initiating and maintaining the process of sustainable development within their own institutions and make it a permanent responsibility? How can as many protagonists as possible be persuaded to get involved in sustainable development? This book deals with the promotion of sustainable university development and provides an overview of how universities can be organised sustainably and how sustainable development can be implemented in their various functional areas. In the sense of a “whole-institution approach”, which encompasses entire HEIs, the focus is not only on the core areas of teaching (higher education for sustainable development) and research (sustainability in research) but, also, on the operational management of HEIs. In addition, this book focuses on sustainability governance and transfer for sustainable development at HEIs as cross-disciplinary issues.

Humanities --- Education --- higher education institutions --- implementation --- organisational factors --- sustainable development --- interpretative structural modelling (ISM) --- higher education institutions (HEIs) --- cross-sector collaboration --- multi-professional collaboration --- transdisciplinary research --- narrative analysis --- sensemaking --- whole institution approach --- organizational networks --- constant comparative analysis --- athletic departments --- higher education --- sustainability --- loose coupling --- shared governance --- United States --- intellectual capital --- performance --- quality of life --- sustainability assessment --- environmental management performance --- German-speaking countries --- survey --- whole-institution approach --- competencies --- knowledge --- values --- case study --- discourse analysis --- environment --- Global South --- Sustainable Development Goals --- universities’ transformation --- sustainability assessment tool --- sustainability governance --- systems theory --- governance equalizer --- politics --- profession --- organization --- public --- organizational culture --- Germany --- sustainability in science --- transformative science --- grammar of responsibility --- ethics of knowledge --- universities as echo chambers of society --- catalytic science --- universities --- organizational change --- higher education for sustainable development (HESD) --- sustainability transitions --- SD --- alliances --- university --- transfer --- practitioner–university partnership --- societal impact --- education for sustainable development --- higher education development --- sustainable university development --- systemic development --- inter-organizational networks --- worldviews --- societal transformation --- systemic transformation

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Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited.In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.

Authoritarianism --- Constitutional history --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government. --- Administrative Organs Department. --- Bunce, Valerie. --- Cabinet of Ministers. --- Central Asian republics. --- Central Control Commission. --- Council of the Federation. --- Hosking, Geoffrey. --- Jones, Ellen. --- Kommunist. --- Komsomol. --- Ministry of State Farms. --- Organization Party Work Department. --- Orgburo. --- Politburo. --- Procuracy. --- Rush, Myron. --- Savinkin, Nikolai I. --- Socialist Revolutionary party. --- United Opposition. --- Willerton, John P. --- Zemtsov, Ilya. --- Zimyatin, Leonid. --- accountability. --- armed forces. --- balancing. --- clientelism. --- constitution. --- democratic centralism. --- disqualification of leaders. --- economic priorities. --- forced departicipation. --- generalist and specialist roles. --- great man theories. --- institutionalization. --- integrated electoral machine. --- learning theory. --- logrolling. --- loose coupling. --- military thought. --- normal politics. --- partisan analysis. --- political interests model. --- power and authority. --- regimes. --- revenue-seeking state. --- selectoral motivation. --- selectorate. --- sovnarkhozy. --- stagnation. --- unenfranchised participants. --- vice-president of the USSR.

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This book introduces a novel approach to the design and operation of large ICT systems. It views the technical solutions and their stakeholders as complex adaptive systems and argues that traditional risk analyses cannot predict all future incidents with major impacts. To avoid unacceptable events, it is necessary to establish and operate anti-fragile ICT systems that limit the impact of all incidents, and which learn from small-impact incidents how to function increasingly well in changing environments. The book applies four design principles and one operational principle to achieve anti-fragility for different classes of incidents. It discusses how systems can achieve high availability, prevent malware epidemics, and detect anomalies. Analyses of Netflix’s media streaming solution, Norwegian telecom infrastructures, e-government platforms, and Numenta’s anomaly detection software show that cloud computing is essential to achieving anti-fragility for classes of events with negative impacts.

Computer Science --- Telecommunications --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Anomaly detection (Computer security) --- Cloud computing. --- Malware (Computer software) --- Software engineering. --- Computer science. --- Computer organization. --- Computers. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer simulation. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks. --- Information Systems and Communication Service. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Organization, Computer --- Electronic digital computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer network architectures. --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Architectures, Computer network --- Network architectures, Computer --- Computer architecture --- Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks --- Information Systems and Communication Service --- Artificial Intelligence --- Simulation and Modeling --- Computer Engineering and Networks --- Database Management System --- Anomaly detection --- Anti-fragility --- Cloud computing --- Complex adaptive systems --- DevOps (Development and Operation) --- Diversity --- Loose coupling --- Malware --- Malware detection --- Microservices --- Modules --- Monitoring --- Redundancy --- Risk analysis --- Software architecture --- Software design --- System dependencies --- Tight coupling --- Trust --- Weak links --- Computer networking & communications --- Computer modelling & simulation