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Klimawandel und der Untergang von Hochkulturen: Was lehrt uns die Geschichte?
by Gerhard GeroldGlobale Klimaveränderung und Klimakollaps sind in Medien und Gesellschaft ein inzwischen viel beachtetes Thema geworden. Der Zusammenbruch alter Hochkulturen wird dabei in Verbindung mit plötzlichen Klimaveränderungen gebracht. Anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse gibt das Buch Antworten auf die Rolle von Klimaveränderung für den Kollaps alter Hochkulturen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten und Kontinenten – von Mesopotamien bis nach Grönland. Dabei erfolgt eine Zusammenschau von archäologischen und paläoklimatischen Erkenntnissen unter Berücksichtigung der damaligen ökonomischen, politischen und religiös-kulturellen Verhältnisse. Der Geograph Gerhard Gerold legt mit diesem Buch eine detaillierte Analyse der schon in historischer Zeit bestehenden komplexen Vernetzung kulturgeschichtlicher und umweltökologischer Bedingungen vor, die für unsere heutige globalisierte Welt eine große Aktualität besitzen. Das Buch bietet zahlreiche Beispiele für den Vergleich damaliger und heutiger Umweltkrisen. Der Autor: Gerhard Gerold gehört als Mitglied der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina zu den Wissenschaftlern, die sich schon seit den 80er Jahren mit Themen der Umweltzerstörung in den Tropen beschäftigt haben. Der Zusammenbruch früher Hochkulturen in Verbindung mit regionalen Klimaänderungen faszinierten ihn im Rahmen seiner umfangreichen geoökologischen Forschungsarbeiten.
Klimawandel und Finanzmärkte (essentials)
by Joachim WeeberEin vergleichsweise neues Thema hat die Finanzmärkte erreicht: der Klimawandel. Auf verschiedenen Veranstaltungen von Aufsichtsbehörden stand dieser Aspekt im Zentrum. Die Bedeutung des Klimawandels im Hinblick auf seine Auswirkungen auf das Finanzsystem wird durch zahlreiche Studien der Green Finance Study Group unterstrichen, die von der G20-Gruppe der wichtigsten Industrie- und Schwellenländer eingerichtet wurde. Während es zunächst um die Finanzierung einer ökologisch ausgerichteten Wirtschaftspolitik ging (im Sinne von ‚Green Finance‘), stehen zunehmend die Risiken des Klimawandels im Fokus. Joachim Weeber stellt die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Finanzmärkte insgesamt in den Mittelpunkt. Neben der Beschreibung und Analyse von Risiken durch den Klimawandel betrachtet er auch die Chancen, die sich durch den Einsatz der Finanzmärkte für die Minderung des Klimawandels ergeben. Zahlreiche neue Forschungsfragen sind aus der Thematik ableitbar, für die der Autor Beispiele liefert.Der Autor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Weeber ist Honorarprofessor an der Fachhochschule Nordakademie sowie Sachgebietsleiter bei der Deutschen Bundesbank im Bereich Banken und Finanzaufsicht.
Klimawandel und Gesundheit: Internationale, nationale und regionale Herausforderungen und Antworten (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Heiko J. Jahn, Alexander Krämer and Tanja WörmannDer Klimawandel und die daraus resultierenden Auswirkungen auf Gesundheit, Umwelt und Gesellschaft werden in den nächsten Jahren sowohl lokal wie auch global wichtige Fragen sein, auf die Antworten gefunden werden müssen. Das Buch führt anhand der wesentlichen Aspekte der direkten und indirekten klimawandelbedingten Gesundheitsfolgen in das Thema „Klimawandel und Gesundheit“ ein. Dabei wird herausgearbeitet, dass klimabedingten Gesundheitsfolgen nur wissenschaftlich-interdisziplinär sowie über administrative und hierarchische Ebenen und über geografische und politische Grenzen hinaus effektiv entgegengewirkt werden kann. Im Hinblick auf die Herausforderungen, die hierzulande zu bewältigen sind und sein werden, helfen die zusammengetragenen Fakten, die Öffentlichkeit und Politik für dieses Thema weiter zu sensibilisieren. Zudem finden Fachleuten und Experten in öffentlichen Verwaltungen (z. B. in der Stadtplanung oder im öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst) viele Fallbeispiele, die als Anregung für deren Arbeit für eine gesunde Umwelt dienen. Studierende wie Wissenschaftler der Gesundheitswissenschaften und angrenzender Disziplinen wie Geografie, Klimatologie, Stadtplanung und Architektur, Ökonomie und Sozialwissenschaften werden eine reiche Quelle an Informationen finden, um sie für die Forschung in diesem Bereich zu begeistern.
Klimawandel und Küste: Die Zukunft der Unterweserregion (Umweltnatur- & Umweltsozialwissenschaften)
by Bastian Schuchardt Michael SchirmerEine ernsthafte Diskussion über die Problematik des Klimawandels ist schwierig - vor allem wegen der wissenschaftlichen Unsicherheit über Ausmaß und Geschwindigkeit, aber ebenso wegen der Komplexität der Materie, die nur disziplinübergreifend erfolgversprechend bearbeitet werden kann. Dabei ist insbesondere der Küstenbereich von einem Klimawandel und seinen Folgen wie dem Meeresspiegelanstieg unmittelbar betroffen, während gleichzeitig die notwendigen Küstenschutzmaßnahmen lange Vorlaufzeiten erfordern. Das vorliegende Buch soll dazu beitragen, dass Öffentlichkeit und Gesellschaft in wichtigen Teilbereichen zu gesicherten Erkenntnissen über das tatsächliche Gefährdungspotenzial des Klimawandels kommen. Die interdisziplinäre Analyse von Gefährdung und Reaktionsmöglichkeiten ermöglicht diskussionsfähige Aussagen für die Zukunft.
Klimawandel und Sicherheit in der Arktis: Hintergründe, Perspektiven, Strategien
by Golo M. BartschGolo M. Bartsch betrachtet die sicherheitspolitischen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in der Arktis auf in der deutschsprachigen Forschung bislang einmalige Weise. Aus einem interdisziplinären Blickwinkel verbindet er aktuelle natur- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zum tiefgreifenden Wandel des Hohen Nordens miteinander und vergleicht politische Strategien der acht Anrainerstaaten, der NATO und der EU. So zeigt sich die Arktis derzeit auch im Angesicht zunehmender Militärpräsenz und stagnierender Beziehungen zwischen den westlichen Anrainern und Russland als eine eher von friedlicher Kooperation als von Konflikt geprägte Weltregion.
Klimawandel und Vegetation - Eine globale Übersicht
by Christoph Leuschner Markus Hauck Jürgen HomeierDas Buch stellt eine Bestandsaufnahme dar, welche Veränderungen in der terrestrischen Vegetation der Erde bereits heute mit Gewissheit oder hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit durch den Klimawandel eingetreten sind. Grundlage dieser Bilanz bilden empirische Daten zu Veränderungen in der Zusammensetzung, Vitalität und Produktivität der Vegetation, die durch die Ergebnisse von Experimenten ergänzt werden, um Kausalitäten besser aufzeigen zu können. So werden, geordnet nach Biomen, die weitreichenden Folgen für die terrestrischen Ökosysteme der Erde aufgezeigt. Die Klimaerwärmung und von ihr abhängige Effekte auf den Wasserkreislauf und die Kryosphäre verändern die Standortbedingungen für die Vegetation. Die Konsequenzen für die Verbreitung und Konkurrenzfähigkeit von Arten sowie für die Biodiversität, Produktivität und den Wasser-, Kohlenstoff- und Nährstoffhaushalt von Ökosystemen werden im Detail besprochen.Der Leser soll so in die Lage versetzt werden, die Folgen des bereits eingetretenen Klimawandels für die Vegetation zu beurteilen.
Klimawirksame Kennzahlen Band II: Amerika, Nahost und Südasien, Ostasien und Ozeanien
by Valentin CrastanDer Autor analysiert die Energiewirtschaft der geographischen Einheiten Amerika – unterteilt in Nordamerika (Kanada + USA) sowie Mittel- +Südamerika (spanisch-portugisischer Kulturkreis) – Nahost und Südasien sowie Ost-Asien und Ozeanien. Die wichtigsten energiewirtschaftlichen Indikatoren der einzelnen Regionen und Länder und deren Entwicklung werden von ihm in zahlreichen Grafiken und Energieflussdiagrammen veranschaulicht. Darauf basierend empfiehlt er eine Verteilung der zur Begrenzung des Klimawandels notwendigen Emissionsreduktion (für Klimaziel 2 °C oder weniger, mit Perspektive bis 2050).Die in diesem Band behandelten Erdteile verursachen zusammen 77 % der Emissionen. Europa + Eurasien sowie Afrika werden im ersten Band behandelt.
Klimazeugnisse der Erdgeschichte: Perspektiven für die Zukunft
by Monika Huch Günter Warnecke Klaus GermannDas Buch stellt das Klimageschehen in der Vergangenheit der Erde unter Verwendung neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in einen globalen Zusammenhang. Anhand von Beiträgen zur Klimarelevanz erdgeschichtlich markanter Ereignisse, zur Bedeutung der Ozeane oder zum Verhalten von Pflanzen hinsichtlich ihres Ökosystems zeigen die Herausgeber, daß Erdgeschichte gleichzeitig auch Klimageschichte der Erde ist. Diese Kenntnisse ermöglichen dem Leser, die Bedeutung erdgeschichtlicher Zeugnisse nachzuvollziehen. Damit wird der Leser auch die Grenzen von Klimamodellen, wie sie für längerfristige Vorhersagen erstellt werden, realistisch einschätzen können. Ein aktuelles Literaturverzeichnis sowie ein ausführliches Glossar runden das Buch ab.
Knights and Castles: Minorities and Urban Regeneration
by Francesco Lo PiccoloTitle first published in 2003. Much has been written about the problems minorities encounter in Western European and North American cities. This insightful volume acknowledges the deep-rooted nature of inequalities and discrimination, but seeks ways of ameliorating and eradicating them from positive stories of minority involvement in regeneration.
Knights and Castles: Minorities and Urban Regeneration
by Francesco Lo PiccoloTitle first published in 2003. Much has been written about the problems minorities encounter in Western European and North American cities. This insightful volume acknowledges the deep-rooted nature of inequalities and discrimination, but seeks ways of ameliorating and eradicating them from positive stories of minority involvement in regeneration.
Knot Theory: Second Edition
by Vassily Olegovich ManturovOver the last fifteen years, the face of knot theory has changed due to various new theories and invariants coming from physics, topology, combinatorics and alge-bra. It suffices to mention the great progress in knot homology theory (Khovanov homology and Ozsvath-Szabo Heegaard-Floer homology), the A-polynomial which give rise to strong invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, in particular, many new unknot detectors. New to this Edition is a discussion of Heegaard-Floer homology theory and A-polynomial of classical links, as well as updates throughout the text. Knot Theory, Second Edition is notable not only for its expert presentation of knot theory’s state of the art but also for its accessibility. It is valuable as a profes-sional reference and will serve equally well as a text for a course on knot theory.
Knot Theory: Second Edition
by Vassily Olegovich ManturovOver the last fifteen years, the face of knot theory has changed due to various new theories and invariants coming from physics, topology, combinatorics and alge-bra. It suffices to mention the great progress in knot homology theory (Khovanov homology and Ozsvath-Szabo Heegaard-Floer homology), the A-polynomial which give rise to strong invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, in particular, many new unknot detectors. New to this Edition is a discussion of Heegaard-Floer homology theory and A-polynomial of classical links, as well as updates throughout the text. Knot Theory, Second Edition is notable not only for its expert presentation of knot theory’s state of the art but also for its accessibility. It is valuable as a profes-sional reference and will serve equally well as a text for a course on knot theory.
Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications: Knots in Hellas, International Olympic Academy, Greece, July 2016 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #284)
by Colin C. Adams Cameron McA. Gordon Vaughan F. R. Jones Louis H. Kauffman Sofia Lambropoulou Kenneth C. Millett Jozef H. Przytycki Renzo Ricca Radmila SazdanovicThis proceedings volume presents a diverse collection of high-quality, state-of-the-art research and survey articles written by top experts in low-dimensional topology and its applications. The focal topics include the wide range of historical and contemporary invariants of knots and links and related topics such as three- and four-dimensional manifolds, braids, virtual knot theory, quantum invariants, braids, skein modules and knot algebras, link homology, quandles and their homology; hyperbolic knots and geometric structures of three-dimensional manifolds; the mechanism of topological surgery in physical processes, knots in Nature in the sense of physical knots with applications to polymers, DNA enzyme mechanisms, and protein structure and function. The contents is based on contributions presented at the International Conference on Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications – Knots in Hellas 2016, which was held at the International Olympic Academy in Greece in July 2016. The goal of the international conference was to promote the exchange of methods and ideas across disciplines and generations, from graduate students to senior researchers, and to explore fundamental research problems in the broad fields of knot theory and low-dimensional topology. This book will benefit all researchers who wish to take their research in new directions, to learn about new tools and methods, and to discover relevant and recent literature for future study.
Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
by Mara J. Goldman Paul Nadasdy Matthew D. TurnerPolitical ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
by Mara Goldman Paul Nadasdy Matthew D. TurnerPolitical ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
by Mara Goldman Paul Nadasdy Matthew D. TurnerPolitical ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science #27)
by Carl Middleton Vanessa LambThis open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studies in this contested basin, this book provides conceptual insights at the intersection of resource governance, development, and politics of knowledge relevant to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners at a time when rapid change is underway.- Fills a significant knowledge gap on a major river in Southeast Asia, with empirical and conceptual contributions- Inter-disciplinary perspective and by a range of writers, including academics, policy-makers and civil society researchers, the majority from within Southeast Asia- New policy insights on a river at the cross-roads of a major political and development transition
Knowledge and Networks (Knowledge and Space #11)
by Johannes Glückler Emmanuel Lazega Ingmar HammerThis book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has become increasingly important for scholars to capture societal outcomes by studying social relations and networks, whereas the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge.The individual contributions help integrate network arguments of connectivity, geographical arguments of contiguity and contextuality into a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people and organizations are constrained by and make use of space and networks for learning and innovation. Experts in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management and organizational studies develop conceptual models and propose empirical research that illustrates the ways in which networks and geography play together in processes of innovation, learning, leadership, and power.This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Knowledge and the City: Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development (Routledge Studies in Human Geography #52)
by Francisco Javier Carrillo Tan Yigitcanlar Blanca García Antti LönnqvistThis book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of urban and regional knowledge assets and resources, and developing new methods to evaluate the performance and potential of knowledge-based urban and regional development, the book provides an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of knowledge-based development and its implications and prospects for cities and regions.
Knowledge and the City: Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
by Francisco Javier Carrillo Tan Yigitcanlar Blanca García Antti LönnqvistThis book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of urban and regional knowledge assets and resources, and developing new methods to evaluate the performance and potential of knowledge-based urban and regional development, the book provides an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of knowledge-based development and its implications and prospects for cities and regions.
Knowledge and the Economy (Knowledge and Space #5)
by Peter Meusburger, Johannes Glückler and Martina MeskiouiThe broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, location and economic development are all live academic issues. This book, the fifth volume in Springer’s Knowledge and Space series, focuses on the last of these: the multiple relationships between knowledge, the economy, and space. It reflects the conceptual and methodological multidisciplinarity emerging from this scholarship, yet where there has up to now been a notable lack of communication between some of the contributing disciplines, resulting in lexical and other confusions, this volume brings concord and to foster interdisciplinarity. These complications have been especially evident in our understanding of the spatiality of knowledge, the part that spatial contexts play in knowledge creation and diffusion, and the relevance of face-to-face contacts, all of which are addressed in these pages. The material here is grouped into four sections—knowledge creation and economy, knowledge and economic development, knowledge and networks, and knowledge and clusters. It assembles new concepts and original empirical research from geography, economics, sociology, international business relations, and management. The book addresses a varied audience interested in the historical and spatial foundations of the knowledge economy and is intended to bridge some of the gaps between the differing approaches to research on knowledge, the economy, and space.
Knowledge as a Driver of Regional Growth in the Russian Federation
by Jens Kai PerretThe Russian Federation has a history of more than twenty years of transformation to a market economy, but as well to a knowledge society, to look back on. This study takes a look at the knowledge generation, knowledge transmission and knowledge use inside the Federation since the early 1990s. Furthermore, in light of the high dependence of the Russian economy on the oil and gas sectors this study analyzes the impact knowledge related factors have on regional income generation following thereby in the direction of Schumpeterian growth theory. The study combines descriptive with empirical analyses to paint a picture as detailed as possible of the Russian knowledge society and its innovative potential.
Knowledge-Based Growth in Natural Resource Intensive Economies: Mining, Knowledge Development and Innovation in Norway 1860–1940 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
by Kristin RanestadThis book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth. Rather, it examines the case of Norway to demonstrate that such industries can prove highly innovative and dynamic.Here, the case is compellingly made that a key empirical problem with the popular ‘resource curse’ argument is that some of the richest countries in the world – namely Norway, Sweden, Canada and Australia – have all developed fast-growing economies based on natural resources. Analysis of innovation and knowledge development in natural resource industries reveal important new insights about the role of learning and innovation. These insights are key to understanding variances in growth levels between natural resource-based economies. Ranestad illustrates how Norway’s high economic performance is built on knowledge-based natural resource industries. While Norwegian industries may have originated because of foreign technology and expertise, they thrived due to further developments carried out by organisations within Norway. Ranestad looks at how these developments were possible due to the country’s high level of human capital, capacity for knowledge absorption and ability to adapt to new global technological and economic circumstances.
Knowledge-Based Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Knowledge Economy, Innovation, and the Future of Social Entrepreneurship (Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth)
by Mitt Nowshade KabirSocial entrepreneurship is on the rise and social enterprises are solving some of the most critical and enduring social problems by using innovative, pragmatic and sustainable business models. Access to knowledge thanks to the Internet and rapid expansion of the knowledge economy are opening new opportunities for social ventures. With knowledge-based social entrepreneurship where knowledge is the primary resource, more pressing social problems can be addressed by using advanced technologies. This book investigates this emerging concept, possibilities that it holds, its place in today’s economy, and links bridges between knowledge, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Academics, entrepreneurs, students, and NGOs will find the theoretical and practical information presented in this book extremely valuable.
Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development: Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence-Based Policy-Making
by André Martinuzzi Michal SedlackoThe menace of a post-truth era challenges conventional policy-making and science. Instead of fighting an uphill battle against populist solutions, those involved in both policy-making and science have to find innovative ways to collaborate, and make use of the vast amounts of knowledge that are already available. Knowledge brokerage, in this context, is more than a simple question-and-answer game: it is a process of co-creating and re-framing knowledge. In addition, Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development has to deal with trade-offs and ambiguities, as well as world-views, cultures and the preferences of stakeholder groups. This book is the first in-depth exploration of how knowledge brokerage has the potential to help manage the challenges of sustainable development across political and scientific systems. It presents a selection of innovative and practical tools to enhance the connectivity of research and policy-making on sustainable development issues. In doing so, this book will be an essential publication in research and policy-making. It supports networking among the developers and users of knowledge brokerage systems and will make their experience better known to the different communities involved.The book presents interviews with leading policymakers and researchers such as former EU Commissioner Franz Fischler, Robert-Jan Smits (Director-General of Research and Innovation at the EC), Uwe Schneidewind (President of the Wuppertal Institute), and Leida Rijnhout (European Environmental Bureau). It also provides insights into eleven EU funded projects dealing with different approaches of Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development.