"Grundorientierung Zukunft" lautet das Leitbild des Sammelbandes, der sich mit dem Thema der nachhaltigen Entwicklung in Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik auseinandersetzt. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass die "Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussion" - obgleich in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen...

Intro -- Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits -- Tables -- Figures -- Exhibits -- Foreword -- Preface -- Organization of the Fourth Edition -- Reflections on the Fourth Edition -- Acknowledgements -- The Editors...

Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants, watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites. Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their resources be properly managed and...

During the past twenty years there has been an explosive growth in research into environmental issues from a social science perspective. Ecological economics, in particular, has emerged as a true transdiscipline which seeks to conceptualise environmental concerns, thus allowing for the...

The Economics of Knowledge Sharing claims that useful economic knowledge is the most important foundation for the development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at the institutional conditions required for the...

For much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature...