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There is a growing recognition that the present demographic patterns in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, do not augur well for the achievement of sustainable development. Ghana is characterized by a youthful population, rapid population growth, uneven population distribution, high fertility, and rural-urban migration which has brought human numbers into collision with resources to sustain ...

Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Ecosystem services-the benefits that people derive from nature and natural capital-is a concept often used to help explain human reliance on nature and frame the decisions we make in terms of the ongoing value of nature to human wellbeing. Yet ecosystem service science has not always lived up to the promise of its potential. De...

The transition towards sustainability calls for a radical change, i.e. a systemic discontinuity. At a local scale, to promote this discontinuity means to generate low material intensive and highly context-related socio-technical systems. In this framework, companies have to become “system organisers” and “solution providers” , shifting their activities “form products to solutions”. And, in part...

We live and work in an increasingly complex and dynamic world. The demands of working in such environments require that negotiators come to understand situations of conflict and work with these situations in correspondingly complex and dynamic ways. This paper presents a new pedagogy based on a newly developed computer simulation, The Attractor Software, that is intended to assist conflict-prac...