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What does it take to make real change toward sustainability in international trade? IDH and its partners have spent the last 10 years learning the art of collaborative transformation, accumulating tacit knowledge on what works and what doesn't to make change within the complexity of international trade. This book distills their insights, presenting 5 key dimensions that are critical for stakeholders to attend to while working toward sustainability. The relational dimension involves building and convening different stakeholders into strong and effective coalitions. Through the discursive dimension coalitions must forge a framework for a common future out of diverse interests and concerns. Collaborative transformation also involves an institutional dimension, as a variety of formal and informal structures lend critical support to the coalition's efforts. And those involved must continually learn by critically inquiring into their ongoing work together: this is the reflective dimension. The fifth dimension concerns implementation: change only happens when tangible shifts are happening at many different levels - in the field, along the value chain, in business practices and in policy. To break down this complexity and to make it concrete, IDH gives examples from their partnerships involving a wide range of industries: from cotton to tea to cocoa. They show that collaborative transformations are not only possible: they hold the key to our shared future.

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainability Transition Towards a Bio-Based Economy: New Technologies, New Products, New Policies" that was published in Sustainability.

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This collection includes the peer-reviewed papers presented during the 2016 Australian Summer Study on Energy Productivity.

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Il presente volume riprende i principali risultati del progetto di ricerca sulle cooperative di comunità promosso nel 2018 da Fondosviluppo e FEDAM, e realizzato da ricercatori dell'Università del Molise. Il volume mette in luce le potenzialità e le modalità di funzionamento delle cooperative di comunità, che creano nuove forme di condivisione e co-producono beni e/o servizi. La ricerca, sperimentando un nuovo percorso metodologico-operativo, permette di raggiungere i seguenti risultati: a delineare una strategia per individuare il grado di vulnerabilità sociale, economica e ambientale del territorio; b definire i fabbisogni delle comunità locali; c indicare il ruolo di ipotetiche cooperative di comunità a supporto dei fabbisogni individuati e individuarne i canali di finanziamento.

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This Special Issue is dedicated to the investigation and optimization of supply chain management in the context of sustainable development. In order to meet the needs of social development, enterprises are gradually innovating their supply chains to achieve sustainable development. Sustainable supply chain management can improve the competitiveness of enterprises; promote the sustainable development of enterprises; and realize the coordinated development of society, the economy, and the environment. However, the current development of sustainable supply chain management is not perfect. Therefore, scholars have become more and more interested in investigating supply chain management optimization. Supply chain management problems usually include product production and pricing, transportation location, upstream and downstream supply, and marketing problems. Existing research usually selects some of these problems and combines optimization methods, such as data-driven robust optimization methods, to optimize the status quo. Finally, an optimized scheme can be obtained, and some constructive suggestions are put forward to achieve sustainable and optimized development of supply chain management.

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