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The Developing Sustainability Project at Oldenburg University published a new guideline for exchange students and ...
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Read moreAnnual Workshop of the Developing Sustai…
Annual Workshop of the Developing Sustainbability ProjectInstitute of Marine Sciences, UDSM5-7 October 201 This year's workshop focuses on Biodiversity, Land Use, Marine & Coastal Management and takes place at the Institute...
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Read moreDevSus Survey - 2011
If you are a member or a student of one of the DevSus network's universities, please fill in this survey if you know of any study programmes or research fields...
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Read moreJessica Hosking arrives at Oldenburg Uni…
September 2011: Jessica Hosking, master´s student of the South African Nelson Mandela ...
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Read moreCall for Papers - Zanzibar 2011
INVITATION Annual Meeting and Workshop Developing Sustainability5-7 October 2011 at the Institute of Marine Sciences, Zanzibar If you are a researcher or PhD candidate from one of the network's partner universities and...
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Read moreCore themes
1SEEMIS
Challenges
Companies, both national and transnational, play a decisive role when it comes to achieving the MDGs (Kandachar & Halme 2008). Through their production processes, they exert serious stresses to ecosystems and to the world’s natural resources. Transnational corporations often seek to exploit advantages in developing countries, sometimes by pressurising weak national governments or by means of corruption (Levy & Newell 2005). Examples amount where transactional companies exploit natural resources such as fish stocks, metals or fossil fuels with disastrous effects on the regional ecosystems and for the socio-economic system.
2BLUM
Challenges
The Network with its core theme ‘Biodiversity, Land Use and Marine & Coastal Management’ (BLUM) involves the partner universities´ well reputed institutes of biology, resource management, marine and coastal sciences and regional development. These institutes aim to collaborate in certain fields of expertise in order to provide significant contributions to the international community over a mid- and long-term period, but also to promote local and regional development.
3RE
Challenges
For the decades to come, energy-related issues will pose increasingly important challenges in a manifold of social and environmental relations and systems. It bears strong linkages to many if not all Millennium Development Goals. In particular, the organisation and implementation of central and decentralised renewable energy supply systems can address the challenges.