German institutional hegemony in EU sustainability policies

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability

Sustainable vaccine policies in the EU

The purpose of this first section is to provide the basis for a discussion on where and how strengthened EUwide collaboration would create benefits for the modernization and implementation of vaccination programmes. Against the background of limited national resources and declining public trust in vaccination, the paper identifies synergies of potential EU actions that could strengthen transpar...

Institutional Repositories, Policies, and Disruption

For many librarians, institutional repositories (IRs) promised significant change for academic libraries. We envisioned enlarging collection development scope to include locally produced scholarship and an expansion of library services to embrace scholarly publication and distribution. However, at the University of Rochester, as at many other institutions, this transformational technology was i...

Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges

Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e., local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how...

Institutional and Human Resources for Sustainability

This article explores the kinds of institutional arrangements most likely to be able to address sustainability issues. The term “institutions” is taken to mean the wide array of social, political, legal, and economic arrangements, structures, and rules—not simply institutions of the state, but of community and society more broadly. Of particular interest here is the interconnection of people an...