Learning from best practices in sustainable urbanization

Consumer Perceptions of Sustainable Farming Practices: A Best-Worst Scenario

Building on existing work evaluating food-attribute labels, we use data collected in 2010 from a national web-based survey of 1,002 households to examine consumer inferences and valuations of food products promoted as “sustainably produced.” A best-worst scale framework was implemented to identify how consumers de ine “sustainably produced” and their preferences for each of the sustainable farm...

SuStainable urbanization in aSia and latin america

Urbanization and Environmental Quality: Insights from Ghana on Sustainable Policies

This paper examines the relationships among population dynamics, environment and economic development. We focus particularly on urbanization, whose impact is often characterized as strongly negative. We first examine the broad conceptual issues of population, urbanization, and environment, providing demographic insight to the understanding of the This Chapter is from the volume: de Sherbiniin, ...

Best Practices in Technology-Mediated Learning in American Business Education

Many business schools are re-examining management education, and many view advanced information technology as an enabler of innovative and effective learning. How best to approach technology -mediated learning is unclear. To assist institutions to implement technology -mediated education programs and avoid reinventing the wheel, this study examined effective and thoughtful technology -mediated ...

Crisis communication, learning and responding: Best practices in social media

As noted by Seeger (2006) the notion of best practices is often use to improve professional practice; to create research and functional recommendations to use in a specific situation. This essay describes best practices in crisis communication specifically through the use of social media. It provides suggestions and approaches for improving the effectiveness of crisis communication and learning...