Managing University Finances for Sustainable Administration and Institution-Building

Institution Building and Fdi

Managing finances of shipping living donor kidneys for donor exchanges.

Kidney donor exchanges enable recipients with immunologically incompatible donors to receive compatible living donor grafts; however, the financial management of these exchanges, especially when an organ is shipped, is complex and thus has the potential to impede the broader implementation of donor exchange programs. Representatives from transplant centers that utilize the National Kidney Regis...

Tools for Sustainable Building

The Web represents a particularly important innovation by offering access to text -based information, searchable databases, photographs, sound recordings, and video images. For energy professionals, the Web is more than a place to post one's favourite paper-based reports; it's a venue for one-on-one as well as group communications, tracking down detailed energy data, acquiring software, running...

Managing Transitions for Sustainable Development

The challenge of sustainable development presents our society with the need for long-term structural changes or transitions in sectors such as energysupply, mobility, agriculture and health-care. Based on a multi-phase and multi-level framework for transitions, we ask whether managing transitions is possible, and then outline an operational method for transition management.

Sustainable university, an endeavor for survival and sustainability

The purpose of this study was to provide a framework for sustainable university, which was carried out with a qualitative research method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic researchers, which were selected through purposive sampling. Using the qualitative content analysis technic, the most prominent theoretical and practical basis of the sustainable university were identif...