… With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and social … Cuttack, to build 120 community toilets in city slums by February 2013. Furthermore, the project team hoped to develop research from the effort to create a model that could be used … plans approved, much less built. Various partners believed that the initial vision of the project had been compromised, and the Gates Foundation was refusing to give the project any …
… power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’s struggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up financing. With Walmart de México’s 15-year PPA … state-controlled utility, shaving costs for the famously thrifty retailer. In addition, the project allowed Walmart de México to get closer to some of its sustainability goals. The …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have … of technologies has stressed the importance of social networks in technology adoption.This project is designed to provide experimental evidence on how best to leverage social … the likelihood that one person will know several seed farmers. This next step involved training the extension workers in how to talk to the selected seed farmers about the chosen …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to … at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses Management Plans for Protected Areas, Strategies for Land Conservation, and through … for a grant of $50,000 through the Connecticut Long Island Sound Water Program for the development of a stream/riparian health assessment protocol for private lands in northeast …
… This global study measures awareness and engagement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We hope these results provide insights into collaboration models and how business schools can incorporate SDGs into their discourse and curriculum, creating change and leading toward peace and prosperity for the … into collaboration models and how business schools can incorporate SDGs into their discourse and curriculum, creating change and leading toward peace and prosperity for the …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate … in-depth, qualitative methods are a promising avenue to approach them. In particular, this project consists of several stages. The first entails a series of in-depth, ethnographic … of broader structural characteristics and constraints. To achieve the objective of this project, over thirty in-depth, ethnographic interviews were conducted (some on-site in …
… The investigators’ theoretical contribution distinguishes vision (or envisioning) from projections, scenarios, or forecasts in a way that provides access to crafting autonomous … Stone Brewery. The quantitative assessment is scheduled to follow the qualitative analysis. Project Outcomes The exploration of self-determination theory within the theoretical development of this research led to the identification of several pitfalls and pathways …
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… establish strong relationships with some of the continent’s leading developers of solar projects. Trina supplied modules for a number of large, signature projects, developing a strong track record. Now, the company was looking to develop similar … China and the U.S., there were the specifics of governmental incentives. The boom in solar development in Europe was the result of countries committed to reducing their carbon …
… and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general warming of the earth’s climate, a phenomenon dubbed “the greenhouse effect”. Since CO2 was a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels, these models implied that human activity … that global warming was “an area of concern,” and the company was pushing ahead with its development efforts. While GM had been a founding member of the GCC, GM executives and board …