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Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies.

In this book the author puts forward three messages. Firstly, while sustainable development theoretically is a common good of all people, it is in practice constantly associated with a multitude of smaller and larger conflicts. These conflicts arise repeatedly because, in practice, the benefits, costs and risks of sustainable development are unequally distributed and therefore form a massive barrier to sustainable development. As a result, sustainable development depends on the ability of the social and political institutions of societies to accommodate these conflicts. Second, within the framework of their established institutional structures, Western societies do not have the sufficient tools for conflict resolution that are adequate to the conditions of modern diversified societies and the complex challenges of sustainable development. They need to implement institutional reforms that switch institutional structures towards deliberation. Third, by switching to deliberation, Western societies can reach the high level of governance that enables them to achieve environmentally sustainable development that will bring them significant economic and social benefits and, as a result, may reach far beyond their borders.

This volume offers a novel, transdisciplinary approach to sustainable development and governance in Western societies. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, economics, politics, environmental studies and philosophy, as well as professionals and policymakers working in the area of sustainable development.

Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies.

In this book the author puts forward three messages. Firstly, while sustainable development theoretically is a common good of all people, it is in practice constantly associated with a multitude of smaller and larger conflicts. These conflicts arise repeatedly because, in practice, the benefits, costs and risks of sustainable development are unequally distributed and therefore form a massive barrier to sustainable development. As a result, sustainable development depends on the ability of the social and political institutions of societies to accommodate these conflicts. Second, within the framework of their established institutional structures, Western societies do not have the sufficient tools for conflict resolution that are adequate to the conditions of modern diversified societies and the complex challenges of sustainable development. They need to implement institutional reforms that switch institutional structures towards deliberation. Third, by switching to deliberation, Western societies can reach the high level of governance that enables them to achieve environmentally sustainable development that will bring them significant economic and social benefits and, as a result, may reach far beyond their borders.

This volume offers a novel, transdisciplinary approach to sustainable development and governance in Western societies. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, economics, politics, environmental studies and philosophy, as well as professionals and policymakers working in the area of sustainable development.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2016, held in Passau, Germany, in October 2016.

The 49 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynotes were carefully selected and reviewed from 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Clustering and Classification; Text Mining and Lexical Analysis; Content and Document Analysis; Enterprise Knowledge; Formal Semantics and Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Engineering; Knowledge Enrichment and Visualization; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Retrieval; Knowledge Systems and Security; Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence; Ontologies; and Recommendation Algorithms and Systems. 

E(lectronic)- und M(obile)-Learning – das Lernen und Lehren auf Basis moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien – wird heute bereits in vielen Bereichen erfolgreich eingesetzt: in Schulen und Hochschulen sowie mehr und mehr auch in der beruflichen Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung von Auszubildenden bis zu Top-Managern. Ziel dieses Sammelbandes ist es, den Status Quo und aktuelle Projekte zu beschreiben. In Verbindung damit sollen auch wichtige E-Learning-Trends und zukunftsgerichtete Entwicklungen identifiziert und analysiert werden. Dabei stehen Aspekte der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Informatik, die oft interdisziplinär beleuchtet werden, im Vordergrund. Die 29 ausgewählten Artikel decken viele derzeit wichtige E-Learning-Trends ab, wie z. B. (echtes) M-Learning, Geschäftsmodelle für Hochschulen und Unternehmen, Ansätze zur Integration von E-Learning, Qualitätssicherungsverfahren und -instrumente sowie die Konvergenz von Lern-, Wissens-, und Personalmanagementsystemen.