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Digitalisation towards Sustainable Development brings together contributions from researchers across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia to examine one of the defining questions of contemporary global policy: how does digital transformation impact sustainable development and how it can be governed in the public interest?Drawing on empirical research conducted within the EU Horizon-funded PRODIGEES project, the volume offers a genuinely comparative perspective, contrasting experiences from the European Union with those of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. It argues that digitalisation is neither an automatic pathway to sustainability nor an inevitable source of harm, but a contested transformation process whose outcomes depend on governance arrangements, institutional capacities, and the distribution of power between states, firms, and communities. Organised around four thematic parts – framing the digital turn, governing digitalisation, reshaping sectoral pathways, and contesting digital orders – the volume covers artificial intelligence, digital public infrastructure, platform economies, central bank digital currencies, environmental monitoring, space technology partnerships, disinformation, and cultural production.Directly engaged with policy debates around the UN Global Digital Compact, the G20 digital agenda, and the SDGs, the book is essential reading for postgraduate students, researchers, and policy professionals working at the intersection of digital governance, sustainable development, and global affairs.

Digitalisation towards Sustainable Development brings together contributions from researchers across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia to examine one of the defining questions of contemporary global policy: how does digital transformation impact sustainable development and how it can be governed in the public interest?Drawing on empirical research conducted within the EU Horizon-funded PRODIGEES project, the volume offers a genuinely comparative perspective, contrasting experiences from the European Union with those of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. It argues that digitalisation is neither an automatic pathway to sustainability nor an inevitable source of harm, but a contested transformation process whose outcomes depend on governance arrangements, institutional capacities, and the distribution of power between states, firms, and communities. Organised around four thematic parts – framing the digital turn, governing digitalisation, reshaping sectoral pathways, and contesting digital orders – the volume covers artificial intelligence, digital public infrastructure, platform economies, central bank digital currencies, environmental monitoring, space technology partnerships, disinformation, and cultural production.Directly engaged with policy debates around the UN Global Digital Compact, the G20 digital agenda, and the SDGs, the book is essential reading for postgraduate students, researchers, and policy professionals working at the intersection of digital governance, sustainable development, and global affairs.

This volume integrates a conceptual framework with participatory methodologies to understand the complexities of dryland socio-ecological systems, and to address challenges and opportunities for stewardship of future drylands and climate change in the global south. Through several case studies, the book offers a transdisciplinary and participatory approach to understand the complexity of socio-ecological systems, to co-produce accurate resource management plans for sustained stewardship, and to drive social learning and polycentric governance. This systemic framework permits the study of human-nature interrelationships through time and in particular contexts, with a focus on achieving progress in accordance with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. The book is divided into four main sections: 1) drylands and socio-ecological systems, 2) transdisciplinarity in drylands, 3) interculturality in drylands, and 4) the governance of drylands. Expert contributors address topics such as pastoralism and the characteristics of successful agricultural lands, the sustainable development goals and drylands, dryland modernization, and arid land governance with a focus on Mexico. The volume will be of interest to dryland researchers, sustainable development practitioners and policymakers.

This volume integrates a conceptual framework with participatory methodologies to understand the complexities of dryland socio-ecological systems, and to address challenges and opportunities for stewardship of future drylands and climate change in the global south. Through several case studies, the book offers a transdisciplinary and participatory approach to understand the complexity of socio-ecological systems, to co-produce accurate resource management plans for sustained stewardship, and to drive social learning and polycentric governance. This systemic framework permits the study of human-nature interrelationships through time and in particular contexts, with a focus on achieving progress in accordance with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. The book is divided into four main sections: 1) drylands and socio-ecological systems, 2) transdisciplinarity in drylands, 3) interculturality in drylands, and 4) the governance of drylands. Expert contributors address topics such as pastoralism and the characteristics of successful agricultural lands, the sustainable development goals and drylands, dryland modernization, and arid land governance with a focus on Mexico. The volume will be of interest to dryland researchers, sustainable development practitioners and policymakers. 

This volume integrates a conceptual framework with participatory methodologies to understand the complexities of dryland socio-ecological systems, and to address challenges and opportunities for stewardship of future drylands and climate change in the global south. Through several case studies, the book offers a transdisciplinary and participatory approach to understand the complexity of socio-ecological systems, to co-produce accurate resource management plans for sustained stewardship, and to drive social learning and polycentric governance. This systemic framework permits the study of human-nature interrelationships through time and in particular contexts, with a focus on achieving progress in accordance with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. The book is divided into four main sections: 1) drylands and socio-ecological systems, 2) transdisciplinarity in drylands, 3) interculturality in drylands, and 4) the governance of drylands. Expert contributors address topics such as pastoralism and the characteristics of successful agricultural lands, the sustainable development goals and drylands, dryland modernization, and arid land governance with a focus on Mexico. The volume will be of interest to dryland researchers, sustainable development practitioners and policymakers.

This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could work, and how it could be strengthened by 2023 when it will be formally launched. This document is aimed at those who want to understand how an ETS can operate in an emerging economy. Although it has been written for experts and non-experts, this book does not provide the underlying theory of market-based instruments and emissions trading systems in general. The book can be read from start to finish, but can also be used as a reference for specific components of regional ETSs.  The book draws upon a meticulous study of background documents and fieldwork from different authors to tell the story of how a Mexican ETS, the first of its kind in Latin America, can be set in the country. The emissions trading system cover many greenhouse gas emissions and has been hailed as one of the cornerstones of the Mexican climate policy. The book also examines and explains how the ETS is designed and implemented.