edited by Jan Servaes. creator Servaes, Jan. editor. text si Singpore Springer 2017 2017 1st ed. monographic eng (XXIV, 174 pages 19 illustrations 22 cm. This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia. Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in several Asian countries and the region as a whole. The book also identifies and discusses the changes and potential improvements in the transition from Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) to Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030). Areas that are covered in the book, which are illustrated with case studies, include Corporate Social Accountability, Information and Communications Technologies, and Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The book serves as a useful resource for academics, scholars, students, and policymakers, interested in Development Studies. Chapter 1. Strategies for commons transition and sustainable development -- Chapter 2. Changing cultures, changing landscapes: shifting material use and consumption patterns and its impacts to the culture-environment nexus of sagada, northern Philippines -- Chapter 3. Companies' accountability in sustainability: a comparative analysis of SDGS in five countries -- Chapter 4. A structural reform only can empower sustainable development and eradicate poverty -- Chapter 5. A synthesis of the studies on information communication technologies (ict) for education projects in ASEAN: can we close the digital divide? -- Chapter 6. Sustainable organizing: discourse of an eco-university -- Chapter 7. The transition from MDGS to SDGS: buzzwords and narratives -- Chapter 8. Development communication and the social integration of the new services and techniques: acceptance, appropriation and the role of the perceived value of use. multi-site case study within the sme support in central asia. edited by Jan Servaes. Communication Economic development Ethnology Social change Social inequality Social structure Sustainable development Development and Social Change Communication Studies Social Anthropology Social Structure, Social Inequality Sustainable Development 338.9 SUS 2017 (DLC) 2016954013 9789811028151 2019736691 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/stacks.2019736691 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/stacks.2019736691 DLC 161104 20260115163852.0 eng