The purpose of this chapter is to show how the results of the mapping sustainability initiative provide the foundations for organizing the substantive materials – the knowledge content – distributed throughout a global e-networking system concerned with sustainable development. The issues addressed here are put forth as seen from the perspective of different user-types. In subsequent chapters, we will show how the architecture of the knowledge system and its conceptual foundations are utilized at the end-ofthe- line, so to speak, to meet key knowledge needs and demands in different social and/or institutional contexts.
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Choucri, N. (2007). Global Knowledge e-Networking. In: Choucri, N., Mistree, D., Haghseta, F., Mezher, T., Baker, W.R., Ortiz, C.I. (eds) Mapping Sustainability. Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6071-7_2
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