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The volume provides a unique view on multidimensional crises, their interplay, and possible resolutions for sustainable life patterns and is therefore broadly related to the Sustainable Development Goals. Traditional unidimensional and technocratic strategies often fall short. Ultimately, people, their behavior and their habits are at the source of many problems. Therefore, it is imperative to take people, their multifaceted nature and the necessary learning and educational processes into account when striving towards a better life for everyone. The Editors Dr. Sandra Hummel is a Research Associate at the department of Empirical Learningworld Research and Higher Education Didactics at the University of Graz. Dr. Philipp Assinger is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Graz. Dr. Christian Bauer is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz. Dr. Thomas Brudermann is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research at the University of Graz. Dr. Andrea Jany is a Research Associate at the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz. Dr. Martin Jury is a Research Associate at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz. Dr. Romana Rauter is Associate Professor on Sustainability and Innovation Management at the Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research at the University of Graz. Dr. Mireille van Poppel is a Professor at the Institute of Human Movement Science, Sport and Health at the University of Graz.

The book takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Acknowledging the Brundtland definition, that sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the book is specifically concerned with the ethics of contemporary social and environmental sustainability activity and thinking. It is concerned with the role of institutions?both local and global in achieving sustainability initiatives. All twelve chapters extend sustainability?conceptually, empirically and theoretically, and in doing so provide insights into linking local and global sustainability. The book refocuses sustainability as a series of interwoven and dynamic relationships, backed by just ethical decision-making, which begin locally, and reach out to impact the global level.

Les élections législatives libanaises de juin 2009 semblent avoir établi une polarisation entre une majorité « pro-occidentale » et une opposition réputée proche de l'axe syro-iranien. Il faut cependant rester prudent face à cette évolution politique récente, dans un pays habitué aux renversements d'alliances et il apparaît dès lors opportun de s'interroger sur sa pérennité. Afin de mieux évaluer cette perspective, un développement sera d'abord réservé à l'alliance nouée au sein de l'opposition depuis 2006 entre le Hezbollah et le Courant patriotique libre de Michel Aoun. Quant à « la majorité », elle aurait tort de crier victoire trop tôt, puisque sans le soutien de Walid Joumblatt, le leader druze, elle pourrait se retrouver très affaiblie, ce dernier ayant pris ses distances avec ses anciens amis.

Lebanese Parliamentary elections of June 2009 appear to have established a polarization between "the pro-western" majority, and opposition considered close to the syrian-iranian axis. We must remain cautious about these recent political evolution in a country accustomed to reversals of alliances, and it appears therefore appropriate to wonder about its durability. To better evaluate this prospect, a development will initially be reserved to the alliance tied within the opposition since 2006, between the Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement of Michel Aoun. For "the majority", it would be wrong to declare victory too soon, since without the support of Walid Jumblatt, the druze leader, it could become very weak, as he has gradually taken away from his old friends. (Maghreb-Machrek/GIGA-ORDOK)