Acknowledgements
We wish to thank our Springer editorial team for the guidance, support, and patience
throughout the development of the volume. We wish to thank particularly Sushil
Kumar Sharma and Mei Hann Lee, for their endless patience throughout the
development of these two volumes. We also thank Marcin Jarzebski for designing
many of the figures included in these two volumes.
The two volumes were conceptualized during the development and follow-up to
the Sixth International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 2016) in Stellenbosch, South Africa (March 2016). We sincerely thank the conference partners
and participants for their suggestions and inspiration that kick-started the process of
these books.
The two volumes would not have been possible without the generous support of
the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for project FICESSA, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for project USiA (Urban Sustainability
in Africa based on inter-linkages of SDGs), and the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science (JSPS) for Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists A (Project 17H05037), and
the core-to-core project “Establishment and Advancement of a Global MetaNetwork on Sustainability Science” (Project 23001).
Merle Naidoo, Alice Karanja, and Abubakari Ahmed received Monbukagakusho
PhD scholarships offered by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science, and Technology (MEXT) through the Graduate Program in Sustainability
Science—Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI).
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We wish to thank our Springer editorial team for the guidance, support, and patience
throughout the development of the volume. We wish to thank particularly Sushil
Kumar Sharma and Mei Hann Lee, for their endless patience throughout the
development of these two volumes. We also thank Marcin Jarzebski for designing
many of the figures included in these two volumes.
The two volumes were conceptualized during the development and follow-up to
the Sixth International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 2016) in Stellenbosch, South Africa (March 2016). We sincerely thank the conference partners
and participants for their suggestions and inspiration that kick-started the process of
these books.
The two volumes would not have been possible without the generous support of
the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for project FICESSA, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for project USiA (Urban Sustainability
in Africa based on inter-linkages of SDGs), and the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science (JSPS) for Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists A (Project 17H05037), and
the core-to-core project “Establishment and Advancement of a Global MetaNetwork on Sustainability Science” (Project 23001).
Merle Naidoo, Alice Karanja, and Abubakari Ahmed received Monbukagakusho
PhD scholarships offered by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science, and Technology (MEXT) through the Graduate Program in Sustainability
Science—Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI).
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