How much should be identical across campuses and how much should be adapted to local context?
"I'm interested in how global technologies can be adapted to local circumstances," she explains.
Antique stone vases from Egypt might be adapted to local tastes by the addition of spouts and handles.
As a rule, the simpler the wares, the more they need to be adapted to local preferences.
Bund structure design should be adapted to local biophysical settings at catchment level to enhance on- and offsite impacts.
Product formulas and labels needed to be adapted to local regulations and tastes in all four countries, and some entirely new product lines were launched.
The conclusion drawn is that a collection system should be adapted to local conditions, both in technical design and social factors.
'International standards need to be adapted to local situations.' The Fairtrade Foundation says calls for using the Fairtrade premium to subsidise migrant workers' wages may undermine the responsibility of farm owners and employers to tackle the 'living wage' issue.
It has done this not by imposing a new model from the outside, but by involving local stakeholders in a co-design process that ensures the best of the Living Well model can be adapted to local circumstances.
But even less controversial topics must be adapted to local medical practice, according to Mikael Vissing, the firm's chief executive: lyme disease, for example, is treated with different drugs in Britain, Denmark and Germany.
As researchers spend more time studying Africa's overwhelming pediatric AIDS problem, they are finding that the routes of transmission may be different than in the industrialized countries, and that strategies for preventing the disease's spread must be adapted to local realities.
