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Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development

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Technology sustainability has become an integral part of the discussion about development. In later months of 2015, member states represented in the UN General Assembly will kame a decision about the global agenda that will spearhead global development in the next decades. The concept of sustainable development has been recognized as the only way to balance the imperative of eradicating extreme poverty and human deprivation with a need to keep the stability of or natural environment.

Continuous improvement of living standards "for all people now and in the future with environmental sustainability will require new policy frameworks, more financial resources and new policy skills to balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development". This book will contribute to underline the challenge of improving and adapting existent green technology to the specific local needs of countries. It will discuss the experience of countries and the policy options confronted by governments to expedite the adoption of green technlogoy and to facilitate rapid diffusion and knowledge sharing. Advancing the objectives for sustainable development require a long-term vision, political will, and a strong coordination of actions at globar, regional, and national levels.

The chapters in this book were written as background papers for the World Economic and Social Survey 2011 on the Great Green Tecnhological Transformation. The philosophical and analytical basis for the discussion about sustainable development, as well as the country experiences reviewed in this book are most relevant to the discussion about the characteristics of the development agenda that will guide global efforts in the next decades. We are grateful to the authors for their continued interest and the additional time they spent updating their papers for this book. We also want to recognize the contributors of colleagues in the Development Policy Analysis Division (DPAD) who participated in the numerous discussions leading to the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey.

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RD 338.927 TEC

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2016

Collation

xiv + 215 pp.; 14 x 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781472580788

Classification

338.927

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digital text

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

corpus
Technology

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Rob Vos & Diana Alarcon (ed.)

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