Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Klappentext Provides a variety of insights about feasible pathways for technological transformations. Contributors spell out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next green technological revolution, as well as the complexities of undoing locked in technologies and infrastructure in energy systems and agricultural value chains. They conclude that it can be done, but not without improved national innovation systems. Zusammenfassung This book argues that continuous growth along present development pathways is not possible without imposing irreversible damage to the natural resource base that supports current production and consumption patterns. The contributors identify new pathways for sustainable development.

Product details

• Authors: United Nations Department of Economic and Social A, United Nations Department of Economic and Social A, United Nations: Department of Economic and Social, United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Rob Vos
• Assisted by: United Nations Publications (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781472580764
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8076-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sustainability, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Economics, Development Studies, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Development economics and emerging economies