Harnessing Science Technology And Innovation For Sustainable Development

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210580533

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Harnessing Science, Technology and Innovation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

The Study calls for governments to put in place action-orientated science, technology and innovation (STI) programmes aligned to development strategies to meet the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It proposes a conceptual framework for STI that is bound by the principles of openness, inclusivity and collaboration, and moves the focus beyond the economic to integrate the social and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The Study concludes by recommending areas for action by Member States to create an enabling environment for STI, fully integrating the three pillars in to STI policy, and to facilitate regional STI collaboration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 0930357639

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Harnessing Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shamshad Akhtar,United Nations Publications,Susan F. Stone
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211207185

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Harnessing Science, Technology and Innovation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific by Shamshad Akhtar,United Nations Publications,Susan F. Stone Pdf

The Study calls for governments to put in place action-orientated science, technology and innovation (STI) programmes aligned to development strategies to meet the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It proposes a conceptual framework for STI that is bound by the principles of openness, inclusivity and collaboration, and moves the focus beyond the economic to integrate the social and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The Study concludes by recommending areas for action by Member States to create an enabling environment for STI, fully integrating the three pillars in to STI policy, and to facilitate regional STI collaboration.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210039697

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A Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Reviews by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Pdf

This publication provides a guide to the thinking that underpins the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review programme of UNCTAD within the context of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda. It has been written primarily for Member State governments that are considering or implementing STIP reviews as well as all those involved in UNCTAD intergovernmental mechanisms including the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). It outlines the framework, the methods and the various possible steps in the implementation process of STIP Reviews and their expected short- and medium-term outcomes.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Eugene V. Krasnov,Dara V. Gaeva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030788254

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Innovations and Traditions for Sustainable Development by Walter Leal Filho,Eugene V. Krasnov,Dara V. Gaeva Pdf

This book highlights the vital necessity for combining sustainable development processes from different areas, with applications in areas such as science, education and production sectors. These sectors have previously been separated by linguistic and technological barriers. Breaking down these barriers will allow an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary flow of information, leading to greater efficiency, and towards a more real resilient and sustainable economy development. This book fills in the gap in respect of publications addressing aspects of innovation and sustainable development and focuses on a range of areas, such as I. Gradual transition to innovative development; II. Continuity of technology in education, science and industry; III. Convergency directions, interdisciplinary relations in scientific research; IV. Digital technologies for sustainable development; V. Global trends and regional aspects of innovation and traditions in environmental management; VI. International legal regulations and environmental and economic relations among business communities. The publication fosters the global efforts towards taking better advantage of the many opportunities which innovation in specific areas may offer.

Author : Ademola A. Adenle,Marian R. Chertow,Ellen H. M. Moors,David J. Pannell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190949511

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Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals by Ademola A. Adenle,Marian R. Chertow,Ellen H. M. Moors,David J. Pannell Pdf

Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals showcases the roles that STI solutions can play in meeting on-the-ground socio-economic and environmental challenges among domestic and international organizations concerned with the SDGs in three overlapping areas: agriculture, health, and environment/energy.

Author : Mammo Muchie,Amare Desta,Mentesnot Mengesha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Information technology
ISBN : 1569024391

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Science, Technology and Innovation by Mammo Muchie,Amare Desta,Mentesnot Mengesha Pdf

This book is an edited collection of papers mainly but not exclusively focusing on how to harness science, technology and innovation (STI) for sustainable development in Africa and the low income and developing economies in the global South. This book has thoughtful contributions on various issues and problems to open our minds to re-think and re-learn how the STI ecosystem can promote sustainable development futures in the Global South.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211129257

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Technology and Innovation Report 2018 by United Nations Pdf

"The Technology and Innovation Report 2018: Harnessing Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development notes that change is becoming exponential thanks to the power of digital platforms and innovative combinations of different technologies that become possible every day. This opens exciting possibilities for the democratization of frontier technologies to materialize in development solutions. The Report proposes strategies and actions, some of them based on existing experiences in STI policy for development, and some more innovative ones to make technology an effective means of implementation of our common development agenda – nationally and globally. The Report also suggests that countries develop policies to help people navigate the transition period that lies ahead. This may require that stakeholders adapt the social contract to the new world that frontier technologies are forming. ... Most crucially, there is an urgent need for a sustained effort by the international community to ensure that the multiple gaps in technological capabilities that separate developed and developing countries are closed. Investment in hard and soft infrastructure and human capital, complemented by a scaled up, coherent and accelerated effort to enhance innovation systems for sustainable development are necessary to spread the economic, social and environmental benefits of frontier technologies. By providing a platform for policy dialogue and experience-sharing, and through our capacity-building programmes, UNCTAD and the UN Commission for Science and Technology for Development, which we service, have an international policy role to fulfil in the development of the global response to those challenges. Our intention is that the Technology and Innovation Report 2018 will help launch a dialogue about how to harness technology for the achievement of the SDGs and in larger and more profound sense, the shared future of the people of the world." -- Publisher's website.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309180474

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Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability Pdf

This report summarizes a workshop organized by the National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. The workshop brought together a select group of program managers from the public and private sectors to discuss specific cases of linking knowledge to action in a diverse set of integrated observation, assessment, and decision support systems. Workshop discussions explored a wide variety of experiments in harnessing science and technology to goals of promoting development and conserving the environment. Participants reflected on the most significant challenges that they have faced when trying to implement their programs and the strategies that they have used to address them successfully. The report summarizes discussions at the workshop, including common themes about the process of linking knowledge with actions for sustainable development that emerged across a wide range of cases, sectors, and regions.

Author : Jean-Claude Bolay,Alexandre Schmid,Gabriela Tejada,Eileen Hazboun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782817802671

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Technologies and Innovations for Development by Jean-Claude Bolay,Alexandre Schmid,Gabriela Tejada,Eileen Hazboun Pdf

Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development. The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy. This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership. The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines.

Author : Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821373811

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Science, Technology, and Innovation by Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst Pdf

This book summarizes, and highlights main messages from, a February 2007 Global Forum convened by the World Bank to discuss strategies, programs, and policies for building science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity to promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.

Author : Calestous Juma,Lee Yee-Cheong,UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9781844072187

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Innovation by Calestous Juma,Lee Yee-Cheong,UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation Pdf

Describes approaches for effectively applying science, technology, and innovation to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Outlines core areas for policy action, including a focus on platform or generic technologies, defining infrastructure services as foundations for technology, placing universities at the centre of local development and improving science education, spurring entrepreneurial activities, improving the policy environment and focusing on areas of under-funded research for development.

Author : Rob Vos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472580788

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Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development by Rob Vos Pdf

Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development paradigm that ensures environmental sustainability while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind. In Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, experts in the area provide a variety of insights about the technical transformation needed for sustainable development. It spells out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next technological transformation, taking into account the complexity of inducing technological change in the energy and agricultural sectors. The assessment suggests that this will require major, but doable improvements in national innovation systems and major, but affordable shifts in investment patterns and related macroeconomic adjustments.

Author : Hassan A. Vafai,Kevin E. Lansey
Publisher : Momentum Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781947083639

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Science and Technology Diplomacy, Volume II by Hassan A. Vafai,Kevin E. Lansey Pdf

Science diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment., Scientific advances made possible by the basic and applied research carried out by government agencies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations create opportunities and challenges with growing impact on policy decisions. Developing structures that produce the best science information to policy makers is becoming more critical in an ever-changing world. This three-volume set presented by prominent figures from the disciplines of science, engineering, technology, and diplomacy includes their perspectives on potential solutions to opportunities 21st-century scientists, engineers, and diplomats face in the future: To shed light and interface science, technology, and engineering with the realm of policy; To provide a vision for the future by identifying obstacles and opportunities while focusing on several key issues.

Author : Rob Vos,Diana Alarcón González
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472580764

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Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development by Rob Vos,Diana Alarcón González Pdf

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.