Towards Global Action For Appropriate Technology

Author : A.S. Bhalla
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483139975

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Towards Global Action for Appropriate Technology by A.S. Bhalla Pdf

Towards Global Action for Appropriate Technology evaluates the feasibility of establishing and implementing an international mechanism for the promotion of appropriate technology. A strategy of reorienting research and development towards the rural and small-scale urban sectors is proposed, with emphasis on ultimately building national technological capacity in developing countries. This book is comprised of six chapters and begins with an overview of concepts, definitions, and strategies, followed by a discussion on some relatively unfamiliar criteria that should be taken into account in guiding the selection of appropriate technologies, including cost and risk involved. The following chapters focus on the links between the concepts of appropriate technology and the basic needs approach to development; institutional capacity at the national and international levels; and the activities of the United Nations with regard to appropriate technology. The final chapter presents a blueprint for global action for the promotion of appropriate technology, with particular reference to small-scale capital-saving technologies that are accessible to the poor and are essential for the creation of productive employment on a sufficient scale. This monograph will be of interest to social and economic policymakers.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789241514187

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Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030 by World Health Organization Pdf

Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease stroke diabetes and breast and colon cancer. It also helps to prevent hypertension overweight and obesity and can improve mental health quality of life and well-being. In addition to the multiple health benefits of physical activity societies that are more active can generate additional returns on investment including a reduced use of fossil fuels cleaner air and less congested safer roads. These outcomes are interconnected with achieving the shared goals political priorities and ambition of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The new WHO global action plan to promote physical activity responds to the requests by countries for updated guidance and a framework of effective and feasible policy actions to increase physical activity at all levels. It also responds to requests for global leadership and stronger regional and national coordination and the need for a whole-of-society response to achieve a paradigm shift in both supporting and valuing all people being regularly active according to ability and across the life course. The action plan was developed through a worldwide consultation process involving governments and key stakeholders across multiple sectors including health sports transport urban design civil society academia and the private sector.

Author : Barrett Hazeltine,Christopher Bull
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780123351852

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Field Guide to Appropriate Technology by Barrett Hazeltine,Christopher Bull Pdf

Those committed to helping economically disadvantaged people in less developed communities will find all the information they need to provide basic needs such as water systems, food sources, medical supplies and anything else that enables a community to learn to sustain itself successfully.

Author : Frances Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429692482

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Macro Policies For Appropriate Technology In Developing Countries by Frances Stewart Pdf

This book explores the effects of macro-policies and determines which policies have best promoted appropriate technology in developing countries. It explores the political economy of macro-policies, examining which groups in society are likely to benefit from alternative policies and technologies.

Author : Klaus-Heinrich Standke,M. Anandakrishnan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483148281

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Science, Technology and Society by Klaus-Heinrich Standke,M. Anandakrishnan Pdf

Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations focuses on the role of science and technology in promoting development as well as its limitation in shaping the society. The text outlines the contributions that this field has provided in health, industries, agriculture, transportation, and communication. The book puts emphasis on the role of technologists and scientists in promoting development, such as in the fields of biology and medicine. The text notes the emergence of socio-economic problems in the sector of food and agriculture and how these problems can be solved by the application of agricultural technologies. Case studies in this regard that is presented in this book include fish handling and distribution, improving soil fertility, and feed resources for animal feeding. The role of science and technology in the management of water resources is noted, and the problems associated with the application of science and technology to water resources development are discussed. Science and technology has also played an important role in improving the quality of life in human settlements. The text is a valuable source of data for scientists and technologists who aim to improve science and technology and serve the interest of mankind.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Power resources
ISBN : MINN:30000006282630

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin P Reubens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000315202

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The Challenge Of The New International Economic Order by Edwin P Reubens Pdf

This volume deals with the recent proposals in the United Nations and elsewhere for reconstructing the existing economic relations between less developed and more developed countries. The contributors to the book undertake to clarify the NIEO proposals, asking specifically to what extent they are really new, fully international, realistically economic, and are the constituents of workable order. The confrontation of NIEO demands and real-world constraints is a leading feature of the book, and each of the chapters deals with one or more elements of the NIEO proposals against the background of relevant conditions in both the countries and the international institutions and practices that interrelate them. The authors arrive at a considerable degree of consensus, mostly agreeing that the NIEO is not really a new order, but endorsing specific NIEO proposals that will achieve gradual progress for LDCs in absolute terms.

Author : Kelvin W Willoughby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000314168

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Technology Choice by Kelvin W Willoughby Pdf

This book attempts to provide a theoretical framework for answering difficult questions evoked by the concept of technology choice primarily by conducting a review of the Appropriate Technology movement and its ideas and experiments.

Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351472173

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Theory of Technology by David Clarke Pdf

The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away--sometimes for millennia. Sometimes, technology comes to a standstill, and sometimes, it even reverses itself. Thus, unlike science, which seems to proceed at a reasonable and calm rate, the progress of technology is difficult to theorize about. While in science many developments are predictable to a certain extent and this predictability may, at times, direct or stymie science's progress--as with stem-cell research and cloning--technological advances, such as the Internet, are often sudden and unpredictable, and therefore frightening. In Theory of Technology, David Clarke brings together nine authors who try to understand technology from a variety of viewpoints. Rias van Wyk, in "Technology," parses the concept into many angles, including its anatomy, taxonomy, and evolution. Karol Pelc, in "Knowledge Mapping," discusses tracking the evolution of the emerging discipline of technology management. Jon Beard, in "Management of Technology," pursues a similar mapping endeavor, but looks to the patterns of the literature of technology management. Thomas Clarke, in "Unique Features of an R&D Work Environment and Research Scientists and Engineers," takes the reader on a tour of how people of technology present unique challenges to not just management but whole organizations. Richard Howey, in "Understanding Software Technology," places enterprise software into a meaningful pattern of technology management. Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein, in "The Half-Life of Policy Rationales," discuss how new technology affects old policy issues. John Cogan, in "Some Philosophical Thoughts on the Nature of Technology," maintains that our Aristotelian search for the essence of technology is doomed. And Peter Bond, in "The Biology of Technology," establishes a basis for the development of a socio-biological approach to understanding the pheno

Author : E.F. Byrne,Joseph C. Pitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400925977

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Technological Transformation by E.F. Byrne,Joseph C. Pitt Pdf

The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that technology obviously impacts on "the real world," whereas the favored stereotype of philosophy allegedly does not. Furthermore, in some circles it was assumed that philosophy ought not impinge on the world. This bias continues today in the form of a general dismissal of the growing area now referred to as "applied philosophy". By contrast, the academic scrutiny of science has for the most part been accepted as legitimate for some 30 years, primarily because it has been conducted in a somewhat ethereal manner. This is, in part, because it was believed that, science being pure, one could think (even philosophically) about science without jeopardizing one's intellectual purity. Since World War II, however, practitioners of the metascientific arts have come to ac knowledge that science also shows signs of having touched down on numerous occasions in what can only be identified as the real world. No longer able to keep this banal truth a secret, purists have sought to defuse its import by stressing the difference between pure and applied science; and, lest science be tainted by contact with the world through its applications, they have devoted additional energy to separating applied science somehow from technology.

Author : Jeffrey James,Susumu Watanabe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349179077

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Technology, Institutions and Government Policies by Jeffrey James,Susumu Watanabe Pdf

Author : Carlos Maldonado,S. V. Sethuraman
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9221064689

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Technological Capability in the Informal Sector by Carlos Maldonado,S. V. Sethuraman Pdf

Technology plays a key role in the informal sectors of developing countries, yet little is known about the acquisition of technical knowhow or the adaptation of technology.

Author : Corazon Siddayao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401198103

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Criteria for Energy Pricing Policy by Corazon Siddayao Pdf

The main part of this volume is composed of papers commissioned for the Energy Pricing Policy Workshop held at Bangkok from 8 to 11 May 1984, co-ordinated by the U nited Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Resource Systems Institute of the East-West Center. The Workshop, which involved high-level policy planners was financially sponsored by several from several Asian developing countries, organizations: the ESCAP Regional Energy Development Programme funded by the United Nations Development Programme; the European Economic Community; the International Labour Organisation; and the International Development Research Centre. Publication of these papers has been supported by funds from the European Economic Community and the United States Agency for International Development. Preparation of the manuscripts for publication was undertaken at the East-West Center, through contribution in kind at the professional, editorial, and support staff levels. out of discussions at the Eighth Session of the The Workshop developed ESCAP Committee on Natural Resources, 27 October to 2 November 1981, where questions on resource pricing in general (as related to energy resources) and sectoral pricing policies for end-users were discussed in the context of demand management. It was recognized that, although much work had been done in the area, policy makers could seldorn obtain analytically supported, yet realistic, guidance concerning energy pricing questions. The emphasis of the Workshop was, therefore, on policy decision-making, and the application of theory to policy formulation in the energy pricing area.

Author : Jeffrey James
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843767163

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Bridging the Global Digital Divide by Jeffrey James Pdf

According to many observers, the global digital divide - the extent to which information technology is benefiting developed as opposed to developing countries - has already established itself as the single most pervasive theme of the twenty-first century. The purpose of this book is to explore some of the ways in which this divide can be overcome both within and between nations. Employing a rigorous analytical framework, the author bases his analysis on the concept of international technological dualism. He argues that one possible solution to the problem is the availability of affordable technologies, such as low-cost computers, which are specifically designed for the income levels and socio-economic conditions of developing countries. He also emphasizes that the most important aim of any policy measure should be to provide universal access to information technologies, rather than individual ownership. Depending on whether or not this divide can be bridged will, to a large degree, determine whether developing countries are able to attain higher levels of productivity, prosperity and global integration.

Author : A.S. Bhalla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031295218

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National and Global Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by A.S. Bhalla Pdf

This book traces the evolution of Covid across different geographic regions, showing how the varying responses of leaders, citizens and other key stakeholders in efforts to tackle the Covid crisis determined outcomes. It finds that leadership, in particular, played a critical role, while initial conditions, such as health-care spending and infrastructure are important factors contributing to a country’s preparedness in coping with a pandemic.