Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development (The United Nations Series on Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472580753 ISBN 13: 9781472580757

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.

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.

About this title

About the Author

Rob Vos is Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472580753
• ISBN 13: 9781472580757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: United Nations Publications