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Technologies for sustainable development : a way to reduce poverty? /
Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction
- Technologies and Partnerships / Silvia Hostettler and Jean-Claude Bolay
- Part II. What is an Appropriate Technology?
- The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies and Instruments for a Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Development / Lídia Brito
- New Vernacular Architecture as Appropriate Strategy for Housing the Poor / Sytse de Maat
- Computerization of Medical Consultation for Children Under Five Years of Age in Rural Areas of Burkina Faso / Guillaume Deflaux, Thierry Agagliate, Jean-Etienne Durand and Pierre Yamaogo
- Field Investigations in Cameroon Towards a More Appropriate Design of a Renewable Energy Pico Hydro System for Rural Electrification / Bryan Ho-Yan, William David Lubitz, Cornelia Ehlers and Johannes Hertlein
- Ensuring Appropriateness of Biogas Sanitation Systems for Prisons: Analysis from Rwanda, Nepal and the Philippines / Christian Riuji Lohri, Martin Gauthier, Alain Oppliger and Christian Zurbrügg
- Technologies for Smallholder Irrigation Appropriate for Whom: Promoters or Beneficiaries? / R.P.S. Malik, C. de Fraiture and Dhananjay Ray
- Toward a New Approach for Hydrological Modeling: A Tool for Sustainable Development in a Savanna Agro-System / Theophile Mande, Natalie Ceperley, Steven V. Weijs, Alexandre Repetti and Marc B. Parlange
- Rural Cold Storage as a Post-Harvest Technology System for Marginalized Agro-Based Communities in Developing Countries / Mahesh Neupane, Richard Opoku, Anju Sharma, Rabindra Adhikari, Jay Krishna Thakur and Manoj Kafle
- Iron-Catalyzed Low Cost Solar Activated Process for Drinking Water Disinfection in Colombian Rural Areas / Cristina Ruales-Lonfat, Angélica Varón López, José Fernando Barona [and 3 others]
- Appropriate Technology for Household Energy Access: The Case of the Centrafricain Stove in the Logone Valley (Chad, Cameroon) / Francesco Vitali and Mentore Vaccari
- Part II. How to Ensure an Integrated Sustainable Development?
- Towards Sustainable Integrated Development? Partnerships and Systems / Martin Dahinden
- Innovation in Multi-Actor Partnerships: A Waste Management Initiative in Vietnam / David Christensen
- Instrumental Participation in Serbia: Online Platform for the Dialogue about Public Spaces, Their Availability and Public Usage / Marija Cvetinović and Dobrica Veselinović
- Towards Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Gaza: The Role of Partnership and Appropriate Technology / Al Moataz Hassan and Maysara El-Essy
- Integrated Design Charrettes for Sustainable Development in India's Soaring Building Sector / Pierre Jaboyedoff, Kira Cusack, Sameer Maithel, Kanagaraj Ganeshan, Saswati Chetia and Prashant Bhanware
- Effect of Participation in ICT-Based Market Information Services on Transaction Costs and Household Income Among Smallholder Farmers in Malawi / Samson P. Katengeza, Julius J. Okello, Edouard R. Mensah and Noel Jambo
- Participatory Processes in Urban Planning Projects in China: The Example of Caoyang Village, Shanghai / Abigaïl-Laure Kern and Jean-Claude Bolay
- On Fast Transition Between Shelters and Housing After Natural Disasters in Developing Regions / Gary S. Prinz, Alain Nussbaumer
- Part IV. Technology Transfer or Co-Creation? Knowledge Sharing and Empowerment
- Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development / Luc Soete
- Appropriate Technology to Reduce Risks and Protect Assets: An Example from Development Cooperation in Bangladesh / Nicole Clot
- Academic Cooperation to Foster Research and Advocacy Competences in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (West Bank) / François Golay, Stefan Ziegler, Nicole Harari, Béatrice Métaireau, Claudio Carneiro and Martin Schuler
- Fog Collection Technology Transfer and Co-Creation Projects in Falda Verde, Chile and Tojquia, Guatemala / Fernanda Rojas, Virginia Carter and Melissa Rosato
- Role of Village Resource Centers in Technology Diffusion and Development / C.S. Shaijumon and Satheesh Menon.