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Innovation For Sustainability : African and European Perspectives /

The innovation system theory has to deal with climate change as it generates the intellectual tools to promote development. A unified innovation system theory that integrates the eradication of threats to nature with the promotion of development is critically important to advance an original pedigre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Baskaran, Angathevar, Muchie, Mammo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Publicado: Pretoria, South Africa : Insititute for Economic Research on Innovation, 2012
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contributing authors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The uptake of environmentally sensitive innovation to transform production systems in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Chapter 2. Climate debt owed to Africa: what to demand and how to collect?
  • Chapter 3. Education, convergence and carbon dioxide growth per capita
  • Chapter 4. Green markets of the future: an economic opportunity also for newly industrializing countries and South Africa?
  • Chapter 5. Science for the future: challenges and methods for transdisciplinary sustainability research
  • Chapter 6. Conceptualizing sustainable development as a global problem: the fole of strategic knowledge
  • Chapter 7. Why radical innovations fail: the case of technological change in German coal-fired power plants
  • Chapter 8. In search of green knowledge: a cognitive approach to sustainabile development
  • Chapter 9. Innovation for sustainability in a changing world: The South African-German dialogue on science for sustainability
  • Chapter 10. The ecological economics synthesis for sustainability: post scriptum conclusion.