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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Pretoria, South Africa :
Insititute for Economic Research on Innovation,
2012
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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.