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Scientific research and social goals : towards a new development model /

Scientific Research and Social Goals: Towards a New Development Model is designed to contribute to the task of producing a development model, based on human needs, social goals, and the value of research. The book is organized into three sections: concepts and philosophy; methodological approaches;...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mayor, Federico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Scientific Research and Social Goals: Towards a New Development Model; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Preface: Science, Technology and Social Priorities; Utopia ... What is Utopia?; A New Concept of Development; Science and Technology for Development; International Priorities; World Poverty; National Priorities; Technology Transfer; Making Use of Available Knowledge; Popularization of Science; Participation of Youth; Perspectives and Strategies; The Role of International Organizations; References; Foreword; Introduction; Why a New Approach to Development?
  • Why Human Needs?Why Societal Goals?; Why Research?; The Contents of the Book; SECTION 1: Research and Human Needs; Chapter 1. Research and Human Needs: a Challenge and a Hope; Evolution at the Crossroads; Changing the Environment; Science as a Force for Change; Science and Know-how; Chapter 2. National Policy Implications of the Basic Needs Model; Food, Nutrition and Employment5; Health; Housing; Education; Communications Policy; Cultural Policies; Research and Technology Policies; Energy Policies; Administration Policies; Legal Policies; Political Dynamics and Ideological Implications; Notes
  • Chapter 3. Closing the Widening GapNotes; Chapter 4. Scientific Progress and the Social Goals of Science; Chapter 5. Science and Intellectual Needs; Chapter 6. Science and Human Needs: An Artist's Response; SECTION 2: Methodologies: Practices and Perspectives; Chapter 7. Introduction: An International Programme on Research and Human Needs; List of Publications and Documente; Chapter 8. The Role of Methodology in the Research and Human Needs Programme; Chapter 9. Research Priorities and Human Needs; Research Priorities; Chapter 10. A Human Needs Approach to Science
  • Chapter 11. Assessing the Contribution of Research to Human Needs: a Possible MethodologyChapter 12. Human Needs and Global Development Models; Note; Chapter 13. An Action Programme on Research and Human Needs; Understanding Human Needs; World Problematique and Human Needs; Some Areas for UNESCO Support, through the Committee of A dvisers; Notes; Appendix I; SECTION 3: Global, Regional and National Approaches; Chapter 14. Research and Human Needs: An Attack on Global Problems; Global Dimensions of Human Needs; Interdependence of Problems and Nations; Localization of Human Needs
  • The Scientific and Technological Potential of LDCsReferences; Chapter 15. The Research and Human Needs Programme in Latin America; Future Developments; Chapter 16. Science, Technology and a New Model of Human Needs; The Evolution of Job Analysis
  • The Development of Software; Energy Saving in Information Technologies; The Use of Time; The Birth of a Wired Society; Towards a New Society; References; Chapter 17. Research and Human Needs: the African Perspective; Chapter 18. Problems of Developing Countries: Some Case Studies; What are Basic Human Needs?