Download or read book Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer written by Bert Metz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IPCC Special Report provides a state-of-the-art overview of how to achieve and enhance technology transfer to respond to global climate change.
Download or read book International Science and Technology Co operation Towards Sustainable Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings explores how widespread diffusion and application of cleaner technologies can help countries reach their sustainable development goals.
Download or read book Environmental Requirements and Market Access written by Nagesh Kumar and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of papers from leading experts, this multifaceted analysis explores the environmental requirements that have emerged from the trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization and their impact on developing markets such as South Asia. These essays address a variety of environmental and health-related standards and their prohibitive effect, discriminatory impact, and high-compliance costs--all of which hurt these developing markets. The volume concludes with an agenda of action points for governments, businesses, and international agencies to address the challenges these standards present.
Download or read book Environmental Technology Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agile Energy Systems written by Woodrow W. Clark II and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies. The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California, including major technological changes and commercialization, regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, inadequate and flawed economic models, a lack of vision, goals, and planning that lead to energy failures, and questionable finance and lack of economic development. The second half of the book examines the civic market paradigm for new economic models and how to plan for complexity using California as an example of how the problem of centralized power systems can be seen in the worst drought that California has ever seen. - Offers new approaches to energy systems, providing the tools and plans to achieve these objectives - Presents specific and actionable public policy and program tools - Illustrates how lessons learned from California can be used to create an agile energy system for any country
Download or read book Industry and Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Publicly Funded Research and Publicly Owned Technologies in the Transfer and Diffusion of Environmentally Sound Technologies written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This book was released on 2000 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 Rio Conference on the environment and development saw much attention paid to the concept of the transfer of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), co-operation and capacity building. However since then momentum has been lost despite a widespread acceptance that cleaner technologies would benefit us all. Some of the reasons for this are intellectual property rights and the economic interests of large corporations, but the public sector has also failed in its responsibilities to transfer ESTs to the developing world. Much of their work has never left the laboratory, whilst in other cases the transfer of technology to the private sector for was confused with diffusion.This book looks at the problem based on nine case studies which look at the situation in individual countries. It also looks at legal regimes and the role of universities in the generation of ESTs. The final section looks for policy options based on partnering, alliances and networking.
Download or read book Advanced Technology Assessment System written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy and Environmental Services written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enabling Environments for Technology Transfer written by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business and the United Nations written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses case studies to examine the process of transfer of cleaner production technologies from enterprises in developed countries to enterprises in developing countries, based on material from the sixth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, held in spring, 1998. Part I offers a summary of cases, focusing on motivations and incentives facing enterprises in both developed and developing countries. Part II presents nine case studies as written by companies, and Part III describes the organization of exhibits at the meeting. Part IV contains background documents on technology transfer, and Part V contains official UN documents. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book United Nations Publications Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Business and the United Nations Partners in Sustainable Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enabling America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-11-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
Download or read book Climate Change 2001 Mitigation written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IPCC assessment of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and social aspects of the mitigation of climate change.
Download or read book Agile Energy Systems written by Woodrow W. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering decision makers by setting the vision for a new approach to energy systems and providing the tools and plans to achieve these objectives Provides specific and actionable public policy and programme tools Help solve energy issues worldwide by illustrating how the lessons learned from the California energy crisis can be used to create an agile energy system for any region in a country Due to the recent catastrophic energy system failures in California along with those in the North-Eastern US and Southern Canada, London, and Italy, the time has come to proclaim the failure of deregulation, privatization or liberalization and propose a new energy system. Agile Energy Systems shows in the first section, how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California: (1) major technological changes and commercialization, (2) regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, (3) inadequate and flawed economic models, (4) lack of vision, goals, and planning leading to energy failures, and (5) failure and lack of economic regional development. The second half of the book examines how "civic market", new economic models, and planning for a sustainable economic environment counteracted these five forces to create an "agile energy system". This system is based on renewable energy generation, hybrid or combined and distributed generation technologies. Such an agile system can be a new paradigm for both energy efficiency and reliability for any region or country, in contrast to the brittle centralized energy grid systems created by deregulation. Furthermore, the book overviews how the future of energy systems rests in the emerging "clean" hydrogen economy. Empowering decision makers by setting the vision for a new approach to energy systems and providing the tools and plans to achieve these objectives Provides specific and actionable public policy and program tools Helping to solve energy issues worldwide by illustrating how the lessons learned from the California energy crisis can be used to create an "agile energy system" for any region or country
