Sustainable Innovation

• Author : Andrew Hargadon
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release Date : 2015-06-24
• ISBN : 9780804795029

If we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty? The answer lies, in part, in the distinctive challenges of creating innovations that address today's pressing environmental and social problems. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Hargadon shows why sustainable innovation—the development of financially viable products that support a healthy environment and communities—is so difficult when

• Author : Md Mahatab Uddin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-07-22
• ISBN : 9781000402605

This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris climate era. The possibilities to be explored by the book will first focus on the roles of the climate finance and technological cooperation mechanisms in innovation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. Secondly, the book will focus on role of the ‘flexible mechanism’ (i.e. indirect financial mechanisms), which has been re-introduced by the Paris Agreement as ‘voluntary cooperation’ or ‘

• Author : Gurinder S. Shahi,Eng Fong Pang,Prof. Pang Eng Fong (Editors)
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2009-03-12
• ISBN : 9780557049707

Selected papers by students of Singapore Management University

• Author : Paul Weaver,Leo Jansen,Geert van Grootveld,Egbert van Spiegel,Philip Vergragt
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-09-08
• ISBN : 9781351283229

In the time it takes to read this sentence, about fifteen people will be added to the world's population. Read the sentence again, and there will be thirty. Tomorrow, each of these people will be demanding greater prosperity. Production and consumption are increasing fast but will have to grow even faster in the future to keep up with population growth and a world increasingly divided by inequality. How should we react to these trends? Certainly, many use growth figures to

• Author : Martin Abraham
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2017-07-04
• ISBN : 9780128047927

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications. Systems and lifecycle analyses of energy systems, environmental management, agriculture, manufacturing and digital technologies provide a comprehensive method for understanding the full sustainability of processes. In addition, the development of clean processes through green chemistry and engineering techniques are also

• Author : Atul Kumar Upadhyay,D.P. Singh
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2020-11-09
• ISBN : 9781000204629

Algal and sustainable technologies: Bioenergy, Nannotechnology and Green chemistry is an interdisciplinary overview of the world’s major problems; water scarcity, clean environment and energy and their sustenance remedy measures using microalgae. It comprehensively presents the way to tackle the socio-economic issues including food, feed, fuel, medicine and health and also entails the untapped potential of microalgae in environmental management, bioenergy solution and sustainable synthesis of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. This book basically emphasizes the success of algae as wonderful

• Author : Shachi Shah,V. Venkatramanan,Ram Prasad
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2019-02-19
• ISBN : 9789811327728

Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and controls itself. However, the present scale of anthropogenic activity is unprecedented in the history of mankind compelling the intelligentia to ponder over the scientific causes of the problems, processes and sustainable and pragmatic solutions. The current rate of resource use and consumption pattern are depleting the planet’s finite resources and damaging life-supporting ecosystems. A large number of toxic substances are increasingly found in air, water, soil, and flora

• Author : OECD
• Publisher : OECD Publishing
• Release Date : 2013-06-21
• ISBN : 9789264194397

Perspectives on Global Development (PGD) is OECD’s annual publication on emerging development issues. The 2013 edition focuses on productive growth strategies.