商品簡介
Technology plays a critical role in transforming societies and economies through enhancing efficiency, connectivity and access to resources and services. The challenge remains of how to harness technologies to achieve sustainable development without causing harm to human and natural capitals. Professor Odeh Al-Jayyousi argues that Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are underpinned by social choices hence a transition to a sustainable green economy is defined by individuals’ and institutions’ decisions on how to use and apply S&T. In doing so, it is important to examine closely the ways in which social institutions and processes in the Integral Worlds shape the priorities of technologies and the conditions under which its potential benefits can be reaped. He states that in order for technological innovation to provide a guarantee of sustainable economic development, it is necessary that a transfer of technology to developing countries becomes a basic principle of national development policies, and that they, in turn, are open to adopting an explicit long-term application of technological innovation. He presents a conceptual framework for the evolution of Technology and Innovation from a historical and cultural perspective, provides an analysis of the role of innovation and technology in sustainable development and introduces a number of international case studies, which shed light on the social learning processes for knowledge co-creation and innovation culture.
作者簡介
Professor Odeh Al-Jayyousi is a professor in sustainable development and an international consultant. He was the vice president for science and research at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) in Jordan, 2011-2013. He was the regional director for IUCN - The International Union for Conservation of Nature - West Asia / Middle East regional office from 2004 to 2011. Prior to that he was, for ten years, dean of research and professor in civil engineering). He is a founding board member Jordan Green Building Council, and a member of the Advisory Board for MSc program in IWRM between Cologne and Jordan University. His book Islam and Sustainable Development was published by Gower, 2012. He was a consultant to WB, USAID, GIZ and UN agencies. His research interests include sustainability and culture, science policy, innovation and technology management, water policy and planning and environmental management.
