Ebook: Technologies and Innovations for Development: Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future
Author: Jean-Claude Bolay (auth.) Jean-Claude Bolay Magali Schmid Gabriela Tejada Eileen Hazboun (eds.)
- Tags: Economics/Management Science general, Sustainable Development, Political Science general, Climate Change, Energy Technology, Urbanism
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Paris
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.
The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.
This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.
The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines.
Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.
The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.
This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.
The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines.
Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.
The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.
This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.
The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation....Pages 19-29
Renewable Energy for Development and Climate Change Mitigation....Pages 31-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-38
Santiago de Chile and the Transantiago: Social Impact....Pages 39-54
Informality of Housing Production: Rental Markets in Favelas and the Challenges for Land Regularization in Brazil....Pages 55-68
Multiple Innovations and Urban Development in Burkina Faso....Pages 69-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-85
Towards Sustainable Post-disaster Housing and Building Technologies: Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to India....Pages 87-99
Ecomaterials in Low-Cost Housing. Connecting Cutting-Edge Science with the Grassroots....Pages 101-111
Environmental Impacts of Building Technologies: A Comparative Study in Kutch District, Gujarat State, India....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-130
The Contribution of Science and Technology to Meeting the Challenge of Risk and Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries: From Concrete Examples to the Proposal of a Conceptual Model of “Resiliencery Vulnerability”....Pages 131-153
Peri-Urbanisation and the Vulnerability of Populations to the Effects of Climate Change in Southern Vietnam: Innovating Solutions in Research....Pages 155-167
Perceptions of Rain-Fed Lowland Rice Farmers on Climate Change, Their Vulnerability, and Adaptation Strategies in the Volta Region of Ghana....Pages 169-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-184
Optimizing Pastoral Mobility Based on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MGIS)....Pages 185-195
Data Gathering and Information Dissemination for Semiarid Regions....Pages 197-210
Application of Soil Moisture Model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea): Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Agroforestry System in Burkina Faso....Pages 211-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-232
Geo-Information System for Land Degradation Evaluation in Nigeria....Pages 233-248
Characterisation and Monitoring of Deforestation in the Protected Areas of North Cameroon: Analysis Using Satellite Remote Sensing in the Kalfou Forest Reserve....Pages 249-264
Enhancing Decision-Making Processes of Small Farmers in Tropical Crops by Means of Machine Learning Models....Pages 265-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
Impact of the Introduction of Biofuel in the Transportation Sector in Indonesia....Pages 281-295
Selling Hours of Solar Lighting in the Evening....Pages 297-312
Back Matter....Pages 329-333
Technological Developments Appropriate to Local Context: Lessons Learned from the Decentralized Rural Electrification Project in Ouneine (Morocco)....Pages 313-328
Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.
The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.
This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.
The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation....Pages 19-29
Renewable Energy for Development and Climate Change Mitigation....Pages 31-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-38
Santiago de Chile and the Transantiago: Social Impact....Pages 39-54
Informality of Housing Production: Rental Markets in Favelas and the Challenges for Land Regularization in Brazil....Pages 55-68
Multiple Innovations and Urban Development in Burkina Faso....Pages 69-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-85
Towards Sustainable Post-disaster Housing and Building Technologies: Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to India....Pages 87-99
Ecomaterials in Low-Cost Housing. Connecting Cutting-Edge Science with the Grassroots....Pages 101-111
Environmental Impacts of Building Technologies: A Comparative Study in Kutch District, Gujarat State, India....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-130
The Contribution of Science and Technology to Meeting the Challenge of Risk and Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries: From Concrete Examples to the Proposal of a Conceptual Model of “Resiliencery Vulnerability”....Pages 131-153
Peri-Urbanisation and the Vulnerability of Populations to the Effects of Climate Change in Southern Vietnam: Innovating Solutions in Research....Pages 155-167
Perceptions of Rain-Fed Lowland Rice Farmers on Climate Change, Their Vulnerability, and Adaptation Strategies in the Volta Region of Ghana....Pages 169-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-184
Optimizing Pastoral Mobility Based on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MGIS)....Pages 185-195
Data Gathering and Information Dissemination for Semiarid Regions....Pages 197-210
Application of Soil Moisture Model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea): Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Agroforestry System in Burkina Faso....Pages 211-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-232
Geo-Information System for Land Degradation Evaluation in Nigeria....Pages 233-248
Characterisation and Monitoring of Deforestation in the Protected Areas of North Cameroon: Analysis Using Satellite Remote Sensing in the Kalfou Forest Reserve....Pages 249-264
Enhancing Decision-Making Processes of Small Farmers in Tropical Crops by Means of Machine Learning Models....Pages 265-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
Impact of the Introduction of Biofuel in the Transportation Sector in Indonesia....Pages 281-295
Selling Hours of Solar Lighting in the Evening....Pages 297-312
Back Matter....Pages 329-333
Technological Developments Appropriate to Local Context: Lessons Learned from the Decentralized Rural Electrification Project in Ouneine (Morocco)....Pages 313-328
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