Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Interciencia
Author: U.S.-Latin American Cooperation in Science and Technology
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on International Scientific CooperationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Learning By Doing
Author: Aaron SegalPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429709528
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Science and technology capabilities are crucial to the economic growth of developing countries and to their ability to compete in the world economy. What factors enable some countries to successfully adapt technology to create indigenous capabilities and what factors cause others to fail? In this first global survey of science and technology capabilities in developing countries, the authors examine the experiences of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, China, India, and East Asia. Specialists in science and technology policies in these regions emphasize learning by doing: using available science and technology in its various applications--the shop floor, universities, and research institutes--to eventually develop indigenous capabilities. The authors consider why such capabilities have emerged in some societies but not in others and discuss their importance for domestic and international relations. Also considered are the implications of the "learning by doing" process for international relations, international trade, regional studies, science and technology policy, and management studies. This unique survey will interest a large audience, from technology policymakers and regional specialists to business managers, and officials. It will serve as a reference guide to the current state of science and technology policies in every region of the world and as a framework for analyzing and understanding how science and technology capabilities are being developed.
The Earth in Transition
Author: G. M. WoodwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521391377
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Scientific American
Author: The Future of Amazonia
Author: A. HallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349210684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, hangs in the balance. Two decades of destructive development have provoked violent struggles for control over the region's resources, with disastrous social and environmental consequences. This multi-disciplinary collection reviews past experience but focusses on the latest phase of Amazonian settlement. Chapters by leading authorities examine such issues as colonisation in the most recent frontier areas, multinational mining projects, hydro-electric schemes, and the military occupation of Brazil's borders. After demonstrating how new government and business activities have exacerbated social tensions and ecological destruction, the volume considers alternative, more sustainable strategies.
On The Road To Worldwide Science - Contributions To Science Development: A Reprint Volume
Author: M MoravesikPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814579866
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This reprint volume compiles the works of the author on the building of science in developing countries. The purpose of this volume is to improve the accessibility of the literature on science development for interested individuals especially in the Third World Countries.
FAR Horizons
Author: Publisher:
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
First no. of each vol. contains index to previous vol.
Cloak of Green
Author: Elaine DewarPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550284508
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Most concerned citizens trust environmental groups to fight on behalf of the public for sensible solutions to the world's most pressing problems. But Elaine Dewar discovered that this trust is often misplaced. In this book the award-winning journalist explores links between key environmental groups, government and big business. Written like a mystery, Cloak of Green follows the author from a Toronto fundraiser for the Kayapo Indians of Brazil to the Amazon rainforest and the global backrooms of Brasilia, Washington and Geneva. Along the way she meets some fascinating peopleAnita Roddick of the Body Shop, businessman-politican Maurice Strong, and activists who run key Canadian and American environmental groups. She discovers some disturbing revelations about these groups and their relations to "green" corporations and government. Cloak of Green is a penetrating investigative study that challenges many established pieties of the environmental movement.