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Sustainable Technology Development (Hardcover)
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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 forecast disaster. But there is an
alternative vision: one of a sustainable future, in which growth is
seen not as a threat, but as the driving force behind innovation.
This is the scenario worked out in the Netherlands by Sustainable
Technology Development (STD), a five-year programme of research and
"learning-by-doing" based on setting up new innovation networks and
working with new methods to search for sustainable technological
solutions. In order to make sustainability tangible, STD made a
leap in time. What human needs will have to be satisfied fifty
years from now? Taking a sustainable future vision as a starting
point, STD demonstrated what steps we should take today for new
technologies and systems to be in place in time. These results are
now available for the first time in a comprehensive, specifically
written English-language book, together with a description of the
unique working method of STD and the results and key lessons from a
set of the programme's illustrative case studies. This book serves
as a manual for industry, governments and social leaders wanting to
prepare themselves for a sustainable future. Sustainable Technology
Development sets out the programme's underpinning philosophy and
describes its approach, methods and findings. Delivering
sustainability means finding ways to meet human needs using a
fraction of the natural resources we use today. The world's richer
nations would be wise to target at least ten-fold improvements by
2050 in the productivity with which conventional natural resources
and environmental services are used. And they need to bring new,
sustainable resources on-stream to augment the resource base and
replace the use of unsustainable alternatives. Sustainable
Technology Development marks a significant contribution to our
understanding of innovation processes and how these might be
influenced in favour of sustainable technology development. In
principle, technology could play a pivotal role in sustainable
development. Whether it does or not depends on whether innovators
can be encouraged to make this an explicit goal, adopt long-term
time-horizons and search for renewable technologies. Given the long
lead-times involved, there is no time to waste in beginning the
search. The STD programme has begun to make inroads into one of the
most urgent of all needs concerning sustainable development: that
for innovation in the innovation process itself.
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