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A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors
in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially
important context. A future in which financial wealth transfers
across the North-South divide from richer to poorer countries is
far from sufficient for the relief of poverty and the pursuit of
sustainability. Caution must be taken when growth is achieved
through the liquidation of the natural wealth of poorer nations, in
order to maintain a global economic status quo. Neither poverty
reduction nor sustainability will ultimately be achieved. The
financial collapse and social upheaval that might result will make
the most recent economic downturn look trivial by comparison. What
is more urgently needed instead, as argued in this book, is
collaboration for sustainability and innovation in the global
South, especially building on models originally developed in the
South that are transferable to the North. In pursuit of a
sustainable and more equitable future, the book examines such
topics as Cross-Border Innovation in South-North Fair Trade Supply
Chains; Potential Pollution Prevention Programs in Bangladesh;
Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion in the South through
Collective Storytelling and Eco-innovation at the ‘Bottom of the
Pyramid’. Many of these stories and have not been told and need
greater visibility. The book contributes in a meaningfully to the
discussion of how innovation and sustainability science can benefit
both sides in South-North innovation collaborations. It provides
useful introduction to the topics, as well as valuable critiques
and best practices. This back-and-forth flow of ideas and
innovation is itself new and promising in the modern pursuit of a
fair and sustainable future for all regions of our planet.
This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a
quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and
challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables
policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies
they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and
implementing green growth policies. The contributors' empirical
assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions
required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental
sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm
should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning
in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how
we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it
evolve to maturity.
Based on detailed research funded across two continents and
involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book
sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing
both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area.
Using data from a number of Ibero-American nations, the study
combines environmental, socio-economic and geographic factors to
construct a set of spatial and technical indicators that measure
the social vulnerability and industrial hazardousness of a defined
area. Aggregating these indicators in a geographic information
system (GIS) allows researchers to assess the potential risk to
which a certain area and its population are subject as a result of
the environmental deterioration caused by co-located industrial
activity.
A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors
in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially
important context. A future in which financial wealth transfers
across the North-South divide from richer to poorer countries is
far from sufficient for the relief of poverty and the pursuit of
sustainability. Caution must be taken when growth is achieved
through the liquidation of the natural wealth of poorer nations, in
order to maintain a global economic status quo. Neither poverty
reduction nor sustainability will ultimately be achieved. The
financial collapse and social upheaval that might result will make
the most recent economic downturn look trivial by comparison. What
is more urgently needed instead, as argued in this book, is
collaboration for sustainability and innovation in the global
South, especially building on models originally developed in the
South that are transferable to the North. In pursuit of a
sustainable and more equitable future, the book examines such
topics as Cross-Border Innovation in South-North Fair Trade Supply
Chains; Potential Pollution Prevention Programs in Bangladesh;
Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion in the South through
Collective Storytelling and Eco-innovation at the 'Bottom of the
Pyramid'. Many of these stories and have not been told and need
greater visibility. The book contributes in a meaningfully to the
discussion of how innovation and sustainability science can benefit
both sides in South-North innovation collaborations. It provides
useful introduction to the topics, as well as valuable critiques
and best practices. This back-and-forth flow of ideas and
innovation is itself new and promising in the modern pursuit of a
fair and sustainable future for all regions of our planet.
This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a
quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and
challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables
policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies
they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and
implementing green growth policies. The contributors' empirical
assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions
required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental
sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm
should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning
in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how
we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it
evolve to maturity.
Based on detailed research funded across two continents and
involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book
sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing
both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area.
Using data from a number of Ibero-American nations, the study
combines environmental, socio-economic and geographic factors to
construct a set of spatial and technical indicators that measure
the social vulnerability and industrial hazardousness of a defined
area. Aggregating these indicators in a geographic information
system (GIS) allows researchers to assess the potential risk to
which a certain area and its population are subject as a result of
the environmental deterioration caused by co-located industrial
activity.
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