Innovation For sustainability : African and European perspectives / edited by Mammo Muchie and Angathevar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muchie, Mammo.

Baskaran, Angathevar.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability--Africa.

Sustainability.

Sustainability--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The innovation system theory has to deal with climate change as it generates the intellectual tools to promote development. A unified innovation system theory that integrates the eradication of threats to nature with the promotion of development is critically important to advance an original pedigree and trajectory of epistemology. Africa must learn and appreciate the costs to itself from the way Europe industrialised. It can neither follow nor imitate the European pattern of industrialisation. It has to include in its own development agenda both the meeting of social needs and choosing a path of development that would not bring ecological harm in the process. The African innovation system has to evolve in a nature protecting, rather than hurting, system; in addition, social needs must be met rather than exacerbating the social inequalities path of development.

Contents:

Preface

Contributing authors

Introduction

Chapter 1. The uptake of environmentally sensitive innovation to transform production systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 2. Climate debt owed to Africa: what to demand and how to collect?

Chapter 3. Education, convergence and carbon dioxide growth per capita

Chapter 4. Green markets of the future: an economic opportunity also for newly industrializing countries and South Africa?

Chapter 5. Science for the future: challenges and methods for transdisciplinary sustainability research

Chapter 6. Conceptualizing sustainable development as a global problem: the fole of strategic knowledge

Chapter 7. Why radical innovations fail: the case of technological change in German coal-fired power plants

Chapter 8. In search of green knowledge: a cognitive approach to sustainabile development

Chapter 9. Innovation for sustainability in a changing world: The South African-German dialogue on science for sustainability

Chapter 10. The ecological economics synthesis for sustainability: post scriptum conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7983-0354-9

0-7983-0356-5

OCLC:

836399945