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Sustainable Technology Development

Autor Paul Weaver, Leo Jansen, Geert van Grootveld, Egbert van Spiegel, Philip Vergragt
en Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2000
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781874719090
ISBN-10: 1874719098
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

Foreword Leo Jansen and Geert van Grootveld  Preface Paul Weaver  Part 11. Capacity-building for sustainable technology development and innovation  2. The scale of the sustainability challenge3. Technology and technological change4. The STD programme design and approach  Part 25. The STD process exemplified: the case of nutrition6. Constructive Technology Assessment: the case of novel protein foods7. LCA as a steering tool: the case of the municipal water system8. Gaining "virtual hindsight" by backcasting: the case of service products9. Redirecting R&D resources: the case of chemicals and industrial materials10. Elaborating and evaluating opportunities: the case of organic materials11. Strategic niche management: the case of the mobile hydrogen fuel cell  Part 312. Concluding remarks

Recenzii

... as an exciting example of what can be done to create and carry out visions of sustainability. Sustainable Technology Development makes an important contribution. - EcoEng Newsletter - Carl Etnier || The relationship between technology and society is emerging as a major issue in the sustainability debate ... The unique methodology of the study provides an interesting and stimulating read both for theoreticians and those looking for practical solutions. - Warmer Bulletin

Notă biografică

Weaver, Paul; Jansen, Leo; Grootveld, Geert van; Spiegel, Egbert van; Vergragt, Philip

Descriere

Based on the evaluation of the results of a five-year inter-ministerial programme of the Dutch Sustainable Technology Development Group, this is an examination of which technologies might be able to become more eco-efficient, and how they may be able to do so.