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The Science, Technology, Engineering & Enterprise Nexus in LAC : An Innovation for Sustainable Development Strategy

Lemarchand, Guillermo - 2013

A description of the Basic and Engineering Sciences (SC BES) and Science Policy and Sustainable Development (SC PSD) programmes at UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean is made. An account of the innovation patterns and the relation between science, engineering...

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Navigating green and digital transitions : Five imperatives for effective STI policy

Arnold, Erik - 2023

This paper discusses five innovation policy imperatives critical to achieving green and digital transitions: coordinated government, stakeholder engagement, policy agility and experimentation, directionality and support for breakthrough innovation. The paper provides policy examples from...

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Energy insecurity and renewable energy sources : prospects and challenges for Azerbaijan

Aydin, Ulviyye - 2019

This study investigates the prospects and challenges of renewable energy source (RES) usage in Azerbaijan within the context of the country's energy security goals. As one of the hydrocarbon producers of the world, Azerbaijan is looking to generate 20% of its electricity from renewable sources...

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Biomass Energy : Ensuring Sustainability through Conditioned Economic Incentives

Bluemel, Erik B. - 2014

suggests that sustainability standards, when linked to subsidies, could promote the beneficial exploitation of biomass …

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Animating Performance Zoning at Sustainability's Competitive Edge

Widener, Michael N. - 2018

, leveraging technology advances to address challenges revealed by demands for sustainability in building urban projects. The …; these standards express municipal goals for sustainability and environmental justice. Pivoting to performance zoning from … competitiveness, enticing millennials to join sustainability – focused enterprises and occupy sustainable buildings, is advanced by …

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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018

We live in peculiar times: on the one hand, many people — mainly in Western countries — enjoy an unprecedentedly high standard of living from a historical perspective. On the other hand, a considerable part of the population has a feeling that something went wrong, which is underscored by...

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Towards sustainable agriculture : behaviors, spatial dynamics and policy in an evolutionary agent-based model

Coronese, Matteo; Occelli, Martina; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2024

Economic and population growth increasingly pressure the Earth system. Fertile soils are essential to ensure global food security, requiring high-yielding agro-technological regimes to cope with rising soil degradation and macro-nutrients deficiencies, which may be further exacerbated by climate...

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Social sustainability in European banks : a machine learning approach using interval-based composite indicators

Drago, Carlo; Di Nallo, Loris; Russotto, Maria Lucetta - 2023

banking social sustainability by constructing a new interval-based composite indicator using the Thomson Reuters database. In …

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Innovation in the energy sector

Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2013

. Put drastically, the promotion of "sustainability" undermined "competitive" mechanisms. This has potentially adverse …

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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016

Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...

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