This article discusses the concept of overpopulation and its practical relevance. Definitions of overpopulation are considered, including approaches centred on sustainability and on average or total welfare. Overpopulation has been linked to the wish for national population policies, which raise...

Unresolved social dilemmas that inhibit pro-social behaviour are at the root of most pressing global environmental issues such as climate change, ecological degradation and water scarcity. Meeting these challenges through purely externally imposed (‘top-down’) solutions can be ineffective or...

Most economies in the world have been on a track that was based on an irreversible consumption of natural resources in order to fuel their economic growth. For developing nations, this process has just started. In order to help developing nation to leap-frog into a strategy that is less wasteful...

New technologies are often radical innovations that change current activities across different areas of social and economic life. At the beginning of the 21st century, some of these technologies are information and communications technology (ICT), nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and...

Technological unemployment is a situation when people are without work and seeking work because of innovative production processes and labor-saving organizational solutions.

Technology transfer is the movement of technical and organizational skills, knowledge, and methods from one individual or organization to another for economic purposes. This process usually involves a group that possesses specialized technical skills and technology that transfers it to a target...

Die Förderungsmöglichkeiten im Rahmen der Enwicklungszusammenarbeit sind in hohem Maße davon abhänig, in welchem Maße die Förderländer die IT-Kompetenzen in bestenden Projeken besitzen und vermitteln können. Zum anderen ist die Informationstechnologie ein eigener Sektor, der in der...

Die Digitalisierung der Industrie, die im Konzept der Industrie 4.0 ihren Niederschlag findet, weist auf eine Entwicklung hin, die mit dem Konzept der „Informatisierung“ eingeführt und weiterentwickelt wurde. Die Einführung informationstechnologischer Innovationen wurde in benachbarten...