Technologies and innovations for development : scientific cooperation for a sustainable future /
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| Imprint: | Paris : Springer, c2012. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 333 p.) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8872981 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development
- Part 2. Key Note Speakers - UNESCO Chair InternationalScientific Conference on Technologies for Development
- Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation
- Renewable Energy for Development and Climate Change Mitigation
- Part 3. Urban Planning and Cities
- Santiago de Chile and the Transantiago: Social Impact
- Informality of Housing Production: Rental Markets in Favelas and the Challenges for Land Regularization in Brazil
- Multiple Innovations and Urban Development in Burkina Faso
- Part 4. Construction and Housing
- Towards Sustainable Post-disaster Housing and Building Technologies: Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to India
- Ecomaterials in Low-Cost Housing. Connecting Cutting-Edge Science with the Grassroots
- Environmental Impacts of Building Technologies: A Comparative Study in Kutch District, Gujarat State, India
- Part 5. Vulnerabilities
- The Contribution of Science and Technology to Meeting the Challenge of Risk and Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries: From Concrete Examples to the Proposal of a Conceptual Model of "Resiliencery Vulnerability"
- Peri-Urbanisation and the Vulnerability of Populations to the Effects of Climate Change in Southern Vietnam: Innovating Solutions in Research
- Perceptions of Rain-Fed Lowland Rice Farmers on Climate Change, Their Vulnerability, and Adaptation Strategies in the Volta Region of Ghana
- Part 6. Network Technologies
- Optimizing Pastoral Mobility Based on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MGIS)
- Data Gathering and Information Dissemination for Semiarid Regions
- Application of Soil Moisture Model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea): Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Agroforestry System in Burkina Faso
- Part 7. Information Systems
- Geo-Information System for Land Degradation Evaluation in Nigeria
- Characterisation and Monitoring of Deforestation in the Protected Areas of North Cameroon: Analysis Using Satellite Remote Sensing in the Kalfou Forest Reserve
- Enhancing Decision-Making Processes of Small Farmers in Tropical Crops by Means of Machine Learning Models
- Part 8. Sustainable Energy Production
- Impact of the Introduction of Biofuel in the Transportation Sector in Indonesia
- Selling Hours of Solar Lighting in the Evening
- Technological Developments Appropriate to Local Context: Lessons Learned from the Decentralized Rural Electrification Project in Ouneine (Morocco).