ISBN:
2817802675
,
9781280787744
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (333 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Technologies and Innovations for Development
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Innovation
Abstract:
Eileen Hazboun
Abstract:
Technological innovation -- combined with scientific research -- has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development. The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by t
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10: 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"; Chapter 11: Peri-Urbanisation and the Vulnerability of Populations to the Effects of Climate Change in Southern Vietnam: Innovating Solutions in Research; Chapter 15: Application of Soil Moisture Model to Marula (Sclerocarya birrea): Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Agroforestry System in Burkina Faso
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 17: Characterisation and Monitoring of Deforestation in the Protected Areas of North Cameroon: Analysis Using Satellite Remote Sensing in the Kalfou Forest ReserveIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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