Organizing knowledge for environmentally and socially sustainable development : proceedings of a concurrent meeting of the fifth annual World Bank conference on environmentally and socially sustainable development / World Bank.
By: International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development
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Contributor(s): Serageldin, Ismail | Unesco | World Bank.
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BookPublisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998Description: 93 p. ; 28 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0821342509 .Subject(s): Sustainable development -- Research -- Congresses | Environmental protection -- European Union countries | European Union countries -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 333.7072 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 333.7072 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00070797 |
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At the Conference on Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development sponsored by the World Bank's Learning and Leadership Center and UNESCO, participants discussed developing nations seeking technology transfer, undertaking new partnerships with the private sector, and pursuing the development of their own scientific and technical capacities. As they do, the quality and content of academic endeavors and research agendas become critical in organizing and investing in knowledge. This volume is a compilation of the topics raised at the conference, which was assembled to pursue the important task of organizing knowledge that can help address key issues facing people around the world. Issues in the book concern survival of the species and the environment and the well-being of the world's children.
Includes bibliographical references.
Setting the Agenda -- Introduction / Tariq Husain -- Turning education around / Benjamin Ladner -- Putting new bite into knowledge / Gustavo Lopez Ospina -- Shifting gears for the application of knowledge / Don Aitkin -- Shifting requirements for knowledge to advance a sustainable south / Partha Dasgupta -- Obligations of academic leaders to the demands of sustainable development -- Moderator / Wadi Haddad -- Panelist remarks / Alvaro Umana and Veena Das -- The critical path: Linking knowledge to advance environmentally and socially sustainable development / Kenneth Prewitt -- The social-natural science gap in educating for sustainable development / Ismail Serageldin and Peter Thatcher -- Global ecosystem governance and transboundary requirements / Claudio Grossman -- Discussion -- Knowledge, finance and sustainable development / Vinod Thomas and Theodore Panayotou -- Discussion -- How to proceed - How to connect? / Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Clovis Maksoud.