Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth

✍ Scribed by Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis, Roberto Zoboli (auth.), Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Dr. Marco Fortis, Dr. Roberto Zoboli (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The analysis of the interactions between natural resource scarcity, technological innovation and the dynamics of eco- nomic systems has a long-standing tradition in economics. During the 1980s and the early 1990s, a new phase of these interactions initiated under the effects of technological revolution and the problem of the environment. The general concept behind this book is that the issue of natural resou- cesand the environment in relation to economic growth can- not be addressed without due consideration for the effects of technological innovation on thedynamics of economic sy- stems. Technological innovation alone, however, is not a sufficient condition for the sustainability of economic growth. Policies may have a role in solving the internatio- nal distribution problems generated by the non-converging development path of developed and developing countries. In particular, the new international order shaped by the events of the 1980s, made it possible for world management to ad- dress the problems of poverty and the environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth: Changing Interactions in the World Economy....Pages 3-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Institutions, Technological Creativity and Economic History....Pages 39-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Energy Efficient Technologies: Past and Future Perspectives....Pages 63-82
Economic Growth and the Intensity of Use of Industrial Materials....Pages 83-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
European Strategies in New Materials: A Global View....Pages 103-126
Biotechnology in the United States and Japan and the Bridge Between....Pages 127-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
The Agricultural and Food Sector of the Former Soviet Union. Transition to a Market Economy....Pages 149-167
The Plundering of Agriculture in Africa, Asia and Latin America....Pages 169-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture....Pages 199-220
The Economic Impact of Forest Decline in Europe....Pages 221-250
World Water Resources: Assessment and Prediction....Pages 251-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Changes in the International Order and Natural Resources....Pages 279-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-300

✦ Subjects

R & D/Technology Policy; Environmental Economics; International Economics