Organizing knowledge for environmentally and socially sustainable development

Contributor(s): Serageldin, IsmailMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, DC : World Bank, c1998Description: vi, 92 pISBN: 0821342509 ; 9780821342503Subject(s): Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 333.7072
Contents:
Turning education around / Benjamin Ladner -- Putting new bite into knowledge / Gustvao López 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, 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 / Isamil Serageldin, Peter Thatcher -- Global ecosystem governance and transboundary requirements / Claudio Grossman -- Knowledge, finance, and sustainable development / Vinod Thomas, Theodore Panayotou -- How to proceed--how to connect? / Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Clovis Maksoud -- The ecology of knowledge / Jerzy Wojciechowski.
Summary: 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.
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Turning education around / Benjamin Ladner --
Putting new bite into knowledge / Gustvao López 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, 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 / Isamil Serageldin, Peter Thatcher --
Global ecosystem governance and transboundary requirements / Claudio Grossman --
Knowledge, finance, and sustainable development / Vinod Thomas, Theodore Panayotou --
How to proceed--how to connect? / Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Clovis Maksoud --
The ecology of knowledge / Jerzy Wojciechowski.

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.

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