Creating a Sustainable Ecology Using Technology-Driven Solutions

Creating a Sustainable Ecology Using Technology-Driven Solutions

Elias G. Carayannis

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 406

ISBN13: 9781466636132|ISBN10: 1466636130|EISBN13: 9781466636149

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3613-2

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As advancements in technology continue to influence all facets of society, its aspects have been utilized in order to find solutions to emerging ecological issues.

Creating a Sustainable Ecology Using Technology-Driven Solutions highlights matters that relate to technology driven solutions towards the combination of social ecology and sustainable development. This publication addresses the issues of development in advancing and transitioning economies through creating new ideas and solutions; making it useful for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the socioeconomic sectors.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

The Idea of a Green New Deal in a Quintuple Helix Model of Knowledge, Know-How and Innovation (pages 1-15)

Thorsten D. Barth

The climate change and the financial and economical crises are posing new challenges to the quality of democracies. This article is about the discussion of a correlation between a potential Green New Deal project and the scientific...

Chapter 2

The Semi-Aquatic Theory: Semi-Aquatic Evolutionary Phase and Environment, Language Development of Modern Humans. With a Short Epilog on Conceptualized Evolution, Social Ecology and the Quintuple Helix (pages 16-31)

George S. Campbell, David F.J. Campbell

This article presents the semi-aquatic theory motivated to provide an explanation for why or how did language of the modern humans develop? Key propositions of this theory are early hominids went through a semi-aquatic evolutionary...

Chapter 3

The Evaluation of the Implementation of Sustainability Norms: An Exercise for Experts or Citizens? (pages 32-45)

Helga Pülzl, Doris Wydra

Since the Brundtland report the world is still struggling to solve the riddle of sustainability. If there is no “blueprint” for implementing sustainable development, the practical meaning has to emerge out of an interactive process...

Chapter 4

Reflections on Mode 3, the Co-Evolution of Knowledge and Innovation Systems and How it Relates to Sustainable Development: Conceptual Framework for “Epistemic Governance” (pages 46-55)

Alice B. M. Vadrot

This paper is interested in raising the question to which extent the epistemological implications of the Mode 3 concept coincide with the respective knowledge understanding. The argumentation focuses on the article from David F. J....

Chapter 5

A Study of Tourist Perceptions of Overseas Travel Stress While Visiting Bangkok, Thailand (pages 56-72)

Adarsh Batra

Traveling has long been considered one of the best ways to release the stress caused by work and life. But in fact, uncertainties and negative experiences can break down the benefits and may make travelers feel stressed. A...

Chapter 6

Employee Behavioral Intentions in Adopting Information Technology: The Case of the Greek Hotel Industry (pages 73-87)

Anastasia A. Katou, Margarita A. Vogiatzi

This study investigates the impact of perceived information technology (IT) beliefs on behavioural intention to use IT. The study is based on a national sample of 18 organisations from the private hotel industry in Greece, and on...

Chapter 7

Ecotourism for Community Development: A Stakeholder’s Perspective in Great Himalayan National Park (pages 88-98)

S. P. Bansal, Jaswinder Kumar

Ecotourism is sustainable tourism, which is based on the ecological principle and sustainable development theory. There is emergent need of capacity building for local people for ecotourism in the villages of Great Himalayan National...

Chapter 8

Sustainable Tourism Development in India: An Empirical Examination of Stakeholders’ Perceptions (pages 99-111)

Mohinder C. Dhiman, Arvind Kumar Dubey

The issues surrounding the understanding and practice of sustainability in tourism are becoming increasingly important to both academicians and tourism planners. For more than two decades the attainment of sustainable development and...

Chapter 9

Sustainable Development of Pilgrimage Tourism in Jammu Region: An Investigation of Rural Residents’ Attitude (pages 112-123)

Vinay Chauhan

Tourism is a socio-economic activity and has evolved into one of the largest and fastest growing industries of the world. While the economic benefits of tourism are well known, the research evidence indicates that the benefits of...

Chapter 10

Community Based Eco Cultural Heritage Tourism for Sustainable Development in the Asian Region: A Conceptual Framework (pages 124-140)

G. Poyya Moli

Tourism has emerged as one of the world’s largest industries and a fast growing economic sector. The Asian region attracts a growing number of quality-conscious tourists as it is endowed with a rich bio-cultural/heritage diversity....

Chapter 11

How to Survive in an Environment of Technological Changes: A Sustainable Technology Strategy for SMEs (pages 141-156)

Antonino Ardilio, Joachim Warschat

Technologies are a main source for the innovative evolvement of innovative products in small and medium enterprises (SME). In addition, the implementation of other technologies in the company can enable SMEs to address new...

Chapter 12

Option Value Embedded on the Brazilian Flex and Sustainable Vehicles (pages 157-171)

Alceu S. Camargo, Abraham S. O. Yu, Paulo Tromboni de S. Nascimento, Jose Vidal Belinetti, José J. Marques, Leandro J. Morilhas

The Brazilian auto industry has changed significantly since 2003 by the introduction of the flexible fuel vehicles that can run with any mix of gasoline or sugarcane ethanol. Sugarcane ethanol is a well-known renewable fuel and an...

Chapter 13

The Effect of Business Characteristics on the Methods of Knowledge Protections (pages 172-200)

Xu Bin, Tan Kay Chuan

Intellectual property (IP) protection has been suggested to be essential in protecting innovation in product-dominant companies. However, with the development of service industries, the ineffectiveness in IP protection becomes...

Chapter 14

TQM for Sustainable Development through NPD in Developing Countries (pages 201-218)

Fasil Taddese, Hiroshi Osada

Challenged with intense market competition, developing countries are searching for methods to ensure sustainable development through business performance. In this regard, TQM and NPD play a major role. However, research is limited in...

Chapter 15

Forecasting Renewable Energy Technologies in Desalination and Power Generation Using Taxonomies (pages 219-233)

Gihan Dawelbait, Andreas Henschel, Toufic Mezher, Wei Lee Woon

Renewable Energy (RE) technologies are increasingly viewed as crucially important. Knowledge that helps to predict the likely growth of emergent technologies is essential for well-informed technology management. The vast amount of...

Chapter 16

Common Problems and Lessons Learned from Managing Large-Scale US Government IS/IT Projects (pages 234-252)

Peerasit Patanakul, Saif Syed Omar

To promote sustainable development, many government agencies initiated large-scale government projects. However, managing such government projects to their success is often a challenge to many project managers. Many projects fail...

Chapter 17

A Hybrid Style of E-Learning in MBA Education Across Borders (pages 253-268)

Caroline Benton, Rémy Magnier-Watanabe, Harald Herrig, Olivier Aba

This paper outlines a real-life example of a course taught jointly by the MBA-IB program at the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo, Japan and the Master in Management program (ESC) at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France...

Chapter 18

Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Tool to Develop Power in Transboundary Water Basin Settings (pages 269-281)

Jakob J. Granit, R. Michael King, Raymond Noël

This paper proposes a generic consultative process for undertaking Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) in a transboundary river basin context to bring up front environmental and social issues of major development programs into...

Chapter 19

When Low-Carbon means Low-Cost: Putting Lessons from Nature to work in our Cities (pages 282-295)

Stephen J. Salter

Ecology is often discussed as a matter of balance, in which environmental protection must be affordable and not interfere with jobs or the economy. At the same time, the economy is based on wastefulness. It has been estimated that...

Chapter 20

Application of Methodologies for Environmental Flow Determination in an Andean and a Mediterranean Basin: Two Case Studies of the Pance River (Colombia) and Wadi River (Palestine) Basin (pages 296-314)

Yesid Carvajal-Escobar, Ziad Mimi, Saed Khayat, Saleh Sulieman, Wilson Garces, Guillermo Cespedes

The demand for sustainable water management has promoted the development of methodologies for estimating environmental flows (EF). In this paper, the EF in an Andean river (Pance, Colombia) for conservation and a Mediterranean river...

Chapter 21

Water Access in the Fight Against Poverty: Tourism or Multiple Use of Water Services? (pages 315-325)

Diego Azqueta, Álvaro Montoya

Rural poverty in underdeveloped countries is a critical issue. A fair amount of literature exists examining the conditions of pro-poor tourism development, as well as different ways to fight it. However, in some cases, and because of...

Chapter 22

The Best Desalination Technology for the Persian Gulf (pages 326-334)

Akbar Adibfar

One in six people worldwide do not have access to safe freshwater. The world has been divided into 3 areas: Scarce, Stressed and Sufficiently available potable water by World Health Organization (WHO). The countries around Persian...

Chapter 23

Investigation of Deforestation of Environmental Protection Areas of Madeira River Permanent Preservation Areas in Rondônia Amazon, Brazil (pages 335-343)

Marcelo Rodrigues dos Anjos, Marla Schulz

The deforestation of the Amazon protected areas involves a series of deleterious environmental factors, such as social conflicts, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, deterioration of watersheds, and environmental services...

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