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Technology, globalization, and sustainable development : transforming the industrial state

Ashford, Nicholas Askounes. (Author). Hall, Ralph P. (Added Author).

Summary: In this work, the authors offer a unified, transdisciplinary approach for achieving sustainable development in industrialized nations. They present an insightful analysis of the ways in which industrial states are unsustainable and how economic and social welfare are related to the environment, public health and safety.

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ISBN: 0300177607
ISBN: 9780300177602
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 720 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2011]
Copyright: ©2011

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Note continued: 12.3.1.2. The International Monetary Fund -- 12.3.2. Analysis of the Crisis in Official Development Assistance -- 12.3.2.1. The Volatility of Development Aid -- 12.3.2.2. Some Promising Signs -- 12.3.3.A Critical Assessment of Development Aid -- 12.3.3.1. The Problem with Government Involvement -- 12.3.3.2. The Problem with Aid Fungibility -- 12.3.3.3. The Problem with Conditionality -- 12.3.3.4. Problems with Effective Coordination -- 12.3.3.5. The Problems with Capacity Building -- 12.3.4. Bilateral Financial Transfers: Ranking Developed Countries on Their Foreign Policies -- 12.3.5. Export Credit Agencies -- 12.3.5.1. The Functioning of ECAs -- 12.3.5.2. Background on the Evolution of the OECD Common Approaches -- 12.3.6. Private Multinational Banks and the Equator Principles -- 12.3.7. Sovereign Wealth Funds -- 12.4. Private Capital Flows -- 12.4.1. The Rise in Private Capital Flows -- 12.4.2. Drawbacks of Financial Globalization -- 12.4.2.1. Foreign Direct Investment -- 12.4.2.2. Bank Lending -- 12.4.2.3. Portfolio Flows -- 12.4.2.4. Will the Inflows Last? -- 12.4.2.5. The Cost of Volatility -- 12.4.2.6.A Bias of Flows against the Poor -- 12.4.2.7. Potential Hazards for Sustainable Development -- 12.4.3. Maximizing the Benefits of Financial Integration -- 12.4.3.1. Strategies for the Developing World -- 12.4.3.2. What Can the Industrialized World Do? -- pt. B Financing for Environmental Protection -- 12.5. The Importance of Enviromental Financing -- 12.6. The Emergence of Financing Structures for the Environment -- 12.6.1.A Historical Overview of Environmental Aid: The Road to Rio -- 12.6.2. Criticism of Financing Structures for Environmental Aid: The Flaws of Rio -- 12.6.2.1. Conflicting Interests between North and South -- 12.6.2.2. The Dispute over Additionality -- 12.6.2.3. Neglecting the Tension between the Economy and the Environment -- 12.6.2.4. Agenda 21: Lacking a Mandate -- 12.7. Issues of Implementation in Financing Sustainable Development -- 12.7.1. Dilemmas and Solutions in Environmental Financing -- 12.7.2. Freeing Up Financial Resources for Sustainable Development Activities -- 12.7.2.1. Donor Funding -- 12.7.2.2. Governments and Other In-Country Sources of Finance -- 12.7.2.3. International Transfer Mechanisms -- 12.7.2.3.1. The Clean Development Mechanism -- 12.7.2.3.2. Debt Swaps -- 12.7.2.4. National Environmental Funds -- 12.7.2.5. Trust Funds -- 12.7.3. Making Better Use of Market Mechanisms to Promote Sustainable Development -- 12.7.3.1. Introducing New Financial Mechanisms That Internalize Environmental or Social Externalities -- 12.7.3.2. Adapting Existing Market Mechanisms to Promote Sustainable Development -- 12.7.3.3. Removing Existing Financial Mechanisms That Hamper Sustainable Development -- pt. C Financing Innovations (New Proposals) and Commentary -- 12.8. The SDR Proposal -- 12.9. An International Investment Agreement -- 12.10. The Global Environment Facility -- 12.10.1. The Establishment of the GEF -- 12.10.2. The GEF after Rio -- 12.10.3. Recent Developments and Future Prospects -- 12.11. Binary Economics -- 12.11.1. The Theoretical Fundamentals of Binary Economics -- 12.11.1.1. Implications of Underutilized Productive Capacity -- 12.11.2. Implementing Binary Economics -- 12.11.3. Some Implications of Binary Economics -- 12.11.3.1.A New Explanation of the Persistence of Pervasive Unutilized Productive Capacity and Suboptimal Growth -- 12.11.3.2.A Means of Providing Greater Earning Capacity to the Economically Disadvantaged (Poor and Working People) without Redistribution -- 12.11.3.3.A Change in the Dynamics of Globalization and Free Trade and the Arguments That Support the Various Positions on These Subjects -- 12.11.3.4.A Novel but Perhaps Indeterminate Impact on Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development -- 12.11.4.Commentary on the Prospects for Binary Economics -- 12.12. Microfinance -- 12.12.1. Microcredit -- 12.12.2. Micrograms -- 12.12.3. Savings and Insurance -- 12.13. Conclusion -- 12.14. Notes -- 12.15. References -- Appendix 12-A Acronyms -- Appendix 12-B Defining Aid -- Appendix 12-C The Millennium Development Goals and Targets -- pt. VI Strategic Policy Design for Sustainable Transformations -- 13. Pathways to Sustainability: Co-optimizing Economic Development, the Environment, and Employment -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Technological, Organizational, Institutional, and Social Innovation -- 13.2.1. Technological Innovation -- 13.2.2.Organizational Innovation -- 13.2.3. Institutional Innovation -- 13.2.4. Social Innovation -- 13.2.5.Commentary on Innovation -- 13.3. Governance Options to Achieve Sustainability -- 13.4. Alternative Postures of Government and Their Implications for Sustainable Transformations -- 13.5. Requirements of Transformations for Greater Sustainability -- 13.6. Technology-Based Strategies to Improve Productiveness; Health, Safety, and the Environment; and Employment -- 13.7. Policies and Approaches to Promote Sustainable Development -- 13.7.1. National Governance -- 13.7.1.1. Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Production and Consumption -- 13.7.1.2. Improving Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.1.3. Enhancing Meaningful, Rewarding, and Safer Employment and Adequate Earning Capacity -- 13.7.1.4. The Importance of Integration in the National Context -- 13.7.2. International Governance -- 13.7.2.1. Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Trade -- 13.7.2.2. Creating Incentives to Improve Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.2.3. Creating Incentives for Labor and Human Rights -- 13.8. The New Economics and Concluding Commentary -- 13.8.1. The New Economics -- 13.8.2. Monopoly Commerce, Specialization, and Vulnerability -- 13.8.3. Concluding Commentary -- 13.9. Notes -- 13.10. References.
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