Handbook of Global Technology Policy

ISBN-13: 9780824703479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 557 str.

Stuart S. Nagel

Opis

The Handbook of Global Technology Policy presents and compares nonideological resolutions to environmental pollution and toxic waste, urbanization and transportation, homelessness, health-care policies around the world. It provides an evaluation of industrial interventions and energy sources, explores flow control and corporate growth, privatization and liberalization, health data networks, and electronic innovation and governance. Other topics include pharmaceutical policies, the state of science and technology in Africa, the reemergence of tuberculosis, wind energy technology development and diffusion in Inner Mongolia, and major problems of policy implementation in India

Spis treści

Technology policy - an introduction; urbanization in Ghana (1960-1984); evaluating contribution of mineral export flows to development - case of the Democratic Republic of Congo; an evaluation of planning effectiveness in Zairian transport; the state of science and technology in Africa - deficiencies, challenges and prospects for the 21st century; public opinion on the environment in Japan and Korea; state environmentalism and environmental policy in the People's Republic of China; wind energy technology development and diffusion - a case study of Inner Mongolia, China; multiple systems, multiple reforms - South Asian health policies in comparative perspective; India's environmental policy - major problems of policy implementation in a developing country; privatization and liberalization - prospects of information technology market in India; culturally appropriate health service in Australia and New Zealand; ecological awareness of Russian intelligentsia in St. Petersburg - some empirical findings and theoretical considerations; reforming health policy in Finland - a critical assessment; the impact of sustainable development on Dutch environmental policy implementation; health data network - organizational and political challenges; environmental policies in the Nordic countries; economism and ecological resistance - pioneer efforts at the local level in Sweden; electronic innovation and governance - whither the information age?; corporatism and lobbyism in Norwegian environmental policy-making; pluralism, inequity and governance -health care reform dilemmas in Latin America; public management challenges in the reemergence of TB - old lessons for new problems; the politics of trash - flow control and corporate growth; issues in pharmaceutical policy - a comparison of Canada and the United States.

O autorze

Stuart Nagel