Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth

Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth edited by Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis, Roberto Zoboli.

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 revolut...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Quadrio Curzio, Alberto (Editor), Fortis, Marco (Editor), Zoboli, Roberto (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Edition:1st ed. 1994.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Economic policy.
Environmental economics.
International economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1 Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth: Changing Interactions in the World Economy
  • II. Technological Creativity and Institutions
  • 2 Institutions, Technological Creativity and Economic History
  • III. Innovation at Work in an Historical-Economic Perspective: Energy and Industrial Materials
  • 3 Energy Efficient Technologies: Past and Future Perspectives
  • 4 Economic Growth and the Intensity of Use of Industrial Materials
  • IV. Scientific Revolutions and Strategies of Economic Supremacy: Advanced Materials and Biotechnologies
  • 5 European Strategies in New Materials: A Global View
  • 6 Biotechnology in the United States and Japan and the Bridge Between
  • V. Economic Growth and Agro-Food Policies in Key Problem Regions: Former USSR and LDCs
  • 7 The Agricultural and Food Sector of the Former Soviet Union: Transition to a Market Economy
  • 8 The Plundering of Agriculture in Africa, Asia and Latin America
  • VI. Economic Growth and Natural Resources at Risk: Climate Change, Forests and Water
  • 9 Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture
  • 10 The Economic Impact of Forest Decline in Europe
  • 11 World Water Resources: Assessment and Prediction
  • VII. Conclusion: Innovation and Resources in a Global Policy Perspective
  • 12 International Order and Natural Resources
  • List of Authors
  • Index of Names.

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