1st Edition

Handbook of Global Technology Policy

By Stuart Nagel Copyright 2000
    584 Pages
    by Routledge

    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

    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.

    Biography

    Stuart Nagel