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International Workshop on 
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Harnessing Institutional Synergies

Trieste, Italy
6-9 February 2002

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SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READINGS

As part of our preparation for the workshop, we have asked all those invited to be participants to suggest relevant background papers. The following readings have been recommended.


Challenges in the Utilisation of Science for Sustainable Development.
Funtowicz, S.O., J.R. Ravetz, and M. O'Connor. International Journal of Sustainable Development 1(1): 99-108. 1998.

Conserving Biodiversity and Rewarding Associated Knowledge and Innovation Systems: Honey Bee Perspective.
Gupta, A.K. Paper Presented at First Commonwealth Science Forum - Access, Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property Rights and Benefit Sharing and the Commonwealth, Goa, India, 23-25 September 1999.

Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Grassroots Creatitvity: The Role of Intellectual Property Protection.
Gupta, A.K. Unpublished Manuscript. May 2000.

Rich in Ideas: Grassroots Creativity.
Gupta, A.K. International Herald Tribune, 11 October 2001.

Science, Sustainability and Social Purpose: Barriers to Effective Articulation, Dialogue and Utilization of Formal and Informal Science in Public Policy.
Gupta, A.K. International Journal of Sustainable Development 2(3): 368-371. 1999.

Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: Rights, Responsibilities and Rewards for Conserving Biodiversity and Associated Knowledge Systems.
Gupta, A.K. and R. Sinha. Paper presented at the Regional Meeting of Coordinators of National MAB Committees and Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia, Dehra Dun, India, 24 February 2001.

Building Upon Grassroots' Innovations: Articulating Social and Ethical Capital.
Gupta, A. K., R. Sinha, D. Koradia, T. N. Prakash, P. Vivekanandan, and other members of Honeybee Network. World Social Forum Workshop, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25-30 January 2001.

Partial Differential Equations in Ecology: Spatial Interactions andPopulation Dynamics
Holmes
, E.E., M.A. Lewis, J.E. Banks, and R.R. Veit. Ecology 75(1): 17-29. 1994

Governance and Sustainable Livelihood.
Hyden, G. and P. Hoon. In (W. Rosenbaum and H. Bressers, eds.) The Politics of Sustainable Development. In Press. Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, USA.

Building Borderless Minds and Borderless Thinking.
Mashelkar, R.A. Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Oration. 16 October 2001. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India.


Economics of Knowledge.
Mashelkar, R.A. 16th Dr. CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture. 14 January 1999. India International Centre, New Delhi, India. 


Intellectual Property Rights and the Third World.
Mashelkar, R.A. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India.


On Launching the Indian Innovation Movement.
Mashelkar, R.A. JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award Lecture. 21 February 1999. All India Management Association, New Delhi, India.


Resurgence of Innovative India: The Challenge and the Strategy.
Mashelkar, R.A. Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas Memorial Lecture. 16 July 1999. The Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai, India.


The New Millennium Challenges for Indian Science and Technology.
Mashelkar, R.A. CMS Communication Colloquium National Lecture. 23 July 1999. Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi, India.

Energy Scenarios.
Nakicenovic, N., T. Kram, A. Makarov, B. Sørensen,  K. Yokobori, Z. Fengqi, Y. Fujii, J. Stewart, and J. Weyant. In World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability, Chapter 9. 2001. United Nations Publications, New York, New York, USA.

IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios.
Nakicenovic, N. J. Alcamo, G. Davis, B. de Vries, J. Fenhann, S. Gaffin, K. Gregory, A.Grübler, T. Y. Jung, T. Kram, E. Lebre La Rovere, L. Michaelis, S. Mori, T. Morita, W. Pepper, H. Pitcher, L. Price, K. Riahi, A. Roehrl, H.-H. Rogner, A. Sankovski, M. Schlesinger, P. Shukla, S. Smith, R. Swart, S. van Rooijen, N. Victor, Z. Dadi. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2000.

How Can Collaborative Research be More Useful to Fisheries Management in Developing Countries?
Nauen, C. In (J.M. McGlade, P.Cury, K.Koranteng and N. Hardman-Mountford, eds.)
The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Forcing and Sustainable Development of Marine Resources. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Large Marine Ecosystem Series, Vol. 1. In Press.

International S&T Cooperation for Sustainable Development: Some Thoughts on European Experience Over Almost the Last 20 Years.
Nauen, C. Background paper submitted for the International Workshop on Science and Technology for Sustainability, 6-9 February 2002, Trieste, Italy.

Case Studies in Mathematical Modeling : Ecology, Physiology and Cell Biology.
Othmer, Adler, Lewis, Dallon. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.1997.

Ecological Restoration in South China and its Importance Both in Sustainable Development of Society and Economy and in Reducing the Impact of Global Change.
Peng, S. Background paper submitted for the International Workshop on Science, Technology and Sustainability, 6-9 February, Trieste, Italy.

Current and Potential Use of Climate Forecasts for Resource-Poor Farmers in Zimbabwe
Phillips, J.G, E. Makaudze and L. Unganai  . In Impact of El Nino and Climate Variability on Agriculture. American Society of Agronomy Special Publication, no. 63, pp. 87-100. 2001.

What Works in Development. 
Proceedings of the Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa sponsored by IDRC (International Development Research Centre), 2-5 February 1999, Nairobi, Kenya.

Capacity Development for the Environment: A View from the South, A View from the North.
Sagar, A. Annual Reviews: Energy and the Environment 25: 377-439. 2000.

The author is providing complimentary one-time access to "Capacity Development for the Environment: A View from the South, A View from the North" as a PDF file for personal use, accessible above. Any further/multiple distribution, publication or commercial usage of this copyrighted material would require submission of a permission request addressed to Annual Reviews Permissions Department.

Historic and future climatic change in Zimbabwe.
Unganai, S.L. 1996. Clim. Res. 6, 137-145.

Negotiation Support Models for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Margins.
Van Noordwijk, M., T.P. Tomich, and B. Verbist. 2001.  Conservation Ecology 5(2): 21.

 


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