期刊名称：IVM Working Papers / Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Amsterdam
摘要：Rapid industrialisation in Asia is generating significant new demand for raw
materials and pressure on local, regional and global environments. In the future these
demands and pressures are expected to increase markedly. Informing these concerns
are models of development that assume that economic growth follows a pattern
leading to a convergence between the structure, growth and productivity of
economies over the long run. In these models, the structure of industries and sectors,
technological capabilities and consumer preferences are regarded as converging
towards patterns established in more advanced economies. By extension,
convergence is also assumed to hold for the resource intensity and environmental
pressure associated with growth in industrialising countries. This paper argues for
greater attention to the resource and environmental quality of development. It argues
that by applying ideas from an emerging literature on ¡®systems innovation¡¯ it
becomes possible to envisage the emergence of new, more resource-efficient sociotechnical
systems as the basis of more sustainable development pathways in
developing Asia. Such sustainable socio-technical systems will emerge in the context
of interaction between domestic and globalised markets, knowledge flows and
governance. Key issues for a research agenda are set out.
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