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Issues of Development: Towards a New Role for Science and Technology
Proceedings of an International Symposium on Science and Technology for Development, Singapore, January 1979
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1979
- Editors: Maurice Goldsmith, Alexander King
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 3 5 2 - 0
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Request a sales quoteIssues of Development: Towards a New Role for Science and Technology presents the proceedings of the Symposium on Science and Technology for Development, held in Singapore on January 22–26, 1979. This book presents the explicit role for science in world affairs. Organized into eight parts encompassing 44 chapters, this compilation of papers begins with an overview of the capabilities and potential of modern science to contribute boldly and constructively to a wide array of human problems. This text then examines the endeavors of all countries to achieve progress through industrialization, modernization of other sectors, and improvement in agriculture. Other chapters consider the vital role of education and training in the process of applying science and technology to development. This book discusses as well the role of computers, communication systems, and advances in printing processes. The final chapter deals with the international cooperation in science. This book is a valuable resource for technological researchers, inventors, and scientists.
Introduction
List of Participants
Acknowledgments
Overviews
Science and Technology: Resources for Human and Economic Development
Science and Technology for Development
Address
Declaration of the Symposium on Science and Technology for Development
International Cooperation in Science and Technology for Development
Recommendations for a Continuing Programme by the Scientific Non-governmental Organizations and on Institutional Arrangements
Note on the Structure of the Symposium
Indigenous Development
Development of an Indigenous Capacity for Science and Technology - Discussion Report
Science, Technology and Development in a New Social Order
Development of Indigenous Science and Technology Competence and Infrastructure - The Philippine Experience
Science and Technology for Mass Based Development
Science and Technology in Developing Countries: Obstacles to Progress
International Transfer of Technology, Technological Dependence and Development Strategies: Issues for Debate at UNCSTD
Transfer of Technology and the Selectivity of Appropriate Science and Technology
Education and Training
Education and Training: Discussion Report
Some Aspects of Education and Training for Development with Special Reference to River Basin Management
Non-formal Education for Technological Development
Science Education and Development
Information and Communication
Information and Communication: Discussion Report
The Technology of Communication Media and the Challenge of Development
Food, Population and Employment
Population and Employment: Discussion Report
Food and Employment: Discussion Report
Food and Population: Discussion Report
Bioresource Potential: Discussion Report
Food and Agricultural Research: Its Past and Future Contribution to Agriculture, Social and Economic Development
Some Aspects of the World Food Problem
Role of Scientists and Technologist
Role of Scientists and Technologists in the Development Process: Discussion Report
Science and Technology Policies and Institutions: Discussion Report
The Role of Social Scientists in the Development Process: Discussion Report
The Role of the Basic Sciences in the Development Process: Discussion Report
The Transdisciplinary Nature of Development Processes: Discussion Report
The Role of Scientists and Technologists in Development of the Less Developed Countries
CHEMRAWN: Chemical Research Applied to World Needs
The Role of Social Scientists in the Development Process
Socio-Cultural Relations
Research and Development (including Management and Linkages with Education, Government and Production Systems): Discussion Report
Technology/Engineering (Including Technology Transfer): Discussion Report
Social, Political, Economic, Cultural and other Contexts of Development: Discussion Report
Leadership for Human Dignity: The Development Challenge to Scientific Professionals
International Cooperation
Proposal for a Review of Existing Capabilities and Experience in Scientific and Technological Cooperation Between Developing and Industrialized Countries
Proposal to Help Developing Countries to Articulate their Real Needs and Wants
Cooperation between the Scientists of Developing and Developed Countries
Author Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 302
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1979
- Imprint: Pergamon
- eBook ISBN: 9781483153520
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Alexander King
Alex King is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University and did his post-doc work at both Oxford University and MIT. He went on to join the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also served as the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (Dean of the Graduate School). He was the Head of the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue from 1999 to 2007. From 2008 until 2013 he was the Director of DOE’s Ames Laboratory and became the Founding Director of the Critical Materials Institute from 2013 through 2018.
Dr. King is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining Minerals and Materials; ASM International; and the Materials Research Society. He was also a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996 and a US Department of State Jefferson Science Fellow for 2005-06. He served as the President of MRS in 2002, Chair of the University Materials Council of North America from 2006-07, Co-chair of the Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy in 2006, and Chair of the APS Interest Group on Energy Research and Applications for 2010. Dr. King was named the recipient of the 2019 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society.
Alex King delivered a TEDx talk on critical materials in 2013 and was the TMS & ASM Distinguished Lecturer on Materials and Society in 2017. He is currently a scientific adviser for Harvard’s Material Alchemy (described as “translating science into commercial products that use sustainable materials”) and a member of the Advisory Board of CHiMaD (the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, funded by the Department of Commerce, and led by Northwestern University).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, USA.Read Issues of Development: Towards a New Role for Science and Technology on ScienceDirect