Technology for Sustainable Development

This chapter contains four presentations on technologies for sustainable development. The first by M. Levine, having examined a number of old and new technologies for increasing energy efficiency, discusses the need for international collaborations, especially between North and South. Pointing out China as becoming one of the major concerns for global environment due to its rapid economic development, he argues that there is a huge potential for improving its relatively poor performance. For this, he demonstrates the importance of policy orientation toward energy efficiency in China on one hand, and on the other a program of international cooperation through technology transfer, capital investments and above all the exchange of ideas on sustainable development. The last analysis, touching on the possibility of achieving economic development as well as environmental protection, is the main point of interest.