Overview
- Is the first comprehensive book focusing on technology and entrepreneurship for sustainable development
- Opens up a new research and field of practice for technology and entrepreneurship
- Includes a mixture of theory and practical implications
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Education and Well-Being
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Climate, Environment, and Disaster Management
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is also a co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, hewas the executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor in Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw was the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and currently is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He is also the coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Asia chapter’s 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Progress in Disaster Science and series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Professor Shaw has published 51 books and over 400 academic papers and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
Editors: Pradeep Ray, Rajib Shaw
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2053-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2052-3Published: 17 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2055-4Published: 18 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2053-0Published: 16 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 342
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Entrepreneurship, Natural Hazards, Science and Technology Studies, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Environmental Management