Global Education, Research and Technology for Sustainable Development

The Need for Interdisciplinary Research and Education for Sustainable Human Development to Deal with Global Challenges

Major issues in society developing alternate sources of energy and a sustainable environment, improving health, and minimizing the effects of climate change require a collective effort by different disciplines working in interdisciplinary groups. Indeed, the boundaries between the different disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred. Society’s responses to major social challenges must be inf...

Research for Sustainable Development

Preface The advancing climate change is one of the most important and most urgent challenges of our time. However, the UN Climate Conference in Copenha-gen in December 2009 made clear how difficult it is to achieve an international agreement on binding climate protection goals. Germany has a pioneering role in climate research and climate modelling, in the development of strategies to adapt to ...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization

Sustainable Development and Information Technology

Information Technologies model the reality in such a way that information on it can be efficiently found and transported to the decision makers in a useful, readable form. There is still a need of standardization of nomenclatures, interchanging of formats and languages in order to accelerate the communicability of information so it can be useful for any decision maker or for the public. But thi...

Design and Explanation of Measuring Model for the Impacts of Information Communication Technology on Sustainable Development

This study seeks to recognize the impact of ICT development and its role in improving sustainable development indices for Iran. The role of sustainable development and ICT in various fields has been initially undertaken. Then, validated models of ICT impacts were introduced. Subsequently, the related studies in these areas were reviewed and analyzed. Next, the ICT impacts on the main dimensions...