The theme has been very carefully chosen to include science and technology and the challenges these represents in terms of sustainable development. More seriously - how we are going to feed an ever-increasing world population, and also manage our land and food, fibre and energy production with increasing demands for conservation and alternative use of natural resources? (See also the UEL pages for further background and details)

Objetives

The objective of WRSTSD is to improve and enhance the literature on these issues in the developing world and the rest of the world. It will therefore benefit a wide range of institutions, including universities, research centres, governmental departments etc in developing and developed countries.

Readership

WRSTSD provides thousands of professionals, researchers and policymakers with the best available scientific evidence when contributing to better technological and economical development for all within the populations they serve. It therefore helps in reducing the gap and access to information between rich and poor countries.

Contents

WRSTSD publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in Science, Technology and Sustainable Development will occasionally be published.

Subject coverage

Although the general theme and target will be science, technology and sustainable development, there is no limitation to the articles that will be considered by WRSTSD. The following issues are for guidance only, and are not restrictive:
International technology transfer

Technology transfer: models of transfer, linkage policy, end user principal consideration, barriers, appropriateness, break through, funding, timing, etc.

• Technology management
• Technical change
• Innovation and diffusion
• Economics of technology and innovation
• Impact of technology upon the productivity increase/enhancement
• Best practice in the promotion of technologies
• Productivity gap analysis
• Technology and foreign direct investments
• Information systems/technology and e-commerce
• Research and development
• Industry and sustainable development
• Issues of sustainable environment
• Project management
• Technology adoption constraints in developing countries
• UN millennium development goals
• Impact of finance on technology adoption
• Sustainable economic development policies
• Impacts and challenges of AIDS, malaria and other chronic problems

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• Editorial Board

World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD) is to be published quarterly, four issues per volume, one volume per year.

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