On October 17, Prof. Nicholas Ashford gave a talk about our new book to the MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series. The talk can be viewed here.

On Tuesday, September 20, Nicholas Ashford (MIT) took part in a panel discussion at the 2011 WTO Public Forum on “Encouraging Innovation and the Deployment of Environmental Technologies.” A podcast of the panel discussion can be accessed via the following link: http://www.wto.org/audio/forum11_session22.mp3.

Nicholas discussed many of the issues that we cover in our new book. In particular, he discussed the role of stringent government regulation in stimulating disruptive technological change and the importance of designing jobs into the innovation process.

The Emergence and Evolution of Sustainable Development (1951 to 2011)

This primer on the emergence and evolution of sustainable development provides essential supplementary material for the textbook Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. The primer expands on Chapter 2 of the textbook by discussing how key events in the United States, U.S. legislation, international conferences, seminal publications, and debates from the 1950s to the present have shaped the formulation of the concept of sustainable development.

The primer serves as a basic reference for scholars, researchers, students, and policy-makers concerned with sustainable development.