Technologies and Innovations for Development Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bolay, Jean-Claude (Editor), Schmid, Magali (Editor), Tejada, Gabriela (Editor), Hazboun, Eileen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Springer Paris, 2012.
• Subjects: Political science.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Electric power production.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Economic policy.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Sustainable Development.; Political Science.; Climate Change.; Energy Technology.; Urbanism.

Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies.  At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations th...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction
• 2.Risk Assessment
• 3.Hierarchical Model in Decision-Making
• 4.An Integrated Fuzzy Approach for Aggregative Supplier Risk Assessment
• 5.Fuzzy-AHP Approach for Analysing Risk Rating of Environmentally Friendly Product Designs
• 6.Fuzzy Extent Analysis for Food Risk Assessment
• 7.A Hierarchical Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for the Risk Assessment of Green Supply Chain Implementation
• 8.Fuzzy-ANP Approach for Environmental Risk Assessment of Product Designs
• 9.Conclusions and Future Research Directions
• Appendix A.Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA)- Appendix B. Pairwise Comparisons of the Example in Chapter 3.