WJSTSD is a multidisciplinary international refereed journal on issues that will be central to world sustainable development through efficient and effective technology transfer, the challenges these pose for developing countries, and the global framework for dealing with science and technology. The general theme of WJSTSD is to discuss integrated approaches to the problems of technology transfer within an urban and rural development context. The theme has been very carefully chosen to include science and technology and the challenges these represent 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?
Objectives: The objective of WJSTSD 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.
Contents: WJSTSD 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.
Readership: WJSTSD 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.
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 WJSTSD. 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
