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The political economy of innovation and technological change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

David Zilberman
David Zilberman*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, 337 Giannini Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, USA. Tel: 510-290-9515. Email: zilber11@berkeley.edu
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Population growth and growing incomes in developing and developed countries are leading to increased demand for energy and food, placing significant stress on the environment. At the same time, the increased scarcity of natural resources, and especially concerns about climate change and other environmental side effects, are constraining the traditional supplies of food and fuel. Failure to provide both energy and food in an affordable as well as in an environmentally sustainable manner, as well as climate change, will negatively affect our society, especially the global poor. Finding solutions to food energy problems is both a policy and technological challenge.

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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 19 , Issue 3: Special Issue of Environment and Development Economics: Looking Back and Moving Forward , June 2014 , pp. 314 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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