Annotated Bibliography on Technology and Environment

Hayden, A., & Shandra, J. M. (2009). Hours of work and the ecological footprint of nations: an exploratory analysis. Local Environment, 14(6), 575-600.

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It has been noted by management scholars that the world has now moved to a new era of economic development which is normally termed as a knowledge economy. This is where knowledge is seen as the fundamental aspect of the creation of value. New information leads to innovation that greatly improves technological processes.

United States. (1994). Industry, technology, and the environment: Competitive challenges and business opportunities: report. Washington, D.C.? U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment.

This work does an assessment of the international competitiveness of some of the U.S based industries especially the ones that are affected by the environmental legislation. One such area that is greatly looked is organizations which have specialized in innovation and production of environmental tech services. The authors also happen to cover the companies which have to comply with the standards that have been set up by the U.S government.

Lovely, M., & Popp, D. (2017). Trade, technology, and the environment: Does access to technology promote environmental regulation? In International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance (pp. 169-188).

In this work, authors have a lot of emphases placed on the regulation of factories that majorly get their power supply from coal. The authors now use such information to see how innovations in technology by the early researchers have impacted the environmental regulations. The author has cross-referenced a balanced model that has a special emphasis on the economic and political implications on regulative tendencies.

Haggstrom, C., & Lindroos, O. (2016). Human, technology, organization, and environment-a human factors perspective on performance in forest harvesting. International Journal of Forest Engineering, 27(2), 67-78.

Over the past years, there is a lot of concern raised over the reduced and stagnated trend in improvement of forest harvesting as seen in the Nordics. The authors of this reading focus their efforts on the role that humans play in regards to this decline.

Botha, A., Kourie, D., & Snyman, R. (2014). Coping with continuous change in the business environment: Knowledge management and knowledge management technology. Elsevier.

Authors have spent more time to look at knowledge management for both professionals as well as students in fields such as information systems, information science, knowledge management, and software engineering. This book has the characteristic of answering questions of what is and why is.

Schlenker, W., & Lobell, D. B. (2010). Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture. Environmental Research Letters, 5(1), 014010.

The focus of authors is on assumptions on the trends in infrastructure, technology as well as other factors which are external. There are four specifications to such a model that are seen to impact the environment in a negative manner leading to climate change and an alteration in weather patterns. However despite the fact that having gathered so much data there are numerous concerns over consistent negative impacts that are realized over time.

Stern, D. I. (2004). The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve. World development, 32(8), 1419-1439.

The work of these authors focus on analyzing the history of the (EKC) that stands for environmental kuznet's curve. The research fist looks at environmental degradation which is the first to rise then later falls with rise in per capita income. As recent evidence shows most of the developing counties face challenges of environmental degradation and later opt to copy developed countries standards in such a short period of time that it later has better performance as compared. The EKC results have the characteristic of having quite some less statistical foundations.

Lehmann, J., & Joseph, S. (Eds.). (2015). Biochar for environmental management: science, technology and implementation. Routledge.

Even after biochar sequestration has been used while combined with specific biomass production, the resultant is that it appears to be carbon negative and therefore can be used to reduce and even remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Having positive result then this can be used as a mitigation of climate change. Authors also addressed bio-energy productions together with biochar as well as the gasses that are given off from the process of pyrolysis. This book's first edition was first published in 2009 and is the core definition work that was later reviewed and used and further expounded to give off more literature on the topic

From there henceforth, research activity has been on the increase ten times over, and certain biochar products have now become available to be used and are now commercially available to be used for soil adjustments as per the requirements. The book' second edition contains chapters that are substantially up to date, at the same time is inclusive of chapters that are on the topic of environmental risk assessment on the latest uses of biochar. There are the new introductory topics of effects of biochar on soil and the existing carbon cycles on traditional as well as the modern discoveries of the use of the biochar which was applied to be used in Asia, Africa and the Amazon. The main change experienced was the availability of water in sols improving water dynamics, certification and sustainability.

Jenkin, T. A., Webster, J., & McShane, L. (2011). An agenda for "Green information technology and systems research". Information and Organization, 21(1), 17-40.

In an attempt to set the ground straight for research purposes, a multilevel research framework has been developed to act as a guide to aid in future research. In a general effort to accomplish this task, the existent green technology and systems literature as well as looking at research which is aimed at elaborating what environmental sustainability is. The book deals with social marketing domain, environmental psychology and systems management approach.

Jaffe, A. B., & Stavins, R. N. (1995). Dynamic incentives of environmental regulations: The effects of alternative policy instruments on technology diffusion. Journal of environmental economics and management, 29(3), S43-S63.

This book is simply a representation of some of the most comprehensive compilation of latest knowledge covering most of the facets of biochar technology. It is from such as review that individuals will be able to determine the research gaps that are in the research and can also provide some propositions that will be issued in aiding future research. Geographic location is used in doing a comparison to patent citations with that of patents previously cited which will be used to show knowledge spillovers that were in the past localized.