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Sustainability and Global Risks: Example of Selected Countries in Asia

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Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

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Systemic approach to innovative development, creation and implementation of efficient mechanisms of innovation policy, sustainable, balanced, and harmonious development of countries based on investment innovative models, call for creation and implementation of innovative product to support strategic decision-making based on integrated index and risks in a triune concept of sustainable ecological, social and economic development in the global, regional, and national contexts. Current research illustrates one of the approaches to the indicated model, using an example of South East Asia and Oceania, and taking into consideration risks and opportunities of innovative development of the countries.

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  1. International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington, DC, USA

    Victoria A. Bakhtina

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, Poznan, 60-965, Poland

    Paulina Golinska

  2. Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, Poznan, 60-965, Poland

    Marek Fertsch

  3. , Dept. für Informatik, Universität Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118, Oldenburg, 26129, Germany

    Jorge Marx-Gómez

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Bakhtina, V.A. (2011). Sustainability and Global Risks: Example of Selected Countries in Asia. In: Golinska, P., Fertsch, M., Marx-Gómez, J. (eds) Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering(), vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19536-5_25

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