Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies

Author(s)

Manju Singh and Abhishek Behl

Affiliations

Symbiosis International University, Pune, India

Abstract

The application of new, resource efficient Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) has become crucial for both development and the environment. Technology transfer is most fundamentally complex process of learning and the effective transfer is not possible until all the factors related to transfer process is well understood. Present paper aims to understand Hierarchy and inter-relationship among barriers to the process of adoption of environmentally sound technologies using an interpretive structural modelling (ISM) technique. The paper will reveal how ISM supports policy planners and implementing agencies in recognizing and exploring interdependencies among barriers to EST. The main findings of the paper contain the development of Hierarchy and inter-relationship of barriers to EST adoption with ISM model. The identified barriers are divided into five blocks of Hierarchy that display their inter-relationship depicting the driving-dependence relationship. This academic exercise of ISM model development is expected to direct a way forward to the policy planners, makers and implementers to leverage their resources optimally with effective adoption of EST.

Keywords

Interpretive Structural Modeling, Environmental Sound Technology, Barriers

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