TY - UNPB
T1 - A Research Agenda for Smart, Sustainable Uplands:
T2 - Socio-Digital Innovations for the Uplands Twin Transition
AU - Heeks, Richard
AU - Thapa, Devinder
AU - Thapa, Pragyan
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Digitalisation and sustainable development are key trends in the uplands: the world’s higher-altitude regions of hills, plateaus and mountains. The two trends have been rather disconnected to date but there is an increasing logic for recognising their intersection in pursuit of the creation of smart, sustainable uplands. Some argue that incremental change will be insufficient to address the anthropogenic challenges faced by the uplands. From this emerges the concept of a more-fundamental “uplands twin transition” that integrates digital transformation with a sustainability transition. This paper reviews some of the arguments for, and features of, an uplands twin transition, and lays out a future research agenda on this new concept.
AB - Digitalisation and sustainable development are key trends in the uplands: the world’s higher-altitude regions of hills, plateaus and mountains. The two trends have been rather disconnected to date but there is an increasing logic for recognising their intersection in pursuit of the creation of smart, sustainable uplands. Some argue that incremental change will be insufficient to address the anthropogenic challenges faced by the uplands. From this emerges the concept of a more-fundamental “uplands twin transition” that integrates digital transformation with a sustainability transition. This paper reviews some of the arguments for, and features of, an uplands twin transition, and lays out a future research agenda on this new concept.
UR - https://youtu.be/P_0W5ajGJ1g
M3 - Working paper
T3 - GDI Digital Development Working Papers
BT - A Research Agenda for Smart, Sustainable Uplands:
CY - Manchester
ER -