Role of Science, Technology & Manegement in Sustainable Development

International Scientific Cooperation for Sustainable Development is an imperative

for achievement of SDG goals. The specific role of science for sustainable development

goes beyond issues like technology transfer and must not be limited to that of a tool

only. There is no stand-alone goal on science among the Sustainability Development

Goals. Sustainable development can succeed only if all areas of the political sector,

of society, and of science accept the concept and work together to implement it.

Everyone especially those working in the private sector and corporate entities need

to become sensitized to the impact of their practices on local and global sustainability.

With the above aims, the book titled: Role of Science, Engineering, Technology

and Management in Sustainable Development has been written in 10- chapters.

The brief contributions of authors given in their chapters towards the sustainable

development are listed below:

1. Leading Organizations To Sustainable Growth – Prof. Manoj Mehrotra elaborated

about achieving sustainable growth. Says- it can be a challenge for even the most

ambitious companies. Grow too quickly and financing may prove to be a serious

challenge. But grow too slowly – or worse, not at all – and companies risk losing

their competitive edge. This makes finding the right formula for sustainable growth

critically important. Economists and business researchers contend that achieving

sustainable growth is not possible without paying heed to twin cornerstones:

growth strategy and growth capability. Flawless execution of such sustainable

strategies demands a culture of enrichment, trust, shared values, professionalism,

vlearning, innovation and community enhancement perspectives. Sustainability in

organizations is created when all three components – leadership, corporate strategies

and culture – reinforce each other for the long-term benefit of multiple stakeholders.

2. Design and Analysis of 4-Wheeled Vehicles for Environmental Sustainability –Prof.

Bharat Raj Singh, Manoj Kumar Singh and Pankaj Yadav explores the need of road

network that will help for sustainable development. India has second largest

road network over 5,897,671 kilometers than USA having 6,153,024 kilometers

in the world, As such around 4,146,063 kilometers (70.3%) of total road network

of 5,897,671 kilometers is of rural base and built by Panchayats and PMGSY with

pavement or bituminous of required strength and remaining of kuchcha (mud)

roads. This chapter evaluates need of 4-wheeled vehicle design for better comfort

ride, it might be are revolutionary work.

3. Cyber Physical System and IOT: the next generation computers- Dr. Hemant Kumar

Singh, Sunit Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Kumar Singh explain changes in next

generation computing and challenges as well. The main issues, threats and attacks

will also be described in the chapter. This chapter will also suggest the future

research issues in CSS and IOT.

4. Exploring Consumers Participation towards Sustainable Growth: With Special

reference to Green Marketing in City of Lucknow – Dr. Suchita Vishwakarma,

Jyoti Kumari, tried to identify how well consumers have accepted the effort

of market players, but at the same time it becomes important to understand

their contribution and role as end user and stakeholder. The chapter focuses to

understand whether the consumers of Lucknow are able to imbibe the green

thought process in their daily usage and to what extent they are ready to change

their style in accordance with green practices and sustainable development.

5. Sustainable Development Of Indian Retail Sector - Zain Mehdi , and Ashok Sen

Gupta, explore as to what kind of FDI to seek and how to address the digital

economy. This move would fetch about “supply chain improvement, investment

in technology, manpower and skill development, tourism promotion, increased

domestic sourcing, upgradation in agriculture, efficient and profitable small

and medium scale industries, market development and monetary benefits to

government through higher GDP, tax income and employment generation”.

6. An Analysis on Constraints in Sustainable Higher Education Policy of Uttar Pradesh

- Priyank Sharma and Manish Singh explain the various factors which involvedin the implementation of higher education in the system or the problem is at

planning part or at implementation part Education is a very important economic

factor for the economic development.

7. Electronics Stewardship -Gaurav Sharma mentioned that technology has been

evolving daily; henceforth new technological gadgets have been increasing in

number. New technology has made our lives easier and human being is completely

dependent on them. Technology has been the major factor of our economy growth

and it has become indispensable thing in our lives. But evolution of the technology

possesses greater threat to the environment and for all the living beings if they

are not properly handled and disposed after use.

8. Cavity Wall Construction And Its Purpose - Dr. Asha Kulshreshtha, Gaurav Ojha,

Urooj Shameem, and Syed Shuja Askari worked on a material that has a sufficient,

long-term sealing of the restorative margins. Every restorative material allows

some degree of passage of fluids and micronutrients, termed as leakage. Micro

leakage is "the clinically undetectable passage of bacteria, fluids, molecules or

ions between a cavity wall and the restorative material".

9. Harmonics generated by Electric Arc Furnace in Power System and its Sustained

Compensation - Ritu Singh and Dr. Amarjeet Singh covers in the chapter that

electrical power system having distorted voltage and current waveform contains

harmonics and it becomes a severe concern to the power system, especially

Electric Arc Furnace (EAF). The compensation of the harmonics is greatly required

for better performance and sustainable power system.

10. Online / Offline Signature Verification- An Overview – Dr. Sumit Narayan Jarholiya,

and Prof. Bharat Raj Singh describe in their chapter about pre-processing of

signature verification, signature verification architecture and its algorithm,

definition of terms used for detecting forgeries in signature, and a brief

introduction of Hidden Markov Model for signature verification. It helps in offline

/ online biometric attendance and identification of Voter ID, Passport etc.

From the above 10-chapters, we find that the book may be useful for the

developing countries like India pertaining to problem identification, designing,

implementation of strategies, managing the progress in all aspects sustainable

developments.

The editorial team is highly appreciative of the authors and other stack holders

who have provided immense support and guidance throughout. Special Thanks

viiconfers on Mr. Sharad Singh, Secretary and CEO, School of Management Sciences,

Lucknow who has given us encouragement to take up such project in pursuance to

academic enhancement. Finally we would like to thanks the almighty God without

whom this assignment would not have reached to its final shape.

Prof. Manoj Mehrotra and

Prof. Bharat Raj Singh