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Activity at work, innovation and sustainable development

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Béguin, P. | Duarte, F. | Lima, F. | Pueyo, V

Affiliations: Département Sciences pour L’action et le Développement (SAD-APT) - INRA, 16 rue Claude Bernard, 75321 – Paris cedex 05 - France | Production Engineering Program – COPPE/UFRJ – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BP 68507, CEP 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro – Brazil | Production Engineering Deparment – UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais | Institut d’Etudes du Travail de Lyon, 86 rue Pasteur 69007 Lyon - France

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: pbeguin@grignon.inra.freditorial@iospress.nl.

Keywords: work, innovation, sustainable development

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0140-89

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 89-94, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss a French-Brazilian project (CAPES-COFECUB) centered on the relations between sustainable development, innovation and changes in work activities that accompany these innovations for sustainable development. Sustainable development calls for an integrated approach of three dimensions: social equity, economic viability and environmental sustainability. In order to achieve this integration, considerable innovations efforts are required. However, the work, understood as a productive act, is deeply lacking in the current researches. Starting from the idea that work is a “fundamental need” the goal of this project is to propose innovative methods that can be used for designing production systems from the perspective of sustainable development.

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