Technology and Global ChangeCambridge University Press, 16/10/2003 - 464 من الصفحات Technology and Global Change describes how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. Technology has led us from the farm to the factory to the internet, and its impacts are now global. Technology has eliminated many problems, but has added many others (ranging from urban smog to the ozone hole to global warming). This book is the first to give a comprehensive description of the causes and impacts of technological change and how they relate to global environmental change. Written for specialists and nonspecialists alike, it will be useful for researchers and professors, as a textbook for graduate students, for people engaged in long-term policy planning in industry (strategic planning departments) and government (R & D and technology ministries, environment ministries), for environmental activists (NGOs), and for the wider public interested in history, technology, or environmental issues. |
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المحتوى
Introduction | 8 |
12 Approach | 8 |
13 Structural Overview | 8 |
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY? | 17 |
Technology Concepts and Definitions | 19 |
21 From Artifacts to Megamachines | 20 |
22 Technological Change | 38 |
23 Sources of Technological Change | 75 |
65 Environmental Impacts of Industrialization | 227 |
66 Industrial Metabolism and Dematerialization Strategies | 229 |
67 Energy | 248 |
Services | 291 |
Time Budgets and Consumer Expenditures | 293 |
73 Lifestyles Services and the Environment | 312 |
Growing Demands and Emissions | 316 |
75 Transport and the Environment | 330 |
Technology Models | 91 |
Technology History | 117 |
Some Suggestions for Further Reading on Part I | 127 |
TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT NATURAL AND HUMAN | 129 |
Agriculture | 131 |
51 Introduction | 132 |
52 Technology Agricultural Land and People | 133 |
53 Three Clusters of Change in Agricultural Technologies | 134 |
Productivity | 154 |
LandUse Changes | 161 |
Other Global Changes | 170 |
57 Global Changes in Human Occupations and Residence | 181 |
58 Environmental Problems of Urbanization | 186 |
Industry | 195 |
61 Introduction | 196 |
63 Clusters | 204 |
64 Socioeconomic Impacts of Industrialization | 223 |
Some Suggestions for Further Reading on Part II | 337 |
THE BALANCE OF EVIDENCE | 339 |
Conclusion | 341 |
82 Technology Productivity and the Environment | 345 |
83 Patterns and Rates of Change | 352 |
TechnologyEnvironment Paradox | 355 |
85 A Manifesto | 364 |
Postscript From Data Muddles to Models | 367 |
92 Modeling Technological Change | 374 |
93 A Model of Uncertain Returns from RD and Learning | 381 |
94 Environment | 389 |
95 Next Steps | 392 |
Appendix | 395 |
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