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Modest technologies for a complicated world
Title:
Modest technologies for a complicated world
Author:
Vacca, Roberto, 1927-
ISBN:
9781483157603
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Uniform Title:
Tecniche modeste per un mondo complicato. English
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1980.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 172 pages)
Series:
Pergamon international library
Pergamon international library.
Contents:
Front Cover; Modest Technologies for a Complicated World; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Modest Technology; Chapter 2. In Our Heads We Have More Than Just Our Mouths; Chapter 3. International Aid and a Possible New International Economic Order; Chapter 4. Small May Be Beautiful -- Does It Always Make Sense?; Chapter 5. The Debatable Neutrality of Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Lack of Innovation as A Cause of Economic Crisis; Chapter 7. How to be Energetically Modest; Chapter 8. Reasonable Arguments and Lists Reasoned Out.
Chapter 9. When Cynics Don't Even Know PricesChapter 10. The Costs of Risks; Chapter 11. It's All A Question of Organization; Chapter 12. Strategies for the Introduction of Modest Technologies; Chapter 13. Is There an Investment Crisis?; Chapter 14. Decisions for Societal Systems Based on Modern Techniques; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.
Abstract:
Modest Technologies for a Complicated World focuses on intermediate or alternative technologies capable of making our complex society more rational, simpler, and more modest through the attainment of equilibrium in the socio-political situation and also in the demographic, energy, agricultural, soil preservation, exploitation of resources, and recycling processes. This book outlines the conditions that must be satisfied and the precautions that have to be taken in order to implement modest technological innovations in the third world-as well as in the first or the second-on the basis of concre.
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ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080240671Available:*
Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| T49.5 .V3313 1980 | 1177245-1001 | Elsevier E-Book Collections | Searching... |
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