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Appropriate Technology (p)

Name: Appropriate Technology (p)
Author: ACAD
ISBN: 9780123351906

by ACAD

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Overview

An increasing number of professionals, students, and volunteers throughout the world are working in a vast array of settings in developing communities. Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices, and Implications gives both non-technical and technical international workers a thorough understanding of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale community development. The book is written to help the reader create and design appropriate technological systems, processes, and devices for a variety of settings.

Of equal importance to the coverage of technologies in the book is the emphasis placed on the societal impact and implications of these new technologies.

Features
* First book to present the fundamentals of the design of appropriate technologies with a strong emphasis on the social impact on the community
* Accessible to non-technical and technical professionals and students
* Thorough, understandable guide to the common technologies of solar, wind, and hydroelectric power
* Describes the use of specific tools such as bicycle-driven machines, pumps, and cook stoves, as well as processes such as aquaculture and agriculture
* Includes chapters such as Appropriate Technology in the Third World, Appropriate Technology in the United States, and a unique chapter, Culture and Women
* Challenges the reader with end-of-chapter projects and problems for self-study or classroom use.

"...provides a thorough understanding of common & important technologies in small-scale community development... emphasizes the societal impact and implications of these new technologies...for technical & non-technical workers."

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Gives both non-technical and technical international workers an understanding of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale community development, allowing them to create and design appropriate technological systems and devices for a variety of settings in developing countries and the US. Emphasis is placed on the societal impact and implications of these new technologies. Coverage includes solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, specific tools such as bicycle-driven machines, and processes such as aquaculture and agriculture. Includes chapter problems and projects. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.