Technology and Environment

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Size: 236 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1989

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Jesse H. Ausubel and Hedy E. Sladovich, Editors; National Academy of Engineering
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Technology and Environment is one of a series of publications designed to bring national attention to issues of the greatest importance in engineering and technology during the 25th year of the National Academy of Engineering.
A "paradox of technology" is that ...
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". . . [O]ne of the most significant sets of ideas to be published during the 1980's." --Thomas F. Malone :ITPast President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
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Front Matter	i-x
Technology and Environment: An Overview	1-20	(skim)
1. Frameworks for Analysis	21-22	(skim)
Industrial Metabolism	23-49	(skim)
Dematerialization	50-69	(skim)
Regularities in Technological Development: An Environmental View	70-92	(skim)
2. The Promise of Technological Solutions	93-94	(skim)
Meeting the Near-Term Challenge for Power Plants	95-113	(skim)
Advanced Fossil Fuel Systems and Beyond	114-136	(skim)
Protecting the Ozone Layer: A Perspective from Industry	137-156	(skim)
3. Social and Institutional Aspects	157-158	(skim)
The Rise and Fall of Environmental Expertise	159-166	(skim)
Environmental Issues: Implications for Engineering Design and Education	167-181	(skim)
Engineering Our Way Out of Endless Environmental Crises	182-191	(skim)
The Paradox of Technological Development	192-204	(skim)
Contributors	205-210	(skim)
Index	211-222	(skim)

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Technology and Environment is one of a series of publications designed to bring national attention to issues of the greatest importance in engineering and technology during the 25th year of the National Academy of Engineering.
A "paradox of technology" is that it can be both the source of environmental damage and our best hope for repairing such damage today and avoiding it in the future. Technology and Environment addresses this paradox and the blind spot it creates in our understanding of environmental crises. The book considers the proximate causes of environmental damage--machines, factories, cities, and so on--in a larger societal context, from which the will to devise and implement solutions must arise. It helps explain the depth and difficulty of such issues as global warming and hazardous wastes but also demonstrates the potential of technological innovation to have a constructive impact on the planet. With a range of data and examples, the authors cover such topics as the "industrial metabolism" of production and consumption, the environmental consequences of the information era, and design of environmentally compatible technologies.

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". . . [O]ne of the most significant sets of ideas to be published during the 1980's." --Thomas F. Malone :ITPast President, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

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