Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment

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Publication Year:1997

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Jesse H. Ausubel and H. Dale Langford, Editors; National Academy of Engineering
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This volume provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land. It concludes that the technological opportunities before us offer the possibility of a vastly ...
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FRONT MATTER	i-x	(skim)
The Liberation of the Environment	1-13	(skim)
Time for a Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation	14-32	(skim)
Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time	33-55	(skim)
How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?	56-73	(skim)
Freeing Energy from Carbon	74-88	(skim)
Life-styles and the Environment: The Case of Energy	89-109	(skim)
Elecktron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect	110-134	(skim)
Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends	135-156	(skim)
Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry	157-167	(skim)
Humans in Nature: Toward a Physiocentric Philosophy	168-184	(skim)
Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years	185-198	(skim)
Biographical Data	199-204	(skim)
Index	205-214	(skim)

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This volume provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land. It concludes that the technological opportunities before us offer the possibility of a vastly superior industrial ecology. Rich in both data and theory, the book offers fresh analyses essential for everyone concerned with global change, sustainable development, and profitable investments in technology.

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"...the book offers fresh analyses essential for everyone in the environmental arena concerned with global change, sustainable development, and profitable investments in technology." Environment International

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