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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778763803321

Titolo

Technological trajectories and the human environment / / editors, Jesse H. Ausubel, H. Dale Langford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-309-17678-6

1-282-08112-8

9786612081125

0-309-52127-0

0-585-02645-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

AusubelJesse

LangfordH. Dale

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental management

Technological innovations - Environmental aspects

Power resources - Environmental aspects

Materials - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"National Academy of Engineering."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment""; ""Contents""; ""The Liberation of the Environment""; ""Time for a Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation""; ""Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time""; ""How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?""; ""Freeing Energy from Carbon""; ""Life-styles and the Environment: The Case of Energy""; ""Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect and Prospect""; ""Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends""

""Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry"" ""Humans in Nature: Toward a Physiocentric Philosophy""; ""Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years""; ""Biographical Data""; ""Index""