Cover image for Sustainable Technology Development.
Sustainable Technology Development.
Title:
Sustainable Technology Development.
Author:
Weaver, Paul.
ISBN:
9781909493124
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents:
Front cover -- Title page -- About the STD Programme -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1 -- 1. Capacity-building for sustainable technology development and innovation -- 2. The scale of the sustainability challenge -- 3. Technology and technological change -- 4. The STD programme design and approach -- Part 2 -- 5. The STD process exemplified: the case of nutrition -- 6. Constructive Technology Assessment: the case of novel protein foods -- 7. LCA as a steering tool: the case of the municipal water system -- 8. Gaining 'virtual hindsight' by backcasting: the case of service products -- 9. Redirecting R&D resources: the case of chemicals and industrial materials -- 10. Elaborating and evaluating opportunities: the case of organic materials -- 11. Strategic niche management: the case of the mobile hydrogen fuel cell -- Part 3 -- 12. Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.
Abstract:
Based on the evaluation of the results of a five-year inter-ministerial programme of the Dutch Sustainable Technology Development Group, this is an examination of which technologies might be able to become more eco-efficient, and how they may be able to do so.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Electronic Access:
Click to View
Holds: Copies: