What is Sustainable Technology? : Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities.
Title:
What is Sustainable Technology? : Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities.
Author:
Mulder, Karel.
ISBN:
9781907643415
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Contents:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1. What is sustainable technology? -- 2. Perceptions of technology -- Part I. Materials and energy -- 3. Chlorofluorocarbons -- 4. Vehicles of sustainability in the field of nanocoatings -- 5. Articulations of sustainability in the development of wind power in the Netherlands -- Part II. Urban technologies -- 6. Environmental technology in a new urban neighbourhood -- 7. Trade-offs in the district heat distribution system -- 8. Municipal solid waste -- Part III. Transport technologies -- 9. What is a sustainable transport system? -- 10. Reducing material use in passenger cars 1920-2020 -- 11. Hydrogen: a stack of competing visions -- Part IV. Water technologies -- 12. Sustainable technologies for water treatment -- 13. Dilemmas in water systems development in China -- Part V. Conclusions -- 14. Conclusions: perceptions, paradoxes and possibilities -- About the contributors -- Index -- Back cover.
Abstract:
Technology has played an important role in creating the problems that we now face; but it will also play an important role in solving them. But this does not mean the technological fix will be easy. This book illustrates that the sustainability impact of a technology is often much more complicated and ambivalent than one might expect.
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.
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