Kelvin W Willoughby

Technology Choice (eBook, ePUB)

A Critique Of The Appropriate Technology Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to provide a theoretical framework for answering difficult questions evoked by the concept of technology choice primarily by conducting a review of the Appropriate Technology movement and its ideas and experiments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000314168
• Artikelnr.: 57124249

Autorenporträt

Kelvin W. Willoughby

Inhaltsangabe

Preface -- Conceptual Groundwork -- Introduction: The Concept of Technology Choice -- Technological Semantics -- Appropriate Technology as a Social Movement -- The Appropriate Technology Movement -- Schumacher and Intermediate Technology: Foundations -- Schumacher and Intermediate Technology: Developments -- Appropriate Technology in the South -- Appropriate Technology in the North -- Emerging International Trends -- Prospects for Technology Choice -- Criticisms of Appropriate Technology -- An Integrated Framework -- A Review of Plausible Criticisms -- Facing the Future