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Technology and Environment
The Shaping of Technology
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Technology and Environment

Commoner, Barry 1972, The Closing Circle: Nature Man & Technology, Bantam, Toronto, New York, London.

Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups 1991, Final Report-Manufacturing, AGPS, Canberra.

Ellul, Jacques 1964, The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson, Vintage, New York.

Trainer, F.E., 1985, Abandon Affluence, Zed Books Ltd., London, Chapter 10 "Technical -Fix" Solutions.

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The Shaping of Technology

Schot, Johan W., 'Constructive Technology Assessment and Technology Dynamics', Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol.17 No.1, Winter 1992, pp.36-56

Ian Barbour, Technology, Environment and Human Values, Praeger, New York, 1980, chapter 3.

Dickson, David, 'Choosing Technology', Science for the People, September/October 1987,pp.5-8

Bereano, Philip L., 'Technology and Social Relations', Science for the People, September/October 1987, pp. 9-10

Hamlett, Patrick W., 'Understanding Technological Development: A Decisionmaking Approach', Science, Technology & Human Values , Vol 9 (3) Summer 1984, pp.33-46

White, Robert M. and Rod, Samuel R., 'Environmental challenge: Technological response', Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol.24,N0.4, 1990, pp.460 - 464

Alexander, Christopher 1970, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Harvard University Press, USA.

Jones, J. Christopher 1980, Design Methods: Seeds of Human Futures, 1980 edn, John Wiley & Sons. MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. 1986,

The Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got its Hum, Open University Press, pp4-23.

Pacey, Arnold 1983, The Culture of Technology, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Winner, Langdon 1986, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, chapters 2

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Appropriate Technology

Charnock, Anne, 'Appropriate technology goes to market', New Scientist, 9 May 1985, pp.10-11

Jequier, Nicolas, 'Small is Beautiful ... and becoming big', Appropriate Technology Vol 10 No. 3, December 1983, pp. 2-4

Carr, Marilyn (ed.), 1985, AT Reader: Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology Intermediate Technology Publications, London.

Jequier, Nicolas (ed.), 1976 Appropriate Technology: Problems and Promises , Development Centre of the O.E.C.D., Paris.

Hoskins, Marilyn & Weber, Fred R., 'Why Appropriate Technology Projects For Women Fail?, Ecoforum Vol 10 No.2 April 1985, pp.6 - 8

Clarke, Robin ed. 1975, Notes for the Future: An Alternative History of the Past Decade, Thames & Hudson, London.

Cross, Nigel et al, eds, 1974, Man-Made Futures: Readings in Society, Technology and Design, Hutchinson Educational, London, pp.31-38

Dickson, David 1974, Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical Change, Fontana/Collins, Great Britain, ch.6, 'Intermediate Technology and the Third World'.

Goodman, P. 1971, 'Can technology be humane?' in The Ecological Conscience, ed by R.Disch, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

Schumacher, E. F. 1974, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, Abacus, London.

Pursell, Carroll, 'The rise and fall of the appropriate technology movement in the United Stares, 1965 - 1985', Technology and Culture, 1993

Stancil, Carl, 'Sustainable Technology Choices', Gaining Ground, Vol.3, No.2, Spring/Summer 1995

Rosen, Robert, 'Green Technology: A Profitable Solution?', Habitat Australia, February 1995, p.57 Simon, T. 1988, 'Appropriate technology and inappropriate politics' in Technology and Contemporary Life, Reidel, Dordrecht.

Willoughby, Kelvin 1990, Technology Choice: A Critique of the Appropriate Technology Movement, Westview Press, Boulder and San Francisco.

Institut Masyarakat, 1982, Appropriate Technology, Culture and Lifestyle in Development , Institut Masyarakat Berhad, Malaysia

Winner, Langdon 1986, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, chapter 4.

Ian Barbour, Technology, Environment and Human Values, Praeger, New York, 1980, chapter 13.

Eric Dudley, The critical villager : beyond community participation, London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Raphael Kaplinsky, The economies of small : appropriate technology in a changing world, London, UK. : IT Publications, 1990.

Frances Stewart,ed, Macro-policies for appropriate technology in developing countries, Boulder : Westview Press, 1987.

Catherine Budgett-Meakin, ed. Make the future work appropriate technology : a teachers' guide, Harlow, England : Longman, 1992.

Ian Smillie, Mastering the machine : poverty, aid and technology, London : Intermediate Technology, 1991.

Matthew S. Gamser, Power from the people : innovation, user participation, and forest energy development, London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1988.

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Clean Technology

Cramer, J. & Zegveld, W. C. L. 1991, 'The future role of technology in environmental management', Futures, June.

Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups 1991, Final Report-Manufacturing, AGPS, Canberra.

Kannegieter, Tim 1992, 'Cleaner Production', Engineers Australia, 26 June, pp. 16-18.

Schott, Johan 1992, 'Constructive Technology Assessment and Technological Dynamics: the Case of Clean Technologies', Science, Technology and Human Values, vol.17, no.1, Winter, pp. 36-56.

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