The Labyrinth of Technology : : A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out /

The Labyrinth of Technology : : A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out / / Willem Vanderburg.

Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth...

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Vanderburg, Willem,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2000
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (494 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: PREVENTIVE APPROACHES
  • 1. Preventive Approaches as a New Technology and Economic Strategy
  • 2. Individual Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches
  • 3. Collective Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches
  • PART TWO. THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND MAP-MAKING
  • 4. Tools for Map-Making
  • 5. Context Values for Map-Making
  • PART THREE. A GENERIC MAP OF THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT MATRICES
  • 6. Differentiating Sustainable Development
  • 7. Differentiating a Way of Life
  • PART FOUR. APPLICATIONS OF PREVENTIVE APPROACHES
  • General Introduction
  • 8. Materials and Production
  • 9. Energy
  • 10. Work
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index

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