Technology and Global Change describes how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. Technology has led us from the farm to the factory to the internet, and its impacts are now global. Technology has eliminated many problems, but has added many others (ranging from urban smog to the ozone hole to global warming). This book is the first to give a comprehensive description of the causes and impacts of technological change and how they relate to global environmental change. Written for specialists and nonspecialists alike, it will be useful for researchers and professors, as a textbook for graduate students, for people engaged in long-term policy planning in industry (strategic planning departments) and government (R & D and technology ministries, environment ministries), for environmental activists (NGOs), and for the wider public interested in history, technology, or environmental issues.
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' ... [This book] contains some useful information in the assessment of the relationship between technology development and environment'. Environment International
'While the topic is complex, and the density of the material daunting, I found the book easy and pleasant to read'. Robert A. Frosch, Energy
'While the topic is complex, and the density of the material daunting, I found the book easy and pleasant to read'. Robert A. Frosch, Energy
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This is the first book to comprehensibly describe how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. It will be useful for researchers, as a textbook for graduate students, for people engaged in long-term policy planning in industry and government, for environmental activists, and for the wider public interested in history, technology, or environmental issues.
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The book is about humans, nature and how they interact. What Grübler provides is context, context that ranges, it seems, over the entire human history. Yet it is easily understood. At last, the world around us makes sense. (it helps if you love graphs, because he uses them in masterly fashion)
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The primary purpose of this book is to interest the reader in technology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socially obligatory activities, environmental productivity gains, active working career, saturating demands, lifetime working hours, agricultural land productivity, aggregate energy intensities, cumulative installed capacity, global industrial output, total economic welfare, industrial labor productivity, technology clusters, pervasive diffusion, fuelwood use, motorized mobility, global change impacts, primary energy use, incremental technology, agricultural labor productivity, technological interrelatedness, natural rubber production, agricultural productivity increases, global energy system, reduced working time, induced technical change Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Industrial Revolution, Year Figure, World War, Latin America, New York, Los Angeles, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Mexico City, Aral Sea, Ocean Island, Working Group, New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, Hong Kong, Middle Ages, South Korea, Captain Swing, Central Europe, General Motors, German Democratic Republic, Henry Ford, Intergovernmental Panel, Marvin Frankel New!
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The primary purpose of this book is to interest the reader in technology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socially obligatory activities, environmental productivity gains, active working career, saturating demands, lifetime working hours, agricultural land productivity, aggregate energy intensities, cumulative installed capacity, global industrial output, total economic welfare, industrial labor productivity, technology clusters, pervasive diffusion, fuelwood use, motorized mobility, global change impacts, primary energy use, incremental technology, agricultural labor productivity, technological interrelatedness, natural rubber production, agricultural productivity increases, global energy system, reduced working time, induced technical change Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Industrial Revolution, Year Figure, World War, Latin America, New York, Los Angeles, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Mexico City, Aral Sea, Ocean Island, Working Group, New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, Hong Kong, Middle Ages, South Korea, Captain Swing, Central Europe, General Motors, German Democratic Republic, Henry Ford, Intergovernmental Panel, Marvin Frankel New!
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- Technology and Environment by National Academy of Engineering on 6 pages
- Sustainable Development of the Biosphere by William C. Clark on 5 pages
- Theory of Economic Development (Galaxy Books) by Joseph A. Schumpeter on page 39, page 40, and Back Matter
- Technical Change and Economic Theory (Ifias Research Series, Number 6) by Giovanni Dosi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Technology (2nd Annual Volume) by A. Rupert Hall on page 127, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy by Mark Jaccard on page 256, and page 334
- Integrated Solutions for Energy & Facility Management by Sioros/Assoc En on page 277
- Energy and Environment (Gerad 25th Anniversary) by Richard Loulou on page 107
- Real Estate and the New Economy: The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (Real Estate Issues) by Timothy Dixon in Back Matter
- Energy Revolution: Policies For A Sustainable Future by Howard Geller in Back Matter
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