What Is Sustainable Technology? : Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities.

By: Mulder, KarelContributor(s): Ferrer, Didac | Lente, Harro vanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Saltaire : Routledge, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781907643415Subject(s): Sustainable design | Sustainable engineering | Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects | Technological innovations -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: What Is Sustainable Technology? : Perceptions, Paradoxes and PossibilitiesDDC classification: 670 LOC classification: HC79.E5 -- W43 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 What is sustainable technology? -- 2 Perceptions of technology: an historical overview -- Part I: Materials and energy -- 3 Chlorofluorocarbons: drivers of their emergence and substitution -- 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: Stockholm's Hammarby Sjöstad -- 7 Trade-offs in the district heat distribution system -- 8 Municipal solid waste: treatment, management and prevention -- Part III: Transport technologies -- 9 What is a sustainable transport system? Dilemmas regarding transport solutions in Sweden -- 10 Reducing material use in passenger cars 1920-2020: balancing energy, waste and safety -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 What is sustainable technology? -- 2 Perceptions of technology: an historical overview -- Part I: Materials and energy -- 3 Chlorofluorocarbons: drivers of their emergence and substitution -- 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: Stockholm's Hammarby Sjöstad -- 7 Trade-offs in the district heat distribution system -- 8 Municipal solid waste: treatment, management and prevention -- Part III: Transport technologies -- 9 What is a sustainable transport system? Dilemmas regarding transport solutions in Sweden -- 10 Reducing material use in passenger cars 1920-2020: balancing energy, waste and safety -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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