Technology Choice: A Critique Of The Appropriate Technology Movement

by Kelvin W Willoughby

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367305154
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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