TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AND THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT : National Academy of Engineering

Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. DJ/None as Issued. Anthology. Essays addressing technological advances allowing a much superior industrial ecology. Rich volume. Analyses in the environmental arena of global change, how best to use now possible sustainable industrial and agricultural developmental techniques, and, the fostering of futher advantageous developments in technology. The 11 essays & authors are: 1, The Liberation of the Environment (Jesse H. Ausubel); 2, Time for a Change: On Pattersn of Diffusion of Innovation (Arnulf Grubler); 3, Population, Technology & the Human Environment (Robert W. Kates); 4, How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature? (Paul E. Waggoner); 5, Free Energy from Carbon (Nebojsa Nakicenovic); 6, Life-styles & the Environment: The Case of Energy (Lee Schipper); 7, Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect & Prospect (Jesse H. Ausubel & Cesare Marchetti); 8, Materialization & Dematerialization: Measures & Trend (Iddo K. Wernick, Et Al); 9, Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry (Robert A. Frosch); 10, Humans in Nature: Toward a Physiocentric Philosophy (Klause Michael Meyer-Abich); and 11, Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years (Chauncey Starr).