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The AT Reader Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Carr, Marilyn Publisher: Intermediate Technology, New York, USA Year Published: 1985 Pages: 468pp ISBN: 0-942850-03-3 Resource Type: Book
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I: Appropriate Technology: History, Concepts and Evolution 1. Definitions and Concepts Schumacher on Intermediate Technology What are 'Appropriate Technologies'? A Few Definitions of Technology One World Technology Nyerere on Self Reliance Gandhi on the Swadeshi Movement Mass Production or Production by the Masses? The New Paradigm of Work Useful Work Versus Useless Toil
2. Criticisms and Rejoinders Entertaining Objections Appropriate Technology, Technological Dependence, and the Technological Gap Underdeveloped Technology? New Wine in Old Wineskins Political and Technological Change Not Revolution
but Changing the Rules
3. New Development Theories Appropriate Technology and Basic-Needs Strategy Basic Human Needs Conventional Versus Alternative Development Strategies An Opposing View On Misreading Development Economics
4. Society and Environment Appropriate Technology through the Ages The Steady-state Economy The Low-entropy Economy The Affluent Society The Technological Society Giantism, Complexity and Violence Drift, Distention or Decentralization? What is Simplicity? Ingenious Simplicity A Fable for Tomorrow The Acid Rain Impact
5. Growth and Transformation of AT Movement Acceptance and Integration Appropriate Technology - Ten Years On Economics As If People Mattered
Chapter II: Technology Choice - Theory and Practice 1. Choices of Technology: Theoretical Aspects The Technological Choice Choosing Appropriate Technology Choice of Products Appropriate Products and Technology Choice of Projects A Choice of Methodologies Simple is Optimal
2. Choice of Technology: Some Considerations Why Big May Be Bad The Advantages of Intermediate Technology Economies of Scale The Rural/Urban Split
3. Choice of Technology: Some Examples Mini Sugar Technology in India The Costly Lessons of a $550m Dream Small-scale Fisheries in Kerala Irrigation Tube-wells in Bangladesh Why Inappropriate Choices are Made What Managers Say
Chapter III: Technology for Development - Agriculture, Food Processing, Livestock 1. Food Production Food Situation Worsening in Africa Which Crops? Women and Winter Vegetables The Food Factor The New Age of Organic Farming Amaranth Rediscovered The Winged Bean- A Nutritious Alternative American Agriculture: Energy Efficiency versus Labour Efficiency Can Western Agriculture Be Sustained? How Pumps Divide the Peasantry? The Bamboo Tube-well When the Hills Came Tumbling Down Mechanical Innovations in Africa Ethiopia's One-Ox Job, Farm Power for Farm Women
2. Post-Harvest Systems and Food Processing Cereal Post-Harvest Systems Designing manually operated threshers The Carnage of the Green Revolution The Flour Didn't Taste Right New Presses for Old! Banana Chips in Papua New Guinea
3. Livestock and Animal Health Care Are Animals Appropriate? Small Animals for Small Farms Poultry Production Milk and Money in India Progress- But for Whom? The Poor Man's Cow When Camels are Better than Cattle Barefoot Vets
Chapter IV: Technology for Development - Health, Water, and Sanitation 1. Health Barefoot Health Care in China Prevention is Better than Cure From Traditional Birth Attendant to Genuine Health Auxiliary Is Medicine Healthy? Barefoot Surgeons A Handful of Light Barefoot Technology Indigenous Healers Oral Rehydration: a cure is not a solution Fluoride - Too much of a Good Thing?
2. Water and Sanitation Water, Sanitation, Health - For All? Is The World Water Decade Drying Up? Enough for Survival, Enough for Health A Pump for All Countries Clean Water in Kola Water Lilies and Broken Pumps Pour-Flush Latrines in India Zimbabwean VIP Community Participation as Token Jargon
Chapter V: Technology for Development - Biomass and Renewable Energy 1. Biomass: Stoves, Trees, Agricultural Residues There's No Smoke Without Fuelwood Cigarettes Can Damage your Health and Someone Else's Land Stove Programmes - Experience to Date Owner-Built Birth Control For Every Child A Tree Barefoot Foresters Fuel-efficient Stoves Eucalyptus- An Inappropriate Choice The Tree Wall Coconut Power Papyrus: A New Fuel for the Third World
2. Renewable Energy Digging Mankind out of the Nuclear Rut A Questioning View A Renaissance for Wind Pumps Generating the Links between Engineers and Rural Villages in Papua New Guinea Light in the Valley Old-timers with a Future World Bank Cools Sun Pump Rush New Solar Infrastructure
Chapter VI: Technology for Development - Housing, Construction and Transportation 1. Housing and Building Materials Shelter for All The Use of Mud Brick an Economic Necessity Mud Bricks, An Adze and bare Hands Lime or Cement? Self-help Housing in Brazil Soli, The Block Maker
2. Roads and Bridges Labour-based Road Construction Comes of Age Better Bridges
3. Low-cost Transport Devices The Transport Needs of the Poor Efficient Localized Low-cost Vehicles The Korean Chee-geh Chinese Wheelbarrows The Appropriate Transport Module! The One-Wheel Cycle Trailer Cycle Rickshaws for the Poor Illich on Transport
Chapter VII: Technology For Development - Manufacturing, Mining and Recycling 1. Small-scale Manufacturing Wool Spinning in Pakistan Weaving Technology in Bangladesh Handmade Paper Local Soap Manufacture in Ghana Low-cost Pharmaceuticals Vast Needs and Small Firms The Nikart Problems of Expansion Brass Casting and Metalwork in Ghana
2. Small-scale Mining The Forgotten Partner Barefoot Geologists Small is Expensive Old Methods to Meet New Needs Mica Mining in Sri Lanka
3. Recycling New Jobs from Old Rubbish Trash Technology Social Structure and Solid Waste Garbage Recovery on a Human Scale
Chapter VIII: Generation and Transfer of Technology 1. Sources of Technology: Formal and Informal Generation of Appropriate Technologies Innovation Effort in Appropriate Technology Rural Innovation in Indonesia
And in America Innovators' Movement in Nicaragua Informal R&D in Rural Communities Indigenous Technical Knowledge The Unglamorous Poor The Process of Indigenous Technical Change
2. Technology Transfer and Aid The Acquisition of Technological Capability in Developing Countries The Caribbean Example Transnationals and the Third World Multinationals Revisited What Went Wrong? The Mythology of Aid Choice of Technology: Donor's Approach
Chapter IX: The Dissemination of Technology 1. National Policies and Development Plans Creating the Right Climate Planning for Rural Industrialization Technology Policy in the People's Republic of China India's Five Year Development Plan 1978-83 Kenya's Four Year Development Plan 1979-83 An Unfavourable Environment
2. Channels of Technology Diffusion Dissemination of Appropriate Technologies Social Carriers of Techniques
3. The Commercial Route: Promoting Small Enterprises AT and the Entrepreneur Creating the Right Environment for Small Firms Small is Appropriate
4. The Extension Route Asking Appropriate Questions The Ten Commandments of Project Planning A Successful Methodology from India The Organization of an Appropriate Storage Technology Programme
Chapter X: Education, Training and Communication 1. Formal Education Education for What? Climbing Jacob's Ladder The Diploma Disease Education: Desired for the Rural Poor Reorienting Science Education AT In the Higher Education System Thoughts of a Field Worker University-based AT Groups (ATDCs) Appropriate Engineering Education
2. Formal and Informal Training The Rural University Botswana's Brigades Training Village Entrepreneurs - Easier Said Than Done Village Polytechnics in Kenya Training Pump Mechanics in India One Tier or Three? Training for Self Reliance in Peru Why We Need Female Extension Agents Time to Learn for Women
3. Communication Producing Basic Literacy Materials Communication Technology The Barefoot Microchip Solar TV? Video in the Village They Can't See the Point People's Theatre: an Appropriate Medium
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