Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land.
The authors argue that we will decarbonize the global energy system and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We will dematerialize the economy by leaner manufacturing, better product design, and smart use of materials. We will significantly increase land areas reserved for nature by conducting highly productive and environmentally friendly agriculture on less land than is used today, even as global population doubles.
The book concludes that the technological opportunities before us offer the possibility of a vastly superior industrial ecology. Rich in both data and theory, the book offers fresh analyses essential for everyone in the environmental arena concerned with global change, sustainable development, and profitable investments in technology.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition, First Thus. 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). Seller Inventory # 018131
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