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Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet /
This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define 'intermediate', which means that they are often simple, low in cost and they depend on loc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Havertown, PA :
Oxbow Books,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define 'intermediate', which means that they are often simple, low in cost and they depend on local materials. Significantly, they don't require fossil fuels. There is a lot that we in the West can learn from the past and from developing countries where people still practice traditional agriculture, and there is now broad agreement among many governments, non-government organisations, engineers and agronomists, as well as the United Nations, that intermediate technologies are often the most appropriate way forward in developing countries. The New Green Revolution is looking to traditional knowledge to solve problems of decreasing yields and environmental impoverishment, rather than to technology that is dependent on the diminishing resource of fossil fuels. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181). |
| ISBN: | 9781785709937 1785709933 9781785709951 178570995X |