Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet / Erika Guttmann-Bond.
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية الناشر:Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2019وصف:x, 181 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781785709920
- 1785709925
- S494.5.S86 G88 2019
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | S494.5.S86 G88 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000110518 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | S494.5.S86 G88 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000110517 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181).
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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.