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Description Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, … More Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.[1] It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his work Small Is Beautiful. Both Schumacher and many modern-day proponents of appropriate technology also emphasize the technology as people-centered. (Wikipedia)
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Amadei, Bernard
(Summer 2004)
Engineering for the Developing World.
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
(pp. 24-31).
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Pursell, Carroll W.
(2003)
Appropriate technology, modernity, and U.S. foreign aid.
In: Science and cultural diversity: Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, 7--14 July 2001, Plenary lectures
(pp. 175-187).
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Reith, Reinhold; Schmidt, Dorothea
(2002)
Kleine betriebe: angepasste technologie? Hoffnungen, erfahrungen und ernüchterungen aus sozial: und technikhistorischer sicht; (Small farms: appropriate technology? Hopes and disappointments of social experience: overview and history of technology).
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Pursell, Carroll W.
(1984)
Appropriate technology and the rebirth of historic energy sources.
In: Energie in der geschichte: Zur Aktualität der Technikgeschichte; (Energy in history: The topicality of the history of technology)
(pp. 453-460).
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