Inventing for the environment

Arthur Molella, Joyce Bedi

418 pages, parution le 26/09/2003

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Résumé

This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy.

Each part focuses on a single environmental issue. Topics range widely, from the role of innovation in urban landscapes to the relationship among technological innovation, public health, and the environment. Each part features an essay by a historian, an essay by a practitioner, and a "portrait of innovation" describing an individual whose work has made a difference. The mixture of historians and practitioners is critical because statements about the environment inevitably measure present and future conditions against those of the past. Early in the industrial revolution, smoke stacks were symbols of prosperity; at its end they were regarded as signs of pollution. Historical examples can also lead to the rediscovery of an old technology, as in the revival of straw bale construction. As it explores the history of invention for the environment, the book suggests many new ways to put the past to use for the common good.

On Nature and Technology
- Tempered Dreams
- The Tool that is More: An Inquiry into Fire, the Original Promethean Invention
What Role Does Innovation Paly in urban Landscapes ?
- Inventing Nature in Washington, D.C.
- Bioliteracy, Bioparks, Urban Natural History, and Enhancing Urban Environments
- Portrait of Innovation: Jon C. Coe
How Do innovations in City Planning Shape the Environment ?
- Environmental Planning for National Regeneration: Techno-Cities in New Deal America and Nazi Germany
- Prospects and Retrospect: The City of Hundertwasser and Soleri
- Portrait of Innovation: Erick Valle
How Do innovations in Architecture Affect The Environment ?
- Straw-Bale Building: Using an Old Technology to Preserve the Environment
- The Wimberley House of Healing
- Portrait of Innovation: David Hertz
How Are Technological Innovation, Public Health, and the Environment Related ?
- How Bad Theory Can Lead to Good Technology: Water Supply and Sewerage in the Age of Miasmas
- Clean Water for the World
- Portrait of Innovation: Devra Lee Davis
How Can Innovations in Alternative Energy Sources Affect The Environment ?
- Reducing Automobile Emissions in Southern California: The Dance of Public Policies and Technological Fixes
- Negawatts, Hypercars, and Natural Capitalism
- Portrait of Innovation: Subhendu Guha
How Are Principles of Industrial Ecology Applied to Benefit The Environment ?
- Industrial Ecology and the Transformation of Corporate Environmental Management: A Business Historian's Perspective
- Industrial Ecology
- Portrait of Innovation: Robert H. Socolow
Conclusion: The New Environmentalism
- List of Contributors
- Index

L'auteur - Arthur Molella

Arthur Molella is Director at the Smithsonian Institution's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

L'auteur - Joyce Bedi

Joyce Bedi is Historian at the Smithsonian Institution's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Arthur Molella, Joyce Bedi
Parution	26/09/2003
Nb. de pages	418
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	835g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262134279
ISBN13	978-0-262-13427-9