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A History of Technology and Environment - From stone tools to ecological crisis (Hardcover)
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A History of Technology and Environment - From stone tools to ecological crisis (Hardcover)
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This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key
areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural
communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall
origins of environmental problems. Combining approaches drawn from
environmental biology and the history of science and technology, it
describes the motivations behind many technical advances and the
settings in which they occurred, before tracing their ultimate
environmental impacts. Four broad areas of human activity are
described: over-harvesting of natural resources using the examples
of hunting, fishing and freshwater use; farming, population, land
use, and migration; discovery, synthesis and use of manufactured
chemicals; and development of sources of artificial energy and the
widespread pollution caused by power generation and energy use.
These innovations have been driven by various forces, but in most
cases new technologies have emerged out of fascinating,
psychologically rich, human experiences. This book provides an
introduction to these complex developments and will be essential
reading for students of science, technology and society,
environmental history, and the history of science and technology.
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