Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet /
Guttmann-Bond, E. B.
Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet / Erika Guttmann-Bond. - 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181).
Learning from the past -- Wetlands and wetland agriculture -- Farming the desert -- Food security -- Saving the soil -- Vernacular architecture and sustainable cities -- The Tao of environmental management.
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.
9781785709937 (electronic bk.) 1785709933 (electronic bk.) 9781785709951 (electronic bk.) 178570995X (electronic bk.) (paperback) (paperback)
22573/ctv13p870z JSTOR
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable architecture.
Archaeology.
Archaeology
Agriculture durable.
Architecture durable.
Archéologie.
archaeology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Agronomy--Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Agronomy--General.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
Archaeology.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable architecture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
S494.5.S86 / G88 2019eb
630
Reinventing sustainability : how archaeology can save the planet / Erika Guttmann-Bond. - 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181).
Learning from the past -- Wetlands and wetland agriculture -- Farming the desert -- Food security -- Saving the soil -- Vernacular architecture and sustainable cities -- The Tao of environmental management.
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.
9781785709937 (electronic bk.) 1785709933 (electronic bk.) 9781785709951 (electronic bk.) 178570995X (electronic bk.) (paperback) (paperback)
22573/ctv13p870z JSTOR
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable architecture.
Archaeology.
Archaeology
Agriculture durable.
Architecture durable.
Archéologie.
archaeology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Agronomy--Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Agriculture--Agronomy--General.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
Archaeology.
Sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable architecture.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
S494.5.S86 / G88 2019eb
630