1st Edition
A History of Technology and Environment From stone tools to ecological crisis
By Edward Golding
Copyright 2017
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Over-Harvesting of Natural Resources: Hunting and Fishing
2. Over-Harvesting of Natural Resources: Fresh Water
3. People and the Land
4. Manufactured Chemicals
5. Chemicals in the Environment
6. Power Technologies
7. The Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels
8. Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy
Biography
Edward L. Golding is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
