Inventing for the Environment

Book Overview

Essays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262633280
• ISBN13: 9780262633284
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher