ISBN: 978-81-7319-747-5 
Publication Year:   2006
Pages:   355
Binding:   Hard Back

Energy, Environment And Development brings together a representative selection of Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy's seminal works over a period of nearly twenty-five years. These works advocate a carefully coordinated policy on Science and Technology leading to sustainable human development. The Eighteen articles, organized by themes, create in the first section, a premise for development of appropriate technologies by proclaiming a need for having a re-look at western influenced technologies resulting in negative impacts. The second section describes the efforts made to develop and deploy sustainable energy technologies which can be construed as a response to the felt needs of the society. The third section focuses on the evaluation of sustainable technologies thus establishing that they are not only economically as well as environmentally sound but also achieve the goal of sustainable development and maintain gender neutrality. The analysis Prof. Reddy and his co-authors presented at that time, and the remedies they proposed, are still valid. The relevance of these works, particularly from the technological perspective, becomes increasingly clear with each shock to the new economy.

Foreword / Preface / The Evolution of an Energy Analyst: Some Personal Reflections / Technology, Development and Society: Concepts and Issues – Towards an Indian Science and Technology / Technological Change: The Impact of Innovations on Society / Technology and Development / The Interaction between Science and Technology and Societal Development / Science in India / Choice of Alternative Technologies / The Indian Perspective: Appropriate Technologies / Appropriate Technology and its Implications on Lifestyles / The Nature of Western Technology: Why Does it inevitably Produce Alienation, Unemployment and Environmental Damage? / Technology Development and the Environment: A Re-appraisal / Technology Inventions and Innovations – Biogas Plants: Prospects, Problems and Tasks / The Dissemination of Stabilized Mud Block Technology / The Design of Rural Energy Centers / The Commercialisation of Improved Technologies in Rural Areas / Technology Evaluation – The Comparative Costs of Electricity Conservation and Centralized and Decentralized Electricity Generation / Substitution of Energy Carriers for Cooking in Bangalore / Energy efficiency from the Perspective of Developing Countries / Energy for Women and Women for Energy.