Tecnología y Desarrollo Sustentable. Una Perspectiva Europea

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"Technology is a key link between society and nature that influences the distribucion of benefits from natural resources; and at the same time distributes risks from the abuse of nature. Any moves toward a more sustainable and socially just society will have to manage the transformation of technology. This article introduces a new European perspective about the sustainable transformation of ‘technological regimes’. This new perspective emphasises the role played by novel niches in processes of transformation. A new research project is introduced in the article. The project will investigate the experiences from 30 years of the ‘appropriate technology’ (AT) social movement in the UK. Experiments from the AT movement in the areas of local, organic food, eco-houses, and wind energy will be analysed as if they were novel niches in sustainable development. These experiences will be critical tests for the new theory for transforming technological regimes in more sustainable directions."