Proceedings of the 1991 International Symposium on Technology and Society - ISTAS ´91: Preparing for a Sustainable Society. Post Conference Edition. (Cat. No.91CH3152-6)

fYear

1991

fDate

21-22 June 1991

Firstpage

1

Abstract

The following topics are dealt with: risk reduction; politics; self-sustainable societies; environmental issues; social economics; natural resource accounting; limits to growth; HDTV (high-definition television); competitiveness; legal factors; Canadian society; Asian societies; developing nations; industrialization; technology social factors; agriculture; rural communities; economics; professional ethics; chaos; environmental engineering education; technological innovation; feminism; teaching tools; technological literacy; resource recovery; mechanical engineering education; engineering curricula; information technology; engineering for war; risk assessment; ecological literacy; recycling; and health issues

Keywords

economic and sociologic effects; Asian societies; Canadian society; HDTV; agriculture; chaos; competitiveness; developing nations; ecological literacy; economics; engineering curricula; engineering for war; environmental engineering education; environmental issues; feminism; growth limits; health issues; high-definition television; industrialization; information technology; legal factors; mechanical engineering education; natural resource accounting; politics; professional ethics; recycling; resource recovery; risk assessment; risk reduction; rural communities; self-sustainable societies; social economics; teaching tools; technological innovation; technological literacy; technology social factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology and Society, 1991. ISTAS '91: Preparing for a Sustainable Society. Post Conference Edition., Proceedings of the 1991 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0666-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTAS.1991.700341

Filename

700341