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The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
Ken Darrow and Mike Saxenian
Detailing over 1150 books on appropriate technology, this standard text covers agricultural tools, water supply systems, small enterprise development, renewable energy systems and non-formal education. Now fully updated.
ISBN 0917704177, (VIA), 1993, 800pp, £19.95,

Appropriate Technology: Tools, choices and implications
Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull
This book gives both non-technical and technical international workers a thorough under-standing of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale community development. The book is written to help the reader create and design appropriate technological systems, processes, and devices for a variety of settings. Of equal importance to the coverage of technologies in the book is the emphasis placed on the societal impact and implications of these new technologies. This practical handbook, which includes self tests and problem solving exercises, will be ideal for the non-technical and technical professional and student.
ISBN 0123351901, (Academic Press), 1998, 385pp, £34.95,

The Economies of Small: Appropriate technology in a changing world
Raphael Kaplinsky
Describes the origins and development of the appropriate technology movement, and analyses both its changing concerns at the different stages of development, and also its abiding emphasis on scale and human values.
ISBN 1853390712, (ITP), 1990, 244pp, £14.95,

The Intermediate Technology Transfer Unit: A handbook on operations
John Powell
A highly successful network of Intermediate Technology Transfer Units has been established within Ghana, serving to foster and develop small-scale, informal industry. Since the founding of the first ITTU in 1980 the idea has flourished with such units being set up throughout Ghana. This handbook provides detailed guidelines on the workings of the unit. Whilst its primary purpose is to serve as a training manual for those involved in the operation of ITTUs, it also aims to introduce the idea to a wider audience, perhaps inspiring others to reproduce the practice elsewhere.
ISBN 1853393142, (ITP), 1995, 54pp, £7.50,

Inventors of Zambia: Portraits of Zambian fundis
Victor Crutchley
During his six years in Zambia working as an Appropriate Technologist in rural districts, Victor Crutchley was impressed by the many imaginative and resourceful inventors he met. This book looks at various inventors, the tools they made and how they arrived at their ideas, illustrated with sketches and technical details.
ISBN 0952946904, (Eggardon Publications), 1996, 104pp, £4.99,

Island Technology
Edited by Tony Marjoram
Pacific island countries have united internationally to contest the negative external impacts of Western technology - such as the disposal of poison gas and toxic waste, the transportation of nuclear materials and nuclear testing, as well as the overwhelming prospect of global warming and a rising sea-level. These internal effects encompass the well-identified problems caused by unsustainable fishing, forestry and mining and more unknown, the various cost/benefits of new technology in the region. The contributors' analyses and observations span a range of key issues: agriculture and forestry, aid and technology, aviation and shipping, banking, communications, development policy and planning, education and training, energy, the environment, fisheries and marine resources, food processing, gender issues, health, housing, industry, mining, project management, technology choice and transfer and sanitation and water supply.
ISBN 1853392235, (ITP), 1994, 384pp, £25.00,

Liklik Buk
Amanda Twohig
A classic general sourcebook on appropriate technology - with wide application outside Papua New Guinea.
ISBN 9980560053, (LikLik Buk Information Centre), 1986, 274pp, £19.95,

The Management of Technological Change: An annotated bibliography
Donnacadh Hurley with an introduction by Matthew S. Gamser
This extensively annotated collection of titles aims to guide governments and other decision makers in developing nations in the choices they make in technologies, and also in the development of mechanisms by which these selections can be implemented.
ISBN 0946688842, (ITP), 1987, 216pp, £12.95,

Mastering the Machine: Poverty, aid and technology
Ian Smillie
Although the world has learnt a great deal about development in the last 30 years, too little has been done with that knowledge. This book examines an aid establishment hooked on hardware, and analyses what lies behind the failures and successes.
ISBN 1853390968, (ITP), 1991, 268pp, £22.50,

Mastering the Machine: Poverty, aid and technology
Ian Smillie
Although the world has learned a great deal about development in the last thirty years, too little has been done with that knowledge. This book examines an aid establishment hooked on hardware, and analyses what lies behind the failures and successes.
ISBN 1853391573, (ITP), 1991, 268pp, £14.95,

Mobilizing Appropriate Technology: Papers on planning aid programmes
Edited by Matthew Gamser
Discusses the role of AT in a national aid programme. If AT enters the project cycle at too late a stage it has little influence over the technological choice and the grassroots organizations that play a key role in development and change in rural areas.
ISBN 1853390453, (ITP), 1988, 112pp, £12.95,

More Innovations for Development
Edited by Gillis Een and Sten Joste
Profiles over 80 technical innovations in the field of development, covering five main subject areas: water, energy, forestry, farming and fishing.
ISBN 1853391026, (ITP), 1991, 96pp, £9.95,

No Condition Permanent: Pump-priming Ghana's industrial revolution
Ian Smillie
The struggles and successes in achieving acceptance of new, small-scale technologies in Ghana.
ISBN 094668832X, (ITP), 1986, 220pp, £12.95,

One Hundred Innovations For Development
Edited by Sten Joste and Gillis Een
Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.
ISBN 185339095X, (ITP), 1988, 80pp, £9.95,

The Other Policy: The influence of policies on technology choice and small enterprise development
Edited by Ton de Wilde with Henk Thomas and Frances Stewart
Foreign aid to developing countries often favours inappropriate technologies. This book reviews the policies promoting appropriate technology and identifies positive programmes of action that could be instituted at a national level.
ISBN 1853390631, (ITP), 1990, 512pp, £30.00,

The Other Policy: The influence of policies on technology choice and small enterprise development
Edited by Ton de Wilde with Henk Thomas and Frances Stewart
Foreign aid to developing countries often favours inappropriate technologies. This book reviews the policies promoting appropriate technology and identifies positive programmes of action that could be instituted at a national level.
ISBN 1853390593, (ITP), 1990, 512pp, £17.50,

The Survival of the Fitter: Lives of some African engineers
John Powell
This book traces the development of Ghana's informal engineering sector through stories of the progress of the actual people involved. The first generation of grassroots engineers are wayside vehicle mechanics, or 'fitters', engaged in repairing machinery. The author argues that the evolution of a fitter, from this role to that of a manufacturer of tools, machines and equipment serving a wide range of 'secondary' urban and rural industries, is central to progress in engineering, and that engineering and engineers are central to the development of an economy.
ISBN 1853393169, (ITP), 1995, 128pp, £12.95,

The Technological Transformation of Rural India
A. K. N. Reddy and A. S. Bhalla
Using case studies from India this book presents a conceptual model of commercialization of rural technologies in developing countries. It concludes that India has not placed enough emphasis on ensuring the efficiency of small-scale production units.
ISBN 1853391999, (ITP), 1994, 192pp, £14.95,

The Technological Upgrading of Service Institutions: Lessons from Asia
Tue Kell Nielsen
The Technological Upgrading of Service Institutions describes the processes involved when technology is introduced into a developing country from a donor country. It discusses the techniques and problems of setting up a technological service institute in the host country and in particular the importance of ensuring that the service organization becomes independent and self-sufficient as soon as possible. The roles of other parties involved in the transfer are also discussed, NGOs, financial institutions, equipment suppliers, consultants, advisers, as well as the economic and political implications. Detailed case studies from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, India and the Philippines provide fascinating insights into the processes of technology transfer.
ISBN 1853394351, (ITP), 1998, 256pp, £15.95,

Technology Choice: A critique of the Appropriate Technology movement
Kelvin W. Willoughby
A comprehensive review and critique of the theory of Appropriate Technology, which proposes a framework for integrating traditional economic development with its techniques - a sober look at the obstacles, and an appreciation of its value.
ISBN 1853390577, (ITP), 1990, 350pp, £17.50,

Technology Development in Rural Industries: A study of China's collectives
Hannah Piek
This book is a study of the development and acquisition of technology by a group of small and medium-sized rural industries in Sichuan province, China. The enterprises are mainly collective ones, but they are compared with other ownership groups, such as private and state enterprises. Careful analysis, using time series data and a survey sample of rural collective industries in two counties in China, reveals that the Chinese technology system is ineffective in reaching all private and public ownership groups, especially the rural collective enterprises, and does not promote co-operation and assistance. Technology Development in Rural Industries will be of interest to economists, developmentalists, NGOs, social scientists, and private and public consultants within the development field.
ISBN 185339422X, (ITP), 1998, 326pp, £24.95,

Technology Transfer: Nine case studies
Sosthenes Buatsi
Nine case studies in technology transfer which demonstrate the experience gained in different countries and different technologies.
ISBN 094668829X, (ITP), 1988, 82pp, £7.95,

Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Technologies from the people
Edited by Matthew S. Gamser, with Helen Appleton and Nicola Carter
Technical assistance fails to bring technical change when it fails to work with local innovation. This book aims to raise awareness of people's innovation from actual cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
ISBN 1853390615, (ITP), 1990, 178pp, £17.50,

Village Technology Handbook
VITA
A guide to appropriate technology at village level, with chapters on water, health, agriculture, food processing and preservation, construction, home improvement, crafts and village industry, and communications.
ISBN 0866192751, (VITA), 1975, 388pp, £15.95,