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Ecotechnology is an applied science that seeks to fulfill human needs while causing minimal ecological disruption, by harnessing and manipulating natural forces to leverage their beneficial effects. Ecotechnology integrates two fields of study: the 'ecology of technics' and the 'technics of ecology,' requiring an understanding of the structures and processes of ecosystems and societies. All sustainable engineering that can reduce damage to ecosystems, adopt ecology as a fundamental basis, and ensure conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development may be considered as forms of ecotechnology.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
Ecotechnology emphasizes approaching a problem from a holistic point of view; for example, holding that environmental remediation of rivers should not only consider one single area but the whole catchment area, which includes the upstream, middle-stream, and downstream sections.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
The construction industry can, in the ecotechnology view, reduce its impact on nature by consulting experts on the environment.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
Ecotechnics
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During Ecotechnics '95 - International Symposium on Ecological Engineering in Östersund, Sweden, the participants agreed on the definition: "Ecotechnics is defined as the method of designing future societies within ecological frames."
Ecotechnics is defined as the 'techne' of bodies.{{huh?|date=May 2024}} Ecotechnics thinks of the body as a technology which makes possible{{among whom|date=May 2024}} the inclusion of a whole new range of bodies{{dubious|date=May 2024}}. This gives people{{who?|date=May 2024}} more agency and biopower over their own use of their bodies.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} This makes it usable{{among whom|date=May 2024}} for queer theory and disability studies.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} An interpretation{{among whom|date=May 2024}} also refers to the term as the craft of the home.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UG7yoX-_PVUC&dq=ecotechnics&pg=PT176|title=The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World|last=Greer|first=John Michael|date=2009-10-01|publisher=New Society Publishers|isbn=9781550924398|language=en}}{{failed verification|date=May 2024|reason=The sources is about creating sustainable technology, it has nothing to do with any of the proceeding details}}
In classifying the body as a technical object,{{huh?|date=May 2024}} Jean-Luc Nancy explained how it works by partitioning bodies{{huh?|date=May 2024}} into their own zones{{huh?|date=May 2024}} and spaces{{huh?|date=May 2024}}, which also allow such bodies to connect with other bodies.{{Cite book|title=The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power|last=Ash|first=James|date=2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=9781623564599|location=New York, NY|pages=109}}{{huh?|date=May 2024}} Hence, Nancy claims that technology determine our interactions with other beings{{who?|date=May 2024}} in the world.{{huh?|date=May 2024}} Ecotechnics is also central{{among whom|date=May 2024}} in Sullivan's and Murray's collection of essays Queering the Technologisation of Bodies.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} It is built{{by whom|date=May 2024}} on Bernard Stiegler's work that sees the body and technology as a double process: the technology and the body are informed by each other.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} Derrida who extends on both Nancy and Stiegler's ideas argues that the 'proper body' implicates{{among whom|date=May 2024}} interconnections of technical additions.{{clarify|date=May 2024}} Ecotechnics goes against the essentialist and binary notion of the body{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} as a technological object which positions it within post-structuralism.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} The body can only be understood{{by whom|date=May 2024}} within its environment and this environment is a technical one.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
Nancy also applied the ecotechnics concept to contemporary issues such as war and globalization. He maintained, for instance, that modern conflicts are produced by the dividing lines between: North and South; rich and poor; and, integrated and excluded.{{Cite book|title=Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community|last=Devisch|first=Ignaas|date=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9781441165626|location=London|pages=141|language=en}} He also believes that ecotechnics is undoing communities due to the elimination of the polis and the prevalence of oikos, calling for a global sovereignty that would administer the world as a single household.{{Cite book|title=War and Social Theory: World, Value and Identity|last=Curtis|first=Neal|date=2006|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781403933713|location=New York|pages=161}}
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See also
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- Afforestation
- Agroforestry
- Analog forestry
- Biomass
- Biomass (ecology)
- Buffer strip
- Collaborative innovation network
- Deforestation
- Deforestation during the Roman period
- Desertification
- Ecological engineering
- Ecological engineering methods
- Energy-efficient landscaping
- Forest farming
- Forest gardening
- Great Plains Shelterbelt
- GreenTec Awards
- Hedgerow
- Home gardens
- Human ecology
- Institute of Ecotechnics
- Macro-engineering
- Megaprojects
- Mid Sweden University
- Permaculture
- Permaforestry
- Proposed sahara forest project
- Push–pull technology
- Sand fence
- Seawater Greenhouse
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable design
- Terra preta
- Thomas P. Hughes
- Wildcrafting
- Windbreak
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References
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| year = 2008
| title = Corpus
| publisher = Fordham University Press
| isbn = 9780823229628
| authorlink = Jean-Luc Nancy
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Further reading
- Allenby, B.R., and D.J. Richards (1994), The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
- Braungart, M., and W. McDonough (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press, {{ISBN|0865475873}}.
- Huesemann, Michael H., and Joyce A. Huesemann (2011). [http://www.newtechnologyandsociety.org Technofix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment], Chapter 13, "The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Appropriate Technologies", New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, {{ISBN|0865717044}}, 464 pp.
- Von Weizsacker, E.U., C. Hargroves, M.H. Smith, C. Desha, and P. Stasinopoulos (2009). Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity, Routledge.
External links
- [http://www.miun.se/en/University/Organisation/Departments/thu/Research/Ecotechnology-research/ Ecotechnology research at Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden]{{dead link|date=July 2017}}
- [http://www.ecotechnics.edu The Institute of Ecotechnics, London, U.K.]
- [http://www.tc.gc.ca/eTV ecoTECHNOLOGY for Vehicles, Transport Canada, Ottawa, Canada]
- [http://www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk Eco Technology Show, 11-12 June 2015, Brighton, U.K.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119143548/http://www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk/ |date=19 January 2015 }}
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