Appropriate technology

Appropriate technology in a most basic sense means suitable technology. In practice, it is often something that might be described as using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve an intended purpose. Definitions differ, however, among those theorists, writers, and practitioners who use the term. The term has often, though not always, been applied to the predicaments of developing nations or underdeveloped rural areas of industrialized nations.

See also

• Alternative technology
• Alternative propulsion
• Biodiesel
• Community-based economics
• Eco-village
• Lewis Mumford
• List of environment topics
• Amory Lovins
• Malian Peanut Sheller
• Victor Papanek
• Witold Rybczynski
• John Todd
• J. Baldwin
• Wind-up Radio