| dc.creator |
Chambers, Robert |
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| dc.date |
2011-01-12T10:37:16Z |
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| dc.date |
2011-01-12T10:37:16Z |
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| dc.date |
1978-06 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T05:20:13Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-26T05:20:13Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Chambers, R., 1978. Towards rural futures: an approach through the planning of technologies, IDS Discussion Paper 134. Brighton : IDS. |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/56 |
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| dc.identifier |
254851 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182889 |
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| dc.description |
This paper sets out to open up some apparently neglected aspects of the
potential of technological research and development (R and D) for creating
rural futures in third world countries, especially in South Asia and
Africa. Against the background of forces which deepen and extend rural
poverty, it suggests that new technology can either impoverish or,
through imaginative R and D, may have a countervailing effect on the
forces which tend to impoverish. It reviews some current approaches and
then speculates on some gaps which they sometimes leave: R and D on R and
D itself; learning from and working with rural people; environment specificity;
a future-orientation. It outlines criteria and a method of
planning for identifying desirable new technology and lists types of
environment for which the method might be useful. The approach is not
put forward as an alternative to current ideas of appropriate technology,
but as a possible complement and supplement to them. Like other planning,
it has risks. The question posed is whether the potential benefits justify
the risks and costs of developing and pilot testing the proposed method. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Institute of Development Studies (UK) |
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| dc.relation |
IDS Discussion Papers;134 |
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| dc.subject |
Agriculture |
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| dc.subject |
Science and Society |
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| dc.title |
Towards rural futures: an approach through the planning of technologies |
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| dc.type |
Series paper (IDS) |
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