Environmental Impacts of Appropriate Technology: The System Boundaries

Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, Vol. 6, pp. 141–142, 2014

Posted: 17 Apr 2016

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Corinthias Sianipar

Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Kyoto University

Kiyoshi Dowaki

Tokyo University of Science - Department of Industrial Administration

Gatot Yudoko

Bandung Institute of Technology - School of Business and Management

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In rural development, health becomes a critical issue. As a means to improve their quality of life, rural people have applied technological solutions; however, many technologies impose high environmental impacts, meaning that rural health would be affected both in near and far futures. Due to local limited circumstance in rural communities, Appropriate Technology (AT) emerges as a comprehensive solution with less environmental impacts. Thus, research on environmental impacts of AT has become an emerging field of study. In such kind of research, positioning is taken into two different focuses: impacts imposed in AT usage, and complete overview throughout life-cycle. Both are founded on the understanding to put AT for having less environmental impacts by design. Therefore, the system boundary incorporates all phases of AT life-cycle. There are three groups of observation, each with different observed phenomena. General overview is provided to understand each phenomenon. The positioning become foundation of observation, and the system boundary acts as the precise basis of calculation.

Keywords: Appropriate Technology, Environmental Impacts, System Boundaries

JEL Classification: O13, Q21, Q41, Q11, O31, O32, O33

Suggested Citation

Sianipar, Corinthias and Dowaki, Kiyoshi and Yudoko, Gatot, Environmental Impacts of Appropriate Technology: The System Boundaries (2014). Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, Vol. 6, pp. 141–142, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2761891

Corinthias Sianipar (Contact Author)

Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Kyoto University ( email )

Kyoto
Japan

HOME PAGE: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Kiyoshi Dowaki

Tokyo University of Science - Department of Industrial Administration ( email )

2641 Yamazaki
Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278-8510
Japan

Gatot Yudoko

Bandung Institute of Technology - School of Business and Management ( email )

Jl. Ganesha 10
Gedung SBM-ITB
Bandung, West Java 40132
Indonesia

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