Environment and Technology
Vierah Hulley
9781774079577
294 pages
Arcler Education Inc
Overview
The book explains "green" or "clean" technologies, and refers to the growth of new technologies aimed at protecting, monitoring or reducing the negative effect of technologies on the ecosystem and resource consumption. It also discusses how technology profoundly affects society, the economy, and the environment. It has caused various environmental and social problems, however it is also essential to address environmental degradation, food shortages, climate change, waste management and different other persistent global challenges. The book describes how human society quickly responds to the ever-evolving challenges, which largely depends on the speed and scale through which advanced technologies replace inferior technologies in various global environments.
Author Bio
Vierah Hulley obtained her Ph.D. degree in Geohydrology from the University of the Free State, South Africa, in 2013. Her expertise is in Environmental and Earth Sciences and she has an extensive vocational background in the areas of natural resources management, environmental geochemistry, contaminated site remediation, sustainable development, and spatial analytics. She is the founder and Managing Director of HL Nexus: The Data Imaginarium; a company dedicated to optimizing natural resources management with data science.
