Are appropriate technologies an effective means for achieving community based natural resource management?
This research thread explores community based appropriate technology model of development and describes the challenges of maintaining local control over the development process. Three short stories from case sites in southwestern Maharashtra demonstrate how appropriate technologies are made and unmade locally. For programs distributing smokeless cookstoves, ‘the local; is profoundly influenced by numerous scale—crossing developments such as structural economic reforms precipitating international investments in market infrastructure for use by village artisans, and also downward state scientific knowledge transfers influencing decentralized technology production centers. Moreover, village level hierarchies and heterogeneity significantly influence the implementation of community—led programs to develop appropriate cooking technologies. Each case illustrates how the principle parameters of appropriate technologies – local employment generation and cultural, ecological and financial compa
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