Implementing environmental technologies in development situations: The example of ecological toilets

Christian Davies-Colley and Willie Smith

Technology in Society, 2012, vol. 34, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Traditional technology transfer models typically employ a four-stage approach: planning, selection, implementation, and evaluation. This paper examines the value of such an approach in promoting the use of environmental technologies in community development. The TepozEco Urban Ecological Sanitation Pilot Project in Tepoztlán, Morelos State, Mexico, provides a case study. Thirty interviews with recipients of ecological toilets, project staff and volunteers, and local and state government representatives were conducted during 2007. The steps required to implement this ‘extreme’ environmental technology are tested against traditional models of technology transfer. A revised model is proposed. This sets out an iterative process centred on the need to recognise evaluation at all steps and phases of the transfer process, not simply as one stage in a linear progression.

Keywords: Environmental technologies; Ecological toilets; Technology transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2011.12.002

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