# Ecotechnology > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ecotechnology > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ecotechnology.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotechnology > Source revision: 1350272853 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Technology causing minimal ecological harm This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Ecotechnology" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: This article is a mess, especially since material from Ecotechnics was merged here. Please help improve this article if you can. (May 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Ecotechnology** is an [applied science](/source/Applied_science) that seeks to fulfill [human](/source/Human) needs while causing minimal ecological disruption, by harnessing and manipulating natural forces to leverage their beneficial effects. Ecotechnology integrates two fields of study: the '[ecology](/source/Ecology) of technics' and the 'technics of ecology,' requiring an understanding of the structures and processes of [ecosystems](/source/Ecosystems) and societies. All [sustainable engineering](/source/Sustainable_engineering) that can reduce damage to ecosystems, adopt ecology as a fundamental basis, and ensure conservation of [biodiversity](/source/Biodiversity) and sustainable development may be considered as forms of ecotechnology.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Ecotechnology emphasizes approaching a problem from a [holistic](/source/Holism) point of view; for example, holding that [environmental remediation](/source/Environmental_remediation) of rivers should not only consider one single area but the whole [catchment area](/source/Drainage_basin), which includes the upstream, middle-stream, and downstream sections.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The construction industry can, in the ecotechnology view, reduce its impact on nature by consulting experts on the environment.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Ecotechnics This section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2024) During *Ecotechnics '95 - International Symposium on Ecological Engineering* in [Östersund](/source/%C3%96stersund), [Sweden](/source/Sweden), the participants agreed on the definition: "Ecotechnics is defined as the method of designing future societies within ecological frames." **Ecotechnics** is defined as the '[techne](/source/Techne)' of bodies.[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] Ecotechnics thinks of the body as a technology which makes possible[*[among whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] the inclusion of a whole new range of bodies[*[dubious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement) – [discuss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ecotechnology#Dubious)*]. This gives people[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] more agency and [biopower](/source/Biopower) over their own use of their bodies.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] This makes it usable[*[among whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] for [queer theory](/source/Queer_theory) and [disability studies](/source/Disability_studies).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] An interpretation[*[among whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] also refers to the term as the craft of the home.[1][*[failed verification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability)*] In classifying the body as a technical object,[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] [Jean-Luc Nancy](/source/Jean-Luc_Nancy) explained how it works by partitioning bodies[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] into their own zones[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] and spaces[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*], which also allow such bodies to connect with other bodies.[2][*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] Hence, Nancy claims that technology determine our interactions with other beings[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] in the world.[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*][2] Ecotechnics is also central[*[among whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] in Sullivan's and Murray's collection of essays *Queering the Technologisation of Bodies*.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] It is built[*[by whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] on [Bernard Stiegler](/source/Bernard_Stiegler)'s work that sees the body and technology as a double process: the technology and the body are informed by each other.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] [Derrida](/source/Derrida) who extends on both Nancy and Stiegler's ideas argues that the 'proper body' implicates[*[among whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] interconnections of technical additions.[*[clarification needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify)*] Ecotechnics goes against the [essentialist](/source/Essentialist) and binary notion of the body[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] as a technological object which positions it within [post-structuralism](/source/Post-structuralism).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The body can only be understood[*[by whom?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions)*] within its environment and this environment is a technical one.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Nancy also applied the ecotechnics concept to contemporary issues such as war and globalization. He maintained, for instance, that modern conflicts are produced by the dividing lines between: North and South; rich and poor; and, integrated and excluded.[3] He also believes that ecotechnics is undoing communities due to the elimination of the *[polis](/source/Polis)* and the prevalence of *[oikos](/source/Oikos)*, calling for a global sovereignty that would administer the world as a single household.[4] ## See also - [Afforestation](/source/Afforestation) - [Agroforestry](/source/Agroforestry) - [Analog forestry](/source/Analog_forestry) - [Biomass](/source/Biomass) - [Biomass (ecology)](/source/Biomass_(ecology)) - [Buffer strip](/source/Buffer_strip) - [Collaborative innovation network](/source/Collaborative_innovation_network) - [Deforestation](/source/Deforestation) - [Deforestation during the Roman period](/source/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period) - [Desertification](/source/Desertification) - [Ecological engineering](/source/Ecological_engineering) - [Ecological engineering methods](/source/Ecological_engineering_methods) - [Energy-efficient landscaping](/source/Energy-efficient_landscaping) - [Forest farming](/source/Forest_farming) - [Forest gardening](/source/Forest_gardening) - [Great Plains Shelterbelt](/source/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt) - [GreenTec Awards](/source/GreenTec_Awards) - [Hedgerow](/source/Hedgerow) - [Home gardens](/source/Residential_garden) - [Human ecology](/source/Human_ecology) - [Institute of Ecotechnics](/source/Institute_of_Ecotechnics) - [Macro-engineering](/source/Macro-engineering) - [Megaprojects](/source/Megaprojects) - [Mid Sweden University](/source/Mid_Sweden_University) - [Permaculture](/source/Permaculture) - [Permaforestry](/source/Permaforestry) - [Proposed sahara forest project](/source/Proposed_sahara_forest_project) - [Push–pull technology](/source/Push%E2%80%93pull_technology) - [Sand fence](/source/Sand_fence) - [Seawater Greenhouse](/source/Seawater_Greenhouse) - [Sustainable agriculture](/source/Sustainable_agriculture) - [Sustainable design](/source/Sustainable_design) - [Terra preta](/source/Terra_preta) - [Thomas P. Hughes](/source/Thomas_P._Hughes_(historian)) - [Wildcrafting](/source/Wildcrafting) - [Windbreak](/source/Windbreak) ## References - [J. Nancy](/source/Jean-Luc_Nancy) (2008). *Corpus*. [Fordham University Press](/source/Fordham_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780823229628](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780823229628). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Greer, John Michael (1 October 2009). [*The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World*](https://books.google.com/books?id=UG7yoX-_PVUC&dq=ecotechnics&pg=PT176). New Society Publishers. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781550924398](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781550924398). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_2-1) Ash, James (2016). *The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power*. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 109. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781623564599](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781623564599). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Devisch, Ignaas (2013). *Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community*. London: Bloomsbury. p. 141. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781441165626](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781441165626). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Curtis, Neal (2006). *War and Social Theory: World, Value and Identity*. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 161. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781403933713](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781403933713). ## Further reading - Allenby, B.R., and D.J. Richards (1994), *The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems*. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. - Braungart, M., and W. McDonough (2002). *Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things*. North Point Press, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0865475873](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0865475873). - Huesemann, Michael H., and Joyce A. Huesemann (2011). [*Technofix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment*](http://www.newtechnologyandsociety.org), Chapter 13, "The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Appropriate Technologies", New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0865717044](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0865717044), 464 pp. - Von Weizsacker, E.U., C. Hargroves, M.H. Smith, C. Desha, and P. Stasinopoulos (2009). *Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity*, Routledge. ## External links - [Ecotechnology research at Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden](http://www.miun.se/en/University/Organisation/Departments/thu/Research/Ecotechnology-research/)[*[dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*] - [The Institute of Ecotechnics, London, U.K.](http://www.ecotechnics.edu) - [ecoTECHNOLOGY for Vehicles, Transport Canada, Ottawa, Canada](http://www.tc.gc.ca/eTV) - [Eco Technology Show, 11-12 June 2015, Brighton, U.K.](http://www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150119143548/http://www.ecotechnologyshow.co.uk/) 19 January 2015 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) v t e Environmental technology General Appropriate technology Clean technology Climate smart agriculture Environmental design Environmental impact assessment Eco-innovation Ecotechnology Electric vehicle Energy recycling Environmental design Environmental impact assessment Environmental impact design Green building Green vehicle Environmentally healthy community design Public interest design Sustainability Sustainability science Sustainable (agriculture architecture design development food systems industries procurement refurbishment technology transport) Pollution Air pollution (control dispersion modeling) Industrial ecology Solid waste treatment Waste management Water (agricultural wastewater treatment industrial wastewater treatment sewage treatment waste-water treatment technologies water purification) Sustainable energy Efficient energy use Electrification Energy development Energy recovery Fuel (alternative fuel biofuel carbon-neutral fuel hydrogen technologies) List of energy storage projects Renewable energy commercialization transition Sector coupling Power-to-X Power-to-heat Power-to-gas Sustainable lighting Transportation (electric vehicle hybrid vehicle) Conservation Building (green insulation natural sustainable architecture New Urbanism New Classical) Conservation biology Ecoforestry Efficient energy use Energy conservation Energy recovery Energy recycling Environmental movement Environmental remediation Glass in green buildings Green computing Heat recovery ventilation High-performance buildings Land rehabilitation Nature conservation Permaculture Recycling Water heat recycling Authority control databases: National Czech Republic This article about critical theory is a stub. 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