Fundamental Aspects of Appropriate Technology : Proceedings of the International Workshop on Appropriate Technology Center for Appropriate Technology Delft University of Technology September 4—7, 1979

I. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Session 1: Topics in Appropriate Technology Projects -- The Gaviotas Program -- An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Succesful Continuity of a Solar Destillation Plant in the West Indies -- A New Approach Towards Rural Development: Appropriate Technology and the Earthquake of 1976 in Guatemala -- Dian Dessa -- Urban Agriculture as an Appropriate Technology -- Session 2: Organization of Appropriate Technology Activities -- Concepts and Models for the Development of Appropriate Technology for Rural Areas -- Appropriate Technology in Sri Lanka -- A University Perspective on Appropriate Technology -- A Company for Rural Development in India -- Educational, Scientific & Technological Institutions in Developing Countries -- Session 3: The Framework for Appropriate Technology. The Role of Appropriate Technology in (Rural) Development -- Appropriate Technology: Theory, Policy and Practice -- Technical Change, Employment and Distribution in L.D.C.’s -- Optimizing the Appropriateness of Technologies -- Some Tentative Thoughts on Development Assistance Projects for the Rural Poor -- Appropriate Technology in Rural Development -- Appropriate Technology “Fashion or Need” -- III. List of Participants.