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Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher…
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| Appropriate technology | is a | movement | 0.90 | text |
| health | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| beauty | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| permanence | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| in that order.Often the type of appropriate technology that is used in developed countries is | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| low cost | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| low usage of fossil fuels | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| use of locally available resources can give some advantages in terms of sustainability | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | In | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | The German Appropriate Technology | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | Exchange | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | GATE | 0.60 | section |
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