ABSTRACT
N. Jequier and G. Blanc have attempted an empirical study and statistical analysis of the Appropriate Technology movement but their work has serious limitations. Elsewhere in his work, and presumably in recognition of the inadequacy of a static and quantitative analysis, Jequier has stressed the emergent and evolving nature of the Appropriate Technology movement together with its non-technical aspects. One of the perplexing characteristics of the Appropriate Technology movement is that it embodies a large range of differing viewpoints and differing interest groups. The characteristics imputed to the Appropriate Technology movement by D. G. Lodwick and D. E. Morrison in the passage quoted is also prominent in the studies of other authors. Despite its youth and diffuse nature, the Appropriate Technology movement is a significant international phenomenon. Proponents of Appropriate Technology in the North tend to be disenchanted with certain aspects of mainstream industrial culture and advocate either a transformation or a renewal of technological growth and technological systems.
