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| Title: | Control Theory: Why Pollution Control Technologies Have Failed to Keep Pace |
| Authors: | Nelson, Derrick |
| Issue Date: | 4-Feb-2010 |
| Abstract: | Pollution is detrimental to the well-being of society and to the health of the environment. Given the high cost of waste it seems paradoxical that society continues to produce enormous amounts of it while failing to develop adequate pollution controls. To gain a more fundamental understanding of this seemingly paradoxical situation it is necessary to look at how living systems operate. Accordingly, this paper looks at the role information processing and reciprocal communication play with respect to the development of pollution control technologies. To do so, this paper builds from James Beniger's (1986) theory of control, where control is defined as purposive influence toward a predetermined goal (p. 7) and information processing and reciprocal communication are integral to the task of establishing control. As applied to this paper, it stands to reason that if control failed to develop in the area of pollution control then it might be due, at least in part, to a lack of information processing and reciprocal communication in that area. |
| URI to cite or link to this item: | http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6202 |
| Appears in Collections: | Communication, Culture, and Technology (GT-ETD)
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