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Duchin, Faye was born on January 20, 1944 in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Jules and Mary Duchin.
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Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
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In all societies, the main causes of environmental degradation are resource extraction and the generation of wastes by households and industries. Realistic strategies for mitigating these impacts require an understanding of both the technologies by which resources are transformed into products, and the lifestyle choices that shape household use of such products. Structural Economics provides a framework for developing and evaluating such strategies. It represents an important new approach to describing household lifestyles and technological choices, the relationships between them, and their impact on resource use and waste. In this volume, economist Faye Duchin provides for the first time an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field, including its social as well as its technological dimensions. The presentation is accessible to non-specialists while also including a substantial amount of new research. Duchin's primary achievement is to integrate a qualitatively rich understanding of technologies and lifestyles into a flexible, quantitative framework grounded in established principles of input-output economics and social accounting. She uses tools and insights from areas as diverse as demography and market research to conceptualize and describe different categories of households and their lifestyles. She also draws on the expertise of engineers and physical scientists to examine the potential for technological change. The framework Duchin develops permits the rigorous and detailed analysis of specific scenarios for alternative technologies and changes in lifestyle. The author uses the case of Indonesia for illustration and to refine new concepts by testing their relevance against factual information. The new field of structural economics represents an important step forward in the effort to apply the power of science to solving the problems of modern societies. This book should prove invaluable to students and scholars of economics, sociology, or anthropology, as well as environmental scientists, policymakers at all levels, and anyone concerned with a practical interpretation of the elusive concept of sustainable development.
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Faye Duchin
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Faye Duchin, American University dean Boutros Boutros-Ghali scholar United Nations, 1994-1995; United Nations U. fellow, Tokyo, 1994,American Telephone & Telegraph Company fellow, 1993-1995. Member International Society for Ecological Economics (vice president 1992-1996, chair curriculum committee since 1992).
Education
She attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor in Experimental Psychology in 1965 and in 1973 completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at University of California Berkeley with a dissertation on the newly passed Rent Control law in Berkeley.
Career
She is active in the fields of ecological economics and industrial ecology and employs Input-Output Analysis in her work. Faye Duchin was raised in a "very conventional setting" in Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1985, she became Director of the New York University Institute for Economic Analysis, a position she held until 1996 when she left to become Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In 2002, Duchin resigned as Dean.
Duchin served as president of the International Input-Output Association from 2004 to 2006, and is a former Vice President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). was one of the founders and a managing editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, She is author or co-author of thirty-three works published between 1973 and 2005. Duchin has stated that she examines factors that could "make a difference in satisfying major global imperatives." She has examined technological change, lifestyle change, quality of life, income distribution, consumption, international trade, natural resource use and environmental degradation using input-output models.
She calls her work "problem-oriented rather than disciplineor technique-oriented" and has used an interdisciplinary approach to study sustainability. She claims to study physical realities and constraints, not just monetary values, by using process and engineering data to model technology and resource use.
Duchin"s RPI web page describes her research agenda:
"Based on the results of my empirical studies, I became convinced of the need for changes not only in technologies but also in household lifestyles, in particular household decisions regarding diet, housing and transportation.
The plausibility and implications of such scenarios need to be explored in a global framework, and I have developed a new model of the world economy for this purpose."
Duchin"s recent work focuses on industrial ecology, continuing work she began in the early 1990s. Her 1994 book begins with the question, "Can technology ensure environmentally sound economic development?" The book uses quantitative analysis of empirical data and discusses alternative scenarios for the future.
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The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change
(One of the most important and complex problems facing bot...)
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Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
( In all societies, the main causes of environmental degr...)
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The Future Impact of Automation on Workers by Leontief Wassily Duchin Faye (1986-01-16) Hardcover
(New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
- Military Spending: Facts and Figures, Worldwide Implications, and Future Outlook by Wassily Leontief (1983-06-02)
- The Future Impact of Automation on Workers by Wassily Leontief (1986-01-16)
- Wassily W. Leontief: The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (Hardcover); 1986 Edition
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The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change
Membership
She is a member of the editorial boards of various journals, including the journal of Industrial Ecology, having held this position since the journal"s founding in 1997.
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Married 1973; 2 children.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali scholar United Nations, 1994-1995. United Nations U. fellow, Tokyo, 1994,American Telephone & Telegraph Company fellow, 1993-1995.Boutros Boutros-Ghali scholar United Nations, 1994-1995. United Nations U. fellow, Tokyo, 1994,American Telephone & Telegraph Company fellow, 1993-1995.