A Guidebook For Technology Assessment And Impact Analysis

Author : Alan L. Porter
Publisher : North-Holland
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002903121

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A Guidebook for Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis by Alan L. Porter Pdf

Technology and society; Institutionalization of TA/EIA; Basic features of an assessment; Strategies for particular assessments: bounding and techniques; Technology description and forecasting; Social description and forecasting; Impact identification and policy considerations; Impact analysis; Environmental analysis; Economic impact analysis; Analysis of social and psychological impacts; Technological, legal, and institutional/political analyses; Impact evaluation; Policy analysis; Communication of results; Project management; Evaluation of technology assessments and environmental impact statements; Critiques of TA/EIA; Future prospects.

Author : Joe E. Armstrong,Willis W. Harman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000313291

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Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments by Joe E. Armstrong,Willis W. Harman Pdf

Using reviews of special reports and personal interviews with team members of recent National Science Foundation-sponsored assessments, the authors have assembled an eight-step functional strategy for conducting technology assessments. The steps are set within a framework that embodies the three key elements of all assessments: technology descripti

Author : Vincent T. Covello,Jeryl L. Mumpower,Pieter Jan M. Stallen,V.R.R. Uppuluri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642706349

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Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology Assessment, and Risk Analysis by Vincent T. Covello,Jeryl L. Mumpower,Pieter Jan M. Stallen,V.R.R. Uppuluri Pdf

This volume is the outcome of a recent NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Technology Assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment. and Risk Analysis: Contributions from the Psychological and Decision Sciences." The Institute was held in Les Arcs. France and functioned as a high level teaching activity during which scientific research results were presented in detail by eminent lecturers. Support for the Institute was provided by grants from the NATO Division of Scientific Affairs. the u.S. Office of Naval Research. and the Russell Sage Foundation. The Institute covered several areas of research. including quantitative studies on decision and judgmental processes. studies on human intellectual limitations. studies on risk attitudes and perceptions. studies on factors contributing to conflicts and disputes about hazardous technologies and activities. studies on factors influencing forecasts and judgments by experts. studies on public preferences for decisionmaking processes. studies on public responses to technological hazards. and case studies applying principles and methods from the psychological and decision sciences in specific settings.

Author : Mitre Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Technology assessment
ISBN : UIUC:30112048956582

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A Technology Assessment Methodology: Project summary, by M. V. Jones by Mitre Corporation Pdf

Author : Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400964495

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Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology by Kristin Shrader-Frechette Pdf

If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for social decisionmaking, much as Milton Friedman has accepted neoclassical econom ics. Or, he can condemn them, regardless of their value, much as Stuart Hampshire has rejected risk-cost-benefit analysis (RCBA). Finally, he can critically assess these scientific methods and attempt to provide solutions to the problems he has uncovered. As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the economic methods used in policy analysis, I have tried to avoid the charge of being "anti science". Fred Hapgood, in response to my presentation at a recent Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, said that my arguments "felt like" a call for rejection of the methods of risk-cost-benefit analysis. Not so, as Chapter Two of this volume should make eminently clear. All my criticisms are construc tive ones, and the flaws in economic methodology which I address are uncovered for the purpose of suggesting means of making good techniques better. Likewise, although I criticize the economic methodology by which many technology assessments (TA's) and environmental-impact analyses (EIA's) have been used to justify public projects, it is wrong to conclude that I am anti-technology.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : available from OECD Publications and Sales Center]
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:35128000859577

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Assessing the Impacts of Technology on Society by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

Author : Becker, Henk,Henk Becker University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134220380

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Social Impact Assessment by Becker, Henk,Henk Becker University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Pdf

This book is intended for introductory courses in SIA within sociology, social policy, human geography and political science at postgraduate level. Specialist postgraduate and professional courses in policy- orientated social research and in social and general impact assessment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Power resources
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030024691992

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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Rossini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429725500

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Integrated Impact Assessment by Frederick Rossini Pdf

An outgrowth of the recognition that the varieties of impact assessment have much in common and that the common elements are a sound basis for an intellectual framework, this book incorporates contributions from leading practitioners of technology, environmental, and social impact assessment. The authors describe integrated impact assessment; addre

Author : Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540688112

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Future-Oriented Technology Analysis by Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré Pdf

The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries. It draws on papers addressing the application of FTA around the globe which were presented at the Second International Seville Seminar in September 2006. The insights and practical experience will be invaluable for company managers, government ministers and officials, researchers and academics with responsibilities for effective planning and decision-making in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world.

Author : Alan L. Porter,Scott W. Cunningham,Jerry Banks,A. Thomas Roper,Thomas W. Mason,Frederick A. Rossini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118048184

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Forecasting and Management of Technology by Alan L. Porter,Scott W. Cunningham,Jerry Banks,A. Thomas Roper,Thomas W. Mason,Frederick A. Rossini Pdf

Published in 1991, the first edition of Forecasting and Management of Technology was one of the leading handful of books to deal with the topic of forecasting of technology and technology management as this discipline was emerging. The new, revised edition of this book will build on this knowledge in the context of business organizations that now place a greater emphasis on technology to stay on the cutting edge of development. The scope of this edition has broadened to include management of technology content that is relevant to now to executives in organizations while updating and strengthening the technology forecasting and analysis content that the first edition is reputed for. Updated by the original author team, plus new author Scott Cunningham, the book takes into account what the authors see as the innovations to technology management in the last 17 years: the Internet; the greater focus on group decision-making including process management and mechanism design; and desktop software that has transformed the analytical capabilities of technology managers. Included in this book will be 5 case studies from various industries that show how technology management is applied in the real world.

Author : Marvin J. Cetron,Bodo Bartocha
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Publishing Group
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030290444

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Technology Assessment in a Dynamic Environment by Marvin J. Cetron,Bodo Bartocha Pdf

Author : Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401721592

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Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy by Inmaculada de Melo-Martín Pdf

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death. Although medical progress has slowed cancer mortality, its incidence is increasing roughly six times faster than cancer mortality is decreasing. Breast cancer, in particular, has been increasing about one percent each year since 1973. At least two of the factors responsible for this surge in breast cancer are women's use of medically-prescribed synthetic hormones and the exposure of the entire population to chemicals such as dioxin. Both exposures increase the likelihood of breast cancer. Although many ethicists worry about involuntary societal imposition of chemicals such as dioxin, through industrial and agricultural processes, allegedly voluntary exposures also constitute both, a public-health problem and a biomedical-ethics difficulty. Physicians recommend synthetic hormones, for example, to women who apparently take them voluntarily. In the case of in vitro fertilization, doctors prescribe hormones to induce egg production and to increase the chances of reproduction for couples who are unable to have children. Despite the benefits of medical technologies such as hormone stimulation and in vitro fertilization, they also carry great risks. The price that childless women pay, for their opportunity to have children through in vitro fertilization, may be their own increased risk of diseases - such as breast cancer - that are hormone dependent.

Author : Michael J Carley,Eduardo Bustelo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000311778

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Social Impact Assessment And Monitoring by Michael J Carley,Eduardo Bustelo Pdf

This systematic, critical review of more than 600 recent publications in social impact assessment (SIA) and related fields is based on the authors' belief that SIA is more than an analytical technique--it is also a logical and timely response to our ever-growing need for more and better information to facilitate decision making in an increasingly c

Author : V.T. Covello,Joshua Menkes,J.L. Mumpower
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461321033

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Risk Evaluation and Management by V.T. Covello,Joshua Menkes,J.L. Mumpower Pdf

Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others.