Risk And Society The Interaction Of Science Technology And Public Policy

Author : M Waterstone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401136341

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Risk and Society: The Interaction of Science, Technology and Public Policy by M Waterstone Pdf

Life in the last quarter of the twentieth century presents a baffling array of complex issues. The benefits of technology are arrayed against the risks and hazards of those same technological marvels (frequently, though not always, arising as side effects or by-products). This confrontation poses very difficult choices for individuals as well as for those charged with making public policy. Some of the most challenging of these issues result because of the ability of technological innovation and deployment to outpace the capacity of institutions to assess and evaluate implications. In many areas, the rate of technological advance has now far outstripped the capabilities of institutional monitoring and control. While there are many instances in which technological advance occurs without adverse consequences (and in fact, yields tremendous benefits), frequently the advent of a major innovation brings a wide array of unforeseen and (to some) undesirable effects. This problem is exacerbated as the interval between the initial development of a technology and its deployment is shortened, since the opportunity for cautious appraisal is decreased.

Author : Brant R. Burleson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135152505

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Communication Yearbook 18 by Brant R. Burleson Pdf

Communication Yearbook 18 originally published in 1995 focuses on cognitive approaches to the study of human communication, examining topics such as the formation of interaction goals, cognitive models of message production, mindfulness and minlessness in message processing and attention to televised messages. Sections two and three concentrate on the communicative management of health and environmental risks, critical analyses of classical approaches to risk communication and the ways in which people are connected through diverse forms of communicative behavior, including supportive relationships, electronic mail systems and ideologies. Commentaries in each section provide alternative perspectives on the state of research, extend issues of significance and help engage the reader with contemporary debates.

Author : Robert Baldwin,Martin Cave,Martin Lodge
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199576081

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Understanding Regulation by Robert Baldwin,Martin Cave,Martin Lodge Pdf

An introduction to the practical and theoretical issues that are central to the study of regulation, which a particular focus on contested areas and how they are dealt with.

Author : Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442691070

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Deliberative Democracy for the Future by Genevieve Fuji Johnson Pdf

In today's world, public policies are increasingly associated with social and environmental risk and scientific uncertainty. Given such potential impacts on the moral freedom and equality for existing and future generations, policies should reflect decision-making standards beyond those of economic efficiency and technical safety. They should reflect the imperatives of social justice and democratic legitimacy now and into the future. Deliberative Democracy for the Future identifies an approach to ethical policy analysis that promises to serve the ends of justice and legitimacy in areas of public policy such as hazardous waste management, energy generation and regulation, climate change control, and genomics research and commercialization. Based on a wide reading of ethical approaches to policy analysis found in contemporary political theory, moral philosophy, and public policy literatures, it evaluates these three central approaches to ethical policy analysis in light of moral dilemmas arising in a particularly timely case: Canadian nuclear waste management policy. The volume's central argument is that the most desirable approach to ethical policy analysis contains the philosophical tools necessary to address problems of understanding risk and safety, identifying obligations to both existing and future generations, and conceptualizing legitimacy-conferring decision-making processes. Genevieve Fuji Johnson argues that neither welfare utilitarianism nor modern deontology is sufficiently equipped for these tasks. She proposes that only deliberative democracy contains convincing conceptions of the good, justice, and legitimacy that provide for the justifiable resolution of debates about the moral foundations of public policy. Responding to challenges in nuclear waste management in ways more comprehensive and more tenable than both utilitarianism and deontology, deliberative policy analysis promises to be an effective approach to other cases associated with risk, uncertainty, and futurity.

Author : B. Brehmer,N.E. Sahlin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0792330579

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Future Risks and Risk Management by B. Brehmer,N.E. Sahlin Pdf

Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. No other volume adopts this broad perspective. Future Risks and Risk Management will be useful in a variety of contexts, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.

Author : Ortwin Renn,Bernd Rohrmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781475748918

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Cross-Cultural Risk Perception by Ortwin Renn,Bernd Rohrmann Pdf

Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined. The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research.

Author : David Bell,Leesa Fawcett,Roger Keil,Peter Penz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134670918

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Political Ecology by David Bell,Leesa Fawcett,Roger Keil,Peter Penz Pdf

Political Ecology addresses environmental issues which Innis was concerned with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including: * sustainability * risk and regulation * population growth * planetary management * impact of humanity on environment * role of technology and communication. Case studies provide further insight into issues such as industrial racism, women and development and collective action by highlighting ethical and political questions and providing critical insights into the issues and debates in political ecology.

Author : Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401101318

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Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation by Ortwin Renn,Thomas Webler,Peter Wiedemann Pdf

Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States and Europe came together to address one of the most pressing issues in contemporary environmental politics: How can environmental policies be designed in a way that achieves both effective protection of nature and an adequate representation of public values? In other words, how can we make the environmental decision process competent and fair? All the invited scholars from academia, international research institutes, and governmental agencies agreed on one fundamental principle: For environmental policies to be effective and legitimate, we need to involve the people who are or will be affected by the outcomes of these policies. There is no technocratic solution to this problem. Without public involvement, environmental policies are doomed to fail. The workshop was preceded by a joint effort by the three editors to develop a framework for evaluating different models of public participation in the environmental policy arena. During a preliminary review of the literature we made four major observations. These came to serve as the primary motivation for this book. First, the last decade has witnessed only a fair amount of interest within the sociological or political science communities in issues of public participation.

Author : Amanda Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134176984

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Quotas in International Environmental Agreements by Amanda Wolf Pdf

Quotas have been used in international environmental agreements for at least a century and, in tandem with incentive approaches, should continue to be crucial to realizing a sustainable environment. This text is a critical examination of quotas both as regulatory tools and as products of negotiation. It reviews the main features of environmental problems, the regulatory options and criteria used to judge them, and the various ways of explaining negotiated outcomes. Quotas in the management of fisheries, other resources, freshwater and marine pollution, and air pollution are also described. Selected examples are considered in detail to provide an understanding of how quotas were developed in scientific, political, economic and social context. An assessment of the key features of quotas in practice leads to the identification of an emerging approach, the negotiation of constrained local quotas. The approach is a practical way to balance efficiency and fairness in complex negotiations, without sacrificing environmental effectiveness.

Author : Mary Manjikian
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781409433958

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Threat Talk by Mary Manjikian Pdf

Is the internet good or bad for society? This book exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. It argues that both "risk" and "disease" are ideas which are understood differently at different historic periods and in different cultures.

Author : Kenneth Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317894162

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Regions of Risk by Kenneth Hewitt Pdf

An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into two parts, the first of which gives an overview of the field of risk and disaster in terms of three perspectives: hazards perspective; vulnerability perspective and the active perspective. The second part illustrates and develops these ideas in relation to some of the more severe dangers and disasters of the twentieth century, for example, earthquake risk, cities at risk and the civil disasters of war.

Author : Sal Restivo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199771530

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Science, Technology, and Society by Sal Restivo Pdf

Emphasizing an interdisciplinary and international coverage of the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture, Science, Technology, and Society contains over 130 A to Z signed articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions and institutes worldwide. Each article is accompanied by a selected bibliography. Other features include extensive cross referencing throughout, a directory of contributors, and an extensive topical index.

Author : John Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351735971

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Behind the Mask by John Paterson Pdf

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK’s offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms. But how should they best be understood and what advantages do they offer over the previous regulatory approaches? Informed by autopoiesis theory, this study takes seriously the notion of an empirical field constituted by diverse communicative systems and thus traces the development of the industry along a series of dimensions including those of management and engineering as well as of politics and regulation. Adapting cognitive mapping, the book offers graphic demonstrations of the resultant constructive misunderstandings of regulatory and scientific signals and accordingly an alternative perspective on the nature of risk. The latest regulatory developments are shown to possess the potential to address these issues but only insofar as they are understood as distinct from previous legal forms and in particular as an example of reflexive law.

Author : Sal P. Restivo
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195141931

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Science, Technology, and Society by Sal P. Restivo Pdf

'Science, Technology, and Society' offers approximately 150 articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions worldwide. The theme is the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008190626

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Natural Hazards Observer by Anonim Pdf