Vision Assessment Shaping Technology In 21st Century Society

Author : John Grin,Armin Grunwald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642597022

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Vision Assessment: Shaping Technology in 21st Century Society by John Grin,Armin Grunwald Pdf

One way to shape technology and its embedding in society in the 21st century is through the visions that guide their development, especially concerning the long-term societal perspective. A critical discussion and assessment of these visions is a prerequisite for influencing the course of development. Technology assessment, therefore, has to provide a methodological repertoire for assessing and constructing visions, taking into account the requirements for long-term orientation as well as the need for public legitimation. This volume draws upon insights from technology assessment, political sciences, epistemology, sociology and ethics. It is to contribute to the recent literature in on "shaping technology", taking into account the "co-evolution of technology and society". It connects to that technology assessment literature that emphasises TA's pro-active role and its contribution to political judgement.

Author : D M a Uhl,John Grin,Armin Grunwald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642597033

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Vision Assessment by D M a Uhl,John Grin,Armin Grunwald Pdf

Author : John Grin,Jan Rotmans,Johan Schot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135151188

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Transitions to Sustainable Development by John Grin,Jan Rotmans,Johan Schot Pdf

There has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. This book addresses how to understand the dynamics and governance of long term transformative change towards sustainable development.

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh,Frank Reinier Bruinsma
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1782542949

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Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh,Frank Reinier Bruinsma Pdf

This edited work studies the transition to renewable energy. It offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, addressing macro, regional and local scales. Important lessons are also drawn from historical transitions.

Author : Federica Lucivero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319232829

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Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technologies by Federica Lucivero Pdf

This book systematically addresses the issue of assessing the normative nature of visions of emerging technologies in an epistemologically robust way. In the context of democratic governance of emerging technologies, not only it is important to reflect on technologies’ moral significance, but also to address their emerging and future oriented character. The book proposes an original approach to deal with the issue of “plausible” ethical evaluation of new technologies. Taking its start from current debates about Technology Assessment, the proposed solution emerges as a combination of theoretical and methodological insights from the fields of Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies and a normative justification based on pragmatist ethics. The book’s main contribution is to engage a diverse and interdisciplinary audience (ethicists, philosophers, social scientists, technology assessment researchers and practitioners) in a reflection concerning the epistemological challenges that are associated to the endeavour of appraising the moral significance of emerging technologies in the attempt of democratically governing them. It brings together concepts and methodologies from different disciplines and shows their synergy in applying them to two specific case studies of emerging biomedical technologies.

Author : Andreas Lösch,Armin Grunwald,Martin Meister,Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783658271558

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Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present by Andreas Lösch,Armin Grunwald,Martin Meister,Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer Pdf

​The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume.

Author : Gotthard Bechmann
Publisher : edition sigma
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Information society
ISBN : 9783894049423

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The Social Integration of Science by Gotthard Bechmann Pdf

Author : Jaco Quist
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Industrial management
ISBN : 9789059721753

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Backcasting for a Sustainable Future by Jaco Quist Pdf

Summary: "Backcasting: looking back from a desirable future. Since the 1990s sustainable futures have been explored in backcasting experiments, numerous stakeholders have been involved and first steps have been planned in line with the envisioned sustainable futures. But what is the impact of these so-called backcasting experiments ten years later? Backcasting for a Sustainable Future: The impact after 10 years is the first book that systematically investigates the follow-up and spin-off of backcasting experiments seven to ten years after completion. It presents three case studies about (1) Novel Protein Foods and meat alternatives; (2) Sustainable Households and Nutrition; and (3) Multiple Sustainable Land-use in rural areas. The cases show that participatory backcasting may, but does not automatically lead to substantial follow-up and spinoff. Using innovation and learning theories the factors that affect the emergence of follow-up and new networks are identified and discussed. This book will be of great value to all those who work on sustainable futures and system innovations, such as researchers in system innovations, sustainability and social change, as well as policy-makers, transition experts and backcasting professionals."--Publisher description.

Author : Jacqueline Broerse,John Grin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351867153

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Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems by Jacqueline Broerse,John Grin Pdf

Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical problems facing modern-day health systems. This rich, interdisciplinary work explores the hypothesis that many of these problems cannot be adequately addressed without structural changes to our health systems, and examines the embedded features of our health systems that underlie contemporary challenges as well as how, and under what conditions, our health systems can be made more sustainable. Combining and building upon theoretical approaches from transition and innovation studies for analysing health system deficits, Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems raises fundamental questions about how new research, new needs and exogenous trends are transforming current health innovation systems. Providing an original and substantial analysis of the complex structural features of the health innovation system, this book will be of interest to students and practitioners of the politics of health, social epidemiology, medical sociology and those with an interest in transition theory.

Author : Jeroen van den Hoven,Neelke Doorn,Tsjalling Swierstra,Bert-Jaap Koops,Henny Romijn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401789561

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Responsible Innovation 1 by Jeroen van den Hoven,Neelke Doorn,Tsjalling Swierstra,Bert-Jaap Koops,Henny Romijn Pdf

This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research. Responsible innovation involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology and brain sciences) and of changes in technological systems (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture and water). This research is highly multidisciplinary. It involves close collaboration between researchers in such diverse fields as ethics, social science, law, economics, applied science, engineering - as well as innovative, design-oriented and policy-relevant. Although there is a trend to engage ethicists and social scientists early in technology development, most literature in the field of Technology Assessment or Ethics of Technology is still aimed at one discipline whereas this book incorporates different approaches and to discuss experiences, lessons and more general theoretical issues.

Author : Gary E. Marchant,Wendell Wallach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000151961

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Emerging Technologies by Gary E. Marchant,Wendell Wallach Pdf

Emerging technologies present a challenging but fascinating set of ethical, legal and regulatory issues. The articles selected for this volume provide a broad overview of the most influential historical and current thinking in this area and show that existing frameworks are often inadequate to address new technologies - such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, synthetic biology and robotics - and innovative new models are needed. This collection brings together invaluable, innovative and often complementary approaches for overcoming the unique challenges of emerging technology ethics and governance.

Author : Jens Newig,Jan-Peter Voß,Jochen Monstadt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317991496

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Governance for Sustainable Development by Jens Newig,Jan-Peter Voß,Jochen Monstadt Pdf

Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: goals, knowledge, and power: Sustainability goals are subject to changing and controversial risk perceptions, values and interests. Moreover, knowledge of the coupled dynamics of society, technology and nature is limited. Finally, the power to shape structural change in society and technology is distributed across a multitude of actors and societal subsystems. Steering attempts therefore have to cope with conflict and ambivalence, with uncertainty, and with a lack of central control; and they have to face the necessity of coordinating different actor groups and social networks. This volume explores steering strategies and governance arrangements for sustainable development with a view to these problem dimensions. The contributions by authors from various disciplines approach these challenges from different conceptual angles, ranging from positivist, managerial up to post-modern, constructivist perspectives. By combining theoretical reflections with insights from empirical research in European and American contexts, the volume maps out conditions and identifies approaches which both reflect the limits of steering and reveal options for constructively taking up the task of sustainable development in science and practice.

Author : Doridot, Fernand
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466636712

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Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development by Doridot, Fernand Pdf

The more integrated technology becomes in our everyday lives and businesses, the more vital it grows that its applications are utilized in an ethical and appropriate way. Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development combines multiple perspectives on ethical backgrounds, theories, and management approaches when implementing new technologies into an environment. Understanding the ethical implications associated with utilizing new advancements in technology is useful for professionals, researchers, and graduate students interested in this growing area of research.

Author : Neelke Doorn,Daan Schuurbiers,Ibo van de Poel,Michael E. Gorman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400778443

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Early engagement and new technologies: Opening up the laboratory by Neelke Doorn,Daan Schuurbiers,Ibo van de Poel,Michael E. Gorman Pdf

Despite the topic’s urgency and centrality, this is the first edited volume to offer a comprehensive assessment of the varying approaches to early engagement with new technologies, including nanotechnology, synthetic biology, biotechnology and ICT. Covering five main approaches to early engagement—constructive technology assessment (CTA), value-sensitive design (VSD), midstream modulation (MM), the network approach for moral evaluation, and political technology assessment—the book will be a pivotal text in the rapidly developing research field of ELSI, which explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of new technologies. Featuring leading scholars who discuss each early engagement approach in turn, the chapters cover both theory and applications, and include evaluative assessments of specific instances of early adoption of technologies. Further contributions focus on theoretical issues relevant to all approaches, including interdisciplinary cooperation, normativity and intervention, and political and public relevance. The publication has added profile due to the requirement of multi-billion-dollar research programs in the US and Europe to engage in ELSI research alongside that of the technical development itself, even in the early stages. Its comprehensive scrutiny of the core factors in early engagement will ensure a readership of policy makers as well as scientists and engineers.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1718 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466651265

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Nanotechnology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Over the past few decades, devices and technologies have been significantly miniaturized from one generation to the next, providing far more potential in a much smaller package. The smallest of these recently developed tools are miniscule enough to be invisible to the naked eye. Nanotechnology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications describes some of the latest advances in microscopic technologies in fields as diverse as biochemistry, materials science, medicine, and electronics. Through its investigation of theories, applications, and new developments in the nanotechnology field, this impressive reference source will serve as a valuable tool for researchers, engineers, academics, and students alike.