Vision Assessment Shaping Technology In 21st Century Society

Author : John Grin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642597025
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision Assessment: Shaping Technology in 21st Century Society written by John Grin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783642597039
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision Assessment written by D M a Uhl and published by . This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Grin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135151180
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitions to Sustainable Development written by John Grin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782542940
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3319232827
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technologies written by Federica Lucivero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658271558
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present written by Andreas Lösch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​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
ISBN 13 : 3894049421
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Integration of Science written by Gotthard Bechmann and published by edition sigma. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaco Quist
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059721756
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backcasting for a Sustainable Future written by Jaco Quist and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351867156
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems written by Jacqueline Broerse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401789568
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsible Innovation 1 written by Jeroen van den Hoven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.