Consumers and nanotechnology: deliberative processes and methodologies
by Scholl, Gerd Strandbakken, Pål Stø, Eivind
In recent years, questions about democratic influence on science and technology have received much attention. The lesson from the European unrest over GMO is that consumer-citizens will react negatively to just having to accept the introduction of new, partly untested technologies. A number of political bodies have started to involve citizens and to consider their concerns, attitudes, hopes, and worries in an early stage of the coming nano revolution. An international consortium of experts mapp…
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- Full title :Consumers and nanotechnology : deliberative processes and methodologies / edited by Pål Strandbakken, Gerd Scholl, Eivind Stø.
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In recent years, questions about democratic influence on science and technology have received much attention. The lesson from the European unrest over GMO is that consumer-citizens will react negatively to just having to accept the introduction of new, partly untested technologies. A number of political bodies have started to involve citizens and to consider their concerns, attitudes, hopes, and worries in an early stage of the coming nano revolution. An international consortium of experts mapped a large number of these deliberations, mainly in the European Union and the United States, and proceeded to give closer analysis of a selection of those that were found most interesting. The second part of the book analyzes seven citizen-oriented deliberations. The third part of the book looks into a set of more stakeholder-oriented deliberations.
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- Publication Date:©2013
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- Publisher(s):Pan Stanford Publishing
- Place of Publication:Singapore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
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- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780429066313, 0429066317
- oclc:on1260360813
- LC Classification:Q175.5
- Dewey Decimal:303.483
Table of Contents
Pt. 1. Science and democracy -- pt. 2. Citizen-oriented deliberative processes -- pt. 3. Stakeholder-oriented deliberative processes -- pt. 4. An aspect of a more democratic science : the future of deliberative processes on nanotechnology and other emerging technologies.
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