Embedding New Technologies into Society [electronic resource] : A Regulatory, Ethical and Societal Perspective.
The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Half Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Novelty and Indeterminacy; 1.2 Anticipation and Tentative Governance ; 1.3 Change, Re-Interpreted and Re-Negotiated ; 1.4 This Collection ; 1.5 In Conclusion ; Part 1 Variety in the Governance of Newly Emerging Technologies; Chapter 2. Reflexive Co-Evolution and Governance Patterns; 2.1 Introduction.
- 2.2 Actual Reflexive Co-Evolution of Technology in Society 2.3 Early Warning as a Governance Pattern ; 2.4 Bridging the Gap between Technology Development and Society ; 2.5 Governance by Orientation: The Discourse of Grand Challenges ; 2.6 In Conclusion.
- Chapter 3. Regulatory Governance Approaches for Emerging Technologies3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Promising Regulatory Governance Approaches ; 3.2.1 Models of Technology Regulation ; 3.2.2 Regulatory Models for Nanotechnologies ; 3.3 Reviewing Nano Regulatory Governance: The Story so Far.
- 3.3.1 Introduce Evaluation Frame of Cases: Some Effectiveness Questions 3.3.2 Governance Arrangements to Limit Exposure to Nanoparticles in the Workplace ; 3.3.3 Nanocosmetics within the European Union ; 3.4 Lessons Learned, and Moving Forward ; Chapter 4. Society as a Laboratory to Experiment with New Technologies.
- 4.1 Introduction4.2 Technology as Social Experiment ; 4.3 A Brief History of the Idea ; 4.3.1 Society as Laboratory ; 4.3.2 Engineering as Social Experiment ; 4.3.3 Social Experiments in Strategic Niche Management ; 4.3.4 Social Experiments in Social Science.