Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development? (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Parker, Rachel A.; Appelbaum, Richard P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together development stakeholders from several different facets of the development community: social scientists from academia, scientists and engineers working to solve technical problems faced "on the ground" and development practitioners. The aim is to move forward an agenda that successfully links international development and science, technology, and innovation in an ethical, sustainable, and responsible way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136485015
• Artikelnr.: 38271119

Autorenporträt

Rachel A. Parker is a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Richard Appelbaum at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society; her research focuses on issues relating to emerging technologies and globalization. Richard P. Appelbaum is MacArthur Chair in Global & International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-PI at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he directs the interdisciplinary research group on globalization and nanotechnology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Building Bridges: Solving Global Problems Through North-South
Collaboration Rex Raimond and Mark Jacobs 1. Introduction: The Promise and
Perils of High-Tech Approaches to Development Richard Appelbaum and Rachel
Parker 2. Creating the Future: Materials, Innovation, and the Scientific
Community Todd Osman 3. Rural Development, Technology, and "Policy Memory":
Anthropological Reflections from Bangladesh on Technological Change David
Lewis 4. Achieving Equitable Outcomes Through Emerging Technologies: A
Social Empowerment Approach Guillermo Foladori 5. Emerging Technologies and
Inequalities: Beyond the Technological Transition Susan Cozzens 6. The
Progress of Nanotechnology in China Chen Wang and Huang Can 7. Food
Security: From the Green Revolution to Nanotechnology Jennifer Rogers and
Amy Zader 8. (Nano)Technology and Food Security: What Scientists Can Learn
from Malian Farmers Scott Lacy 9. Innovations for Development; the African
Challenge Moses Kizza Musaazi 10. Nanotechnology for Potable Water and
General Consumption in Developing Countries Thembela Hillie and Mbhuti
Hlophe 11. Solid State Lighting: A Market-Based Approach to Escaping the
'Poverty Trap' Dave Irvine-Halliday 12. Energy For Development: The Case of
Bioenergy in Brazil Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz 13. Implications of
Nanotechnology for Labor and Employment: Assessing Nanotechnology Products
in Brazil Noela Invernizzi 14. Seeking the Non-Development within the
Developmental: Mobile Phones in the Globalized Migration Context Arul Chib
and Rajiv G. Aricat 15. Responsible Innovation, Global Governance, and
Emerging Technologies Andrew Maynard, Antje Grobe and Ortwin Renn 16. Risk
Perception, Public Participation, and Sustainable Global Development of
Nanotechnologies Barbara Herr Harthorn, Christine Shearer and Jennifer
Rogers 17. Epilogue: Global Governance of Emerging Technologies: From
Science Networking to Coordinated Oversight Mike Roco