| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 169 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge explorations in sustainability and governance ; [2] |
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Routledge explorations in sustainability and governance ; 2.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface: Descartes and the rediscovery of ignorance; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Cartesian dreams; PART I Foundations; 1 Plenty of room at the top; 2 The Tower of Babel, Pentecostal science and the language of epidemics; 3 Love life or fear death? Cartesian dreams and awakenings; PART II Technoscience and innovation; 4 The ontological objection to life technosciences; 5 The dream of the internet of things: do we really want and need to be smart? |
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6 From biobanks to genetic digital networks: why official preidentified values may not work7 Geoengineering dreams; Part III Quality in an interconnected world; 8 Animals and beggars: imaginative numbers in the real world; 9 Evidence-based policy at the end of the Cartesian dream: the case of mathematical modelling; Index |
| Summary |
"This book proposes to consider new ways in which science can be used to sustain our planet and enrich our lives. For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge. This process of change has to include a new commitment to knowledge creation and transmission and its role in a plural society. Social responsibility has historically played an important role in science and engineering, but has lost momentum nowadays because many facets of science are lost due to reduction caused by the hybridization of science and policy. This book helps to release and reactivate social responsibility within contemporary science and technology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Social aspects
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Technology -- Philosophy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Science -- Philosophy
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Science -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pereira, Ângela Guimarães, editor.
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Funtowicz, Silvio, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317634577 |
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1317634578 |
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1138796409 |
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9781138796409 |
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9781336013162 |
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1336013168 |
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1315757907 |
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9781315757902 |
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9781317634560 |
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131763456X |
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9781317634553 |
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1317634551 |
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