| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 457 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Yearbook of nanotechnology in society ; v. 2 |
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Yearbook of nanotechnology in society ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
Note continued: 18. Science Policy and Social Inclusion: Advances and Limits of Brazilian Nanotechnology Policy / Noela Invernizzi -- 19. Potential of Nanotechnology for Equitable Economic Development: The Case of Brazil / Philip Shapira -- 20. Open Access Nanotechnology for Developing Countries: Lessons from Open Source Software / Dhanaraj Thakur -- 21. Southern Roles in Global Nanotechnology Innovation: Perspectives from Thailand and Australia / Donald C. MacIurcan -- 22. How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries? / Jack Stilgoe -- 23. Technical Education and Indian Society: The Role of Values / Jameson M. Wetmore -- pt. V Lessons for Action -- 24. Keeping the Dream Alive: What ELSI-Research Might Learn from Parliamentary Technology Assessment / Rinie van Est -- 25. Nanotech Ethics and the Policymaking Process: Lessons Learned for Advancing Equity and Equality in Emerging Nanotechnologies / Evan S. Michelson -- 26. Building Equity and Equality into Nanotechnology / Susan E. Cozzens |
| Summary |
Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Nanotechnology.
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SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Nanotechnology & MEMS.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Nanotechnology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cozzens, Susan E.
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Wetmore, Jameson M.
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| ISBN |
9789048196159 |
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9048196159 |
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