New Book "Constructing a Global Technology Assessment : Insights from Australia, China, Europe, Germany, India and Russia"

Constructing a Global Technology Assessment: Insights from Australia, China, Europe, Germany, India and Russia

Edited by Julia Hahn & Miltos Ladikas, KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe, ISBN: 9783731508311.

Abstract: Worldwide simultaneous effects of technologies, international challenges such as climate change as well as shifting relationships between science and society call for approaches that can address these issues on a global level. This book examines the potential of Technology Assessment (TA), as an until now mainly national and Western concept, to take on this global level and provide answers to these pressing questions.

Table of Contents 

The Case for a Global Technology Assessment

Technology Assessment in Germany

European Concepts and Practices of Technology Assessment

Technology Assessment in Australia

Technology Assessment in China

Technology Assessment in India | by Poonam Pandey, PN Desai & S. Chaturvedi

Technology Assessment in Russia

Constructing a Global Technology Assessment: Its Constitution and Challenges

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