Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities (1st ed. 2016)

By: Lars Klüver and Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen and Marie Louise Jørgensen

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Synopsis: This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by systematically combining a multi-disciplinary evidence base with participatory approaches to policy deliberation. TA thus seeks to act as a hub for serious and transparent dialogue between policy, industry, science, and society about the challenges ahead and the available options for overcoming them responsibly. This volume offers an up-to-date account of the expansion of technology assessment capacities across new European member states. The contributions of this volume are written by leading European researchers and practitioners in technology assessment (TA) and are based on the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project.

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ISBN-13:: 9781137561725
Related ISBNs:: 9781137561718
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Date of Addition:: 04/09/21
Copyrighted By:: Lars Klüver, Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen and Marie Louise Jørgensen
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Computers and Internet, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Marie Louise Jørgensen
Edited by:: Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen
Edited by:: Lars Klüver