... U.S.-Iran Workshop on Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation Policy and Global Affairs Copyright ... understanding what information is needed for a policy decision and understanding the perspective and context of the “client.” Just as in any communication initiative, it is essential to understand ... Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Jacobs, K 2003 Connecting Science, Policy, and Decision-Making: A Handbook for Researchers and Science Agencies Silver Spring, MD: National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
... mechanisms, and delineating reciprocal influences; and normative in its commitment to understanding the ethics and values implicit in science and technology and to using that understanding to guide ... endeavor—truth and power and justice and equity and democracy and asks how these can be conserved and consolidated in modern society, so that the immense possibilities of scientific knowledge and technological ... studies of science and technology, and between STS and policy-relevant research; a lack of comparative research across disciplines and nations; and a bias toward studying the bigger and harder sciences...
... Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology,” Social Studies of Science 24: 641–72 Müller-Wille, Staffan (2003) “Joining Lapland and the Topinambes in Flourishing Holland: Center and Periphery ... both STS and information studies See, for example, Voorbij (1999), Cronin and Atkins (2000), Kling and McKim (2000), Borgman and Furner (2002), Fry (2004), Bohlin, (2004), Heimeriks (2005) and the ... to offer free and open Web access to all 12 Recent reviews and exemplary cases of this work can be found in Wellman and Haythornthwaite (2002), Nissenbaum and Price (2004), Miller and Slater (2000),...
... Instead, and as the concept of co-production would also imply, forms of knowledge and understanding are contextually generated and simultaneously embody understandings of both the natural and social ... objects may change the form and practical and symbolic functions of artifacts, and it may enable or constrain performances of identities and negotiations of status and social position (Silverstone ... Pinch (eds), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA, London, and New Delhi: Sage): 229–56 Bijker, W E & Pinch, T J (1987) “The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts:...
... Technological systems and the information they provide also affect family and work life, regulate individuals and societies using medically derived norms, and participate in the selection and application ... industrial developers and suppliers of goods and services might lead to this particular assembly of medical-biological, communications, and engineering technologies, and what new knowledge and entities ... define health and illness, reformulate categories of normal and abnormal, make judgments about individuals and populations, provide predictors of risk, and then plan future services and technologies...
... 1940s and 1950s, 18 ambiguous relation with science and technology, 454–455 contestation of place through protest and vandalism, 368–369 formal initiatives promoting, 457–459 incorporation and ... information and price as epistemic themes, 902–907 financial models, technology, and risk, 914–915 impact of theoretical models and technology, 909–914 introduction, 901–902 social and cultural ... conclusion, 369 contestation through domestic protest and vandalism, 368–369 contesting science, 365–369 experiential and embodied understanding of, 366–367 face-to-face communication in, 357–359...
... status, future prospects and policy implications Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2001, 5(1), 97–112 [2] GATE and GTZ German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) and German Agency for ... of Science and Technology, 2009 [4] GATE and GTZ German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) and German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Biogas Digest Volume II: Application and Product ... energy conversion and utilization, wastewater treatment, renewable energy technology and policy, and CDM proposal development He is also an associate of The Energy Centre, KNUST and a founding member...