Dain Bolwell

Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth explores how technological advances can be managed to ensure the long-term sustainability of our species and of other life forms with which we share this world. It analyses human impact, the discourses of environmentalism and issues of economics, history and science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429770593
• Artikelnr.: 55282081

Autorenporträt

Dain Bolwell is an associate with the Institute for the Study of Social Change in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Tasmania. Dain is a former international consultant, author and editor with particular expertise in labour and development fields. He has lived and worked in the Central Pacific as advisor to the Kiribati Minister for Labour, in East and West Africa for Public Services International and in Cambodia, China and Geneva for the United Nations.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The concept of sustainability
Chapter 3. Impact
Chapter 4. Population
Chapter 5. Affluence
Chapter 6. Technology
Chapter 7. Options
Chapter 8. Technology and governance
Chapter 9. Case study: Glyphosate
Chapter 10. Case study: Nuclear-electric power
Chapter 11. Case study: Robotics and artificial intelligence
Chapter 12. Case study summary
Chapter 13. Alternative visions
Chapter 14. Conclusion: the Owl of Minerva