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Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth book cover

1st Edition

Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth

By Dain Bolwell Copyright 2018
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge
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Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth 　explores how human technologies 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. As these variables are complex, drawing on issues from the social,... Read more

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



 

Biography

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.　

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