Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?

ISBN-13: 9780415884334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Richard P. Appelbaum;Rachel A. Parker

Opis

In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of, developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick children, and people literally living in the dark around the world, may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and provoke collaborative problem solving.

Recenzje

"Emerging Technologies poses a set of vital critical questions about engineering and science as avenues to global health and development. In exploring the complex institutional origins, understudied risks, and mixed impacts of technologies ranging from solid-state lighting to nano-scale pesticides, from mobile phones to biofuels, the authors empower clarity and change for technical, policy, and general readers alike."

—Amy E. Slaton, History and Politics, Drexel University

"Parker and Appelbaum have assembled a superb array of insightful papers regarding technology development and deployment in the world's emerging and lesser emerging economies. For students and scholars, the various chapters provide a strong sense of the ingredients that define the leaders and laggards in capturing the benefits of new technology in the pursuit of more rapid and sustained development objectives."
—Denis Fred Simon, International Studies, University of Oregon

Spis treści

Foreword: Building Bridges: Solving Global Problems Through North-South Collaboration  Rex Raimond and Mark Jacobs  1. Introduction: The Promise and Perils of High-Tech Approaches to Development  Richard Appelbaum and Rachel Parker  2. Creating the Future: Materials, Innovation, and the Scientific Community  Todd Osman  3. Rural Development, Technology, and "Policy Memory": Anthropological Reflections from Bangladesh on Technological Change  David Lewis  4. Achieving Equitable Outcomes Through Emerging Technologies: A Social Empowerment Approach  Guillermo Foladori  5. Emerging Technologies and Inequalities: Beyond the Technological Transition  Susan Cozzens  6. The Progress of Nanotechnology in China  Chen Wang and Huang Can  7. Food Security: From the Green Revolution to Nanotechnology Jennifer Rogers and Amy Zader  8. (Nano)Technology and Food Security: What Scientists Can Learn from Malian Farmers  Scott Lacy  9. Innovations for Development; the African Challenge  Moses Kizza Musaazi  10. Nanotechnology for Potable Water and General Consumption in Developing Countries  Thembela Hillie and Mbhuti Hlophe  11. Solid State Lighting: A Market-Based Approach to Escaping the ‘Poverty Trap’  Dave Irvine-Halliday  12. Energy For Development: The Case of Bioenergy in Brazil  Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz  13. Implications of Nanotechnology for Labor and Employment: Assessing Nanotechnology Products in Brazil  Noela Invernizzi  14. Seeking the Non-Development within the Developmental: Mobile Phones in the Globalized Migration Context  Arul Chib and Rajiv G. Aricat  15. Responsible Innovation, Global Governance, and Emerging Technologies  Andrew Maynard, Antje Grobe and Ortwin Renn  16. Risk Perception, Public Participation, and Sustainable Global Development of Nanotechnologies  Barbara Herr Harthorn, Christine Shearer and Jennifer Rogers  17. Epilogue: Global Governance of Emerging Technologies: From Science Networking to Coordinated Oversight  Mike Roco