Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth

ISBN-13: 9780367661762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Dain Bolwell

Opis

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, his

Spis treści

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

 

O autorze

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.