The second collection of papers written within the research project, Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Options (PESTO). The aim is to compare the reconstitution of environmental science and technology policy in eight European countries. The contention is that the involvement of the general public is crucial for the successful implemantation of policies for "sustainable development" and that, in this regard, the countries of Europe have a great deal to learn from each other's experiences.

This book discusses the ways in which engineering educators are responding to the challenges that confront their profession. On the one hand, there is an overarching sustainability challenge: the need for engineers to relate to the problems brought to light in the debates about environmental protection, resource depletion, and climate change. There are also a range of societal challenges that are due to the permeation of science and technology into ever more areas of our societies and everyday lives, and finally, there are the intrinsic scientific and technological challenges stemming from...

This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate both the popular and scholarly literature on science, technology and society (or STS), the authors offer an alternative approach, devoting special attention to the role played by social and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how social and cultural movements, from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and global justice movements of our time, have...