Titlebook: Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies; Rob Flynn,Paul Bellaby Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publisher

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Public Dialogue and the Scientific Citizen,anding of science’ has given way to a new emphasis on openness, transparency and re-building trust between science, government and the wider publics. Much has certainly changed in terms of the rhetoric of scientific governance since the height of the ‘mad cow’ (BSE) crisis. However, in this chapter

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On the Signature of New Technologies: Materiality, Sociality and Practical Reasoning,chnologies. I focus on the notion of constructionism: a perspective and analytical approach that recognises, and seeks to explicate, the ways in which the categories of human discourse are socially negotiated and selected (see e.g. Hannigan, 1995). I will argue that whilst the use of constructionist

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Public Acceptance of New Technologies in Food Products and Production,cular interest in this context as it serves to illustrate many of the relevant issues pertinent to the introduction and application of emerging technologies more generally. Many food products are produced using traditional methods and approaches. However, food products can also be developed using in

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Against the Stream: Moving Public Engagement on Nanotechnologies Upstream,r not only in size but also in behaviour to their larger-scale counterparts. Nanomaterials have a greater surface area relative to material produced on a larger scale that potentially renders them more chemically reactive, thereby altering certain molecular properties. Matter at the nanoscale is als

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Social Representations of Hydrogen Technologies: a Community-Owned Wind-Hydrogen Project,and, in particular, risk perceptions are likely to develop. This chapter presents findings about a community-owned wind-hydrogen project (Promoting Unst’s Renewable Energy, PURE) in the Shetland Islands of the United Kingdom, which was used as a case study to investigate public understanding of hydr

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,Stakeholders’ and Publics’ Perceptions of Hydrogen Energy Technologies, natural gas in powering transport and in heating houses, offices, factories and public buildings. How might potential end-users react to its introduction? How do those who already have a stake in developing the technology at local level envisage its future?

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Technological Transitions and Public Engagement: Competing Visions of a Hydrogen Fuel Station,informed possibilities and constraints for socially shaping systemic technological transitions (TT), involving multiple issues at multiple levels (see for example Geels, 2004; Elzen ., 2004). Although we are sympathetic to TT approaches and their illumination of the possibilities for broadening part