Overview
- Societal key issues in emerging technology 2.
- Includes practical advice for avoiding negative social consequences 3.
- Perspectives on gender, race/ethnicity, and ability status 4.
- Nanotechnology in emerging economies.
- International and multidisciplinary contributions
Part of the book series: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society (YNTS, volume 2)
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Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and develo** countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Dimensions of Nano Fairness
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Uneven Structures
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development
Editors: Susan E. Cozzens, Jameson Wetmore
Series Title: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9615-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9614-2Published: 24 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3383-1Published: 05 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9615-9Published: 10 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 458
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Nanotechnology, Ethics, Quality of Life Research