Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development? - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415884330 ISBN 13 : 9780415884334

Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This volume brings together development stakeholders from several different facets of the development community: social scientists from academia, scientists and engineers working to solve technical problems faced "on the ground" and development practitioners. The aim is to move forward an agenda that successfully links international development and science, technology, and innovation in an ethical, sustainable, and responsible way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rachel A. Parker is a Research Staff Member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Richard Appelbaum at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society; her research focuses on issues relating to emerging technologies and globalization.

Richard P. Appelbaum is MacArthur Chair in Global & International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-PI at the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he directs the interdisciplinary research group on globalization and nanotechnology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415884330
• ISBN 13: 9780415884334
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Parker Rachel A., Appelbaum Richard P.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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