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Emerging technologies : socio-behavioral life cycle approaches / edited by Nora Savage, Michael Gorman, and Anita Street.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Product life cycle--Environmental aspects.
- Product life cycle.
- Environmental impact analysis.
- Ecology.
- Life cycle costing.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traditional Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodologies affect the public health and environmental impacts from a material, product, process or activity. The authors of this book suggest that a more holistic approach that incorporates societal and behavioral dimensions will create better results. They discuss how to develop an adaptive framework that would include a wider range of perspectives and disciplines. The book will also include discussions about ""Technological Black Swans,"" trading zones, ethics, behavioral nanotechnology, governance, risk, green design, tools for practitioners, and con
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Using Nanotechnology to Filter Water: A Hypothetical Case Study; Chapter 2: Nanotechnology for Human Health; Chapter 3: Assessing Emerging Technology Systems: Why LCA Fails; Chapter 4: Technology Mandates and Socio-Behavioral Life Cycle Assessment; Chapter 5: Issues in Life Cycle Risk Assessment: The Way Ahead; Chapter 6: Organizational Capability Life Cycles for Responsible Innovation; Chapter 7: Socialis Commodis and Life Cycle Analysis: A Critical Examination of Uncertainty
- Chapter 8: Who Let the "Social Scientists" into the Lab?Chapter 9: What Are the Factors Affecting Anthropogenic Phosphorous Loss? A Case Study of Chaohu Watershed in Central China; Chapter 10: Life Cycle Assessment and the U.S. Policy-Making Context; Chapter 11: Unexpected Appropriations of Technology and Life Cycle Analysis: Reframing Cradle-to-Grave Approaches; Chapter 12: Surface-Friendly Urban Mining; Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Work
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Savage, Nora Emerging Technologies
- ISBN:
- 9780429168031
- 0429168039
- 9789814411011
- 9814411019
- OCLC:
- 843642746
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