Details zur Publikation |
| Kategorie | Textpublikation |
| Referenztyp | Buchkapitel |
| DOI | 10.4337/9781839100673.00030 |
| Titel (primär) | Technological fixes: nonknowledge transfer and the risk of ignorance |
| Titel (sekundär) | Handbook of critical environmental politics |
| Autor | Gross, M. |
| Herausgeber | Pellizzoni, L.; Leonardi, E.; Asara, V. |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022 |
| Department | SUSOZ |
| Seite von | 308 |
| Seite bis | 317 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Keywords | Decision-making; Ignorance studies; Nonknowledge; Risk; Technological fix; Science communication |
| UFZ Bestand | Leipzig, Bibliothek, Hauptlesesaal, 00543880, 338.23 : 614.7 Han 22-0295 |
| Abstract | Just as there is no universally accepted meaning of terms such as risk or uncertainty, so too does ignorance have its own conceptual frameworks that are based in different research traditions and are often opposed or completely unrelated to one another. In this handbook entry, I will discuss several notions of risk and ignorance to illustrate how increasingly risk assessments and actuarial predictions lack historical data and experience necessary to develop basis for decision-making and technological solutions to pressing social and environmental problems. Thus understood, risk assessments are critically assessed as a habit designed to appease concerned citizens and stakeholder parties involved. Instead of glossing over ignorance with risk assessments or rhetorics of safety, the existence of knowledge gaps should be clarified and the question raised whether a novel technology is needed, what social purposes it may serve in the future and what type of uncontrollable issues its use may bring. |
| dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=26485 |
| Gross, M. (2022): Technological fixes: nonknowledge transfer and the risk of ignorance In: Pellizzoni, L., Leonardi, E., Asara, V. (eds.) Handbook of critical environmental politics Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, p. 308 - 317 10.4337/9781839100673.00030 |
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