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Handbook of Technology Assessment
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of technology assessment (TA) practices, theories, methods and cultures across the globe. Highlighting the significant influence of rapidly changing technology on human life and development, it examines diverse perspectives on how TA can be developed to better meet the challenges of the future.
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of technology assessment (TA) practices, theories, methods and cultures across the globe. Highlighting the significant influence of rapidly changing technology on human life and development, it examines diverse perspectives on how TA can be developed to better meet the challenges of the future.
Covering both theory and methodology, expert contributors analyse the deep changes caused by technological advances at the individual, collective and global level. They identify approaches and methods that can lead to informed, considered decisions on technology and responsible handling of their consequences. Chapters explore a wide range of TA applications across different cultural contexts as well as in various fields including AI, climate engineering, healthcare and work.
Drawing on extensive practical experiences from a global movement, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of technology assessment. It is also an important guide for students of science and technology studies, the ethics of technology, risk assessment and responsible research and innovation.
Covering both theory and methodology, expert contributors analyse the deep changes caused by technological advances at the individual, collective and global level. They identify approaches and methods that can lead to informed, considered decisions on technology and responsible handling of their consequences. Chapters explore a wide range of TA applications across different cultural contexts as well as in various fields including AI, climate engineering, healthcare and work.
Drawing on extensive practical experiences from a global movement, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of technology assessment. It is also an important guide for students of science and technology studies, the ethics of technology, risk assessment and responsible research and innovation.
Critical Acclaim
‘There is no sector of science and technology so specific that major questions do not arise about which directions to prioritise for progress. Key queries are more about values, interests and politics than technical expertise. To resist authoritarian technocracy, deliberate efforts are essential to balance the powerful forces and privileged interests presently shaping innovation. For decades this has been the core challenge of technology assessment. Here, there could be no better collection of editor, chapters and authors than those behind this rich and authoritative overview of the state of the art.’
– Andrew Stirling, Sussex University, UK
‘Editor Armin Grunwald has assembled a “who’s who” of technology assessment scholars and practitioners for this first, amazingly comprehensive international Handbook of TA. This reflection on and guide to TA could not have arrived at a better time than this moment, disturbed as it is with technological and environmental challenges and the rumblings of world-wide anti-democratic forces. Better TA, as outlined in this volume, could help make a better Anthropocene.’
– David H. Guston, Arizona State University, US
‘Modern societies have largely failed to take seriously the challenges of governing technological change for human good. This Handbook provides an essential resource for beginning to redress this failure, by assembling the intellectual building blocks of a technology assessment endeavor that could advance the reconciliation of human ingenuity and collective well-being.’
– Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University (Emeritus), US
‘This is a stunning collection of narratives, analyses, methodologies, and critical philosophical takes on technology assessment theory and practice across as many venues as can be imagined. Impossible to offer any future discourse without referencing this volume.’
– Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, US
– Andrew Stirling, Sussex University, UK
‘Editor Armin Grunwald has assembled a “who’s who” of technology assessment scholars and practitioners for this first, amazingly comprehensive international Handbook of TA. This reflection on and guide to TA could not have arrived at a better time than this moment, disturbed as it is with technological and environmental challenges and the rumblings of world-wide anti-democratic forces. Better TA, as outlined in this volume, could help make a better Anthropocene.’
– David H. Guston, Arizona State University, US
‘Modern societies have largely failed to take seriously the challenges of governing technological change for human good. This Handbook provides an essential resource for beginning to redress this failure, by assembling the intellectual building blocks of a technology assessment endeavor that could advance the reconciliation of human ingenuity and collective well-being.’
– Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University (Emeritus), US
‘This is a stunning collection of narratives, analyses, methodologies, and critical philosophical takes on technology assessment theory and practice across as many venues as can be imagined. Impossible to offer any future discourse without referencing this volume.’
– Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, US
