A5085350467- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Risk Perception and Management
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- International Development and Aid
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Regional Development and Policy
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Risk and Safety Analysis
University of Sussex
2016-2025
Duke University Health System
2020-2024
Duke University
2023
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
2020
Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet
2020
Italian Society of Physiotherapy
2020
Launceston General Hospital
2019
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
2016
Arizona State University
2015
University of Dundee
2014
Discursive deference in the governance of science and technology is rebalancing from expert analysis toward participatory deliberation. Linear, scientistic conceptions innovation are giving ground to more plural, socially situated understandings. Yet, growing recognition social agency choice countered by persistently deterministic notions technological progress. This article addresses this increasingly stark disjuncture. Distinguishing between “appraisal” “commitment” choice, it highlights...
This paper addresses the scope for more integrated general analysis of diversity in science, technology and society. It proposes a framework recognizing three necessary but individually insufficient properties diversity. Based on 10 quality criteria, it suggests quantitative non-parametric heuristic. allows systematic exploration under different perspectives, including divergent conceptions relevant attributes contrasting weightings properties. is shown how this heuristic may be used to...
Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex systems sensibilities social-ecological research.We contend that sharing lessons between these areas study must attend particularly to common governance challenges confront both approaches.Here, we focus critical experience arising from reactions a transition management approach governing sustainable transformations.Questions over who governs, whose system framings count, and sustainability gets...
Leach, M., J. Rockström, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, Smith, Thompson, E. Millstone, Ely, Arond, Folke, and Olsson. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology Society 17(2): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04933-170211
This paper addresses key implications in momentous current global energy choices – both for social science and society. Energy can be over-used as a lens viewing processes. But it is nonetheless of profound importance. Understanding possible ‘sustainable energy’ transformations requires attention to many tricky issues theory: around agency structure the interplay power, contingency practice. These factors are much shaping knowledges normativities supposedly driving transformation, they...
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, making science technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world rapid, interconnected change environments, societies economies, globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, what can done about it? How might we understand address...
Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth research on the causes catastrophic impacts climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this through nine thematic lenses—covering issues governance, fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure bend curve. However,...
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced developed a "sociotechnical" perspective that been taken up by many disciplines areas inquiry. aims objectives this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS useful at better understanding energy-related social science, reflect on prominent themes topics within those approaches, identify current research gaps directions for the future. To do so, builds companion project, systematic...
The paper critically reviews the work of David Collingridge in light contemporary concerns about responsibility and accountability innovation, public engagement with science technology, role scientific expertise technology policy. Given continued interest his thoughts on ‘social control technology’, ‘dilemma control’, this attention is both timely overdue. illuminates a mismatch between prevalence citations to Collingridge’s dilemma literature responsible depth arguments. By considering...
The need for policy makers to understand science and scientists processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship sometimes difficult occasionally dysfunctional; it also increasingly visible, because must deal with contentious issues, or itself becomes a matter of public controversy, both. We suggest that identifying key unanswered questions on between will catalyse focus research in this field. To identify these questions, collaborative procedure was employed 52...
The contribution makes use of a sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) framework to expose crucial but neglected governance issues in areas key relevance sustainability transformations such as energy systems. It explores how the STI concept can contribute understanding (T2S) by illustrating their multidimensionality and temporality. takes its starting point 'co-productionist' view illuminating collective visions desirable (or resisted) environmental futures limit or enable political imagination...