Gerhard Banse, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson (eds.)

Rationality in an Uncertain World

Berlin: edition sigma, 2005 (Gesellschaft - Technik - Umwelt, Neue Folge 5), ISBN: 3-89404-935-9, 312 Seiten, 22,90 Euro


Contents

Introduction: Initiating a Forum on Sustainable Technological Development in a Globalising World   [here]
Gerhard Banse, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson
7
Rationality in an Uncertain World
The Vision of Sustainable Development as an Adequate Answer?
Armin Grunwald
11
Mapping and Managing Uncertainty and Indeterminacy in Future Society-Technology Relations
Remarks on Prospective Technology Analysis
Imre Hronszky
37
Risk and Rationality in a Future-oriented Society
Gotthard Bechmann
59
From the "Pursuit of Happiness" to the "Pursuit of Sustainability"
René von Schomberg
75
Sustainable Discourse and Unsustainable Difference
Jiri Loudin
91
Strategies to Support Social Learning in the Transformation of the Energy Sector
Harald Rohracher
103
ECO-21: Development of a Complex Environmental Performance Indicator for Hungary
Tamás Pálvölgyi, János Szlávik, Miklós Füle, Noémi Nagypál
121
Divergent Concepts of Sustainability
The Case of GM Crops
Les Levidow
133
Environmental Conservation and Restoration
Theoretical and Practical Aspects for a Sustainable Development
Nicanor Ursua Lezaun
145
Sustainable Innovation
Conditions, Emergence, and Po1icy
Helge Majer
157
Policy Recommendations for Sustainability Research Programmes
What Current Sustainability Programmes Tell Us ...
Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Laura Lonza Ricci
175
Impacts of Future Information and Communication Technologies on Society and Environment
Dealing with Uncertainty in Prospective Technological Studies
Lorenz Hilty, Claudia Som, Andreas Köhler
205
Development of Sustainable Technologies
Dora Marinova
211
Need for Comprehensive Science in Sustainability Assessment
Gordon Nelson
221
Sustainable Development in the New Länder
Some Remarks
Hans-Joachim Petsche
239
Knowledge, Computer-mediated Communication, and Sustainable Development
Andreas Metzner-Szigeth
251
Environmental Ethics and Engineering Ethics Courses at the BUTE
What Kind of Ethics Do We Teach?
Lászlo Molnár
263
Transdisciplinarity in Teaching and Learning Sustainability
Dora Marinová, Natalie McGrath
275
Teaching Sustainability
Gary Wells
287
Authors 299



Created: 22.06.2005 - Comments to:     Gerhard Banse