New TA handbook out now

Given the worldwide spread and growth of technology assessment (TA), the time was ripe for a handbook dedicated to this scientific field, says Armin Grunwald. His recently published book serves as a guide for TA scholars, practitioners, and students.

Cover Publikation TA-Handbuch — (Cover: Edward Elgar)

The 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 from Europe and worldwide analyze 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 the responsible handling of their consequences. Other 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, the handbook is a rich resource for scholars and practitioners of technology assessment. It is also an important guide for students of science and technology studies, ethics of technology, risk assessment, and responsible research and innovation. (07.11.2024)

Bibliographic data:

Grunwald, Armin (Ed.)
Handbook of Technology Assessment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024, 494 pp., ISBN: 978 1 03531 067 8
Publisher information and video introduction to the handbook by Armin Grunwald