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The Precautionary Principle
Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, Published in 2005 by UNESCO

Ethics in Asia-Pacific

Compiled and edited by Philip Bergstrom. Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2004. Published by the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

This publication contains four papers originally commissioned by Regional Unit for Social and Human Science (RUSHSAP) to lay the groundwork for discussions of the issues noted at a regional meeting on "The Ethics of Science and Technology in the Asia-Pacific Region", 5-7 November 2003.

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, says its publisher, \"explores the ways that science helped build the Salinas Valley and California\'s broader farm industry.\" In doing so, Henke provides an account of \"how agricultural scientists and growers have collaborated--and struggled--in shaping this industry.\" In a spirit similar to the prior book in this author-blogger series (Keith Warner\'s Agroecology in Action), Henke\'s work offers academic research that is engaged with public and social problems by drawing from interdisciplinary science studies and from ecologically informed social science research. The book deals with expertise, knowledge, ecology of the soil, ecology of power, state-based mechanisms, the influence of progressive-era politics, field trials, pest management, post-War farm labor crises, migrant laborers, John Steinbeck and more. And it has that big beaker on the front. This is the fifteenth in our series of \"Author Meets Bloggers\" posts, where we talk to authors about their new work. (See them all here.) What follows is part one of a four-part conversation about the book. Please be encouraged to offer any questions and comments about the book, the research, and the topic.
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California

by Christopher Henke, Scienceblogs.com, 03 March, 2009

Focusing on such pressing practical and policy questions in health, environment and agriculture, this programme provides students with a solid grounding in development concepts and theories, in combination with an understanding of the politics and governance of scientific knowledge and policy processes. Through exploring a combination of theoretical and practical perspectives, the course asks how science and technology can contribute to poverty reduction, social justice and environmental sustainability in the developing world. The programme, hosted by the Knowledge, Technology and Society (KNOTS) team at IDS, is linked to a new IDS-SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) research centre: Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS). Throughout the programme, students work closely with individual supervisors who have a wide range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds and extensive experience in the developing world.
MA Science, Society and Development

by , Institute for Dev Studies, 01 January, 1970

The British physicist John Ziman once puckishly claimed that a scientist knows as much about science as a fish about hydrodynamics. This does not mean he cannot swim. Only, when the waters get polluted, even fish have to turn practical philosophers. Ziman was making a subtle point that knowledge about knowledge is a self-reflective and cybernetic exercise, which provides the wisdom that keeps science as a form of knowledge in place. One must note two key assumptions here. Understanding science needs a meta-narrative and, secondly, science, rather than being equated to knowledge, is seen as one variant of it. It is a scenario that provides exciting possibilities of viewing knowledge in terms of new metaphors. This is precisely what a little travelling circus of seminars moving quietly across Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad did under the auspices of the University of Sussex. The group created a site for a debate, a conversation, a theatre to debate science with scientists, science studies professionals and civil society. The debate took as its basic text an important but flawed document, “Taking Scientific Knowledge Seriously.” This document, a report to the EU, did precisely what our knowledge commission failed to do. It took knowledge seriously.
Rethinking science

by Shiv Viswanathan, New Indian Express, 20 February, 2009

Nanowerk.com, 01st June 2005

A Tiny Primer on Nano-scale Technologies ...and The Little Bang Theory

A basic introduction to nanotechnology and its implications by the ETC Group (or Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration). ETC is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC Group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power.

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