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1996



Technical expertise and public decisions

Title:
          Technical expertise and public decisions : 1996 International Symposium on Technology and Society :
          proceedings, June 21-22, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University,
          Princeton, New Jersey / sponsored by Princeton University and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of
          Technology.
Author:
          International Symposium on Technology and Society (1996 : Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
          International Affairs)
          Princeton University.
          IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.
Published:
          [New York] : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ; Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Service Center,
          [distributor], c1996.
Subject:
          Technology --Social aspects --Congresses.
Other titles:
          1996 International Symposium on Technology and Society
Material:
          vii, 550 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note:
          Includes bibliographical references and index.
          "IEEE catalog number: 96CH35945."
          "96CB35945"--Spine.
          Why the Public Should Participate in Technical Decision Making / Carl Mitcham -- The Congressional Office of
          Technology Assessment: A Retrospective and Prospects for the Post-OTA World / Christopher Hill -- Barriers
          to Innovation in the Market for Environmental Remediation Technology: A Model, Case Studies and Implications
          for Policy / Susan E. Fuhs and John R. Anderson -- Technological Innovation and Public Policy: The Case of
          Energy Efficiency / Jack M. Hollander and Thomas R. Schneider -- From Big Science to Postmodern Science:
          Technology-intensive Research in an Era of Competing Public Values / William J. Kinsella --
          Civil Applications of Dual-Use Technology in Russia (Case-Study of Lasers) / Liudmila Bzhilianskaya -- Is There
          a Contradiction Between the Practice of Technology Assessment and Democratic Decision-Making? / Philip L.
          Bereano -- Losing Ground: The Demise of the Office of Technology Assessment and the Role of Experts in
          Congressional Decision-Making / Robert M. Margolis -- Science and Technology Advice to State Legislators /
          David H. Guston, Megan Jones and Lewis M. Branscomb -- Dutch Foresight: Using Scenarios for Participatory
          Science and Technology Policy / Daniel Tijink -- Science in Ecosystem Management: A Case Study of the
          Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study / Katrina Smith Korfmacher --
          What Does a Policy Maker Need to Know about Science? Scientific Closure and the Ozone Crisis / Park
          Atkinson Doing -- Technology, Environment and Public Policy in Perspective: Lessons from the History of the
          Automobile / David A. Kirsch -- The Role of Experts in Federal Hazardous Waste Legislative Decisions / David
          M. Hassenzahl -- Harmonization Difficulties of European Biotechnology Regulation: EC Directive 90/220 on the
          Deliberate Release of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOS) / Les Levidow and Rene von Schomberg --
          UK: Disputing Boundaries of Biotechnology Regulation / Les Levidow and Susan Carr --
          Democratising the Policy Processes on the Deliberate Release of Genetically Modified Organisms / Rene von
          Schomberg -- Citizens, Engineers and Air Toxics: Public Participation in Technology-Based Standard Setting /
          Frances M. Lynn and Melissa Malking -- Technocratic Policy Partnerships? The Public Administration of Water
          Quality in England and Wales / Annabel K. Kiernan -- Public Reaction to Power Frequency Electric and
          Magnetic Field (EMF) Effects / Eva A. Sebo and Stephen A. Sebo -- Positive Democratization of Systems of
          Public Opinion Formation / G. Scott Aikens -- Negotiating "Expertise": Biotechnology and Agricultural
          Development in Zimbabwe / Jill Alane Nystrom --
          The Foz Coa Rock Paintings Case: Towards a New Relationship Between Science and Policy Making in
          Portugal? / Maria Eduarda Goncalves -- Determinants of Irrigation Technology Choice in Egypt / Mona
          Mourshed -- Introducing New Technology in a Traditional Society: Social and Psychological Implications /
          Subbiah Arunachalam -- Undergraduate Engineering Education Curriculum and Educational Research / Ron Hira
          -- Who Cares About Lifelong Learning? / Brian P. Butz -- Ethics, Technology, and Society in the Heartland:
          Their Role in Engineering Education / David A. Rogers and Paulo F. Ribeiro --
          The IMPACTS Curriculum: Education for Creating Citizens in an Expert-Controlled, Changing Technological
          Society / Philip J. Frankenfeld -- Making Decisions About Sustainability: Joining Social Values with Technical
          Expertise / Alex Farrell -- Non-standard Safety: Scientific Expertise and Pharmaceutical Drug Testing before
          Federal Regulation / Arthur Daemmrich -- When Expertise Goes Awry, and When it Proves Helpful / Edward J.
          Woodhouse -- Courts, Technology and the Boundaries of Expertise / Brian M. O'Connell -- Complexity
          Requires Complexity: Creating Fits Between Technology and Public Decision-Making in Large Projects / Hans
          de Bruijn, Mark van Twist and Hugo Verheul --
          Lay Knowledge in the Public Sphere: Barriers to Citizen Involvement in Public Health Policy / Jennie Popay and
          Gareth Williams -- Public Participation in National Forest Planning: A Case Study of the Monongahela National
          Forest, West Virginia / Toddi A. Steelman -- Consensus Conferences as Participatory Policy Analysis: A
          Methodological Contribution to the Social Management of Technology / Igor S. Mayer and Jacques L. Geurts --
          Community Risk Reform and Public Participation / David A. Wirth -- The Trickle-Down Effect: Policy Decisions,
          Engineering Analysis, and the Challenger Tragedy / Diane Vaughan --
          First Manned Lunar Landing Spacecraft - Its Design, Manufacture, Ground Test and Mission / Ross Fleisig --
          Negotiating Expertise Within the Converting Defense Firm: The Managerial Equation / Jonathan Feldman --
          Critical Digital Systems and the Ethic of Expediency / Charles M. Waite -- Challenging the Political Boundary of
          Representative Democracy and Experts' Advice: The Contours of Public Decision (Re-)Making in a Cybernetic
          World / On-Kwok Lai -- The Problem of Hierarchy in Government / Peter Heimler -- Aspects of R&D and their
          Impact on Institutional Issues: The Case of AT&T / Michael S. Macrakis --
          Expertise and Organizational Developments: Technological Revolutions Projected as Bipolar "Evolutionary
          Vector" and "Entropy Distribution" Continuum / Walter W. Zessner -- Who Is the Expert? / William D. Rifkin --
          Collective Design Decision Processes / Makrand Bhoot -- The Growth, Accretion and Decay of Cities / John M.
          Peschon, Leif Isaksen and Brian Tyler -- Space and Place in Geographic Decision Making / Michael R. Curry --
          Skeptical Toolishness, or How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love GIS / Bruce Goldstein -- The Nature of
          Expertise and Information Technology: Scenarios for the Future / Robert M. Mason and Donald Haselwood --
          Personal Computing in Community Organisations: Expertise out of Context / Kevin Dillon -- Identifying Obstacles
          in the Shift to Electronic Media by Professional Societies: A Delphi Study of the IEEE / Joseph R. Herkert and
          Christine Nielsen -- Building Public Confidence in Energy Planning: A Multimethod MCDM Approach to
          Demand Management at BC Gas / Benjamin F. Hobbs, Graham T. F. Horn and Peter M. Meier -- A Systems
          Approach for Collaborative Decision Support in Water Resources Planning / Michael J. Bender and Slobodan P.
          Simonovic -- Scenario Planning, the Interpretation of Uncertainty and Value-Focused Decision Making: A Case
          Study of a Radioactive Waste Site Remediation / Darryl Farber --
          Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Policy Analysis / Karl Perusich -- The Social Construction of Uniformity: Safety
          Standards in Agricultural Equipment / Rafael Balderrama -- Technical Expertise and Landfill Siting Decisions /
          Marie Lynn Miranda, James N. Miller and Timothy L. Jacobs -- The Media and Government Officials:
          Environmental Policy Communication / Mark C. Stephan -- Facts and Values, Cars and Smog: Analytical
          Perspectives of Stakeholders in Air Quality and Transportation Planning in Los Angeles, CA / Terry J. Keating --
          Toward a Comprehensive Democratic Politics of Technology / Richard Sclove -- Industrial Society as Hubbard's
          Pimple: Is This the Unabomber's Manifesto? / Jeff Robbins --
          To Infinity and Beyond: Rhetorical Methods in Telecommunications Economic Policy Discourse / Ann Z. Li --
          Building Expertise in High Technology: New Dynamics of R&D Funding at Large Research Universities /
          Christopher A. Thorn -- A Case Study of Technical Expertise and Public Decisions: British Watchmaking,
          1842-43 / Alun C. Davies -- Agile Cities: The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Building the Learning
          Infrastructure for Metropolitan Economic Development / Dengjian Jin and Roger Stough -- Technical
          Standardisation of Global Telecommunication Services - Expertise or Market Shares? / Kai Jakobs, Rob Proctor
          and Robin Williams -- Norms of Communicative Analysis / Clinton J. Andrews --
          Different Drums: Contrasts Between Scientific Communication and Journalism / Beverley J. Pitts and Ruth H.
          Howes -- Technology, Language, and Public Decisions: Finding Common Ground for Experts and Citizens /
          David D. Jensen and Todd M. La Porte -- Generating Understanding of Technology / Lee Goeller -- The
          Science of the Unthinkable: The Diffusion of RAND's Policy Planning Methods from the Pentagon to the Great
          Society / David R. Jardini -- The Development of Expertise in a Disciplinary Interstice: Antilock Braking Systems
          and the Electronic Control of a Mechanical Device / Ann Johnson --
          Limited Horizons, Limited Influence: Information of Technology Experts and the Crisis of the London Ambulance
          Service / Bruce Robinson -- Esperanto, To Enhance International Collaboration on Technology in the Broader
          Interest of Society / Allan C. Boschen -- Environmental Regulation Case Study: Thermal Pollution and the
          Paradise Power Plant / Susan P. Lyons -- Scientific Expertise and Regulatory Politics in Germany: The Formative
          Period of Handling Risks by Agreeing on "Acceptable" Standards, 1870-1913 / Peter Lundgreen -- Public Policy
          Models in Conflict: Regulatory Decision-Making and the Blue Crab Fishery in Virginia / Jane C. Webb, George
          R. Webb and Charlotte Webb --
          Program Management in a Period of Strategic Realignment: A Practitioner's Perspective / Victor J. Kimm.
ISBN:
          0780333462 (casebound)
          0780333454 (softbound)
          0780333470 (microfiche)

CALL NUMBER: T14.5 .I58 1996



1993
AUTHOR: International Symposium on Technology and Society (1993 : George Washington University)

TITLE: Technology, whose costs?-- Whose benefits? / the International Symposium on Technology and Society 1993, The interdisciplinary symposium that links technology and social effects : George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 22-23, 1993 ; sponsors, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic[s] Engineers (IEEE) ... [et al.].

PUBLICATION: Springfield, VA : IEEE National Capital Area Council, c1993.

DESCRIPTION: xii, 234 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

CALL NUMBER: T14.5 .I58 1993


1991
AUTHOR: International Symposium on Technology and Society (1991 : Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ont.)

TITLE: Preparing for a sustainable society : proceedings of the 1991 International Symposium on Technology and Society : ISTAS '91, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 21/22, 1991 / editors, H. Burkhardt and W.H. Vanderburg ; sponsors Institute for [i.e. of] Electrical and Electronic[s] Engineers, Society on Social Implications of Technology ... [et al.].

PUBLICATION: [Toronto?] : IEEE, c1991.

DESCRIPTION: 485 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

CALL NUMBER: T14.5 .I58 1991


1989
AUTHOR: Conference on a Delicate Balance: Technics, Culture and Consequences (1989 : California State University, Los Angeles)

TITLE: A delicate balance : technics, culture, and consequences : California State University, Los Angeles, October 20-21, 1989 / Chantal Toporow, conference chair ; Justin Biddle, executive director ; McCagie Rogers and Nik Warren, editors ; sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Los Angeles Council, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society on Social Implications of Technology.

PUBLICATION: Torrance, Calif. : Los Angeles Chapter IEEE SSIT-30, c1990.

DESCRIPTION: xiv, 369 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

CALL NUMBER: T14.5 .C658 1989