Journal
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 286-295Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sd.347
Keywords
sustainability; precaution; participation; innovation policy; technological progress
Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/D004594/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/D004594/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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There is much high profile concern over apparent tensions between sustainability and precaution on the one hand, and 'competitive innovation' and 'technological progress' on the other. How can we balance risk with opportunity and public engagement with 'sound science'? The outcomes of such debates may undoubtedly be serious for particular technologies, but are there really grounds for concern over the implications for innovation in general? This paper argues that such anxieties often stem from impoverished understandings and strategic misrepresentations of the real nature of scientific creativity and technological possibilities. This can obscure possibilities for achieving more truly sustainable and socially deliberate technological futures. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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