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Book review: Criado-Perez, Caroline (2020): Unsichtbare Frauen & Patou-Mathis, Marylène (2021): Weibliche Unsichtbarkeit
Get PDFThe future of radioactive waste disposal: What are the developments and challenges after site selection?
Get PDFThe future is unpredictable. Under these circumstances, how can we plan and construct a nuclear waste repository that is supposed to safely store the waste for up to a million years – an endeavor that may in itself take more than a hundred years? In this introduction to the special topic on the future of nuclear waste disposal, we take a first look at this question by searching the literature for answers and by giving a short overview of the current status of site selection in different countries, including possible challenges.The future is unpredictable. Under these circumstances, how can we plan and construct a nuclear waste repository that is supposed to safely store the waste for up to a million years – an endeavor that may in itself take more than a hundred years? In this introduction to the special topic on the future of nuclear waste disposal, we take a first look at this question by searching the literature for answers and by giving a short overview of the current status of site selection in different countries, including possible challenges
Book review: Ratti, Emanuele; Stapleford, Thomas (eds.) (2022): Science, technology, and virtues
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Technology assessment and higher education: Theories, applications and concepts
Get PDFTechnology assessment (TA) occurs in a variety of educational contexts, its content and methods can contribute to dealing with socially relevant issues from different perspectives across disciplinary boundaries. However, the transdisciplinarity of TA raises the question in which educational contexts TA perspectives are introduced and how educational processes can be effectively structured and strengthened. This issue therefore addresses both perspectives: practice in various trans- and interdisciplinary educational contexts, as well as TA’s own educational practice.For some time now, technology assessment has been trying to ensure that participation and the ability to shape future processes are effectively propagated in society. Scientists are challenged to develop a contribution to possible solutions of the problem situations in their respective disciplines, as well as to communicate these comprehensibly for the public and to offer participatory processes. This is no easy task and only rarely do the complex questions of social, legal, ecological or ethical decisions have sufficient curricular space in the individual scientific disciplines. The contributions in this Special topic approach this problem from different disciplinary perspectives
Augmented and virtual reality technologies in education for sustainable development: An expert-based technology assessment
Get PDFDigitalization in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD) has gained attention in the last decade. In particular, technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) offer new ways to deliver educational content on sustainable development by simulating real-world experiences and using immersive and interactive formats for learning. Using an explorative qualitative research approach, the benefits of AR and VR technologies in the context of ESD are assessed. The results of a first expert panel show that AR and VR technologies are particularly suitable for sustainability topics when an understanding of action and the transfer of knowledge and values are to be promoted among learners.Digitalization in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD) has gained attention in the last decade. In particular, technologies such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) offer new ways to deliver educational content on sustainable development by simulating real-world experiences and using immersive and interactive formats for learning. Using an explorative qualitative research approach, the benefits of AR and VR technologies in the context of ESD are assessed. The results of a first expert panel show that AR and VR technologies are particularly suitable for sustainability topics when an understanding of action and the transfer of knowledge and values are to be promoted among learners
How the next billion users are challenging global tech assessment: Interview with Payal Arora
No full textCo-benefits as catalysts for sufficiency policy: How citizens justify sufficiency in participation processes
Get PDFThis article examines what sufficiency-oriented measures citizens would like to see in participation processes at the municipal level and how they justify them. In addition to the ecological impact, numerous co-benefits are identified in the fields of public health, community and participation as well as economic viability. Based on these justification contexts, measures that are often dismissed by opponents as ‘sacrifice’ were also interpreted as gains in quality of life. The article argues that an orientation toward the identified co-benefits may increase the legitimacy of sufficiency measures. The qualitative document analysis is based on documentation from 15 community participation processes of the nationwide competition ‘Zukunftsstadt 2030’ (City of the future 2030), in which municipalities developed concepts for their sustainable development.This article examines what sufficiency-oriented measures citizens would like to see in participation processes at the municipal level and how they justify them. In addition to the ecological impact, numerous co-benefits are identified in the fields of public health, community and participation as well as economic viability. Based on these justification contexts, measures that are often dismissed by opponents as ‘sacrifice’ were also interpreted as gains in quality of life. The article argues that an orientation toward the identified co-benefits may increase the legitimacy of sufficiency measures. The qualitative document analysis is based on documentation from 15 community participation processes of the nationwide competition ‘Zukunftsstadt 2030’ (City of the future 2030), in which municipalities developed concepts for their sustainable development