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Not another GMO: explaining Europe's approach to nanotechnologies
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Abstract Despite early warnings about “knowledge-enabled mass destruction” and the ongoing battle over agricultural biotechnology, the development of nanotechnology in Europe has been remarkably quiet over the past decade: non-governmental organization (NGO) campaigns against “nano” were all but inexistent a... mehr
Despite early warnings about “knowledge-enabled mass destruction” and the ongoing battle over agricultural biotechnology, the development of nanotechnology in Europe has been remarkably quiet over the past decade: non-governmental organization (NGO) campaigns against “nano” were all but inexistent and the wider public appears largely uninterested in nanotechnology. Why has Europe’s experience with nanotechnologies been so fundamentally different from that with genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? This article argues that differences in the technologies as such cannot fully explain this divergence. Instead, a convergence of interests across key groups of stakeholders, the institutional evolution of the European Union (EU) and the experience from the GMO case enabled and facilitated a highly anticipatory and proactive approach to nanotechnology risk governance. This approach, marked by early capacity building, stakeholder involvement and gradual regulation succeeded in avoiding public polarization and in promoting a responsible development of nanotechnologies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nanotechnologie; Technologiepolitik; Gentechnologie; Risikoabschätzung; Risikomanagement; EU; Governance; Ordnungspolitik
Klassifikation
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Europapolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
27 S.
Schriftenreihe
KFG Working Paper Series, 44
ISSN
1868-7601
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung