Description: Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Susan E. Cozzens, Jameson Wetmore Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789048196142, 978-9048196142 Synopsis Nanotechnology is enabling applications in materials, microelectronics, health, and agriculture, which are projected to create the next big shift in production, comparable to the industrial revolution. Such major shifts always co-evolve with social relationships. This book focuses on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society. Nanotechnologies are likely to open gaps by gender, ethnicity, race, and ability status, as well as between developed and developing countries, unless steps are taken now to create a different outcome. Organizations need to change their practices, and cultural ideas must be broadened if currently disadvantaged groups are to have a more equal position in nano-society rather than a more disadvantaged one. Economic structures are likely to shift in the nano-revolution, requiring policymakers and participatory processes to invent new institutions for social welfare, better suited to the new economic order than those of the past.
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Book Title: Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Deve...
Number of Pages: 458 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development
Publisher: Springer
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Sociology
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 1890 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Jameson Wetmore, Susan E. Cozzens
Subject Area: Family Sociology, Nanotechnology
Series: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
