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ORCIDISTAS 1996: Princeton, NJ, USA
- 1996 International Symposium on Technology and Society Technical Expertise and Public Decisions, ISTAS 1996, Princeton, NJ, USA, June 21-22, 1996. IEEE 1996, ISBN 0-7803-3345-4
Session 1: Plenary Session
- Christopher T. Hill:
The congressional office of technology assessment a retrospective and prospects for the post-OTA world. 4-12
Session 2: Innovation I
- William J. Kinsella:
From big science to postmodern science: technology-intensive research in an era of competing public values. 15-24 - Liudmila Yu. Bzhilianskaya:
Civil applications of dual-use technology in Russia (case-study of lasers). 25-34
Session 3: Institutions for Technology Assessment
- Robert M. Margolis:
Losing ground: the demise of the Office of Technology Assessment and the role of experts in congressional decision-making. 36-44 - David H. Guston, Megan Jones, Lewis M. Branscomb:
Science and technology advice to state legislatures. 45-54 - Daniël Tijink:
Foresight in science and technology policy as participatory policy analysis. 55-63
Session 4: Environment, Health, and Safety I
- David A. Kirsch:
Technology, environment and public policy in perspective: lessons from the history of the automobile. 67-75 - David M. Hassenzahl:
The role of experts in Federal hazardous waste legislative decisions. 76-82
Session 5
- Les Levidow, René von Schomberg:
Harmonization difficulties of European biotechnology regulation: EC directive 90/220 on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms (GMOS). 84-86 - Les Levidow, Susan Carr:
UK: disputing boundaries of biotechnology regulation. 87-92 - René von Schomberg:
Democratising the policy process on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms. 93-100
Session 6: Public Participation I
- Eva A. Sebo, Stephen A. Sebo:
Public reaction to power frequency electric and magnetic field (EMF) effects. 103-109 - G. Scott Aikens:
The democratization of systems of public opinion formation. 110-117
Session 7: Expertise and Development
- Jill Alane Nystrom:
"Negotiating 'Expertise'": biotechnology and agricultural development in Zimbabwe. 120-129 - Maria Eduarda Barroso Gonçalves:
The Foz Coa rock art case: towards a new relationship between science and policy making in Portugal? 130-138 - Mona Mourshed:
Determinants of irrigation technology choice in Egypt. 139-150 - Subbiah Arunachalam:
Introducing technology to a traditional society: social and psychological implications. 151-155
Session 8: Education
- Ron Hira:
Undergraduate engineering education curriculum and educational research. 158-166 - Brian P. Butz:
Who cares about lifelong learning? 167-171 - David A. Rogers, Paulo F. Ribeiro:
Ethics, technology, and society in the heartland: their role in engineering education. 172-176 - Philip J. Frankenfeld:
The IMPACTS curriculum: education for creating citizens in an expert-controlled, changing technological society. 177-186
Session 9
- Alex Farrell:
Making decisions about sustainability: joining social values with technical expertise. 188-197
Session 10: Negotiating the Boundaries of Science and Policy
- Edward J. Woodhouse:
When expertise goes away, and when it proves helpful. 200-206 - Brian M. O'Connell:
Courts, technology and the boundaries of expertise. 207-213 - Hans de Bruijn, Mark J. W. van Twist, Hugo Verheul:
Complexity requires complexity: creating fits between technology and public decision-making in large projects. 214-224
Session 11: Public Participation II
- Toddi A. Steelman:
Public participation in national forest management: a case study of the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. 226-230 - Igor S. Mayer, Jacques L. Geurts:
Consensus conferences as participatory policy analysis, a methodological contribution to the social management of technology. 231-241 - David A. Wirth:
Risk-based regulatory reform and public participation. 242-248
Session 12: Organizations and Technological Decisions
- Charles M. Waite:
Critical digital systems and the ethic of expediency. 252-261
Session 14: Technological Transfomzations of Institutions
- Peter C. Heimler:
The problem of hierarchy in government. 265-277 - Michael S. Macrakis:
Aspects of R&D and their impact on institutional issues: the case of AT&T. 278-287 - Walter W. Zessner:
Expertise and organizational developments: technological revolutions projected as bipolar "evolutionary vector" and "entropy distribution" continuum. 288-297
Session 15: Cities
- John M. Peschon, Leif Isaksen, Brian Tyler:
The growth, accretion, and decay of cities. 301-310 - Michael R. Curry:
Space and place in geographic decision making. 311-317
Session 17: Infomzation Technology in Non-governmental Organizations
- Kevin Dillon:
Personal computing in community organisations: expertise out of context. 323-336 - Joseph R. Herkert, Christine Nielsen:
Identifying obstacles in the shift to electronic media by professional societies: a Delphi study of the IEEE. 337-346
Session 18: Methodological Innovations
- Benjamin F. Hobbs, Graham T. F. Horn:
Building public confidence in energy planning: a multimethod MCDM approach to demand management at BC Gas. 348-356 - Michael J. Bender, Slobodan P. Simonovic:
A systems approach for collaborative decision support in water resources planning. 357-363 - Darryl Farber:
Scenario planning, the interpretation of uncertainty and value-focused decision making: a case study of a radioactive waste site remediation. 364-368 - Karl Perusich:
Fuzzy cognitive maps for policy analysis. 369-373
Session 19: Environment, Health, and Safety II
- Marie Lynn Miranda, James N. Miller, Timothy L. Jacobs:
Informing policymakers and the public in landfill siting processes. 376-393 - Mark C. Stephan:
The media and government officials: environmental policy communication. 394-397 - Terry J. Keating:
Facts and values, cars and smog: analytical perspectives of stakeholders in air quality and transportation planning in Los Angeles, CA. 398-405
Session 21: Rethinking Markets and "Progress"
- Jeff Robbins:
Industrial society as Hubbard's pimple. Is this the Unabomber's manifesto? 410-418 - Ann Z. Li:
To infinity and beyond: rhetorical methods in telecommunications economic policy discourse. 419-427
Session 22: Innovation II
- Christopher A. Thorn:
Building expertise in high technology: new dynamics of R&D funding at U.S. research universities. 430-437 - Alun C. Davies:
Technical expertise and public decisions. British watchmaking, 1842-43: a case study. 438-447 - Dengjian Jin, Roger Stough:
Agile cities: the role of intelligent transportation systems in building the learning infrastructure for metropolitan economic development. 448-456 - Kai Jakobs, Rob Procter, Robin Williams:
Standardisation of global telecommunication services-expertise or market shares? 457-466
Session 23: Communication Challenges
- Clinton J. Andrews:
Norms of communicative analysis. 468-475 - Beverley J. Pitts, Ruth H. Howes:
Different drums: contrasts between scientific communication and journalism. 476-481 - David D. Jensen, Todd M. La Porte:
Technology, language, and public decisions: finding common ground for experts and citizens. 482-490 - Lee Goeller:
Generating understanding of technology. 491-494
Session 24: Expert Qualifications
- Ann Johnson:
The development of expertise in a disciplinary interstice: antilock braking systems and the electronic control of a mechanical device. 497-505 - Bruce Robinson:
Limited horizons, limited influence: information technology experts and the crisis of the London Ambulance Service. 506-514 - Allan C. Boschen:
Esperanto: to enhance international collaboration on technology in the broader interest of society. 515-520
Session 25: Environment, Health, and Safety III
- Susan P. Lyons:
Environmental regulation case study: thermal pollution and the Paradise power plant. 522-531 - Peter Lundgreen:
Scientific expertise and regulatory politics in Germany: the formative period of handling risks by agreeing on "acceptable" standards, 1870-1913. 532-536 - Jane C. Webb, George R. Webb, Charlotte Webb:
Public policy models in conflict: regulatory decision-making and the blue crab fishery in Virginia. 537-543 - Victor J. Kimm:
Program management in a period of strategic realignment: a practitioner's perspective. 544-548
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