Slowing the nanotechnology treadmill: impact science versus production science for sustainable technological development
Slowing the nanotechnology treadmill: impact science versus production science for sustainable technological development
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放慢纳米技术跑步机的速度：影响科学与生产科学对可持续技术发展的影响
DOI：
10.1080/23251042.2015.1041211
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
K. Gould
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作者：
K. Gould
纳米技术被推广为解决世界饥饿、能源依赖和环境退化等各种问题的方法。纳米技术研究旨在提供新材料、生产工艺以及军事和商业应用，从而改变社会关系和经济。虽然有些人认为纳米技术推动了生态现代化，但对科学资助结构、优先事项和机构目标的分析引起了人们的关注，即过去十年的纳米技术投资加速了生产的跑步机。发展纳米技术能力的跨国竞赛提供了一个机会来研究如何开发和释放科学潜力以及达到什么目的。纳米技术研究的投资模式显示出对生产科学的重视，而对旨在了解纳米技术可能带来的环境和公共健康风险的影响科学的关注相对较少。研究经费分配不均的结果是，纳米技术研究本来可以用来提高可持续性，但却降低了社会系统理解和应对生态系统变化的能力。
Nanotechnology is promoted as a solution to problems as diverse as world hunger, energy dependence, and environmental degradation. Nanotechnology research aims to provide new materials, production processes, and military and commercial applications that will transform social relations and economies. While some view nanotechnology as advancing ecological modernization, this analysis of science funding structures, priorities, and institutional goals raises the concern that the past decade of nanotechnology investment has served to accelerate the Treadmill of Production. The transnational race to develop nanotechnological capacity provides an opportunity to examine how scientific potential is developed and unleashed, and to what ends. Investment patterns in nanotechnology research demonstrate an emphasis on production science, and relatively little attention to impact science aimed at understanding the environmental and public health risks nanotechnology may pose. The result of that skewed allocation of research dollars is that nanotechnology research, which might be harnessed to improve sustainability, has instead decreased the capacity of social systems to comprehend and respond to changes in ecosystems.
影响因子：
38.3
作者：
Bhabra, Gevdeep;Sood, Aman;Case, Charles Patrick
通讯作者：
Case, Charles Patrick