Nanotechnology and the millennium development goals: water, energy, and agri-food
Nanotechnology and the millennium development goals: water, energy, and agri-food
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纳米技术和千年发展目标：水、能源和农产品
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Thomas S. Woodson
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作者：
S. Cozzens;Rodrigo Cortés;Ogundiran Soumonni;Thomas S. Woodson
人们经常声称纳米技术将有助于全球发展进程。2005年，一项仔细的研究确定了纳米技术可以帮助发展中国家实现千年发展目标的具体领域。这篇文章考察了在此期间，纳米技术的研究议程是否如出版物所反映的那样，遵循了当时在水、能源和农业食品这三个关键领域确定的方向。我们发现，研究界已经采取了早期研究中指出的广泛方向，尽管不经常详细应用特定的纳米级技术或现象。然而，对全球发展的影响尚不清楚，因为同样的应用可能在发达国家和发展中国家都有用，也因为发展中国家的条件可能不符合应用的社会技术要求。
The claim has often been made that nanotechnologies will contribute to the global development process. In 2005, a careful study identified specific areas where nanotechnologies could help developing countries achieve the millennium development goals. This article examines whether the research agenda of nanotechnology in the intervening period, as reflected in publications, has followed the directions identified at that time, in three key areas, water, energy, and agri-food. We find that the research community has taken up the broad directions indicated in the earlier study, although not so often the detailed applications of specific nanoscale techniques or phenomena. However, the impact on global development is unclear, both because the same applications can be useful in both developed and developing countries, and because the conditions in developing countries may not match the socio-technical requirements of the applications.