Studies of Science, Technology & Sustainability: Building a Research Agenda

科学技术研究

• 批准号: 0841651
• 负责人: Clark Miller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0841651&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Studies; Science; Technology; & Sustainability

The transition of the US and the globe toward greater sustainability has emerged as one of the central policy challenges of the 21st century. This workshop examines how research in the field of science and technology studies (STS) can help contribute to US and global efforts to move toward greater sustainability. The workshop follows on and helps further advance the objectives of a recent meeting organized by scholars at Columbia University and sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The Columbia meeting highlighted the need for NSF and other funding agencies to begin to develop an ambitious agenda for the field of sustainability research. The workshop is organized to develop an important and timely piece of the sustainability agenda: namely, social and humanistic studies of the dynamic relationships among science, technology, and society. The workshop takes place at the National Science Foundation in early Fall 2008, consisting of two days of thematic panels, plenary speakers, and open discussions. The workshop is diverse, drawing on research on a wide range of subfields within STS and neighboring fields of scholarly inquiry, including history of technology, environmental history, environmental sociology, sociology of technology, social studies of science and knowledge, anthropology of development, science and technology policy, environmental ethics and philosophy, philosophy of technology, and many others. These fields have already contributed substantially to our knowledge of sustainability and the environment and are poised to contribute even more substantially. The workshop significantly advances STS as it relates to sustainability. It is designed: (1) to assess and highlight the current contributions of STS to understanding the sustainability challenge and possible solutions; (2) to develop a roadmap of future STS research priorities that would enhance the field's contributions to achieving a sustainability transition; (3) to begin to form a network of sustainability-oriented STS scholars that could guide and promote research on this topic within the STS community; and (4) to begin to identify strategies for connecting STS research on sustainability to research on sustainability policy, especially in the arena of science and technology policy.

美国和全球向更高可持续性转型已成为 21 世纪的核心政策挑战之一。本次研讨会探讨科学技术研究 (STS) 领域的研究如何帮助美国和全球实现更大的可持续性。该研讨会是哥伦比亚大学学者最近组织、美国国家科学基金会赞助的一次会议的后续，并有助于进一步推进会议的目标。哥伦比亚会议强调，国家科学基金会和其他资助机构需要开始为可持续发展研究领域制定雄心勃勃的议程。组织该研讨会的目的是制定可持续发展议程中重要且及时的部分：即对科学、技术和社会之间动态关系的社会和人文研究。该研讨会于 2008 年秋初在国家科学基金会举行，包括为期两天的专题小组讨论、全体演讲和公开讨论。研讨会内容丰富，借鉴了 STS 和邻近学术探究领域的广泛子领域的研究，包括技术史、环境史、环境社会学、技术社会学、科学和知识社会研究、发展人类学、科技政策、环境伦理和哲学、技术哲学等等。这些领域已经为我们对可持续发展和环境的了解做出了重大贡献，并且准备做出更大的贡献。该研讨会显着推进了与可持续发展相关的 STS。它的目的是：(1) 评估并强调 STS 目前对理解可持续发展挑战和可能的解决方案所做的贡献； (2) 制定未来 STS 研究重点的路线图，以增强该领域对实现可持续转型的贡献； (3) 开始形成一个以可持续发展为导向的STS学者网络，可以指导和促进STS界内关于这一主题的研究； (4)开始确定将STS可持续性研究与可持续性政策研究联系起来的策略，特别是在科技政策领域。