Nanotechnology, governance, and public deliberation: What role for the Social Sciences?

In this article we argue that nanotechnology represents an extraordinary opportunity to build in a robust role for the social sciences in a technology that remains at an early, and hence undetermined, stage of development. We examine policy dynamics in both the United States and United Kingdom aimed at both opening up, and closing down, the role of the social sciences in nanotechnologies. We then set out a prospective agenda for the social sciences and its potential in the future shaping of nanotechnology research and innovation processes. The emergent, undetermined nature of nanotechnologies calls for an open, experimental, and interdisciplinary model of social science research

Phenolic contamination in the sand-and-gravel aquifer from a surface impoundment of wood treatment wastes, Pensacola, Florida /

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Freshwater runoff and salinity distribution in the Loxahatchee River Estuary, southeastern Florida, 1980-82 /

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Identification and description of potential ground-water quality monitoring wells in Florida /

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Sediment concentrations and loads in the Loxahatchee River estuary, Florida, 1980-82 /

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Effects on ground-water quality of seepage from a phosphatic clayey waste settling pond, north-central Florida /

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Evaluation of diazinon and chlorpyrifos concentrations and loads, and other pesticide concentrations, at selected sites in the San Joaquin Valley, California, April to August, 2001 /

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