Emerging technologies

Emerging technologies socio-behavioral life cycle approaches / [electronic resource] : edited by Nora Savage, Michael Gorman, and Anita Street. - Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2013. - xiv, 327 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Using nanotechnology to filter water : a hypothetical case study / Michael E. Gorman, Nora F. Savage, and Anita Street -- 2. Nanotechnology for human health / Michael E. Gorman, Nora F. Savage, and Anita Street -- 3. Assessing emerging technology systems : why LCA fails / Braden R. Allenby -- 4. Technology mandates and socio-behavioral life cycle assessment / Gary E. Marchant -- 5. Issues in life cycle risk assessment : the way ahead / Gurumurthy Ramachandran -- 6. Organizational capability life cycles for responsible innovation / Paul Ellwood, Krsto Pandza, and Erik Fisher -- 7. Socialis commodis and life cycle analysis : a critical examination of uncertainty / David M. Berube -- 8. Who let the "social scientists" into the lab? / Eleonore Pauwels -- 9. What are the factors affecting anthropogenic phosphorous loss? : a case study of Chaohu watershed in Central China / Zengwei Yuan, Huijun Wu, and Jun Bi -- 10. Life cycle assessment and the U.S. policy-making context / Steven A. Cohen -- 11. Unexpected appropriations of technology and life cycle analysis : reframing cradle-to-grave approaches / Christopher Cummings, Jordan Frith, and David Berube -- 12. Surface-friendly urban mining / Eric Lee Sander, Charles William Edghill, and Gary Roy Sander.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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