Od przekonywania do współdecydowania: zarządzanie konfliktami wokół ryzyka i technologii
From Persuading to Making Joint Decisions: Management of Conflicts over Risk and Technology

Summary/Abstract: New technologies may bring about social controversies in two ways at least. First, their development and implementation may directly result in social protests, as it is the case of biotechnology, nuclear energy, in-vitro, nanotechnologies; second, new technologies may cause unwanted consequences, such as pollution, global climate change, spreading of new epidemics (BSE, swine or bird flu). At the bottom of social conflicts which arise around those problems – which we call here ‘technological conflicts’ – is the perception of some technologies as risky or dangerous, whereas other social actors consider them safe and harmless. The fact that most of those controversies focus on technological safety requires a specific approach to managing this type of conflicts. The goal of this article is to present and assess strategies of technological conflicts’ management, which have been proposed within social studies on science and technology.

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