Rethinking ethical, legal, and societal frameworks for assessing and governing nanomaterials / Angela Kallhoff, Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg, and Elias Moser -- Ecocentric evaluation of nano-release risk, precaution and imagination / Angela Kallhoff and Elias Moser -- Standardising responsibility? The significance of interstitial spaces / Fern Wickson And Ellen-Marie Forsberg (reprint) -- Standardisation and patenting in nanotechnology : better balancing for a necessary nuisance / Thomas Jaeger -- Standardisation enabler for nanotechnology innovation / Henk de Vries -- Science -- democracy -- industry : Who is in charge of regulating nanomaterials? / Diana M. Bowman and Lucille M. Tournas -- Pros and cons of nano-regulation and ways towards a sustainable use / Juliane Filser -- Nanotechnology and fundamental rights : how to regulate dual use research? / Iris Eisenberger and Franziska Bereuter -- Monitoring the value of responsible research and innovation in industrial nanotechnology innovation projects / Emad Yaghmaei, Andrea Porcari, Elivio Mantovani and Steven M. Flipse -- The politics and public imagination of nano-labelling in Europe / Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg -- Emerging technologies and the problem of representation / Lotte Krabbenborg -- Nanotechnology : democratising a hyped-up technology? / Franz Seifert.
Summary:
"Rooted in different disciplines such as ethics, ecology, law, social and political sciences, this volume explore the normative approaches, societal practices, and legal mechanisms which have emerged in the nano-field over the last two decades"-- Provided by publisher.
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