Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: (Un)Sustainable
- Lecture 3: Patterns of Development
- Lecture 4: Economic, Social and Political Structures
- Lecture 5: Technology Assessment & Measuring Sustainability
- Lecture 6: Technology and Society
- Lecture 7: Sustainable Enterprises
- Lecture 8: Sustainable Design
- Lecture 9: Innovation Processes
- Lecture 10: Technology for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development for Engineers
(WM0929)Lecture 5: Technology Assessment & Measuring Sustainability
Technology Assessment and Measuring Sustainability
4_OCW_-_Technology_Assessment___Measuring_Sustainability.pdf This lecture is an exploration of what technology assessment is by examples and a brief history. New technologies can create new problems that are not foreseen since people use technologies in unpredictable manners. We talk about technology assessment when we the study the societal consequences of new technologies. Different types of technology assessment will be discussed: classical technology assessment, strategic technology assessment and constructive technology assessment. This lecture also pays attention to the principles of technology forecasting and to the measuring sustainability by means of the ecological footprint. |
Key-words: Societal change, technology assessment, forecasting.
Reading: Chapter 4 and 6 of ‘Sustainable Development for Engineers’: Sustainable development and economic, social and political structures (this lecture is a continuation of lecture 4, both on chapter 4 of the book) and: Measuring sustainability (Chapter 6).
