Guide to the book -- Motivations for technology assessment -- Technology assessment in action -- Theory I : the assessment process -- Theory II : technology assessment in society -- Back to ta practice : lessons learned -- Perspectives.

Between the discovery of its fundamental principles and the possible availability of commercially usable fusion power there will probably (and remarkably) be a period of around 100 years of intensive (and very expensive) R&D. It is difficult to say definitively whether fusion research is still...

Umweltfolgen; Ökosystemdienstleistungen; Biomasse; Bioenergie; Erneuerbare-Energien-Richtlinie; Zertifizierungssysteme; naturräumliche Heterogenität; regionale Ebene; Landschaftsstruktur; weltweiter Vergleich

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. What Makes New Science and Technology Meaningful to Society? -- 1.1. Motivation and objectives -- 1.2. The need for orientation in NEST fields -- 1.3. Short propaedeutic -- 1.3.1. The meaning of "sociotechnical meaning" --...