Synchronizing Science And Technology With Human Behaviour

by Brand, Ralf

• ISBN13: 9781844072477
• ISBN10: 1844072479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Peri-urban interfaces - the places where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitatio

Author Biography

Ralf Brand is a director of International Agenda 21 Consulting of the German Sustainability Performance Group and lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	vii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	ix
1 Setting the Stage	1	(6)
2 The Nature of the Problem	7	(28)
The technical-fix approach	7	(9)
The behavioural-fix approach	16	(6)
Ringing bells	22	(3)
The seamless web	25	(10)
3 Co-evolution in Action	35	(32)
Hasselt	36	(19)
Fiirstenfeldbruck	55	(12)
4 Towards a Theory of Co-evolution	67	(10)
Limits to describe are limits to imagine	67	(4)
Co-evolution as deliberate symbiosis	71	(1)
The memetics of co-evolution	72	(5)
5 Memes of Co-evolution	77	(46)
New technologies provide a new range of choices	77	(5)
New technologies make socially desired behaviours attractive	82	(5)
Participation facilitates synchronic pre-adaptation	87	(7)
New technologies require social embedding	94	(4)
Strategic alliances are more productive than ideological purity	98	(6)
Inventiveness enables a departure from the prevailing discourse	104	(10)
Critical mass is crucial to overcome path dependencies	114	(4)
Definition of co-evolution	118	(5)
6 Anticipation of Criticism	123	(22)
Co-evolution is old wine in new bottles	123	(2)
Established professions will undermine co-evolution	125	(4)
Common sense is not susceptible to co-evolution	129	(3)
Co-evolution is not radical enough	132	(2)
Co-evolution is too radical	134	(2)
Co-evolution sets the fox to guard the geese	136	(3)
Co-evolution only works under strong leadership	139	(6)
7 Conclusions	145	(10)
Summary	145	(2)
Assessing structural frames	147	(2)
Creating awareness of contingency	149	(1)
Assisted problem definition	150	(1)
The search for solutions	151	(4)
References	155	(14)
Index	169