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Author:   Sven Ove Hansson ,  Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.742kg
ISBN:  

9783319305479

ISBN 10:   3319305476
Pages:   353
Publication Date:   14 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Summary; Sven Ove Hansson and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn.- The argumentative turn; Sven Ove Hansson and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn.- Part I. Argumentative strategies.- Choosing among the uncertainties; Sven Ove Hansson.- Accounting for possibilities; Gregor Betz.- Framing; Till Grüne-Yanoff.- Timing strategies; Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn.- Setting and revising goals; Karin Edvardsson Björnberg.- Value uncertainty; Niklas Möller.- Ethical orientations for policy decisions; Rafaela Hillerbrand, Pieter van Gelder, and Genserik Reniers.- Participation as a means to better argumentation; Jeroen van den Hoven, Alessandra Palmigiano, and Francis M Brazier.- Argumentative roads to agreement; Georg Brun and Gregor Betz.- Part II Argumentation in practice.- Climate geoengineering; Kevin Elliott.- Water governance; Neelke Doorn.- Synthetic biology; Armin Grunwald.- Nuclear waste; Kristin Shrader-Frechette.- Financial markets; Michael Schefczyk.

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Sven Ove Hansson is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is editor-in-chief of Theoria and of the Springer book series Outstanding contributions to logic. His latest book is The Ethics of Risk (Palgrave). He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was President of the international Society for Philosophy and Technology in 2011-2013. Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn is adjunct professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Her current focus is on systematizing research and decisions on sustainable development. She is lead editor of the Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research (Springer). She is a member of the Scientific Board of the interdisciplinary journal GAIA. She has acted as Vice President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences in 2001-2006.

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