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What is Sustainable Technology?

What is Sustainable Technology?. Dilemmas of SD articulations in technology Social order/social dilemmas Social-political change. Karel Mulder. SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY????. 2. Refrigerator, 1960s. Car 1900s. Horse & Carriage, 1900s.

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What is Sustainable Technology?

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  1. What is Sustainable Technology? Dilemmas of SD articulations in technology Social order/social dilemmas Social-political change Karel Mulder

  2. SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY???? 2

  3. Refrigerator, 1960s

  4. Car 1900s

  5. Horse & Carriage, 1900s

  6. In 1818, New York City Council: regulation. Manure collection & processing: special "manure-yards" to process: "rotting“, overturning and exposure to weathering. • Problems: • Abt. 1200 tons of manure daily on the streets: dust, typhoid • dead animals (In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets) • Noise • 1908: 20.000 death?

  7. Modern Car

  8. 2311 * 10^9 barrels of oil still present. Cumulatieve consumption 960 Gbo. Total 3271 Gbo Formed in about 350 * 10^6 year (highest speed Paleozoicum) Simplified: 9345 barrels annually 1 barrel: 51.4 % gasoline (http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/whats_in_barrel_oil.html) = 0.514 * 159 litre/barrel = 81.7 liter gasoline Geological annual production of gasoline: 9345 * 81.7 = 763500 litres gasoline 2000 litres per car annually? 380 cars can drive sustainably by gasoline lets say between 100 and 1000

  9. Various Articulations of SD SD is not one thing, it is many things: ARTICULATIONS: Historically changing Culture dependent Non-sensensical statement: “Sustainable because 100 % recyclable”

  10. Implications Involve stakeholders in technological decisions: the engineer cannot prioritise the articulations on their behalf Sustainability is never established forever: A sustainable technology now might be unsustainable in the future

  11. Consensus: Prisoner’s dilemma, Prisoner B Prisoner A

  12. Examples: Expensive environmentally sound products Bringing child to school by car to prevent traffic injuries Smog Alarm:

  13. Various dilemmas: defective/cooperative choice Defective choice is advantageous if others are cooperative using your car if others decide to switch to public traffic for environmental/congestion reasons Dope in sport Defective choice is advantageous if others are also defective Small fraud: the more people do it, the less risk there is for serious consequences

  14. Examples Prisoners Dilemmas “ Tragedy of the commons” Over fishing Paying for hospitalization- higher health care costs Selection for insurances: bankrupcy of an efficient non selecting insurance SSGZ

  15. How to promote cooperative choice? • Group identity • Communication • Expectation on others behavior • Coercion

  16. Influencing Behavior • Economic stimuli/compensation • Leadership in the community • Privatizing/dividing resources (commons)

  17. How do people perceive society & Nature: Cultural Theory • Cultural behavior: Behavior Shared through Extra-genetic Transmission: • Strong stability World view: • Markets and hierarchies • Equality-inequality

  18. INEQUALITY FATALIST EXCLUDED FROM ORGANISED PATTERNS HIERARCHIST BOUNDED AND RANKED GROUPS INDIVIDUALIST EGO-FOUCUSED NETWORKS EGALITARIAN BOUNDED AND UNRANKED GROUPS NO LIMITS ON COMPETITION LIMITS ON COMPETITION EQUALITY

  19. INEQUALITY FATALIST EXCLUDED FROM ORGANISED PATTERNS HIERARCHIST BOUNDED AND RANKED GROUPS INDIVIDUALIST EGO-FOUCUSED NETWORKS EGALITARIAN BOUNDED AND UNRANKED GROUPS Nature semi-stable Nature can go anyway NO LIMITS ON COMPETITION LIMITS ON COMPETITION Nature fragile Nature benign EQUALITY

  20. Social Order & Social Change • Social order: Roles • Not just the strict rules of society: also the informal behavioral pattern, how to approach each other Roles, multiple role: • Student • Son, cousin • Football player • Role problems: coincidence of several roles (having your father as teacher) • Expectations about roles

  21. Roles & Authority • Basis for Authority • legal • Merits • Network • culture • Scientific authority • merits

  22. Responsibility & Obedience Milgram: Obedience to authority

  23. How to change social order? • Roles are ‘hard’: change by the power of arguments is hard • Changing roles by conflict: • - puberty • - emancipation • Revolutions (on closer observation often a continuation of order, and only a change of persons

  24. Political Change? Convergence of 3 streams:

  25. Problems: persuading policy decision makers to pay attention to one problem over others. Problem recognition is critical: data or indicators, focusing events like a disaster or crisis, constituent feedback Proposals seen as technically feasible, compatible with decision maker values, reasonable in cost, and appealing to the public. Politics: changes in elected officials, political climate or mood

  26. Politics: Framing Interpretive packages Coming and going of dominant interpretive packages “War on terror” “First get the economy right” “Local populations complaints are all NIMBY” Interpretive packages determine what is relevant and how issues are related

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