The first traceable concepts of environmental designs focused primarily on solar heating, which began in Ancient Greece around 500 BCE. At the time, most of Greece had exhausted its supply of wood for ...
There have been a number of scholars who've tried to categorise the various ways the natural environment is valued. Alan Marshall and Michael Smith are two examples of this, as cited by Peter Vardy in ...
Risk assessment consists of an objective evaluation of risk in which assumptions and uncertainties are clearly considered and presented. Part of the difficulty in risk management is that measurement o ...
Extraterrestrial life could invade Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under a colonial system, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.Although evid ...
The philosopher Nick Bostrom classifies risks according to their scope and intensity. He considers risks that are at least global in scope and "endurable" in intensity to be global catastrophic risks. ...
Potential risks of nanotechnology can broadly be grouped into four areas:Health issues - the effects of nanomaterials on human biologyEnvironmental issues - the effects of nanomaterials on the environ ...
Since the First International Symposium on Roboethics (Sanremo, Italy, 2004), three main ethical positions emerged from the robotics community (D. Cerqui, 2004):Not interested in ethics (This is the a ...
Neuroethics encompasses the myriad of ways in which developments in basic and clinical neuroscience intersect with social and ethical issues. The field is so young that any attempt to define its scope ...
The field of information ethics has a relatively short but progressive history having been recognized in the United States for nearly 20 years. The origins of the field are in librarianship though it ...
Technoethics is “an interdisciplinary field concerned with all ethical aspects of technology" and human practices related to technology. The field examines all social and ethical aspects of the desig ...
Media is studied as a broad subject in most states in Australia, with the state of Victoria being a world leader in curriculum development. Media studies in Australia was first developed as an area of ...
The western term 'technology' comes from the Greek term techne (τ?χνη) (art, or craft knowledge) and philosophical views on technology can be traced to the very roots of Western philosophy. A com ...
STS is a new and expanding subject. Like most interdisciplinary programs, it emerged from the confluence of a variety of disciplines and disciplinary subfields, all of which had developed an interest ...
Many sociologists and anthropologists have created social theories dealing with social and cultural evolution. Some, like Lewis H. Morgan, Leslie White, and Gerhard Lenski, declare technological progr ...
Although not considered to be formal laws within society, norms still work to promote a great deal of social control. Social norms can be enforced formally (e.g., through sanctions) or informally (e.g ...
