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... In one direction, these data are consistent with second-generation studies of the immigration... more ... In one direction, these data are consistent with second-generation studies of the immigration process, particularly those by Fortes (1996l, Vega (Vega and Amaro 1994; Vega et al. ... Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Arcury, Thomas A., and Sara A. Quandt. ...

M4ShaleGas stands for Measuring, monitoring, mitigating and managing the environmental impact of ... more M4ShaleGas stands for Measuring, monitoring, mitigating and managing the environmental impact of shale gas and is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The main goal of the M4ShaleGas project is to study and evaluate potential risks and impacts of shale gas exploration and exploitation. The focus lies on four main areas of potential impact: the subsurface, the surface, the atmosphere, and social impacts. The European Commission's Energy Roadmap 2050 identifies gas as a critical fuel for the transformation of the energy system in the direction of lower CO2 emissions and more renewable energy. Shale gas may contribute to this transformation. Shale gas is – by definition – a natural gas found trapped in shale, a fine grained sedimentary rock composed of mud. There are several concerns related to shale gas exploration and production, many of them being associated with hydraulic fracturing operations that are performed to stimulate gas flow in...

Page 2 Executive summary Page 2-4 Literature Review Pages 5-9 Methods Pages 10-13 Management Plan... more Page 2 Executive summary Page 2-4 Literature Review Pages 5-9 Methods Pages 10-13 Management Plan Pages 14-16 Deliverables Page 17 Milestones Page 18 Budget & Budget justification Page 19-20 References cited Pages 21-23 2009 Current Practices and Environmental Risks of Nanomaterials in Industry

Nature Nanotechnology, Dec 1, 2009

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 2017

$Research paper thumbnail of Hydraulic fracturing: a risk for environment, energy security and affordability?$

Nanotoxicology in Humans and the Environment, 2021

Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, 2017

This chapter provides an overview of the past decade of research on the societal aspects and impl... more This chapter provides an overview of the past decade of research on the societal aspects and implications of nanotechnology in the USA. It starts by providing key terms and definitions and then outlines the contours of the social, ethical, governance, and participatory research in the USA, with key examples of nanoELSI work. The chapter argues that all these elements are different facets of responsible development and responsible innovation, and that the National Nanotechnology Initiative's investment in nanoELSI research, education and outreach has provided an unprecedented advance in scholarship and policy. The chapter proposes that nanoELSI has in some respects developed new forms of hybrid social science, ethics, historical, legal, sociological, psychological interdisciplinarity in addition to the interdisciplinary collaborations that form the basis of much nanoscale science and engineering innovation. Integration of the societal and the technical is an ongoing challenge, and the chapter cites some notable advances in this area as well.

Ecology and Society, 2018

Energy Research & Social Science, 2018

Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Environmental Values, 2019

Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') has enabled the recovery of previously inaccessible res... more Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') has enabled the recovery of previously inaccessible resources and rendered new areas of the underground 'productive'. While a number of studies in the US and UK have examined public attitudes toward fracking and its various impacts, how people conceptualise the deep underground itself has received less attention. We argue that views on resources, risk and the deep underground raise important questions about how people perceive the desirability and viability of subterranean interventions. We conducted day-long deliberation workshops (two in each country), facilitating discussions among diverse groups of people on prospective shale extraction in the US and UK. Themes that emerged in these conversations include seeing the Earth as a foundation; natural limits (a greater burden than the subsurface can withstand versus simply overuse of natural resources); and ideas about the fragility, instability and opacity of the deep underground. We ...

The Social Life of Nanotechnology, 2012

Foreword John Seely Brown. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Social Scientific View Of Nanote... more Foreword John Seely Brown. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Social Scientific View Of Nanotechnologies Barbara Herr Harthorn and John W. Mohr Part I: Constructing the Field of Nanotechnology: The Social Origins of Nanotechnology 2. Science That Pays for Itself: Nanotechnology and the Discourse of Science Policy Reform Matthew N. Eisler 3. When Space Travel And Nanotechology Met at the Fountains of Paradise W. Patrick McCray 4. Conferences and the Emergence of Nanoscience Cyrus C. M. Mody Part II: Controlling the Field: The Role of Public Policies, Market Systems, Scientific Labor, and Globalization in Nanotechnology 5. Is Nanoscale Collaboration Meeting Nanotechnology's Social Challenge? A Call for Nano-Normalcy Christopher Newfield 6. Working for Next to Nothing: Labor in the Global Nanoscientific Community Mikael Johansson 7. Nanotechnology as Industrial Policy: China and the United States Richard P. Appelbaum, Cong Cao, Rachel Parker and Yasuyuki Motoyama 8. The Chinese Century? China's Move Towards Indigenous Innovation: Some Policy Implications Rachel Parker and Richard P. Appelbaum Part III: Contesting the Field: Knowledge, Power, and Reflexivity in the Construction of Nanotechnology 9. Nanotechnologies and Upstream Public Engagement: Dilemmas, Debates, and Prospects? Adam Corner and Nick Pidgeon 10. Different Uses, Different Responses: Exploring Emergent Cultural Values Through Public Deliberation Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Christine Shearer, Barbara Herr Harthorn and Tyronne Martin 11. News Media Frame Novel Technologies in a Familiar Way: Nanotechnology, Applications, and Progress Erica Lively, Meredith Conroy, David A. Weaver, and Bruce Bimber 12. Public Responses to Nanotechnology: Risks to the Social Fabric? William R. Freudenburg and Mary B. Collins

$Research paper thumbnail of Public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas and oil in the United States and Canada$

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Energy Research & Social Science

Oxford Handbooks Online

This chapter presents some of the methodological and philosophical challenges faced when conducti... more This chapter presents some of the methodological and philosophical challenges faced when conducting public engagement with emerging technologies. The intellectual origins and challenges of conducting upstream public engagement for science communication are discussed, illustrated through the case of nanotechnologies. A series of cross-national workshops held simultaneously in the United States and the UK are described. Findings included that benefits continued to be weighted more heavily than risks in participants’ perceptions of nanotechnologies, as well as did the type of application; that there were more US–UK cross-cultural similarities than differences in the data; the differences that did emerge were both subtle and contextual; and that discourses about social concerns rather than physical risk issues were more salient for participants in both countries. Four methodological challenges for upstream engagement are outlined. We argue that we must also place diverse publics and oth...