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Not another GMO: explaining Europe's approach to nanotechnologies

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Despite early warnings about “knowledge-enabled mass destruction” and the ongoing battle over agricultural biotechnology, the development of nanotechnology in Europe has been remarkably quiet over the past decade: non-governmental organization (NGO) campaigns against “nano” were all but inexistent and the wider public appears largely uninterested in nanotechnology. Why has Europe’s experience with nanotechnologies been so fundamentally different from that with genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? This article argues that differences in the technologies as such cannot fully explain this divergence. Instead, a convergence of interests across key groups of stakeholders, the institutional evolution of the European Union (EU) and the experience from the GMO case enabled and facilitated a highly anticipatory and proactive approach to nanotechnology risk governance. This approach, marked by early capacity building, stakeholder involvement and gradual regulation succeeded in avoiding public polarization and in promoting a responsible development of nanotechnologies.

Not another GMO: explaining Europe's approach to nanotechnologies

Urheber*in: Jaspers, Nico

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ISSN: 1868-7601

Extent: Seite(n): 27

Language: Englisch

Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation: KFG Working Paper Series (44)

Subject: Technik, Technologie
Politikwissenschaft
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Europapolitik
Nanotechnologie
Technologiepolitik
Gentechnologie
Risikoabschätzung
Risikomanagement
EU
Governance
Ordnungspolitik

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Jaspers, Nico

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

(where): Deutschland, Berlin

(when): 2012

URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-373500

Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln

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Jaspers, Nico
Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

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