Scienza e Governance
by Redazione FGB [1], 5 March 2008
The relationships between science and society are at the centre of a European project aimed at building a "knowledge based society" but they also represent an extremely problematic element. The controversies mainly involve the theme of scientific-technological innovation and in particular responsibility taking for innovative choices and their consequences. This debate often runs the risk of finishing in a sterile ideological deadlock between those for or against science. But the contemporary governance of science requires a more complex approach, in which different social voices and different forms of knowledge can give life into new and articulate democratic processes.
Therefore with the intention of promoting a reflection upon the politics and rights of science in Italy, the Bassetti foundation has published an Italian translation of the European report "Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously [2]" through the publishing house Rubbettino Editrice [3]
The report was produced by an expert working group, that with an EU mandate has studied three particular aspects of European science and its governance: 1) how to respond to the widespread problem of the lack of trust of science on the part of European society; 2) how to implement democracy and the involvement of civil society; 3) identify some urgent policy challenges regarding climate change and sustainable development.
The publication of the volume gave the foundation the opportunity to organize a series of events and meetings, introduced and followed up by articles on this site [4].
Scienza e Governance. La società europea della conoscenza presa sul serio.
By Brian Wynne, Ulrike Felt, Michel Callon, Maria Eduarda Gonçalves, Sheila Jasanoff, Maria Jepsen, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Zdenek Konopasek, Stefan May, Claudia Neubauer, Arie Rip, Karen Siune, Andy Stirling, Mariachiara Tallacchini
With preface by Piero Bassetti and Mariachiara Tallacchini
Rubbettino Editore, 2008 [5]
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- 2] http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/european-knowledge-society_en.pdf
- 3] http://www.rubbettino.it/
- 4] /en/events/2008/03/science_and_governance_the_rep.html
- 5] http://www.rubbettino.it/rubbettino/public/dettaglioLibro_re.jsp?ID=3984
