Environmentalism and Technology

Adrian Smith ()
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No 149, SPRU Working Paper Series from SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School

Abstract: The environment movement often targets technology. It switches between enthusiasm for some technologies (like wind energy) and resistance to others (like nuclear power). And yet theory regarding the way social movements engage with technology is little developed. Environment groups are simply assumed to contribute to the 'selection pressures' under which technologies evolve. This paper seeks to develop theory by bridging a gap between social movement research and the sociology of technology. It will move between the two literatures and use examples to illustrate how the environment movement's enthusiasm and resistance to technologies penetrate their networks of development.

Keywords: environment movement; resistance to technologies; sociology of technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q55 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006-04-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env and nep-ino
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