Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser
The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign o...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/4467 2023-05-15T18:29:48+02:00 Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser Wråkberg, Urban 2012 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4467 swe swe University of Tromsø Universitetet i Tromsø Nordlit (2012) nr. 29 s. 215-234 FRIDAID 936451 0809-1668 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4467 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4171 openAccess VDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070::Modern history (after 1800): 083 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070::Moderne historie (etter 1800): 083 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2012 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:53:22Z The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign offices in the process leading up tothe ratification of the Spitsbergen/Svalbard treaty in 1920. The focus is on the discourse regarding hunting, mining and nature protections on these islands. The second case is the way technologists and geological scientists were engaged in the industrialisation of the USSR. These contexts of course differ in scale and in many other ways but are similar in certain respects. The discussion is centred on the problems of technocracy which is commented based on the Frankfurt school's elaborations on the open society and differing interpretations of technological determinism. This is related further to contemporary contentions over the balance between scientific based environmental stewardship and technological management in northern raw material extraction. Article in Journal/Newspaper Svalbard Spitsbergen University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Svalbard |
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The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign offices in the process leading up tothe ratification of the Spitsbergen/Svalbard treaty in 1920. The focus is on the discourse regarding hunting, mining and nature protections on these islands. The second case is the way technologists and geological scientists were engaged in the industrialisation of the USSR. These contexts of course differ in scale and in many other ways but are similar in certain respects. The discussion is centred on the problems of technocracy which is commented based on the Frankfurt school's elaborations on the open society and differing interpretations of technological determinism. This is related further to contemporary contentions over the balance between scientific based environmental stewardship and technological management in northern raw material extraction. |
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Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser |
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