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Book SynopsisA commentary on the practice of knowledge and technology transfer and the practice of observation and intervention, this title documents the various ways in which knowledge and technology transfer happen in practice and how they result in new socio-technical arrangements.
Table of ContentsKnowledge and technology transfer or the travel of thoughts and things, M. de Laet; nature and culture in the field - two centuries of stories from Lituya Bay, Alaska, J. Cruikshank; technology transfer perspectives on climate forecast applications, S. Agrawala, Kenneth Broad; dams and designer fish - travails and travels of the Pacific salmon. M. Black; the people's water - technology transfer and community empowerment in Guatemala, B. Clemens et al; technology transfer - preaching to the converted or seducing the disbelievers, A. von Raesfeld; "transferring" strategies of land management - the knowledge practices of indigenous land owners and environmental scientists, H. Verran; new technologies and knowledge for sustainable development - the empowerment challenge, B. Filip; patents, knowledge and technology transfer - on the politics of positioning and place, M. de Laet; "out-liers", "insiders", and practical harvests - art as technology transfer in a research environment, L. Lynch.
