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Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262366151
How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability. The growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profit. In Extracting Accountabilit y, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountability—to formal guidelines, standards, and policies; to professional ideals; to the public; and to themselves. Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others. Drawing on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, Smith traces the ways that engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries accounted for their actions to multiple publics—from critics of their industry to their own friends and families. She shows how the social license to operate and an underlying pragmatism lead engineers to ask how resource production can be done responsibly rather than whether it should be done at all. She analyzes the liminality of engineering consultants, who experienced greater professional autonomy but often felt hamstrung when positioned as outsiders. Finally, she explores how critical participation in engineering education can nurture new accountabilities and chart more sustainable resource futures.
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262366151
Series: Engineering Studies
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 September 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12677.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262366151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 March 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11993.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262363020
An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it. Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia–US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use. The book begins with scientific issues, covering the nature of the atom and its nucleus, nuclear radiation, and nuclear energy. It discusses nuclear power, the operation of nuclear power plants, nuclear accidents, nuclear waste, and alternatives to nuclear energy and considers nuclear weapons: strategies for use and non-use, controlling the spread of these weapons to other countries and terrorist groups, and the prevention of nuclear war. Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century offers readers an authoritative and unbiased guide to difficult questions.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 March 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11993.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262363020
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 March 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11993.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262363020