Desenvolvimento nacional e gestão de recursos hídricos no Brasil by Antônio Ioris

“…However, the new legal framework introduced in 1997, despite some discursive and symbolic changes, mostly reproduced the same elitist and technocratic rationality of the past. Effective alternatives to water management problems require more democratic and equitable processes, which are inevitably associated with deeper social changes.…”
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“Sustainable security” through river enlargements: A political ecology of nature-based solutions and flood control in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland by Alexis Metzger, René Véron

“…We argue that legal provisions, the dominance of security concerns and technocratic framings of the project foreclose more substantive political debate on the sustainable future of the hydrosocial territory of the Rhone Valley.…”
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Modeling for nano risk assessment and management: The development of integrated governance tools and the potential role of technology assessment by Anja Bauer, Daniela Fuchs

“…Using an illustrative example, the SUNDS tool, we show how the tool manifests conceptual shifts from risk to innovation governance, a technocratic evidence culture based on the quantification of risks, and an envisioned application in industrial innovation management. …”
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Power and Operations. Simondon and the Imaginaries of the Nuclear Industry by Ange Pottin

“…In this paper, I use a theoretical framework inspired by Simondon to analyze the closed fuel cycle strategy implemented by the French nuclear industry in the 1970's. I confront the technocratic conception of technical ensembles, which sees them as the instantiation of a power over nature, with their technological understanding as systems of operations, i.e., points of mediation between technical invention and the natural environment. …”
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The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research by Jennie C. Stephens, Kevin Surprise

“…Solar geoengineering research advances an extreme, expert–elite technocratic intervention into the global climate system that would serve to further concentrate contemporary forms of political and economic power. …”
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Composing Landscapes of Living in Social Educational Work with People with Disabilities by Antonella Cuppari

“…The reductive and technocratic perspective of social educational work is in crisis while a paradigm based on housing and its ecosystem of relations is emerging. …”
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ANALYSIS OF MICRO LEVEL DISPARITIES IN URBAN FACILITY-UTILITY SERVICES: A STUDY ON BARASAT CITY, WEST BENGAL, INDIA by Suman PAUL

“…The regional disparity is a challenging issue to the urban planners, policy makers, academicians, bureaucrats and technocrats in the developing countries. In India, wide range of socio-economic disparities are commonly evident even in Class-I cities. …”
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To Tend or to Subdue? Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Catholic Ecotheological Tradition by Cory Andrew Labrecque

“…In this article, I discuss <i>The Rome Call for AI Ethics</i> in conjunction with Pope Francis’ rendering of integral ecology and the technocratic paradigm in <i>Laudato Si</i>’. My aim here is to link Catholic teaching on technology (using AI as a starting point) to the environment and the ecological crisis.…”
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PROSES PERUMUSAN KEBIJAKAN PENYERTAAN MODAL PEMERINTAH KOTA YOGYAKARTA PADA PERUSAHAAN DAERAH JOGJATAMA VISHESHA TAHUN 2012 by , NINDA MUSLIHAH, , Dr. Nunuk Dwi Retnandari

“…Capital investment policy formulation process can be devided into twoâ��stage process, which is a process that occurs technocratic and politically. In the technocratic process capital investment by the executive lawâ��abiding orientation is technical and public policy on capital investment. …”

Mary Daly’s Philosophy: Some Bergsonian Themes by Stephanie Kapusta

“…Rather, she locates these differences within a more liberatory, ethical perspective to ground a sharp, inimical contrast between feminist creative movement on the one hand, and static, fixing, and “fixating” patriarchy, with its “technocratic” pretensions, on the other. My hope is that highlighting the similarities between Daly and Bergson will open new paths of appreciation and critique of Daly’s work.…”
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Cambodia: Buildings for People? by Waibel, Michael

“…It will be concluded that successful policies towards increasing sustainability need to be less technocratic, less top-down, more inclusive thereby taking into account the behavioural dimension and aspirations of the urban citizens. …”
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“Don’t let me be misunderstood” by Stefan Strauß

“…Research and development as well as societal debates on the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) often focus on crucial but impractical ethical issues or on technocratic approaches to managing societal and ethical risks with technology. …”
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THE ESSENCE OF PERSONAL HUMANITARIAN CULTURE by Yelena Dmitrievna Zhukova

“…Moles related to cultural socio-dynamics.The research findings prove the discrepancy between the humanitarian and technocratic, cultural and civilizational attitudes to reality, and consider the humanitarian culture as a personified socio-cultural characteristic rather than cultural context.Scientific novelty includes identification of development dynamics of the ≪humanitarian culture≫ concept, the ways for updating its content, and the effect on education development.Practical significance of the present study lies in developing the theoretical tools for further empirical research in the process of personal humanitarian culture formation, and ways for activating the theoretical components of teacher training both in the postgraduate education system and self-studying.…”
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Los discursos públicos sobre la gobernabilidad en Chile como relatos de acción pública: un enfoque cognitivista sobre la importación de las ideas by Cecilia Baeza-Rodríguez

“…In the context of a restricted democracy full of authoritarian enclaves, the notion of governability has played a role of ordering discourse: by articulating an acceptable narrative of "modern" democracy, in which the capacity to govern only emanates from a technocratic and stable government, the term gives the appearance of solving the contradictions of democratic transition.…”
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Negotiating urban space by Dana Shevah

“…Planning as a discipline and as a profession was developed as an integral part of modernity, which has created functional systems, such as planning, that operate according to technocratic principles, i.e., efficiency, bureaucracy, hierarchal chain of authority, which is a-personal and legitimate by the laws of the states (Bauman, 2002). …”
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Salvation from Below. Individuals and Grassroots Movements for Ecological Renewal by Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam

“…It appears that we have left the responsibility of dealing with the crisis mostly to politicians, technocrats, geo-engineers, and the lot. We have expected salvation to come from above. …”
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De quels ingénieurs parle-t-on ? Situation et trajectoires des ingénieurs des grandes écoles. Le cas du Maroc by Pierre Vermeren

“…This is quite representative of the unequal social structure of Morocco and of the role played by its monarchic regime - the Makhzen - which tends to favor the technocratic and social elite. This study purports to show how such domination of the economic and political life of the country by a few chosen persons has generated a counter-reaction. …”
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Experts’ role in procedures of citizens participation and involvement by Luigi Bobbio, Luca Guzzetti, Giuseppe Pellegrini

“…The latter points out the technocratic character of technoscientific innovation, then emphasising the role of civil society and deliberative arenas in promoting more responsible and participative decision-making processes.…”
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Spanish economic miracle between 1959 to 1973 by Petrović Rajko

“…A wide range of reforms was initiated by the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, while in practice they were implemented by the so-called technocrats. The results on the business plan were very favorable, but they were stopped by the outbreak of the oil crisis in the 1970s. …”
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Boris Samuel, La production macroéconomique du réel. Formalités et pouvoir au Burkina Faso, en Mauritanie et en Guadeloupe by Boris Samuel

“…Its approach involves a combination of anthropology, the sociology of quantification and the historical sociology of the political.In all three cases studied, the detailed observation of macroeconomic calculation shows that the technocratic ethos is crucial for an understanding of the exercise of power. …”
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