What Lies Beneath: Trade Unions and the Moratorium on the Commercialisation of Nanotechnologies

Záyago Lau, Edgar; Foladori, Guillermo

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dc.contributor	0000-0002-7441-3233
dc.contributor	211647
dc.creator	Záyago Lau, Edgar
dc.creator	Foladori, Guillermo
dc.date	2017-06-05T16:07:51Z
dc.date	2017-06-05T16:07:51Z
dc.date	2010-05
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-25T17:51:44Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-25T17:51:44Z
dc.identifier	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier	0971-7218
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11845/287
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/124818
dc.description	THERE ARE SEVERAL actors involved in the debate about the regulation of nanotechnologies. These include: international organisations; national, regional or municipal governments; corporations and enterprises; nongovernmental organisations (NGOs); trade unions and others. As a result of this, we can fi nd a wide array of proposals that go from the de facto moratorium (related to the commercialisation of nanoparticles and nanostructures as long as there is no reliable information about their threat to health and the environment) to the argument that the lack of regulation, in fact, facilitates the rapid development of these novel and powerful technologies. At the same time, we can fi nd proposals suggesting the adoption of voluntary regulations, mandatory regulations applied to specifi c products and many other possibilities. Each one of these actors provides arguments to justify their proposals, but often their reasons are not explicit; moreover, often they are hidden under general principles such as safety and environmental concerns, thus complicating the understanding of the foundation of their views.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	SAGE
dc.relation	http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/097172180901500107?journalCode=stsa
dc.relation	generalPublic
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
dc.source	Science Technology Society, Vol. 15, No. 155
dc.subject	CIENCIAS SOCIALES [5]
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Nanotechnlogíes - Commercialisation
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Nanotecnologia - Regulaciones
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Nanotecnología - Comercialización
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Nanotechnlogíes - Regulation
dc.title	What Lies Beneath: Trade Unions and the Moratorium on the Commercialisation of Nanotechnologies
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article