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This book is about how innovation in technology may or may not gain public acceptability, and whether the process by which it is introduced affects that outcome. The cases that have been considered here are not past but contemporary, even prospective: mobile phones, genetically modified food, nanotechnology and hydrogen energy. In every case there has been controversy, but not of the same kind and by no means to the same degree, which is what makes the comparison instructive.
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Bellaby, P. (2007). Conclusions. In: Flynn, R., Bellaby, P. (eds) Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591288_12
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