Environment & Sustainability
Neelke Doorn has published on the use of digital technologies in the water domain and is regularly invited by water authorities to give ethics advice on the use of data and digital technologies in the water domain.
Milchram, C., R. Künneke, N. Doorn, G. van de Kaa and R. Hillerbrand (2020). Designing for justice in electricity systems: A comparison of smart grid experiments in the Netherlands. Energy Policy. 147: 111720. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111720 .
Milchram, C., G. Van der Kaa, R. Hillerbrand, N. Doorn, R. Künneke (2018). ‘Energy justice and smart grid systems: Values in public debates in the UK and the Netherlands’. Applied Energy. 229 (November): 1244-1259. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.053 .
Milchram, C., G. van de Kaa, N. Doorn, R. Künneke (2018). ‘Moral Values as Factors for Social Acceptance of Smart Grid Technologies’. Sustainability. 10(2703): 1-23. DOI: 10.3390/su10082703
Though all technologies require ethical reflection, the demands for this is even be more pervasive in the case of infrastructural technologies. These technologies are very susceptible to so-called ‘lock-ins’: once a infrastructure is in place, it become almost impossible to revert negative moral effects that have merged. In his work, Udo Pesch has covered a range of infrastructural technologies, such as energy networks, urban planning, sewage systems, and ICT. This work aims to give criteria needed for the development of such technologies in a way that is ethically acceptable and societally responsive.
Pesch, U. (2021). From Liberalism to Experimentation: Reconstructing the Dimensions of Public Space. In M. Nagenborg, T. Stone, M. González Woge, & P. E. Vermaas (Eds.), Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies (pp. 291-317). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Pesch, U., & Ishmaev, G. (2019). Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies. Social Studies of Science, 49(2), 264-277. doi:10.1177/0306312719838339
Dignum, M., Correljé, A., Cuppen, E., Pesch, U., & Taebi, B. (2016). Contested Technologies and Design for Values: The Case of Shale Gas. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(4), 1171-1191. doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9685-6
Pesch, U. (2015). Publicness, Privateness, and the Management of Pollution. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(1), 79-95.
Cuppen, E., Pesch, U., Remmerswaal, S., & Taanman, M. (2019). Normative diversity, conflict and transition: Shale gas in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 145, 165-175. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.11.004