玉虫色のプロジェクトの生態学 : 技術選択段階における市民参加の可能性を探る(<特集I>システム論の展望と課題)

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• In the science-technology-society interface, there are quite a number of complex projects in which the dichotomous definition of success or failure is extremely difficult due to uncertainty involved. The systematic investigation of a vast area in the science-technology-society interface made up of such complex projects provides an important and strategic research site for system theory of any kind that pays attention to the totality of a system. This paper investigates this question from a sociological point of view with particular reference to the trajectory of new energy technology development. Based on the scrutinizing of a borderline case (e.g. the ocean thermal energy conversion project) in terms of success or failure, the paper sheds light upon the importance of technology selection process in determining technology trajectory. The stress on technology selection is quite contrastive to a conspicuous attention given to a technology diffusion process in previous studies on path -dependency. By focusing on technology selection process of the ongoing development of wind turbines, the paper argues that the use of detail local knowledge of the inhabitants around the location of wind turbines is decisive in making technology selection. And the paper further argues that the concept of citizens' participation can be redesigned to be employed as one of the proper devices to contribute to such utilization of local knowledge in technology selection process. The theoretical implication of this concept of participatory technology selection is that participatory technology selection makes it possible to reduce uncertainty involved in complex projects in advance and makes it easier to deliberately decide technology trajectory by means of local knowledge. This proposed concept certainly cannot immediately give a unique solution to the energy problem at a national level. However, the concept is important as a new model for the social shaping of new energy technologies which in the future will become one of the focuses in the collective decision-making in determining a national energy portfolio.

• 社会・経済システム学会の論文

著者

• 松本 三和夫

  東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科

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