Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments by Joe E. Armstrong Willis W. Harman

Author:Joe E. Armstrong, Willis W. Harman [Joe E. Armstrong, Willis W. Harman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781000313291
Google: lwWdDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-10T05:16:34+00:00

Second-Level Policy Analysis: A Search for Permeating Issues, Concerns, and Uncertainties

In most of the assessments we reviewed, the teams chose to go directly to a second-level policy analysis because the detailed analysis of technological alternative implementation was judged to miss the principal points of the impact analysis or to be simply irrelevant to the main thrust of the assessment. Invariably, a second-level policy analysis concentrated on the issues, constraints, barriers, and concerns that were evidenced in the impact analysis. However, we found only a few guidelines or systematic approaches to aid in their identification and selection. Areas of concern for existing technologies generally were selected from discussions with experts in the field, public surveys or questionnaires, and the current literature. A list of ten inquiry categories for pin-pointing pervasive concerns for a given option implementation can be found in "First-Year Work Plan for TA of Western Energy Resource Development" by Irving L. White, et al. [20, pp. 5-13]

Legal: Does the law provide for the option? If not, has a specific law which does so been assumed to be in effect at some future date and has the impact of that assumption been included?

Economic: Has the economic feasibility been adequately defended? Technological: Has the technical feasibility been adequately justified?

Institutional: Do institututional structures exist to implement the option? If not, have new institutions been assumed which do so and full consideration taken of the difficulties and impacts caused by their generation?

Physical: is the option judged physically possible taking into account the flow of materials and manpower required?

Environmental: Are environmental impacts judged to be acceptable by the affected public?

Social: Are life-style adjustments judged acceptable by affected public? By the public at large?

Cultural: Are impacts on ethnic groups judged acceptable, both by affected cultures and the public at large?

Political: Are both local and national perspectives judged politically feasible?

Jurisdictional: Are jurisdictional issues feasible and manageable within existing jurisdictions? If not, have newly defined jurisdictional realignments been adequately defended and justified?

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