Compelling Global Issues in Science and Technology and the Role of Materials Science

2007 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Wadsworth ◽  
M. Cobian
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Global Issues

Compelling Global Issues in Science and Technology and the Role of Materials Science

2007 ◽  
Vol 539-543 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Wadsworth ◽  
M. Cobian
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
National Level ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Challenges

As we enter the 21st century, we confront three global challenges that can be resolved only with forefront science and technology: growing demands for energy, the adverse effects of climate change, and emerging threats to national and global security. Materials science is critical to the fields of research, development, and application that are essential to meeting these challenges. The increasing globalization of scientific research and technology development presents its own challenges at the national level, but also opens the way to new opportunities for fruitful collaboration in materials science.

scholarly journals Composite Materials in Defense: Overview and Outlook

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis E. Sloter
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Technology Program ◽  
Composite Systems ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

Abstract The Department of Defense maintains an annual investment of $7.4 billion in basic and applied research and advanced technology development. This investment is the foundation of future systems and operational capability and supports an annual $70 billion investment in the engineering development, testing, and acquisition of new systems. The Materials Science and Technology Program at $330 million per year forms a significant part of this investment. Currently, approximately $90 million within the Materials Program is invested in composite materials of all types. These investments are described in context of the overall Defense Science and Technology Program and with respect to the future Defense capabilities and materiel opportunities that are enabled by composite materials. Emphasis is placed on the changing nature of the Defense missions, the platforms required to meet those missions, and the role of composite materials in Defense platforms. Significant challenges posed by expected operations and acquisition needs are related to composite materials. The need for improved affordability in composite systems is discussed in terms of current projects and future challenges and outlook.

scholarly journals The search for new materials and the role of novel processing routes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Wellmann
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
European Council ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Human History ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Novel Processing

AbstractThroughout human history, most further developments or new achievements were accompanied by new materials or new processes that enabled the technologic progress. With concrete devices and applications in mind, synthesis and subsequent treatment of materials naturally went along with the progress. The aim of the underlying article is to spot the role of optimization, of discovery, of trial-and-error approaches, of fundamentals and curiosity driven design and development. In a consecutive examination, five missions addressing the challenges facing our world (identified by the European Council) will be cross linked with seven topical areas from materials science defined by the European Materials Research Society. The scope of this examination is to identify approaches and methods to further develop and innovate materials which form the basis of the anticipated solutions.

scholarly journals Will the Consequences of Covid-19 Trigger a Redefining of the Role of Transport in the Development of Sustainable Tourism?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1887
Author(s):  
Marek Więckowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
Sustainable Utilisation ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
Critical Overview

As there are very marked relationships between tourism and transport, integrated knowledge of these processes is essential if destinations and tourism enterprises are to be developed, an effective tourism policy pursued, and emerging local and global issues and conflicts surrounding tourism resolved. Beyond this, in an era of huge change reflecting the consequences of the COVID-19 viral pandemic, the importance of sustainable transport in tourism’s sustainable development appears to be of critical importance. Adopting this kind of perspective, this paper seeks to achieve a critical overview of conceptual dimensions of sustainability that link up with tourism and transport. To this end, ideas based on the literature and previous discussions are extended to include certain new propositions arising out of a (hopefully) post-COVID-19 world. Proceeding first with a systematic literature review (SLR), this article discusses the importance of transport to the development of tourism, dealing critically with modes of transport and their changing roles in sustainable development under COVID and post-COVID circumstances. The author summarises likely new way(s) of thinking in the aftermath of the pandemic, with the need for this/these to be far more sustainable and responsible, and characterised by a reorientation of behaviour in a “green” direction. It is further concluded that three aspects of transport–tourism relations will prove crucial to more sustainable utilisation—i.e., proximity, slower and less energy-intensive travel, and green transport.

NBIC-Convergence and Technoethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Grebenshchikova
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Biomedical Field ◽  
Ict Ethics

Technoethics is a new, but rapidly developing field of ethical reflection of technoscience. It can claim to unite the various ethical projections of the science and technology development in a common approach. One of the starting points of understanding this role of technoethics may be NBIC-convergence. The ethical dimensions of the NBIC-projects is represented in these sub-areas of applied ethics as a nanoethics, bioethics, neuroethics and ICT ethics. In this article particular attention is paid to the biomedical field, which is a prime example of innovative high technology, as well as the interaction of different types of ethics.

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