Public acceptance of new technologies : an international review / edited by Roger Williams and Stephen Mills.

London ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : Croom Helm, [1986]

443 pages ; 24 cm

Papers presented at an international conference held in Jan 1985, sponsored by the Technical Change Centre.

Originally part of the BIODOC collection. Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Bruce Williams -- Introduction / Stephen Mills and Roger Williams -- The public acceptance of new technologies in the United Kingdom / Bruce Williams -- Changing attitudes towards technology in the United States / Dorothy Nelkin -- Japanese attitudes towards science and technology / Sigeki Nisihira and Ronald Dore -- Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Thomas Petermann, Georg Thurn -- Public acceptance of new technologies : France / Corinne Hermant ... [et al.] -- Public acceptance of new technologies in Australia / Peter Stubbs -- Public acceptance of new technologies in Italy / Gabriele Calvi ... [et al.] -- The public acceptance of new technologies : the Canadian experience / Michael Gurstein and Arthur J. Cordell -- Public acceptance of new technologies in Sweden / Jan Forslin -- The Belgian attitude towards new technologies / Alain Eraly -- Public acceptance of new technologies in the Netherlands / Jan Berting -- Public acceptance of new technologies in Spain / Rafael Lopez-Pintor and Luis Ramallo -- Nuclear power : an international comparison of public protest in the USA, Britain, France and West Germany / Wolfgang Rudig -- An overview and possible model / Stephen Mills and Roger Wiliams.