Proximity ethical

The challenges and strategies of hybrid imagination and Mode 3 (Jamison et al. 2011, p. 7) pointed towards sustainability, responsibility, ethics, and cultural awareness in engineering and science. In addition to those, a number of scientific organizations argue that the proximity between the wider society SET requires ethical and social responsibility competences. In UNESCO s medium term strategy for 2008-2013 it is stated that ... 

The foregoing issues have been repeatedly discussed and subjected to historiographic analyses in relation to theories developed concerning siting of factories. The establishment and maintainance, or successful development, of the chemical industry in Basle runs counter to the reasons usually given for the location of factories. The only natural site advantages were its position on the River Rhine, its proximity to the salt extraction plant in Schweizerhalle, the existence of a nearby gas works, and the fact that the customers - the textile industry - were nearby. Additionaly, cultural factors have been identified and the spirit of humanism and the Protestant ethics of the urban entrepreneurs were incorporated into the interpretations. ... 

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