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Dr Narendra Singh, President of the Indian CSIR Scientific Workers' Association, argues that fundamental political problems must be solved before science and technology can make a contribution to development.
Planning inquiries, such as the Windscale Inquiry in which the UK debated whether to allow expansion of a nuclear reprocessing plant, are not the only means for debating the UK's technological future.Here Professor David Pearce, Ms Lynne Edwards, and Mr Geoff Bueret discuss the options