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Understanding engineering ethics in countries: Towards an analytical framework

Dizani, A. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Taebi, B. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)

In recent decades, distinct national approaches to engineering ethics have evolved, each tailored to its unique contextual factors. These contextual disparities make it unfeasible to transfer one country's engineering ethics approach directly into another. This calls for a compelling need to enhance our comprehension of engineering ethics...

journal article 2024

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Climate engineering and the future of justice

Taebi, B. (author), Lenzi, Dominic (author), Buhr, Lorina (author), Claassen, Kristy (author), Gerola, Alessio (author), Hofbauer, B. (author), Paiusco, Elisa (author), Rijssenbeek, Julia (author)

This chapter discusses the societal and ethical challenges of climate engineering or large-scale intentional intervention in the climate system. Climate engineering is highly controversial, and raises many questions about the values of human societies and the desirability of technological visions of the future. Yet existing ethical theories...

book chapter 2023

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Revisiting the energy justice framework: Doing justice to normative uncertainties

van Uffelen, N. (author), Taebi, B. (author), Pesch, U. (author)

Energy justice is often approached through the four tenets of procedural, distributive, restorative and recognition justice. Though these tenets are important placeholders for addressing what type of justice issues are involved, they require further normative substantiations. These are achieved by using principles of justice to specify why –...

journal article 2023

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Ethics of socially disruptive technologies: An introduction

van de Poel, I.R. (author), Frank, Lily Eva (author), Hermann, Julia (author), Hopster, Jeroen (author), Lenzi, Dominic (author), Nyholm, Sven (author), Taebi, B. (author), Ziliotti, E. (author)

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global...

book 2023

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Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview ¹

Taebi, B. (author), van Asselt, Marjolein (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)

journal article 2022

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Introduction: Severe Uncertainty in Science, Medicine, and Technology

Andreoletti, Mattia (author), Chiffi, Daniele (author), Taebi, B. (author)

journal article 2022

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Value Change in Energy Systems

van de Poel, I.R. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

The ongoing energy transition toward more sustainable energy systems implies a change in the values for which such systems are designed. The energy transition however is not just about sustainability but also about values like energy security and affordability, and we witness the emergence of new values like energy justice and energy democracy....

contribution to periodical 2022

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A Healthy Metaphor?: The North Sea Consultation and the Power of Words

Haye Geukes, H. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Correljé, A. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

The North Sea Consultation was set up to resolve conflicting claims for space in the North Sea. In 2020, this consultation process resulted in the North Sea Agreement, which was supported by the Dutch Parliament and cabinet as a long-term policy; however, the fishing sector felt excluded, left the consultation process, and does not support the...

journal article 2021

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Safe-by-design in engineering: An overview and comparative analysis of engineering disciplines

van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author), Taebi, B. (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Asveld, L. (author), Balkenende, R. (author), Hollmann, F. (author), van Kampen, E. (author), Krebbers, R.J. (author), de Lange, J. (author), Terwel, K.C. (author), Visser, Eelco (author)

In this paper, we provide an overview of how Safe-by-Design is conceived and applied in practice in a large number of engineering disciplines. We discuss the differences, commonalities, and possibilities for mutual learning found in those practices and identify several ways of putting those disciplinary outlooks in perspective. The considered...

journal article 2021

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Enabling assessment of distributive justice through models for climate change planning: A review of recent advances and a research agenda

Jafino, B.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to fairness of adaptation and mitigation strategies, because they often disregard distributional outcomes. When evaluating policies using such models, the costs and benefits are...

review 2021

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Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Housing: Underpinning Housing Policy as Design for Values

Elsinga, M.G. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Sedighi, S.M.A. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

A perusal of the literature on housing debates reveals that the term ‘value’ is mostly applied to express the financial value of a house and is dealt with in economic literature. However, an alternative meaning of the word ‘value’ in the housing literature can be found in research into the values underlying housing preferences, applying research...

journal article 2020

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Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties

Taebi, B. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Kermisch, C.F.N. (author)

Governing risks is not only a technical matter, but also a matter of ethical and societal considerations. In this article, we argue that in addition to scientific and technical uncertainties, we need to also address normative uncertainties of risk decisions. We define normative uncertainties as situations where there are different partially...

review 2020

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When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”

Cuppen, Eefje (author), Ejderyan, Olivier (author), Pesch, U. (author), Spruit, S. (author), van de Grift, E.M.H.R. (author), Correljé, A. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies...

journal article 2020

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Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review

Jenkins, K.E.H. (author), Spruit, S. (author), Milchram, C. (author), Höffken, Johanna (author), Taebi, B. (author)

Many academic approaches that claim to consider the broad set of social and ethical issues relevant to energy systems sit side-by-side without conversation. This paper considers three such literatures: Value Sensitive Design, Responsible Research and Innovation and the Energy Justice framework. We argue that whilst definitions of these...

review 2020

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Engineering and social responsibility accounting for values in the development and design of new nuclear reactors

van de Poel, I.R. (author), Taebi, B. (author), de Wildt, T.E. (author)

journal article 2020

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Spillover dynamics in energy controversies

Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Spruit, S. (author), Correljé, A. (author), van de Grift, E.M.H.R. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

poster 2019

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Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art

Roeser, S. (author), Taebi, B. (author), Doorn, N. (author)

Climate change is an urgent problem, requiring ways and approaches to address it. Possible solutions are mitigation, adaptation and deployment of geoengineering. In this article we argue that geoengineering gives rise to ethical challenges of its own. Reflecting on these ethical challenges requires approaches that go beyond conventional,...

journal article 2019

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The Importance of Ethics in Modern Universities of Technology

Taebi, B. (author), van den Hoven, M.J. (author), Bird, Stephanie J. (author)

The twenty-first century will pose substantial and unprecedented challenges to modern societies. The world population is growing while societies are pursuing higher levels of global well-being. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems, increasing energy demands and related problems of climate change are only a few of the...

contribution to periodical 2019

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How to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method Approach for the Case of Smart Metering

van de Kaa, G. (author), Rezaei, J. (author), Taebi, B. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Kizhakenath, Abhilash (author)

Proactively including the ethical and societal issues of new technologies could have a positive effect on their acceptance. These issues could be captured in terms of values. In the literature, the values stakeholders deem important for the development of technology have often been identified. However, the relative ranking of these values in...

journal article 2019

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Multinational Energy Justice for Managing Multinational Risks: A Case Study of Nuclear Waste Repositories

Jenkins, Kirsten E.H. (author), Taebi, B. (author)

This paper investigates the viability of Energy Justice as a framework to assist the governance of multinational risk. Positioned between local and universal scales, it advocates for the approach of multinational energy justice as a means of considering justice manifestations either between neighboring countries, or between geographically...

journal article 2019