Sunday, January 11, 2015

The role of the professional engineer and scientist in sustainable development

The term, Honest Broker, is used to describe an expert engaged in a new type of decision making. Mitchell, Carew and Clift describe an Honest Broker as one who offers a range of technical options to the stakeholder, allowing other specialist to engage in a decision making process that will address eco-centric, techno-centric, and socio-centric concerns. This allows for consultation between professionals and stakeholders.  This differs greatly from the traditional technology advocate as the goal is no longer for the expert to make all the decisions and inform stakeholders on the process. Instead, the Honest Broker offers a technological opinion on a wide variety of technical options. The Honest Broker does not take make a decision as opposed to the technology advocate that makes a decision based on techno-centric concerns. 

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