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Controversies in Science and Technology : From Sustainability to Surveillance.

Discusses the issues surrounding several current scientific debates, including food policy, ecosystem management, chemical health, and infrastructure.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kleinman, Daniel Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Controversies in Science & Technology, Volume 4 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance -- Part One: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Well-Being -- 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming -- 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events -- 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage -- 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential -- 6. Infrastructure and Health -- Part Two: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice -- 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century? -- 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger -- 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession -- 10. Food Security and Gender -- Part Three: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety -- 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment -- 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States-The Need for New Directions -- 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform -- 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the Safety of an Endocrine Disruptor -- Part Four: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods -- 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies -- 16. The Aliens in Our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems -- 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences -- 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline -- Contributors -- Index. 
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