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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.