Controversies in Science & Technology, Volume 4
From Sustainability to Surveillance
Herausgeber: Kleinman, Daniel Lee; Handelsman, Jo; Cloud-Hansen, Karen A
Controversies in Science & Technology, Volume 4
From Sustainability to Surveillance
Herausgeber: Kleinman, Daniel Lee; Handelsman, Jo; Cloud-Hansen, Karen A
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Discusses the issues surrounding several current scientific debates, including food policy, ecosystem management, chemical health, and infrastructure.
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Discusses the issues surrounding several current scientific debates, including food policy, ecosystem management, chemical health, and infrastructure.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 567g
- ISBN-13: 9780199383771
- ISBN-10: 0199383774
- Artikelnr.: 47866536
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 567g
- ISBN-13: 9780199383771
- ISBN-10: 0199383774
- Artikelnr.: 47866536
DANIEL LEE KLEINMAN is Associate Dean for Social Studies in the Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. Kleinman is the author of three books, including Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce. KAREN A. CLOUD-HANSEN is a freelance editor specializing in biomedical publications. Dr. Cloud-Hansen earned a PhD in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her work focused on mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis and environmental reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes. JO HANDELSMAN is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is one of the pioneers of functional metagenomics, an approach to accessing the genetic potential of unculturable bacteria in environmental samples for discovery of novel microbial products. In addition to her research program,
* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance
* Robert M. Chiles
* Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and
Wellbeing
* 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming
* Matthys Levy
* 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events
* Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement
* 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage
* Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman
* 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations,
Policy, and Potential
* Chelsea Schelly
* 6. Infrastructure and Health
* Ka man Lai
* Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social
Justice
* 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the
21st Century?
* Frances Moore Lappé
* 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger
* Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner
* 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession
* Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
* 10. Food Security and Gender
* Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel
* Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety
* 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
* Nancy Langston
* 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New
Directions
* Joel A. Tickner
* 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for
Toxics Reform
* Jody A. Roberts
* 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an
endocrine disruptor
* Sarah A. Vogel
* Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods
* 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies
* Daniel Simberloff
* 16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems
* Banu Subramaniam
* 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences
* Judith S. Weis
* 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve
Pollinator Decline
* Sainath Suryanarayanan
* Contributors
* Index
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance
* Robert M. Chiles
* Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and
Wellbeing
* 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming
* Matthys Levy
* 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events
* Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement
* 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage
* Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman
* 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations,
Policy, and Potential
* Chelsea Schelly
* 6. Infrastructure and Health
* Ka man Lai
* Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social
Justice
* 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the
21st Century?
* Frances Moore Lappé
* 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger
* Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner
* 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession
* Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
* 10. Food Security and Gender
* Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel
* Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety
* 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
* Nancy Langston
* 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New
Directions
* Joel A. Tickner
* 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for
Toxics Reform
* Jody A. Roberts
* 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an
endocrine disruptor
* Sarah A. Vogel
* Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods
* 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies
* Daniel Simberloff
* 16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems
* Banu Subramaniam
* 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences
* Judith S. Weis
* 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve
Pollinator Decline
* Sainath Suryanarayanan
* Contributors
* Index
* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance
* Robert M. Chiles
* Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and
Wellbeing
* 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming
* Matthys Levy
* 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events
* Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement
* 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage
* Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman
* 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations,
Policy, and Potential
* Chelsea Schelly
* 6. Infrastructure and Health
* Ka man Lai
* Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social
Justice
* 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the
21st Century?
* Frances Moore Lappé
* 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger
* Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner
* 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession
* Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
* 10. Food Security and Gender
* Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel
* Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety
* 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
* Nancy Langston
* 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New
Directions
* Joel A. Tickner
* 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for
Toxics Reform
* Jody A. Roberts
* 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an
endocrine disruptor
* Sarah A. Vogel
* Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods
* 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies
* Daniel Simberloff
* 16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems
* Banu Subramaniam
* 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences
* Judith S. Weis
* 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve
Pollinator Decline
* Sainath Suryanarayanan
* Contributors
* Index
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance
* Robert M. Chiles
* Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and
Wellbeing
* 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming
* Matthys Levy
* 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events
* Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement
* 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage
* Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman
* 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations,
Policy, and Potential
* Chelsea Schelly
* 6. Infrastructure and Health
* Ka man Lai
* Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social
Justice
* 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the
21st Century?
* Frances Moore Lappé
* 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger
* Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner
* 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession
* Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
* 10. Food Security and Gender
* Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel
* Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety
* 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
* Nancy Langston
* 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New
Directions
* Joel A. Tickner
* 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for
Toxics Reform
* Jody A. Roberts
* 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an
endocrine disruptor
* Sarah A. Vogel
* Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods
* 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies
* Daniel Simberloff
* 16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems
* Banu Subramaniam
* 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences
* Judith S. Weis
* 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve
Pollinator Decline
* Sainath Suryanarayanan
* Contributors
* Index