Henry Jarrett

Science & Resources (eBook, PDF)

Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2011. This title explores the difficult and critical questions of the recent advances in science and technology and their strong influence on the production and use of natural resources. Planners, administrators, and ordinary voters must be aware of the physical and biological possibilities and limitations of their plans and aspirations; and scientists and technologists must recognize the social and economic meaning of the applications of their research. The present volume largely looks ahead, from the standpoint of outside influences upon resources from the laboratory and industrial plant. The essays resist pigeon-holing, for each distils in a few pages the accumulated thought and experience of men of varied viewpoints and strong convictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135998905
• Artikelnr.: 40104143

Autorenporträt

Jarrett, Henry

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Genetics
Chapter 1 Molecules, Viruses, and Heredity, George W. Beadle
Chapter 2 Genetic Differentials and Man's Future, Henry A. Wallace
Chapter 3 Agriculture's New Multipliers, Oris V. Wells
Part II Weather Modification
Chapter 4 What Are We Doing About the Weather?, Horace R. Byers
Chapter 5 Toward Greater Control: High Risks, High Stakes, Clinton P. Anderson
Chapter 6 Weather Modification and Public Policy, Edward A. Ackerman
Part III Exploring for Minerals
Chapter 7 New Ways of Finding Minerals, John A. S. Adams
Chapter 8 The Pulse of Exploration, James Boyd
Chapter 9 Economics of Mineral Exploration, Paul W. Mcgann
Part IV Chemical Technology
Chapter 10 Past Gains and Future Promise, Earl P. Stevenson
Chapter 11 Unlocking New Resources, Frederick T. Moore
Chapter 12 The World-Wide Prospect, Richard L. Meier
Part V Nuclear Energy
Chapter 13 Toward Peaceful Uses of the Atom, Willard F. Libby
Chapter 14 Government Pricing and Civilian Reactor Technology, Philip Mullenbach
Chapter 15 Human Resources in an Atomic Age, E. Blythe Stason
Part VI New Knowledge from Outer Space
Chapter 16 Space Exploration: How and Why?, Lee A. DuBridge
Chapter 17 Mounting a National Space Program, Alan L. Dean
Chapter 18 The International Opportunity, Philip C. Jessup