ISBN:
9780199383771
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (299 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Controversies in Science and Technology : From Sustainability to Surveillance
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Sustainable development
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Science -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Science ; Social aspects
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Sustainable development
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Discusses the issues surrounding several current scientific debates, including food policy, ecosystem management, chemical health, and infrastructure.
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Controversies in Science & Technology, Volume 4""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction:Â From Sustainability to Surveillance""; ""Part One:Â Infrastructure Development:Â Resilience, Privacy, and Well-Being""; ""2. Our Fragile Infrastructure:Â 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:Â Motivations, Policy, and Potential""; ""6. Infrastructure and Health""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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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