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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494747203321

Titolo

The California Nitrogen Assessment : Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment / / Thomas P. Tomich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96223-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

631.8/409794

Soggetti

Nitrogen - Environmental aspects - California

Nitrogen cycle - Environmental aspects - California

Nitrogen fertilizers - Government policy - California

Biodiversity conservation - California

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Collaborating Institutions: Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, UC ANR Kearney Foundation of Soil Science, UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center, UC ANR California Institute for Water Resources, Water Science and Policy Center at UC Riverside."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ONLINE APPENDICES -- LIST OF BOXES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF MAPS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- MEMBERS OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE -- MEMBERS OF THE STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COMMITTEE -- LIST OF REVIEW EDITORS -- LIST OF SCIENTIFIC REVIEWERS -- COMMON ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- CHEMICAL FORMULAS -- 1. Introducing the California Nitrogen Assessment -- 2. Underlying drivers of nitrogen flows in California -- 3. Direct drivers of California's nitrogen cycle -- 4. A California nitrogen mass balance for 2005 -- 5. Ecosystem Services and human well-being -- 6. Scenarios for the future of nitrogen management in California agriculture -- 7. Responses: Technologies and practices -- 8. Responses: Policies and institutions -- REFERENCES -- INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits ecosystem processes, while too much nitrogen transforms ecosystems profoundly. The California Nitrogen Assessment is the first comprehensive account of nitrogen flows, practices, and policies for California, encompassing all nitrogen flows-not just those associated with agriculture-and their impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing. How California handles nitrogen issues will be of interest nationally and internationally, and the goal of the assessment is to link science with action and to produce information that affects both future policy and solutions for addressing nitrogen pollution. This book also provides a model for application of integrated ecosystem assessment methods at regional and state (subnational) levels.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786576703321

Autore

Casper Monica J. <1966->

Titolo

Missing bodies [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of visibility / / Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4416-2692-1

0-8147-1715-2

0-8147-7298-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Biopolitics

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreLisa Jean <1967->

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Human body (Philosophy)

Body image

Mortality

Masculinity

Equality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

The bodies we see, and some that are not here -- Seen but not heard : consequences of innocence lost -- Calculated losses : taking the measure of infant mortality -- Biodisaster : "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth" -- Fluid matters : human biomonitoring as gendered surveillance -- "They used me" : manufacturing heroes in wartime -- It takes balls : Lance Armstrong and the triumph of American masculinity -- Excavations.

Sommario/riassunto

We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies—Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch—and to the near invisibility of others—dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters.Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.