U.S. Postal Service [[electronic resource] ] : sustained attention to challenges remains critical : statement of Bernard L. Ungar, Director, Government Business Operations Issues, General Government Division, before the Subcommittee on the Postal Service, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives / / United States General Accounting Office

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910691070403321
• Autore: Ungar Bernard L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : The Office, , [2000]
• Collana: Testimony ; ; GAO/T-GGD-00-206
• Soggetti: Postal service - United States - Evaluation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "September 19, 2000."; Paper version available from the General Accounting Office.; Title from title screen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Arthur H. Westing : pioneer on the environmental impact of war / / Arthur H. Westing

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437948703321
• Autore: Westing Arthur H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Heidleberg, : Springer, 2012, c2013
• ISBN: 1-283-63123-7; 9786613943682; 3-642-31322-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Collana: SpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 341.6
• Soggetti: War - Environmental aspects; War and society
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: War and the environment -- The environmental impact of war: a personal retrospective -- What next?: a search for environmental security in war and peace -- The author's relevant papers: a selective listing -- Part II: Benchmark papers by the author: an annotated selection -- The Second Indochina War of 1961–1975: its environmental impact -- The Gulf War of 1991: its environmental impact -- Environmental war: hostile manipulations of the environment.-Nuclear war: its environmental impact -- Protecting the environment in war: legal constraints -- Protecting the environment in war: military guidelines.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the environmental impact of war emerged and grew as a topic of research in the natural and the social sciences. And in the late 1980s this led additionally to a focus and debate on environmental security. Arthur Westing, a forest ecologist, was a major pioneer contributing and framing both of those debates conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, starting with ; Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia (1972) (co-authored with wildlife biologist E.W. Pfeiffer and others). As a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm and Oslo International Peace Research Institutes (SIPRI and PRIO), and as a Professor of Ecology at Windham and Hampshire Colleges, Westing authored and edited books on Ecological Consequences of the Second Indochina War (1976), Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment (1977), Warfare in a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment (1980), Herbicides in War: the Long-term Ecological and Human Consequences (1984), Environmental Warfare: a Technical, Legal and Policy Appraisal (1984), Explosive Remnants of War: Mitigating the Environmental Effects (1985), Global Resources and International Conflict: Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy and Action (1986), Cultural Norms, War and the Environment (1988), Comprehensive Security for the Baltic: an Environmental Approach (1989), and Environmental Hazards of War: Releasing Dangerous Forces in an Industrialized World (1990) --- as well as authoring numerous UN reports, book chapters, and journal articles. This volume combines six of his pioneering contributions on the environmental consequences of warfare in Viet Nam and in Kuwait, on the environmental impact of nuclear war, and on legal constraints and military guidelines for protecting the environment in wartime.

Ernest Gellner's Legacy and Social Theory Today / / edited by Petr Skalník

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910624383403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031068058; 9783031068041
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (604 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.23; 320.5401
• Soggetti: Philosophical anthropology; Anthropology; Social sciences - Philosophy; Anthropological Theory; Social Theory; Social Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction: Gellner's Legacy Continues to Inspire -- Chapter 2: Gellner and the Habsburg Window on Modernity -- Chapter 3: Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue That Never Happened -- Chapter 4: The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today -- Chapter 5: Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding -- Chapter 6: The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory -- Chapter 7: A Critique of Gellner's Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Equality, Epistemology -- Chapter 8: Gellner in the Anthropocene: Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change -- Chapter 9: Ernest Gellner and Populism -- Chapter 10: Gellner and the Historians -- Chapter 11: War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond -- Chapter 12: The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden Resources for Anthropology -- Chapter 13: Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization -- Chapter 14: Islam, Plato, and Protestantism: ; Gellner and the Maghreb Society -- Chapter 15: The Philosopher of Anthropology -- Chapter 16: Ernest Gellner as Anthropologist -- Chapter 17: Gellner: Right and Wrong -- Chapter 18: Re-visiting Gellner's Social Theory on Islam, Modernity, and the State: the Turkish Case -- Chapter 19: After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today -- Chapter 20: Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: A Gellnerian Perspective -- Chapter 21: Gellner's Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess -- Chapter 22: The Politics of Ethnification: The Political Subjectivity of Nation-States vis-à-vis the Polish Minority in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 23: From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellner´s Theory and the Development of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner's work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today's social theorists. Chapters proactively probe Gellner's thoughts on a variety of pressing topics-modernity, postcolonialsm, nationalism, and more-without losing sight of current debates on these issues. This volume further brings these debates to life by having each chapter followed by a comment by an academic peer of the chapter author, thus transforming the text into a lively and dynamic conversation. Petr Skalník is Emeritus Extraordinary Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Previously he taught at Comenius University, Leiden University, University of Cape Town, Charles University and the University of Pardubice. He has edited and co-edited over two dozen books over the course of his career, and is the 2006 recipient of the Chevalier dans l´Ordre des Palmes Académiques. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic to Lebanon, and from 2003 to 2013 he was Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.