Nuclear power, economic development discourse and the environment : the case of India / / Manu V. Mathai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462860703321
• Autore: Mathai Manu V. <1976-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-10014-X; 1-283-97334-0; 1-136-22991-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: Routledge explorations in environmental studies ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 333.792/40954
• Soggetti: Nuclear energy - India; Sustainable development - India; Electronic books.
• 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: Front Cover; Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Passions of power and the "tryst with destiny"; 1.1 Modernizing India, nuclear power and the environment; 1.2 A short history of nuclear power; 1.3 Approach and tools; 2. Modernity, Cornucopianism and the megamachine; 2.1 Introducing modernity; 2.2 The Cornucopian predisposition; 2.3 Cornucopianism as the development discourse; 2.4 Environmental crisis and modern environmentalisms; 2.5 Managed Cornucopia as environmentalism; 2.6 Emergence of the megamachine2.7 Elements of the megamachine organization of society; 2.8 The megamachine organization of society and the limits of human-centered agency; 3. The evolution of India's economic development discourse; 3.1 Two competing visions for India's future; 3.2 Building a megamachine organization of society; 3.3 Despite the evidence; 4. The embrace of nuclear power and the development-energy treadmill in India; 4.1 Embrace of nuclear power; 4.2 Cornucopianism and the development-energy treadmill; 4.3 Entrenched high-energy throughput; 5. The advance of economic liberalization in India5.1 Building a modern ; megamachine organization of society; 5.2 Managed Cornucopia; 5.3 Geopolitics, Cornucopianism and nuclear power; 6. Political economy of nuclear power in India; 6.1 Modernity's unexamined privilege; 6.2 Nuclear power and modern technique; 6.3 Reinterpreting modernity's commodification impulse; 6.4 Sustaining power sans politics; 7. Beyond Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 7.1 Toward a human-centered development, energy and environment discourse; 7.2 End-use energy planning: the "DEFENDUS" framework; 7.3 The human development and capability approach7.4 Ideas for sustainable structures of living together: the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) as a template; 8. Epilogue; 8.1 India: considered through Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.2 Alternatives to Cornucopianism and the megamachine organization; 8.3 Situating strategies of resistance; 8.4 Unaddressed questions and pressing realities; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Nuclear power is often characterized as a ""green technology."" Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative tha

Le risque de la lettre : lectures de la poésie moderniste américaine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910169193303321
• Autore: Alfandary Isabelle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: ENS Éditions, 2012; [Place of publication not identified], : ENS éditions, 2012
• ISBN: 2-84788-632-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Collana: Collection Signes Le risque de la lettre
• Soggetti: American poetry - History and criticism - 20th century - United States; Modernism (Literature); English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: Certaines œuvres du modernisme américain se définissent par leur « parti pris de la lettre ». La langue est affrontée en leur sein au risque de l'écriture. En effet, si la littérature moderne est écrite, si les œuvres postérieures à l'invention de l'imprimerie sont faites d'encre et de papier, toutes n'ont pourtant pas l'écriture pour objet. Conscientes de leur caractère matériel, de leur aliénation à la lettre, les œuvres de Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings et John Cage jouent et se jouent essentiellement de leur condition. L'usage non transitif qu'elles font de l'écriture est l'occasion d'une mise en scène édifiante sur la page. Elles démasquent chemin faisant le réel d'une activité qui n'a rien d'évident : ni purement formalistes, ni simplement expérimentales, elles interrogent radicalement ce que lire et écrire veulent dire et mettent la littérature au pied du mur et en demeure de répondre.

Transport and Fluctuations in Granular Fluids : From Boltzmann Equation to Hydrodynamics, Diffusion and Motor Effects / / by Andrea Puglisi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910741156403321
• Autore: Puglisi Andrea
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-10286-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 p.)
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Physics, , 2191-5423
• Disciplina: 530; 530.15; 530.41; 621
• Soggetti: Amorphous substances; Complex fluids; Statistical physics; Dynamics; Physics; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Complex Systems; Mathematical Methods in Physics; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
• 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: Introduction -- 1 Granular fluids: from everyday life to the lab -- Boltzmann equation: a gas of grains -- Hydrodynamics: a sea of grains -- Tracer’s diffusion: swimming through the grains -- The arrow of time: past and future of grains -- Conclusion and perspectives -- Expansion of the first two moments of the transition rates for large mass of the tracer -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This brief offers a concise presentation of granular fluids from the point of view of non-equilibrium statistical physics. The emphasis is on fluctuations, which can be large in granular fluids due to the small ; system size (the number of grains is many orders of magnitude smaller than in molecular fluids). Firstly, readers will be introduced to the most intriguing experiments on fluidized granular fluids. Then granular fluid theory, which goes through increasing levels of coarse-graining and emerging collective phenomena, is described. Problems and questions are initially posed at the level of kinetic theory, which describes particle densities in full or reduced phase-space. Some answers become clear through hydrodynamics, which describes the evolution of slowly evolving fields. Granular fluctuating hydrodynamics, which builds a bridge to the most recent results in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, is also introduced. Further and more interesting answers come when the dynamics of a massive intruder are discussed. Such non-equilibrium stochastic process offers a more precise and compact picture of the features foreseen at the more detailed levels of description. The dynamics of an intruder diffusing in a granular fluid reveal the clearest connection with recent theories on stochastic energetics and stochastic thermodynamics.