1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830088503321

Titolo

Health impacts of large releases of radionuclides [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; New York, : J. Wiley & Sons, 1997

ISBN

1-282-34801-9

9786612348013

0-470-51500-7

0-470-51527-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 203

Altri autori (Persone)

LakeJ. V

BockGregory

CardewGail

Disciplina

363.17

363.1799

Soggetti

Radioactive pollution - Health aspects

Radioecology

Radioactive pollution - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Editors: John V. Lake, Gregory R. Bock (organizers), and Gail Cardew"--Contents.

"Symposium on health impacts of large releases of radionuclides, held in collaboration with the European Environmental Research Organisation, at the Hotel St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia on 27-29 February 1996"--Contents.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

HEALTH IMPACTS OF LARGE RELEASES OF RADIONUCLIDES; Contents; Participants; Introduction; Physical transport and chemical and biological processes in agricultural systems; The radioecological significance of semi-natural ecosvstems; General discussion I; Transport and processes in freshwater ecosystems; Radioactive contamination of the marine environment; Impacts on plant and animal populations; General discussion II; Roles of micro-organisms in the environmental fate of radionuclides; The fate and impact of radiocontaminants in urban areas

Internal exposure of populations to long-lived radionuclides released into the environmentGeneral discussion III; Interactions with human



nutrition and other indices of population health; Biological effects of prenatal irradiation; Late somatic health effects; Retrospective radiation dose assessment: an overview of physical and biological measures of dose; Cytogenetic effects as quantitative indicators of radiation exposure; Mental health, stress and risk perception: insights from psychological research; Final discussion; Summary; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This up-to-the-minute account examines how radionuclides affect human health. It explores how radionuclides travel through various food chains and how they are transported throughout the terrestrial and aquatic environments.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910888485203321

Autore

Satgar Vishwas

Titolo

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wits University Press, 2023

Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781776148301

1776148304

9781776148288

1776148282

9781776148295

1776148290

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Democratic Marxisms Series

Altri autori (Persone)

NtlokotseRuth

AzeezHawzhin

BenyaAsanda

BischoffChristine

CherryJane

CockJacklyn

HargreavesSamantha

KonikInge

Mbithi-DikgolJane

Soggetti

Feminism and racism

Racism - 21st century

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Religious aspects

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance -- Chapter 1: Extractivism and crises: Rooting development alternatives in emancipatory African socialist eco-feminism -- Chapter 2: Jineology and the pandemic: Rojava's alternative anti-capitalist-statist model -- Part Two: Ecology and Transformative Women's Power in South Africa -- Chapter 3: Doing Eco-Feminism in a Time of Covid-19: Beyond the Limits of Liberal Feminism -- Chapter 4: 'Our existence is resistance': Women challenging mining and the climate crisis in a time of Covid-19 -- Chapter 5: Women and food sovereignty: Tackling hunger during Covid-19 -- Part Three: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women's Power in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Quiet rebels: Underground women miners and refusal as resistance -- Chapter 7: Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Government's Covid-19 fiscal responses and the crisis of social reproduction -- Chapter 9: Nursing and the crisis of social reproduction before and during Covid-19 -- Part Four: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? -- Chapter 10: Crises, socio-ecological reproduction and intersectionality: Challenges for emancipatory feminism -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Covid-19 pandemic showed that a patriarchal capitalist socio-economic system is unable to address the socio-ecological reproduction need of societies. This volume foregrounds the possibilities emancipatory feminism creates by resisting neo-liberalism through grassroots and indigenous activism.