1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969773503321

Titolo

Building a foundation for sound environmental decisions / / Committee on Research Opportunities and Priorities for EPA, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1997

ISBN

9786610191536

9780309174770

0309174775

9781280191534

1280191538

9780309590709

0309590701

9780585021164

0585021163

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (103 p.)

Disciplina

363.7/056/0973

Soggetti

Environmental sciences - Research - United States

Strategic planning - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR SOUND ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR SOUND ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS -- Executive Summary -- 1 Environmental Challenges -- SOLVING PROBLEMS -- RECOGNIZING LIMITATIONS -- COMPLEXITY, UNPREDICTABILITY, AND SURPRISE -- EPA'S RESEARCH CHALLENGE -- HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY -- SCOPE OF THIS REPORT -- 2 Improving Our Understanding of Environmental Issues -- IDENTIFYING CURRENT AND EMERGING PROBLEMS -- A FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH -- CORE RESEARCH -- Understanding Underlying Processes -- Development of Innovative Tools -- Acquisition and Dissemination of Data --



IMPLEMENTING A CORE RESEARCH PROGRAM -- 3 Achieving a Focused Research Agenda -- ANTICIPATING EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS -- IDENTIFYING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN NEED OF FOCUSED ATTENTION -- CRITERIA FOR PRIORITIZING AMONG IDENTIFIED ISSUES -- DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING RISK ASSESSMENT CAPABILITIES AT EPA -- RETAINING FLEXIBILITY -- 4 EPA's Position in the Broader Environmental Research Enterprise -- EPA'S ROLE IN RESEARCH -- PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- STRENGTHENING SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY AT EPA -- IMPROVING COOPERATIVE DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION -- 5 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- Approach to Research -- Core Research Themes -- Problem-Driven Research Themes -- References -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX 1 Interim Report of the Committee on Research Opportunities and Priorities for EPA -- INTRODUCTION -- ROLE OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL -- SCOPE OF INTERIM REPORT -- FUTURE GOALS FOR THIS STUDY -- ASSESSMENT OF ORD'S ''NEW BEGINNING" AND STRATEGIC PLAN -- Balance Between Long-term and Short-term Research -- Working With Others -- The Risk Paradigm -- Risk Assessment Methodology.

Near-Term Research Priorities -- Emerging Issues -- Remaining Questions -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 2 Reports Analyzed to Identify Priority Environmental Issues -- APPENDIX 3 Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Staff.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern. Many actions have been taken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others to protect human health and ecosystems from particular threats. Despite some successes, many problems remain unsolved and new ones are emerging. Increasing population and related pressures, combined with a realization of the interconnectedness and complexity of environmental systems, present new challenges to policymakers and regulators. Scientific research has played, and will continue to play, an essential part in solving environmental problems. Decisions based on incorrect or incomplete understanding of environmental systems will not achieve the greatest reduction of risk at the lowest cost. This volume describes a framework for acquiring the knowledge needed both to solve current recognized problems and to be prepared for the kinds of problems likely to emerge in the future. Many case examples are included to illustrate why some environmental control strategies have succeeded where others have fallen short and how we can do better in the future.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969771203321

Titolo

First World War nursing : new perspectives / / edited by Alison S. Fell and Christine E. Hallett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-62699-1

1-134-62692-4

0-203-44892-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in modern history ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

FellAlison S. <1971->

HallettChristine E

Disciplina

940.4/75

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Medical care

Military nursing - History - 20th century

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

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Perspectives on First World War Nursing; Notes; Part I: National Identities; 1. Making Sister Julie: The Origin of First World War French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories; Notes; 2. "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War; Notes; 3. "I Begin to Feel as a Normal Being Should, in Spite of the Blood and Anguish in Which I Move": American Women's First World War Nursing Memoirs; Introduction: The American Mission

The Spectacle of the European War"Nobody is a Spectator": America Enters the War; Blood and Anguish; Beyond the Armistice; Conclusion: The First World War and its American Legacy; Notes; Part II: Professional Identities; 4. "All for the Boys": The Nurse-Patient Relationship of Australian Army Nurses in the First World War; War Nursing; Professional Intimacy; Power; Trust; Empathy; Respect; Notes; 5. "Emotional Nursing": Involvement, Engagement, and Detachment in the Writings of First World War Nurses and VADs; The Emotional World of the First World War VAD

The Professional World of the Trained NurseMilitary Nursing and



Emotional Boundaries; Conclusion: Overlapping Worlds; Notes; 6. A Sister's War: The Diaries of Alice Slythe; Becoming Sister Slythe; Base; Closer to the Front; Conclusion: Becoming Mrs. Alment; Notes; Part III: Nurse as Witness; 7. Negotiating Injury and Masculinity in First World War Nurses' Writing; Notes; 8. The Theater of Pain: Observing Mary Borden in The Forbidden Zone; Acknowledgment; Notes; 9. Cubist Vision in Nursing Accounts; Notes; Afterword: Remembering the First World War Nurse in Britain and France

Nations Remembering NursesNurses Remembering Nurses; Remembering the First World War Nurse in Popular Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets of Allied wartime nursing: historical contexts (history of the profession, recruitment, teaching, different national socio-political contexts), popular cultural stereotypes (in propaganda, popular culture) and longstanding gender norms (woman-as-nurturer). They draw on a wide range of hitherto negl