Controversies in science & technology . Volume 4 From sustainability to surveillance / / edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, and Jo Handelsman

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.483
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development; Science - Social aspects; Technology - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KleinmanDaniel Lee; Cloud-HansenKaren A.; HandelsmanJo
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2014.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance -- Part One: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Well-Being -- 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming -- 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events -- 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage -- 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential -- 6. Infrastructure and Health -- Part Two: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice -- 7. How to Feed Ourselves—Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century? -- 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger -- 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession -- 10. Food Security and Gender -- Part Three: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety -- 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment -- 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States—The Need for New Directions -- 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children’s Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform -- 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the Safety of an Endocrine Disruptor -- Part Four: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods -- 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies -- 16. The Aliens in Our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems -- 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences -- 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than two sides to every story. 'Controversies in Science and Technology' analyzes controversial topics in science and technology - infrastructure, ecosystem management, food security and plastics and health - from multiple points of view.
• Titolo autorizzato: Controversies in science & technology
• ISBN: 0-19-756297-3; 0-19-938378-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458721903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.