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Author : Gary E. McCuen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000025887682
Examines the controversies surrounding the destruction of the tropical rain forest.
Author : John Kurt Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429976568
What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies.The ?social function of science? has been a contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also studies technological development of other societies, including the former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets, even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from the appropriate images of economic development. What is always politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates for the next upswing in technology?and thus the next new structure of control.The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development, military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today.
Author : David Zierler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820339788
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called “ecocide.” David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with Operation Ranch Hand, the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese mission to use herbicidal warfare as a means to defoliate large areas of enemy territory. Driven by the idea that humans were altering the world’s ecology for the worse, a group of scientists relentlessly challenged Pentagon assurances of safety, citing possible long-term environmental and health effects. It wasn’t until 1970 that the scientists gained access to sprayed zones confirming that a major ecological disaster had occurred. Their findings convinced the U.S. government to renounce first use of herbicides in future wars and, Zierler argues, fundamentally reoriented thinking about warfare and environmental security in the next forty years. Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.
Author : Damien Short,Martin Crook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000540796
In a world gripped by an ever-worsening ecological crisis there are present and increasing genocidal pressures on many culturally distinct social groups, such as indigenous peoples. This is where the genocide-ecocide nexus presents itself. The destruction of ecosystems, ecocide, can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence. Given the looming threat of runaway climate change, the attendant rapid extinction of species, destruction of habitats, ecological collapse and the self-evident dependency of the human race on our bio-sphere, ecocide (both "natural" and "manmade") will become a primary driver of genocide. Through nine chapters of cutting-edge research, this book examines specific case studies in geographical settings such as Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria and Brazil, to highlight and analyse the crucial connections and vectors of the genocide-ecocide nexus. This book will be of great value to scholars, students and researchers interested in the ecological crisis, Environmental Justice, the political economy of genocide and ecocide as well as environmental human rights. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Genocide Research.
Author : Robert Emmet Hernan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230105270
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata and others. And with these, the extraordinary and inspirational stories of the countless men and women who fought bravely to protect the communities and environments at risk.
Author : K G. Mukerji,B. P. Chamola
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Botany
ISBN : 8176482048
Author : David M. Standlea
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780791482391
The global consumption of fossil fuels is dramatically rising, while inversely, the supply is in permanent decline. The "end of oil" threatens the very future of Western civilization. Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge examines the politics of drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and presents this controversy as a precursor of future "resource wars" where ideas and values collide and polarize. The reader is introduced to the primary participants involved: global corporations, politicians, nongovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples and organizations, and human rights/religious organizations. Author David M. Standlea argues in favor of seeing this comparatively "local" conflict as part of a larger struggle between the proponents of an alternative, positive vision for the future and an American culture presently willing to sacrifice that future for immediate profit.
Author : Bruce Wilshire
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0739112791
Why do groups become genocidal and try to incapacitate all members of an alien group, even sometimes killing fetuses? Prematurely alluding to evil or to the Devil blocks the possibility for further inquiry. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is the first systematic attempt to explain what, up until now, has seemed to be inexplicable phenomena.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:319510003689315
Author : Mary Ann Schwartz,BarBara Marliene Scott,Madine M. L. Vanderplaat
Publisher : Allyn and Bacon
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0205292461
This text is designed for courses in Introductory Sociology. This Canadian adaptation of Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World presents a critical introduction to sociology, focusing on social change from macro and micro perspectives. The text integrates themes of race, class and gender throughout, and challenges students to think critically about their world.
Author : Doctor Damien Short
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783601707
In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined. Rather than focusing solely on a narrow conception of genocide as direct mass-killing, through close empirical analysis of a number of under-discussed case studies – including Palestine, Sri Lanka, Australia and Alberta, Canada – the book reveals the key role played by settler colonialism, capitalism, finite resources and the ecological crisis in driving genocidal social death on a global scale.
Author : James M. Henslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0130960845
This theoretically balanced text provides the latest research findings and a consistent structure to help & students analyze & major social problems facing the United States.& Henslin presents boths sides of an argument with a neutral voice and has a "down-to-earth" writing style. & When students complete this text, not only do they gain a sociological understanding of social problems, but also they are able to explore--and evaluate--their own opinions about specific social problems. & They will gain a greater awareness of the social forces that shape their orientations to social problems and their perspectives on social life. The ideas in this book, then, can penetrate students' thinking and give shape to their views of the world.
Author : Beverly Baer
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810305984
Provides access to reviews of children's books and periodicals that are indexed by Book Review Index.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2476 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012308909
Author : James M. Henslin
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0205407358
This best-selling comprehensive text shares the excitement of sociology with the acclaimed down-to-earth approach that highlights the sociology of everyday life. The Seventh Edition of this highly regarded text retains all the features that have made previous editions so successful. The author has a unique ability to engage students without sacrificing content or talking down to them. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, Henslin shares his passion for sociology with his readers like no other author of an introductory text can.
