Fostering Internationalism Through Marine Science

Author : Sara Tjossem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319414355

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Fostering Internationalism through Marine Science by Sara Tjossem Pdf

This book describes the work of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) since its launch 1992. Mapping the evolution of its agenda gives insight into the development of modern marine science in the context of competing demands of stakeholders within and outside the organization. The opening chapter consider the challenges of marine science as a large scale, and places PICES in the contexts of internationalism and science-based resource management. They also lay out the organization’s longstanding focus on the development of climate science and its applications. Subsequent chapters explore the pros and cons of national vs. international science, negotiating the nature of investigation and cooperation across scientific, political and institutional boundaries in the region; national perspectives on purpose, scope, and mandates; assessing two major initiatives undertaken to date; the challenges of incorporating social science into an organization of mainly natural scientists.

Author : UNESCO,IOC,Valdés, Luis
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231002267

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Global ocean science report by UNESCO,IOC,Valdés, Luis Pdf

The Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) assesses for the first time the status and trends in ocean science capacity around the world. The report offers a global record of how, where, and by whom ocean science is conducted: generating knowledge, helping to protect ocean health, and empowering society to support sustainable ocean management in the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The GOSR identifies and quantifies the key elements of ocean science at the national, regional and global scales, including workforce, infrastructure and publications. It is the first collective attempt to systematically highlight opportunities as well as capacity gaps to advance international collaboration in ocean science and technology. This report is a resource for policy-makers, academics and other stakeholders seeking to harness the potential of ocean science to address global challenges. A comprehensive view of ocean science capacities at the national and global levels takes us closer to developing the global ocean science knowledge needed to ensure a healthy, sustainable ocean.

Author : James Borton
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781627343701

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Dispatches from the South China Sea by James Borton Pdf

The impact of continuous coastal development, reclamation, destruction of corals, overfishing and increased maritime traffic places all of us on the front lines of preserving our oceans. Marine biologists, who share a common language that cuts across political, economic and social differences, recognize that the sea’s remarkable coral reefs, which provide food, jobs and protection against storms and floods, have suffered unprecedented rates of destruction in recent decades. Dispatches from the South China Sea’s blend of participatory research and field reportage paves the way for a transformation of policy and, provides a basis for the eventual resolution of some of today’s major maritime conflicts. From overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, Dispatches from the South China Sea charts science-driven cooperation opportunities. James Borton purposefully and passionately argues that the South China Sea can become a body of water that unites, rather than divides.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Oceanography
ISBN : 0295802960

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SEA KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES (cl) by Anonim Pdf

The 100-year story of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, a scientific collaboration originally formed by eight northern European nations to address problems of overfishing in the North Atlantic. The author uses archival research and interviews to profile key ICES members and to provide insight into the relationship between fisheries science and biological oceanography. Contains a small section of historical photographs.

Author : Antony Adler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674241909

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Neptune’s Laboratory by Antony Adler Pdf

An eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship with the ocean lies as much in what we imagine as in what we discover. We have long been fascinated with the oceans, seeking “to pierce the profundity” of their depths. In studying the history of marine science, we also learn about ourselves. Neptune’s Laboratory explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet—conjuring ideal-world fantasies alongside fears of our species’ weakness and ultimate demise. Oceans gained new prominence in the public imagination in the early nineteenth century as scientists plumbed the depths and marine fisheries were industrialized. Concerns that fish stocks could be exhausted soon emerged. In Europe these fears gave rise to internationalist aspirations, as scientists sought to conduct research on an oceanwide scale and nations worked together to protect their fisheries. The internationalist program for marine research waned during World War I, only to be revived in the interwar period and again in the 1960s. During the Cold War, oceans were variously recast as battlefields, post-apocalyptic living spaces, and utopian frontiers. The ocean today has become a site of continuous observation and experiment, as probes ride the ocean currents and autonomous and remotely operated vehicles peer into the abyss. Embracing our fears, fantasies, and scientific investigations, Antony Adler tells the story of our relationship with the seas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : UVA:X006134829

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Earth Sciences History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael S. Reidy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226709338

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Tides of History by Michael S. Reidy Pdf

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans’ outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty’s navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide and relatively well financed research involving a hierarchy of practitioners. Analyzing the economic, political, social, and scientific changes on which the British sailed to power, Tides of History shows how the British Admiralty collaborated closely not only with scholars, such as William Whewell, but also with the maritime community —sailors, local tide table makers, dockyard officials, and harbormasters—in order to systematize knowledge of the world’s oceans, coasts, ports, and estuaries. As Michael S. Reidy points out, Britain’s security and prosperity as a maritime nation depended on its ability to maneuver through the oceans and dominate coasts and channels. The practice of science and the rise of the scientist became inextricably linked to the process of European expansion.

Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781685900489

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The Dialectics of Ecology by John Bellamy Foster Pdf

Explores ecological socialism's potential against capitalist environmental degradation Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As with his prior books, The Dialectics of Ecology is grounded in the contention that we are now faced with a concrete choice between ecological socialism and capitalist exterminism, and rooted in insights drawn from the classical historical materialist tradition. In this latest work, Foster explores the complex theoretical debates that have arisen historically with respect to the dialectics of nature and society. He then goes on to examine the current contradictions associated with the confrontation between capitalist extractivism and the financialization of nature, on the one hand, and the radical challenges to these represented by emergent visions of ecological civilization and planned degrowth, on the other. The product of contemporary ecosocialist debates, The Dialectics of Ecology builds on earlier works by Foster, including Marx’s Ecology and The Return of Nature, aimed at the development of a dialectical naturalism and the formation of a path to sustainable human development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000052067181

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shedletsky, Leonard J.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466658172

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Cases on Teaching Critical Thinking through Visual Representation Strategies by Shedletsky, Leonard J. Pdf

One of the most important aspects of a comprehensive education involves teaching students to analyze arguments and form their own opinions based on available information. Visual and graphical mapping strategies are useful in helping students to consider problems from a variety of perspectives. Cases on Teaching Critical Thinking through Visual Representation Strategies brings together research from scholars and professionals in the field of education to provide new insights into the use of visual aids for student development in reasoning and critical thinking. This essential reference source will enable academics, researchers, and practitioners in fields such as education, business, and technology to more effectively foster students’ critical thinking skills.

Author : Joshua P. Howe
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780295805092

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Behind the Curve by Joshua P. Howe Pdf

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2—illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve—through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the “science first” forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.

Author : Bernhard Gissibl,,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455253

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Civilizing Nature by Bernhard Gissibl,,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper Pdf

Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.

Author : N. L. Krement︠s︡ov
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415350603

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International Science Between the World Wars by N. L. Krement︠s︡ov Pdf

This book addresses the function of international science through a detailed study of international congresses in genetics held from 1899-1939.

Author : Yonn Dierwechter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030010157

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The Urbanization of Green Internationalism by Yonn Dierwechter Pdf

The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes. This book explores this major theme by drawing on approaches that document the diverse histories and emergent geographies of “internationalism.” It is no longer possible, the book argues, to analyze the global politics of the environment without considering its various urbanization(s), wherein multiple actors are reforming, reassembling and adapting to nascent threats posed by global ecological decay. The ongoing imposition and abrasion of different world orders—Westphalian and post-Westphalian—further suggests we need a wider frame to capture new kinds of urbanized spaces and global green politics. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in global sustainability, urban development, planning, politics, and international affairs. Case studies and grounded examples of green internationalism in urban action ultimately explore how select city-regions like Cape Town, Los Angeles, and Melbourne are trying to negotiate and actually work through this postulated dilemma.

Author : Ulrike Felt,Rayvon Fouche,Clark A. Miller,Laurel Smith-Doerr
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262338110

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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition by Ulrike Felt,Rayvon Fouche,Clark A. Miller,Laurel Smith-Doerr Pdf

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and methodological approaches in a way that is accessible to both new and established scholars from a range of disciplines. This new edition, sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science, is the fourth in a series of volumes that have defined the field of STS. It features 36 chapters, each written for the fourth edition, that capture the state of the art in a rich and rapidly growing field. One especially notable development is the increasing integration of feminist, gender, and postcolonial studies into the body of STS knowledge. The book covers methods and participatory practices in STS research; mechanisms by which knowledge, people, and societies are coproduced; the design, construction, and use of material devices and infrastructures; the organization and governance of science; and STS and societal challenges including aging, agriculture, security, disasters, environmental justice, and climate change.