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Author : Wendy Elizabeth Wagner,Rena Steinzor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521855204
This book examines how dominant interest groups manipulate the available science to support their positions.
Author : Paul M. Sutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781538181621
"Examines the growing social distrust toward the scientific community, grounding its source in the academic scientific community itself, and offers solutions on how to solve it"--
Author : Tony Hiss
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780525654827
An urgent, resounding call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050—thereby saving millions of its species—and a candid assessment of the health of our planet and our role in conserving it, from the award-winning author of The Experience of Place and veteran New Yorker staff writer. "An upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam." —The Wall Street Journal Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism" that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups already involved in this fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. And he introduces us to the engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other "Half Earthers" like Hiss himself who are allied in their dedication to the unifying, essential cause of saving our own planet from ourselves. Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, Rescuing the Planet is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth.
Author : Alexander Vucinich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520347267
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Arden Rowell,Kenworthey Bilz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781479812301
Offers psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment Environmental law may seem a strange space to seek insights from psychology. Psychology, after all, seeks to illuminate the interior of the human mind, while environmental law is fundamentally concerned with the exterior surroundings—the environment—in which people live. Yet psychology is a crucial, undervalued factor in how laws shape people’s interactions with the environment. Psychology can offer environmental law a rich, empirically informed account of why, when, and how people act in ways that affect the environment—which can then be used to more effectively pursue specific policy goals. When environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that may injure or otherwise affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape or mitigate those behaviors. The Psychology of Environmental Law provides key insights regarding how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates. It offers concrete analyses of the theoretical and practical payoffs in pollution control, ecosystem management, and climate change law and policy when psychological insights are taken into account.
Author : Katherine C. Wieseman,Molly Weinburgh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048122394
A discourse on women’s leadership within science education has, until now, been largely invisible in book form. This, therefore, is the first book to address women’s leadership within science education. The book embraces relational ways of knowing as a foundation for leadership and takes courageous steps by exposing our innermost tensions, dilemmas, and feelings about leadership, making them available to others. The power/promise of feminine approaches to transform traditional leadership cultures is also addressed. The authors believe that anyone can lead, regardless of position, title, years of experience or age. They also believe that each of us has a responsibility to provide some leadership and direction for the shared endeavours of which we are part. The purpose of the book is to inspire and guide educators and academics in K-16 science education, as well as individuals in other professions, as their leadership skills develop. The leadership activities provided offer guidance and/or concrete ways to delve into issues of leadership.
Author : Ignacio Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317317746
Latin America plays an increasingly important role in the development of modern Christianity yet it has been underrepresented in current scholarship on religion and science. In this first book on the subject, contributors explore the different ways that religion and science relate to each other.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435076471762
Author : Derek Littlewood,Peter Stockwell
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 9042000325
Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and some new to the field make their contribution to an area that has become increasingly important in recent years. From Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks to J.G. Ballard, taking in African-American science fiction, Jurassic Park, and Kurt Vonnegut, and exploring issues of alternative history and ideology, feminism, the holocaust, characterisation, and impossible geography, this collection is an important source-book for all those interested in the literature, culture and philosophy of realistic impossible worlds.
Author : Wendy E. Wagner,Rena I. Steinzor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1375311922
Rescuing Science from Politics debuts fourteen chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore the ways that special interests can abuse the law to intrude on the way that scientists conduct research. The high stakes and adversarial features of regulation create the worst possible climate for the production and use of honest science, especially by those who will ultimately bear the cost of the resulting regulatory standards. Yet the academic or popular literature has paid scant attention to efforts by dominant interest groups to distort the available science in support of their positions. The book begins by establishing what should be noncontroversial principles of good scientific practice. These principles serve as the benchmark against which each chapter's author explains how science is misused in specific regulatory settings and isolates problems in the integration of science by the regulatory process. Dr. Donald Kenney, editor of Science, writes the prologue for the book.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : UCD:31175033056063
Author : Sal Restivo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349951604
This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applications. These ideas are reinforced by cultural myths about free will and individualism. Restivo makes a compelling case for a synchronistic approach in the study of these notoriously 'hard' cases, arguing that their significance reaches far beyond the realms of science and technology, and that their sociological and political ramifications are of paramount importance in our global society. This innovative work deals with perennial problems in the social sciences, philosophy, and the history of science and religion, and will be of special interest to professionals in these fields, as well as scholars of science and technology studies.
Author : Richard Bleiler
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : UOM:49015003023851
On science fiction authors
Author : Charles William Heckethorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Secret societies
ISBN : UCAL:$B54193
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11519759