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27 produkter
What Will Work
Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power
Häftad, 2014
675 kr
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What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy -- and not nuclear fission or "clean coal" -- are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a respected environmental …
Tainted
How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science
Häftad, 2016
968 kr
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Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their …
Experts in Uncertainty
Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science
Av Roger M. Cooke, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Inbunden, 1992
4094 kr
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This is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific inquiry and policy making.Cooke considers how expert opinion is being used today, how an expert's uncertainty is or should be represented, how people do or should reason with …
Environmental Justice
Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
Häftad, 2005
846 kr
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Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world …
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Inbunden, 2007
821 kr
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Pollution annually kills hundreds of thousands of people. In a brilliant, disturbing, yet readable book, Shrader-Frechette shows why this environmental epidemic continues. Campaign contributors, lobbyists, and special interests often control information by capturing media and even science itself. …
Experts in Uncertainty
Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science
Av Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Roger M. Cooke
E-bok, 1991
2640 kr
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This book is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific inquiry and policy making. The elicitation, representation, and use of expert opinion is increasingly important for two reasons: advancing technology leads to more and more complex …
Environmental Justice
Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
E-bok, 2002
538 kr
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Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world …
Tainted
How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science
Inbunden, 2014
1811 kr
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Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their …
Tainted
How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science
E-bok, 2014
660 kr
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Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their …
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from …
What Will Work
Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power
E-bok, 2011
459 kr
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What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.
Environmental Justice
Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
E-bok, 2002
538 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world …
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
E-bok, 2007
261 kr
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In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from …
What Will Work
Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power
E-bok, 2011
459 kr
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What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.
Policy for Land
Law and Ethics
Av Lynton Keith Caldwell, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Häftad, 1993
925 kr
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In this book, two leading scholars, a political scientist and an ethical philosopher, outline a new national policy for land use, and provide the legal, political, and ethical justifications for their proposed policies.
Technology and Values
Av Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra
Häftad, 1997
854 kr
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Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools …
Nuclear Power and Public Policy
The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology
Häftad, 1982
550 kr
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This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the …
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
Inbunden, 1984
1636 kr
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If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold …
Risk Analysis and Scientific Method
Methodological and Ethical Problems with Evaluating Societal Hazards
Häftad, 1985
550 kr
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Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are …
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
Häftad, 1984
1636 kr
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If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold …
Risk Analysis and Scientific Method
Methodological and Ethical Problems with Evaluating Societal Hazards
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are …
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
E-bok, 2012
2111 kr
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If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold …
Nuclear Power and Public Policy
The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the …
Policy for Land
Law and Ethics
Av Lynton Keith Caldwell, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Inbunden, 1993
1045 kr
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In this book, two leading scholars, a political scientist and an ethical philosopher, outline a new national policy for land use, and provide the legal, political, and ethical justifications for their proposed policies.
Ethics of Scientific Research
Inbunden, 1994
818 kr
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Challenging long-held theories of scientific rationality and remoteness, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that research cannot be 'value free.' Rather, any research will raise important moral issues for those involved, issues not only of truthfulness but of risk to research subjects, third parties, …
Technology and Values
Av Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra
Inbunden, 1997
980 kr
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Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools …
Environmental Ethics
Häftad, 1998
197 kr
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Environmental Ethics tells us not how, but why we must change our "earthkeeping" habits. Current crises of pollution and resource depletion reflect profound difficulties with some fo the most basic priniciples in our accepted systems of values. They challenge us to assess the adequacy of these …
