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28 produkter
Canada and Climate Change
Inbunden, 2022
287 kr
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Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human …
Canada and Climate Change
E-bok, 2022
210 kr
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Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience. …
Canada and Climate Change
E-bok, 2022
214 kr
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Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience. …
Domination of Nature
New Edition
Inbunden, 2023
1465 kr
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Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the …
Domination of Nature
New Edition
Häftad, 2023
413 kr
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Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we're at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the …
Domination of Nature
New Edition
E-bok, 2023
471 kr
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Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the …
Deep Disposal
A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada
Häftad, 2024
404 kr
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Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.Nuclear waste, stored temporarily …
Deep Disposal
A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada
E-bok, 2024
485 kr
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Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years. Nuclear waste, stored temporarily …
Deep Disposal
A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada
E-bok, 2024
475 kr
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Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years. Nuclear waste, stored temporarily …
Treacherous Tech
Taking the Risk of Artificial Intelligence Seriously
Av William Leiss, Richard Smith
Häftad, 2027
312 kr
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When experts first warned that artificial intelligence had a 10 to 20 per cent chance of causing human extinction within three decades, many found their claims alarmist. Now concerns about existential risks have intensified, even among developers. But only an informed, mobilized citizenry can …
Under Technology's Thumb
Häftad, 1990
446 kr
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From the introduction: "Standing at the threshold of modern times, Francis Bacon saw in experimental science and technological innovation the keys to humanity's future. Human history to that point, he thought, was an endlessly repeated cycle of despair and false hopes. The false hopes were fed by …
Mad Cows and Mother's Milk
The Perils of Poor Risk Communication
Av Douglas Powell, William Leiss
Häftad, 2004
567 kr
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The first case study deals with the mad cow fiasco of 1996, one of the most expensive and tragic examples of poor risk management in the last twenty-five years. For ten years the British government failed to acknowledge the possibility of a link between mad cow disease and Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, …
Limits to Satisfaction
An Essay on the Problem of Needs and Commodities
E-bok, 1988
1008 kr
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Consumerism and capitalist and socialist industry have reached the point where state power is legitimatized by its ability to increase the number of commodities. A unique culture has been created in which marketing is the main social bond. Values no longer shape and condition needs, wants, desires, …
Risk and Responsibility
Av Christina Chociolko, William Leiss
E-bok, 1994
958 kr
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William Leiss and Christina Chociolko explain that controversies arise in part because many participants try to avoid assuming full responsibility for the consequences of the risk-taking they advocate. For example, one can indulge in the pleasure of nicotine addiction despite an awareness of the …
Domination of Nature
E-bok, 1994
1041 kr
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In Part One Leiss traces the idea of the domination of nature from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Francis Bacon''s seminal work provides the pivotal point for this discussion and, through an original interpretation of Bacon''s thought, Leiss shows how momentous ambiguities in the idea …
Mad Cows and Mother's Milk
The Perils of Poor Risk Communication
Av William Leiss, Douglas Powell
E-bok, 1997
357 kr
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The first case study deals with the mad cow fiasco of 1996, one of the most expensive and tragic examples of poor risk management in the last twenty-five years. For ten years the British government failed to acknowledge the possibility of a link between mad cow disease and Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, …
In the Chamber of Risks
Understanding Risk Controversies
E-bok, 2001
1072 kr
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The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are inherently disputable; public perceptions of risk …
Mad Cows and Mother's Milk, Second Edition
The Perils of Poor Risk Communication
E-bok, 2004
367 kr
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Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. "Mad Cows and Mother''s Milk" outlines the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyses risk …
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism
E-bok, 2009
1041 kr
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Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson''s analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of …
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism
E-bok, 2009
1041 kr
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Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson''s analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of …
Social Communication in Advertising
Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace
Av William Leiss, Stephen Kline m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2515 kr
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Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With …
Social Communication in Advertising
Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace
Av William Leiss, Stephen Kline m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
867 kr
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Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With …
Social Communication in Advertising
Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace
Av William Leiss, Stephen Kline m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1022 kr
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Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With …
Risk Analysis Strategies For Credible and Defensible Utility Decisions
Av Simon Pollard, Steve E. Hrudey m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1675 kr
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In the 21st century, risk management has become a water utility manager?s central function. Beyond the preserves of public health protection and the maintenance of process performance, utility managers must also assess and manage legal, regulatory, financial, environmental, resource, and …
Limits to Satisfaction
An Essay on the Problem of Needs and Commodities
Häftad, 1988
413 kr
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Consumerism and capitalist and socialist industry have reached the point where state power is legitimatized by its ability to increase the number of commodities. A unique culture has been created in which marketing is the main social bond. Values no longer shape and condition needs, wants, desires, …
Risk and Responsibility
Av William Leiss, Christina Chociolko
Häftad, 1994
419 kr
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William Leiss and Christina Chociolko explain that controversies arise in part because many participants try to avoid assuming full responsibility for the consequences of the risk-taking they advocate. For example, one can indulge in the pleasure of nicotine addiction despite an awareness of the …
In the Chamber of Risks
Understanding Risk Controversies
Häftad, 2001
426 kr
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The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are inherently disputable; public perceptions of risk …
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism, Second Edition
Häftad, 2009
245 kr
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A detailed look at Macpherson's double commitment to radical social change and to academic scholarship
