Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series – serie
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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 …
Only One Chance
How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation
Häftad, 2015
696 kr
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Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects. Philippe Grandjean provides an …
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 …
Regulating Toxic Substances
A Philosophy of Science and the Law
Inbunden, 1993
654 kr
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This book in the philosophy of law and risk assessment is concerned with the topic is standards of evidence in legal proceedings and regulatory decisions about the toxicity of chemicals. Cranor argues that the scientific and statistical criteria usually used to determine whether substances are …
Acceptable Evidence
Science and Values in Risk Management
Av Mayo, Deborah G. Mayo m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
1465 kr
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Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that …
Privatizing Public Lands
Inbunden, 1995
2215 kr
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This work critically examines the thesis that public lands would be more productive if they were private, or, failing that, managed as if they were private. The author argues that there is no sense of `productivity' for which it is true that greater productivity is both desirable and a likely …
In Nature's Interests?
Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
Inbunden, 1998
510 kr
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Gary E. Varner presents a carefully argued response to what he characterizes as "two dogmas of environmentalism" - the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. He defends a "biocentric individualist" stance that gives …
Regulating Toxic Substances
A Philosophy of Science and the Law
Häftad, 1997
1333 kr
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In this paperback reprint of a book originally published in 1993, Carl Cranor argues that the scientific and statistical criteria usually used to determine whether substances are toxic are too rigorous and time-consuming for evidentiary purposes in tort cases and for regulation. This results in the …
Democracy, Risk, and Community
Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism
Inbunden, 1998
2077 kr
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This controversial book explores the connection between technological risk and basic concepts of liberal political theory and practice. Arguing that modern risks are emergent and therefore not reducible to individual actors or events, Hiskes demonstrates how risks challenge the most basic concepts …
In Nature's Interests?
Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
Häftad, 2002
699 kr
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This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other …
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. …
Across the Boundaries
Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science
Av Daniel Steel
Inbunden, 2008
1720 kr
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The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences from animal models to humans or from a pilot study to a broader population. Inferences like these are known as …
A Perfect Moral Storm
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2011
924 kr
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Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it …
Is a Little Pollution Good for You?
Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research
Häftad, 2014
732 kr
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Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise -- a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of hormesis (beneficial or stimulatory effects caused by low-dose exposure to toxic substances) claim that that this may be …
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 …
Is a Little Pollution Good for You?
Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research
Inbunden, 2011
1894 kr
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Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise-a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of hormesis (beneficial or stimulatory effects caused by low-dose exposure to toxic substances) claim that that this may be the …
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 …
A Perfect Moral Storm
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Häftad, 2013
652 kr
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Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it …
