Controversies in Science and Technology
From Sustainability to Surveillance
Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, and Jo Handelsman
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance
Robert M. Chiles
Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Wellbeing
2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming
Matthys Levy
3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events
Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement
4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage
Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman
5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential
Chelsea Schelly
6. Infrastructure and Health
Ka man Lai
Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice
7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century?
Frances Moore Lappé
8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger
Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner
9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession
Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
10. Food Security and Gender
Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel
Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety
11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
Nancy Langston
12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New Directions
Joel A. Tickner
13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform
Jody A. Roberts
14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an endocrine disruptor
Sarah A. Vogel
Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods
15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies
Daniel Simberloff
16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems
Banu Subramaniam
17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences
Judith S. Weis
18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline
Sainath Suryanarayanan
Contributors
Index