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  • Environmental Ethics

    An Introduction and Learning Guide

    Edited by Kees Vromans, Rainer Paslack, Gamze Isildar, Rob de Vrind, Jürgen Simon ...
    As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of our problems are anthropogenic. The number of people working in what might be termed "environmental ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Transdisciplinary Interfaces and Innovation in the Life Sciences

    Edited by Eunsook Hyun, Rainer Paslack, Hilmar Stolte ...
    Series Book 5 - Medizin, Technik und Gesellschaft / Medicine, Technology and Society
    Life science comprises any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms and their relationships to one another and the environment. By presenting the proceedings of three transdisciplinary transatlantic workshops, this book deals with the interface among the ever expanding fields of molecular biology, nano-technology and synthetic biology as well ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Uncontrolled

    The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

    by Jim Manzi ...
    How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Risk Governance

    Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World

    by Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    �Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • An Undisciplined Economist

    Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health

    by Morris L. Barer, Greg L. Stoddart, Chris B. McLeod, Kimberlyn McGrail ...
    Series Book 237 - Carleton Library Series
    For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects Evans’ most important contributions and includes two new articles.The topics addressed range widely, from the peculiar structure of the health care ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Sustainable Land Management in a European Context

    A Co-Design Approach

    Edited by Thomas Weith, Tim Barkmann, Nadin Gaasch, Sebastian Rogga, Christian Strauß, Jana Zscheischler ...
    Series Book 8 - Human-Environment Interactions
    This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land.Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies

    Edited by Adam Burgess, Alberto Alemanno, Jens Zinn ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is over 40 years since we began to reflect upon risk in a more social than technological and economic fashion, firstly making sense of the gap between expert and public assessment of risks, such as to our health and environment. With fixed certainties of the past eroded and the technological leaps of ‘big data’, ours is truly an age of risk, uncertainty and probability - from Google’s ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Responsible Conduct of Research

    by Adil E. Shamoo, David B. Resnik ...
    Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second edition, provides an introduction to the social, ethical, and legal issues facing scientists today. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

    Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan Kahan, Dietram A. Scheufele ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing ... Read more

    $171.89 USD

  • The Ethics of Medical Data Donation

    Edited by Jenny Krutzinna, Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ethics and law. They address the challenges in the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis. This pioneering study looks at the many factors involved when ... Read more

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  • Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains

    A Social Network Approach

    by Hans-Joachim Schramm ...
    Series series Contributions to Management Science
    In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to date. ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Environmental Literacy in Science and Society

    From Knowledge to Decisions

    by Roland W. Scholz ...
    In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process? These are the issues central to the concept of environmental literacy. This unique book provides a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD