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  • Japan’s Triple Disaster

    Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident

    Edición de Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, Manuela G. Hartwig ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism.The term "natural" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anticipated and their ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    de Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edición de Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edición de Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Libro 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists

    The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima

    de Aya Hirata Kimura ...
    Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese government’s assurances that the country’s food supply was safe. They took matters into their own hands, collecting their own scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food. In Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists Aya Hirata Kimura ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Beyond Sputnik

    U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    de Homer Alfred Neal, Tobin Smith, Jennifer McCormick ...
    Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey of the field for use as an introductory textbook in courses and a reference guide for legislators ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Conversations about Energy

    How the Experts See America's Energy Choices

    Edición de Jeremy Carl, James E. Goodby ...
    Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    de Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia

    Edición de Jusen Asuka, Dan Jin ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant.This ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Climate Change

    A Survey

    Edición de Maxwell Boykoff ...
    Series series Europa Politics of ... series
    Climate change is a defining issue in contemporary life. Since the Industrial Revolution, heavy reliance on carbon-based sources for energy in industry and society has contributed to substantial changes in the climate, indicated by increases in temperature and sea level rise.In the last three decades, concerns regarding human contributions to climate change have moved from obscure scientific ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The History of Global Climate Governance

    de Joyeeta Gupta ...
    What has happened globally on the climate change issue? How have countries' positions differed over time, and why? How are problems and politics developing on an increasingly globalised planet, and can we find a solution? This book explores these questions and more, explaining the key underlying issues of the conflicts between international blocs. The negotiation history is systematically ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia

    Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula


    de Peter Hayes (Editor), Kiho Yi (Editor) ...
    Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus