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Controversies in Science & Technology
Controver sies in Science & Technology, Volume 4 From Sustainability to Surveillance
Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, and Jo Handelsman
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance 1 Robert M. Chiles PART ONE: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Well-Being 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming 17 Matthys P. Levy 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events 33 Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage 47 Jarrod M. Rifkind and Seymour E. Goodman 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential 62 Chelsea Schelly 6. Infrastructure and Health 73 Ka man Lai PART TWO: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice 7. How to Feed Ourselves—Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century? 89 Frances Moore Lappé 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger 111 Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession 124 Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy
10. Food Security and Gender 137 Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel PART THREE: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment 153 Nancy Langston 12. C hemicals Policy in the United States—The Need for New Directions 166 Joel A. Tickner 13. P olitics in a Bottle: BPA, Children’s Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform 183 Jody A. Roberts 14. O f Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the Safety of an Endocrine Disruptor 196 Sarah A. Vogel PART FOUR: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies 211 Daniel Simberloff 16. The Aliens in Our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems 228 Banu Subramaniam 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences 241 Judith S. Weis 18. O n an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline 259 Sainath Suryanarayanan Contributors 269 Index 279
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful for the contributions of our excellent collection of authors and the peer reviewers who provided careful comments, which made already v