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  • Legacies of Fukushima

    3.11 in Context

    Edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Ryuma Shineha ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
    It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating the seaboard of northeastern Japan; three reactors in meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima; experts in disarray and suffering victims young and old. It was, as well, an unlikely ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Legacies of Fukushima

    3.11 in Context

    Edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Ryuma Shineha ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
    It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating the seaboard of northeastern Japan; three reactors in meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima; experts in disarray and suffering victims young and old. It was, as well, an unlikely ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist ...
    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Read more

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  • Jump-Starting America

    How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

    by Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson ...
    The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen—and how we can do it again.The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the ... Read more

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  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    by Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Read more

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  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    by Paul N. Edwards ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Read more

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  • Science of Societal Safety

    Living at Times of Risks and Disasters

    Edited by Seiji Abe, Mamoru Ozawa, Yoshiaki Kawata ...
    Series Book 2 - Trust
    This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement ... Read more

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  • What Will Work

    Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

    by Kristin Shrader-Frechette ...
    Series series Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
    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. ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Nuclear Enterprise

    High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors

    Edited by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell ...
    A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media. ... Read more

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  • Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists

    The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

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

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Beyond Sputnik

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD