The Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks, R.L. Isaacson; K.F. Jensen
Автор: Gluck John P. JR. Название: Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist`s Ethical Journey ISBN: 022637565X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226375656 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades, proponents of such research have argued that the discoveries and benefits for humans far outweigh the costs of the traumatic effects on the animals; but today, even the researchers themselves have come to question the practice. John P. Gluck has been one of the scientists at the forefront of the movement to end research on primates, and in Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals he tells a vivid, heart-rending, personal story of how he became a vocal activist for animal protection.
Gluck begins by taking us inside the laboratory of Harry F. Harlow at the University of Wisconsin, where Gluck worked as a graduate student in the 1960s. Harlow's primate lab became famous for his behavioral experiments in maternal deprivation and social isolation of rhesus macaques. Though trained as a behavioral scientist, Gluck finds himself unable to overlook the intense psychological and physical damage these experiments wrought on the macaques. Gluck's sobering and moving account reveals how in this and other labs, including his own, he came to grapple with the uncomfortable justifications that many researchers were offering for their work. As his sense of conflict grows, we're right alongside him, developing a deep empathy for the often smart and always vulnerable animals used for these experiments.
At a time of unprecedented recognition of the intellectual cognition and emotional intelligence of animals, Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals is a powerful appeal for our respect and compassion for those creatures who have unwillingly dedicated their lives to science. Through the words of someone who has inflicted pain in the name of science and come to abhor it, it's important to know what has led this far to progress and where further inroads in animal research ethics are needed.
Автор: German Advisory Council on Global Change Название: Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks ISBN: 3642523773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642523779 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The approach taken by the Council is first to classify globally relevant risks and then to assign to these classes of risk both established and innovative risk assessment strategies and risk management tools.
Автор: BRAM BUSCHER Название: Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age ISBN: 0816530955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816530953 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 66530.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Can ""market forces"" solve the world's environmental problems? The stakes are undeniably high. With wildlife populations and biodiversity riches threatened across the globe, it is obvious that new and innovative methods of addressing the crisis are vital to the future of the planet. But is ""the market"" the answer? As public funding for conservation efforts grows ever scarcer and the private sector is brimming with ideas about how its role—along with its profits— can grow, market forces have found their way into environmental management to a degree unimaginable only a few years ago. Ecotourism, payment for environmental services (PES), and new conservation finance instruments such as species banking, carbon trading, and biodiversity derivatives are only some of the market mechanisms that have sprung into being. This is ""Nature™ Inc."": a fast-growing frontier of networks, activities, knowledge, and regulations that are rapidly changing the relations between people and nature on both global and local scales.Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyse how ""neoliberal conservation"" is reshaping human–nature relations that have been fashioned over two centuries of capitalist development. Contributors synthesize and add to a growing body of academic literature that cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of geography, sociology, anthropology, political science, and development studies to critically interrogate the increasing emphasis on neoliberal market-based mechanisms in environmental conservation. They all grapple with one overriding question: can capitalist market mechanisms resolve the environmental problems they have helped create?
Автор: Thangavel; G Sridevi Название: Environmental sustainability : role of green technologies ISBN: 8132220552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788132220558 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 130610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Covers different categories of green technologies (e.g. biofuels, renewable energy sources, phytoremediation etc.,) in a nutshell -Focuses on next generation technologies which will help to attain the sustainable development -The chapters widely cover for students, faculties and researchers in the scientific arena of Environmentalists, Agriculturalists, Engineers and Policy Makers The World Environment Day 2012 is prepared to embrace green economy. The theme for 2012 encompasses various aspects of human living, ranging from transport to energy to food to sustainable livelihood.
Green technology, an eco-friendly clean technology contributes to sustainable development to conserve the natural resources and environment which will meet the demands of the present and future generations. The proposed book mainly focuses on renewable energy sources, organic farming practices, phyto/bioremediation of contaminants, biofuels, green buildings and green chemistry. All of these eco-friendly technologies will help to reduce the amount of waste and pollution and enhance the nation's economic growth in a sustainable manner.
This book is aimed to provide an integrated approach to sustainable environment and it will be of interest not only to environmentalists but also to agriculturists, soil scientists and bridge the gap between the scientists and policy-makers.
Автор: Shashi Bala Singh; Nanduri R. Prabhakar; Srinivas Название: Translational Research in Environmental and Occupational Stress ISBN: 8132219279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788132219279 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 149060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Cutting edge technologies can propel a simple finding in basic science to a concept that can be of immense value to the society. While applying novel techniques to unravel the mysteries of biological processes, an offshoot of applied branch emerged. This field, which is now widely referred to as Translational Research utilizes basic science findings and translates these findings into innovative concepts for the benefit of mankind. This branch of science has evolved into a multidisciplinary juggernaut encompassing all known fields of science as varied as biomedicine, environment, law, economics, sociology, etc. With the ever increasing interest in this branch and the dreams and aspirations that this field can bring, basic science researchers are now taking a bold step into this new realm, merging different fields of knowledge to come up with novel inventions. This book "Translational research in environmental and occupational stress" provides and insight into the research that led to discoveries, inventions and development of novel technologies which will have a tremendous impact on the future of mankind.
Автор: Aschner, Michael Название: Environmental Factors in Neurodegenerative Diseases ISBN: 0128127643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128127643 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 168430.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Environmental Factors in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Volume One addresses contemporary advances in neurotoxicology, with thematic volumes providing authoritative review articles on key issues in the field. Edited by leading subject experts, volumes are designed as in-depth overviews of the latest topic developments that analyze the effect of varied chemical agents on the nervous system. As a result, this serial is an essential and unique resource for researchers and graduate students alike.
Includes, in one single publication, a selection of comprehensive reviews devoted to neurotoxicology
Edited by high-profile, leading academics in the field, ensuring a quality publication for subscribers
Aims to widen the scope for participation by international contributors, researchers and editorial board members outside North America
Serves a broad audience of university faculty, researchers and students, as well as the industry, drug development companies and the government
Автор: Gary S. Sayler; Robert Fox; James Blackburn Название: Environmental Biotechnology for Waste Treatment ISBN: 1468459570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781468459579 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 104480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Proceedings of the symposium on Environmental Biotechnology: Moving from the Flask to the Field held in Knoxville, Tennessee, October 17-19, 1990
Автор: J. A. C. Fortescue Название: Environmental Geochemistry ISBN: 1461260477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461260479 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 113190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: It is the policy of the federal Canadian Forestry Service to sponsor research initiatives from the private sector that are judged to be pertinent to its mandate and offer particular promise towards the optimal management of Canadian forest resources.
Автор: T.E. Barnard; J?rgen Einax; K.S. Booksh; R.G. Brer Название: Chemometrics in Environmental Chemistry - Statistical Methods ISBN: 3662148854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783662148853 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 104480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume presents authoritatively state-of-the-art procedures for measuring and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by leading experts.
Автор: Lars Olof Bj?rn; J. Moan; W. Nultsch; A.R. Young Название: Environmental UV Photobiology ISBN: 1489924086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489924087 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 243800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In response to the overwhelming concern for possible acute and long-term effects of ozone depletion on terrestrial and aquatic life, this volume presents a comprehensive collection of review articles from an internationally acknowledged group of experts.
Автор: J?rg Bendix; Erwin Beck; Achim Br?uning; Franz Mak Название: Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador ISBN: 3642381367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642381362 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 148020.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume provides an assessment of the biodiversity and ecosystem services in one of the "hottest" biodiversity hotspots of the world, the south-eastern Andes of Ecuador. The presented results can also be applied to other forested tropical mountain areas.
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