Author: Colleen F Moore PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: disagree, scientists, pollution, children
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-04-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0195386663
ISBN-13: 9780195386660

How does pollution impact our daily quality of life? What are the effects of pollution on children’s development? Why do industry and environmental experts disagree about what levels of pollutants are safe? In this clearly written book, Moore traces the debates around five key pollutants---lead, mercury, noise, pesticides, and dioxins and PCBs---and provides an overview of the history of each pollutant, basic research findings, and the scientific and regulatory controversies surrounding it. Moore focuses, in particular, on the impact of these pollutants on children’s psychological

Author: Colleen F. Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: scientists, disagree, pollution, children, scourge, silent
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 019515391X
ISBN-13: 9780195153910

How does pollution impact our daily quality of life? What are the effects of pollution on children’s development? Why do industry and environmental experts disagree about what levels of pollutants are safe?In this clearly written book, Moore traces the debates around five key pollutants--lead, mercury, noise, pesticides, and dioxins and PCBs--and provides an overview of the history of each pollutant, basic research findings, and the scientific and regulatory controversies surrounding it. Moore focuses, in particular, on the impact of these pollutants on children’s psychological dev

Author: Mike Hulme
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: inaction, opportunity, controversy, understanding, climate, change, disagree
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-05-25
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521727324
ISBN-13: 9780521727327

Climate change is not ’a problem’ waiting for ’a solution’. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity’s place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider’s account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociol

Author: David L. Prychitko
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, diversity, contemporary, economics, suny, thought, disagree, introduction, alternative, schools, economists
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1998-02
List price: $63.50
ISBN-10: 0791435695
ISBN-13: 9780791435694

Economists disagree. They disagree over policy, prediction, and matters of pure theory. They even disagree over why they disagree. Why Economists Disagree demonstrates that the "crisis" of contemporary economics may actually be a sign of healthy disagreement and fresh thinking over the nature and scope of economic theory and policy. Since the 1980s, several dissenting schools of thought have emerged that offer serious methodological and theoretical challenges to mainstream economics. Why Economists Disagree provides a convenient introduction to Austrian, Post Keynesian, Institutionalist, F