The Energy Imperative: 100 Per Cent Renewable Now

Scheer, Dr Hermann

Earthscan Publications

Number 2 of series of pocket reference books, published by the International Solar Energy Society; focuses on passive solar architecture.Book available with membership within the professional society ISES.

Wind Energy Pocket Reference (Energy Reference Pocket Books)

Reference

* Exposes the government mishandling and 'pro-slaughter ideology' that destroyed millions of farm animals in Britain in 2001 and crippled rural livelihoods * Both the definitive history of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Britain and a source of valuable lessons for handling the next, inevitable, FMD outbreak * Essential reading for all concerned with farming and trade and the safety of livestock and food Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter? This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows that for over a century, FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow damaging businesses and shaping international relations. Yet these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but rather were the product of legislation used to control it. In this sense, FMD is a 'manufactured' plague not a natural one. The book turns the spotlight on this process of manufacture, revealing a rich history beset by controversy, in which party politics, class relations, veterinary ambitions, agricultural practices, the priorities of farming and the meat trade, fears for national security and scientific progress all made FMD what it is today.

A Manufactured Plague: The History of Foot-And-Mouth Disease in Britain

Woods, Abigail

Paperback in very good condition for its age. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning to spine and pageblock, this leading into page edges. Minor creasing to edges and small sales ticket residue to rear cover. Within, pages are tightly bound and content is unmarked. CN

Studies in a Dying Colonialism

Politics & Social Sciences

FANON, FRANTZ

Politics & Government

Women have always used technology, but never from a position of control. The history of technology has been premissed on the world view that men protect and provide for women while women service them. Even women scientists are expected to serve as wife-like and daughter-like assistants to their male colleagues. Recent developments in reproductive technologies, which use the female body as the subject of scientific experiment, mean that women now have even less control over their own bodies and their own lives. This collection of essays focuses on how women are affected worldwide by environmental toxins, reproductive and biomedical technologies and surrogacy. The authors, all members of the Institute on Women and Technology, stress the need for a scientific policy which empowers women and in which women's dignity and autonomy are central considerations.

Reconstructing Babylon: Essays on women and technology

Hynes, H. Patricia

Social Sciences

The growing concern about environmental pollution has forced Governments to look for more efficient ways of protecting the environment. Transport and in particular motor vehicles, are a major source of pollution and in the developed world, accounts for 30% of energy consumption. There are a number of countries in which tentative policies dealing with this are emerging. However, no policy can work if it is not properly co-ordinated with policies carried out in economic sectors where environmentally disruptive activities are taking place. For instance, while implementing environmental regulations, governments should ensure that existing regulations, tax structure or agricultural, energy or transport practices do not conteract environmental protection. This book, commissioned by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, looks at transport policies in seven countries - the UK, the USA, West Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy. In each case problems have resulted from a failure stemming from the partial thinking of the different departments involved. In providing critiques of each failure, the authors have provided models for the way forward.

Transport policy and the environment: Six case studies

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Top Guns & Toxic Whales: The Environment & Global Security

Gwyn;Stamp Robbie Prins

Every day throughout Britain, by road, by rail and by sea, there are large numbers of routine movements of radioactive cargo. Materials at all stages of the nuclear cycle, from uranium ore to nuclear waste, from nuclear war-heads to radioactive isotopes for medical use, are constantly on the move. All the time, all over the country there is the risk of an accident: a small one exposing workers and passers-by to low level radiation? or a serious one, leading to widespread contamination and to the risk of additional deaths from cancer? This book gives a thorough account of what is moved, by whom and for what purpose. It considers the risks, including terrorism, the safety record, the precautions, and highlights the perils of an industry clothed in secrecy. For example, local councils are responsible for coping with any accident, but are not told when or where nuclear movements take place.

Nuclear juggernaut: The transport of radioactive materials

Bond, Martin

Engineering

Structural Adjustment and the Environment

Business & Money

Reed, David ( Editied By )

Economics

This study scrutinizes one of the main agreements to come out of the Earth Summit of June 1992, the Climate Change Convention. It explains how the Convention affects the national interests of all countries involved, and its impact on most areas of economic activity, such as industrial activity, transport, agriculture and energy policies. The authors also analyze the substance of negotiations about the Convention and the processes of legislation and diplomacy involved.

Protecting the atmosphere: The Climate Change Convention and its context

Nilsson, Sten

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