Controversies in Science and Technology

Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance Robert M. Chiles Part 1: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Wellbeing 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming Matthys Levy 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage Jarrod Rifkind and Seymour Goodman 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential Chelsea Schelly 6. Infrastructure and Health Ka man Lai Part 2: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice 7. How to Feed Ourselves-Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century? Frances Moore Lappé 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy 10. Food Security and Gender Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel Part 3: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment Nancy Langston 12. Chemicals Policy in the United States - The Need for New Directions Joel A. Tickner 13. Politics in a Bottle: BPA, Children's Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform Jody A. Roberts 14. Of Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the safety of an endocrine disruptor Sarah A. Vogel Part 4: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies Daniel Simberloff 16. The Aliens in our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems Banu Subramaniam 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences Judith S. Weis 18. On an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline Sainath Suryanarayanan Contributors Index