An edition of Taking sides
(2000)
Taking sides
Clashing views on environmental issues
13th ed., expanded.
by Thomas A. Easton
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From the Publisher: Taking Sides: Environmental Issues, thirteenth edition expanded presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual with testing material is available for each volume. Using Taking Sides in the classroom is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each Taking Sides reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by a book website. Visit mhcls.com.
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Taking sides: Clashing views on environmental issues
2012, McGraw-Hill
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Taking sides: Clashing views in science, technology, and society
2012, McGraw Hill
in English
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Taking sides: Clashing views in science, technology and society
2010, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
in English
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Taking sides: Clashing views on environmental issues
2010, McGraw-Hill
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Preface
Correlation guide
Introduction
Unit 1: Environmental Philosophy
Issue 1: Is the precautionary principle a sound approach to risk analysis?
Yes: Rise of the precautionary principle: a social movement gathers strength / Nancy Myers
No: Precautionary principle: is it a threat to toxicological science? / Bernard D Goldstein
Issue 2: Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare?
Yes: European dream: building sustainable development in a globally connected world / Jeremy Rifkin
No: Wilting Greens / Ronald Bailey
Issue 3: Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world's ecosystems?
Yes: Economic value of ecological services provided by insects / John E Losey and Mace Vaughan
No: Pricing biodiversity and ecosystem services: the never-ending story / Marino Gatto and Giulio A De Leo
Unit 2: Principles Versus Politics
Issue 4: Should the endangered species act be strengthened?
Yes: Testimony before the oversight hearing on the endangered species act / John Kostyack
No: Testimony before the oversight hearing on the endangered species act / Monita Fontaine
Issue 5: Should the EPA be doing more to fight environmental injustice?
Yes: Environmental justice programs, statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works / Robert D Bullard
No: Environmental justice programs, statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works / Granta Y Nakayama
Issue 6: Can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?
Yes: Carbon trading / James Allen and Anthony White
No: Trading away the earth: pollution credits and the perils of 'free market environmentalism' / Brian Tokar
Unit 3: Energy Issues
Issue 7: Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to oil drilling?
Yes: To drill or not to drill / Dwight R Lee
No: Senate Energy Committee / Jeff Bingaman et al
Issue 8: Is global warming skepticism just smoke and mirrors?
Yes: Smoke, mirrors & hot air: how ExxonMobil uses big tobacco's tactics to manufacture uncertainty on climate science / Seth Schulman et al
No: Liberal scientists lead Jihad against global-warming skeptics / Ivan Osorio, Iain Murray, and Myron Ebell.
Issue 9: Is wind power green?
Yes: Whither wind? / Charles Komanoff
No: Wayward wind?, speech given in the township of Perry, near Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York / Jon Boone
Issue 10: Should cars be more efficient?
Yes: CAFE standards, testimony before Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation / David Friedman
No: Why the government's CAFE standards for fuel efficiency should be repealed, not increased / Charli E Coon
Issue 11: Do biofuels enhance energy security?
Yes: Testimony before Committee on Senate Energy and Natural Resources / Bob Dinneen
No: Biofuels-facts and fiction / Mark Anslow
Issue 12: Is it time to revive nuclear power?
Yes: Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, Hearing on the Department of Energy's Nuclear Power 2010 Program / Michael J Wallace
No: Brave nuclear world, part II / Karen Charman
Unit 4: Food And Population
Issue 13: Do falling birthrates pose a threat to human welfare?
Yes: Birth dearth / Michael Meyer
No: Fewer the better / David Nicholson-Lord
Issue 14: Is genetic engineering the answer to hunger?
Yes: Is genetic engineering the answer to hunger?" / Gerald D Coleman
No: Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh
Issue 15: Is a large-scale shift to organic farming the best way to increase world food supply?
Yes: Can organic farming feed us all? / Brian Halweil
No: Organic myth: a food movement makes a pest of itself / John J Miller
Unit 5: Toxic Chemicals
Issue 16: Should DDT be banned worldwide?
Yes: Malaria, mosquitoes, and DDT / Anne Platt McGinn
No: Statement before the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Hearing on the Role of Science in Environmental Policy-Making / Donald R Roberts
Issue 17: Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat?
Yes: Hazards of environmental estrogens / Michele L Trankina
No: Endocrine disrupters, politics, pesticides, the cost of food and health / Michael Gough
Issue 18: Is the Superfund Program successfully protecting human health from hazardous materials?
Yes: Superfund matures gracefully / Robert H Harris, Jay Vandeven, and Mike Tilchin
No: Not in their backyard / Randall Patterson
Issue 19: Should the United States reprocess spent nuclear fuel?
Yes: Statement before the House Committee on Science, Energy Subcommittee, Hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing / Phillip J Finck
No: Case against a near-term decision to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in the United States / Matthew Bunn
Issue 20: Is carbon capture technology ready to limit carbon emissions?
Yes: Carbon capture and sequestration, testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality / David G Hawkins
No: Carbon capture & storage: blue-sky technology or just blowing smoke? / Charles W Schmidt
Issue 21: Should North America's landscape be restored to its pre-human state?
Yes: Restoring America's big, wild animals / C Josh Donlan
No: Pleistocene Park: does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century? / Dustin R Rubenstein, Daniel I Rubenstein, Paul W Sherman, and Thomas A Gavin
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Includes bibliographical references.
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This title is "a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in science and technology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading scientists, technicians, and social commentators, reflect opposing positions and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework."--Page 4 of cover.
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