Taking sides
Subtitle: Clashing views on environmental issues
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas Easton
Edition: 13th ed., expanded.
Series: Taking sides; Taking sides
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780073514451
Subjects: Environmental policy; Environmental engineering; Environmental sciences; Miljöpolitik; Miljöfrågor
Other titles: Clashing views on environmental issues; Environmental issues
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Correlation guide; title: Introduction; title: Unit 1: Environmental Philosophy; title: Issue 1: Is the precautionary principle a sound approach to risk analysis?; title: Yes: Rise of the precautionary principle: a social movement gathers strength / Nancy Myers; title: No: Precautionary principle: is it a threat to toxicological science? / Bernard D Goldstein; title: Issue 2: Is sustainable development compatible with human welfare?; title: Yes: European dream: building sustainable development in a globally connected world / Jeremy Rifkin; title: No: Wilting Greens / Ronald Bailey; title: Issue 3: Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world's ecosystems?; title: Yes: Economic value of ecological services provided by insects / John E Losey and Mace Vaughan; title: No: Pricing biodiversity and ecosystem services: the never-ending story / Marino Gatto and Giulio A De Leo; title: Unit 2: Principles Versus Politics; title: Issue 4: Should the endangered species act be strengthened?; title: Yes: Testimony before the oversight hearing on the endangered species act / John Kostyack; title: No: Testimony before the oversight hearing on the endangered species act / Monita Fontaine; title: Issue 5: Should the EPA be doing more to fight environmental injustice?; title: Yes: Environmental justice programs, statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works / Robert D Bullard; title: No: Environmental justice programs, statement before the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works / Granta Y Nakayama; title: Issue 6: Can pollution rights trading effectively control environmental problems?; title: Yes: Carbon trading / James Allen and Anthony White; title: No: Trading away the earth: pollution credits and the perils of 'free market environmentalism' / Brian Tokar; title: Unit 3: Energy Issues; title: Issue 7: Should the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to oil drilling?; title: Yes: To drill or not to drill / Dwight R Lee; title: No: Senate Energy Committee / Jeff Bingaman et al; title: Issue 8: Is global warming skepticism just smoke and mirrors?; title: Yes: Smoke, mirrors & hot air: how ExxonMobil uses big tobacco's tactics to manufacture uncertainty on climate science / Seth Schulman et al; title: No: Liberal scientists lead Jihad against global-warming skeptics / Ivan Osorio, Iain Murray, and Myron Ebell.; title: Issue 9: Is wind power green?; title: Yes: Whither wind? / Charles Komanoff; title: No: Wayward wind?, speech given in the township of Perry, near Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York / Jon Boone; title: Issue 10: Should cars be more efficient?; title: Yes: CAFE standards, testimony before Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation / David Friedman; title: No: Why the government's CAFE standards for fuel efficiency should be repealed, not increased / Charli E Coon; title: Issue 11: Do biofuels enhance energy security?; title: Yes: Testimony before Committee on Senate Energy and Natural Resources / Bob Dinneen; title: No: Biofuels-facts and fiction / Mark Anslow; title: Issue 12: Is it time to revive nuclear power?; title: 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; title: No: Brave nuclear world, part II / Karen Charman; title: Unit 4: Food And Population; title: Issue 13: Do falling birthrates pose a threat to human welfare?; title: Yes: Birth dearth / Michael Meyer; title: No: Fewer the better / David Nicholson-Lord; title: Issue 14: Is genetic engineering the answer to hunger?; title: Yes: Is genetic engineering the answer to hunger?" / Gerald D Coleman; title: No: Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh; title: Issue 15: Is a large-scale shift to organic farming the best way to increase world food supply?; title: Yes: Can organic farming feed us all? / Brian Halweil; title: No: Organic myth: a food movement makes a pest of itself / John J Miller; title: Unit 5: Toxic Chemicals; title: Issue 16: Should DDT be banned worldwide?; title: Yes: Malaria, mosquitoes, and DDT / Anne Platt McGinn; title: No: Statement before the US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Hearing on the Role of Science in Environmental Policy-Making / Donald R Roberts; title: Issue 17: Do environmental hormone mimics pose a potentially serious health threat?; title: Yes: Hazards of environmental estrogens / Michele L Trankina; title: No: Endocrine disrupters, politics, pesticides, the cost of food and health / Michael Gough; title: Issue 18: Is the Superfund Program successfully protecting human health from hazardous materials?; title: Yes: Superfund matures gracefully / Robert H Harris, Jay Vandeven, and Mike Tilchin; title: No: Not in their backyard / Randall Patterson; title: Issue 19: Should the United States reprocess spent nuclear fuel?; title: Yes: Statement before the House Committee on Science, Energy Subcommittee, Hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing / Phillip J Finck; title: No: Case against a near-term decision to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in the United States / Matthew Bunn; title: Issue 20: Is carbon capture technology ready to limit carbon emissions?; title: Yes: Carbon capture and sequestration, testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality / David G Hawkins; title: No: Carbon capture & storage: blue-sky technology or just blowing smoke? / Charles W Schmidt; title: Issue 21: Should North America's landscape be restored to its pre-human state?; title: Yes: Restoring America's big, wild animals / C Josh Donlan; title: 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; title: Contributors.