[图书][B] The psychology of risk

GM Breakwell - 2014 - books.google.com
Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic
and socio-political changes globally-the chaos in the world banking system and the financial …

The 'drug policy ratchet': why do sanctions for new psychoactive drugs typically only go up?

A Stevens, F Measham - Addiction, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
It has been much more common for drugs to be subjected to tighter rather than looser control
as drugs and evidence about their effects have has emerged. We argue that there is in place …

Environmental philosophy: From theory to practice

S Sarkar - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C …, 2014 - Elsevier
Environmental philosophy is a hybrid discipline drawing extensively from epistemology,
ethics, and philosophy of science and analyzing disciplines such as conservation biology …

Scientific uncertainty and climate change: Part I. Uncertainty and unabated emissions

S Lewandowsky, JS Risbey, M Smithson, BR Newell… - Climatic Change, 2014 - Springer
Uncertainty forms an integral part of climate science, and it is often used to argue against
mitigative action. This article presents an analysis of uncertainty in climate sensitivity that is …

Scepticism and the science of global warming: a rejoinder

TGK Bryce, SP Day - Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014 - Springer
An adequate epistemology of science will not, as some Old Deferentialists expected [pre-
Kuhnian thinkers who held that science progresses by the accumulation of wellconfirmed …

[PDF][PDF] Risiko, Unsicherheit und Unwissenheit in den Geowissenschaften als Herausforderung für die Philosophie

R Hillerbrand - NAL NF Bd. 117, Nr. 397, 2014 - leopoldina.org
Politische Entscheidungen über den Umgang mit modernen Techniken, Umweltschäden
und dem Treibhauseffekt oder über die Markteinführung von Impfstoffen oder Medikamenten …

[PDF][PDF] Michael Smithson, Ben R. Newell & John Hunter

S Lewandowsky, JS Risbey - Climatic Change, 2014 - johnroberthunter.org
Uncertainty forms an integral part of climate science, and it is often used to argue against
mitigative action. This article presents an analysis of uncertainty in climate sensitivity that is …

A social and environmental impact assessment of the Crucitas gold mining project in Costa Rica

D Korpela - 2014 - jyx.jyu.fi
In 2008 Costa Rica was facing a critical time in its history. A five year mining moratorium had
just ended and mining companies were interested in exploring untapped resources in the …

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance: what do we owe to each other?

M Millar - 2014 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
There is a tension between the need to use antibiotics to prevent adverse outcomes from
infection, and a consequence of their use, which is antibiotic (treatment) resistant infection …