Research Catalog

Title

A parliament of science : science for the 21st century / edited by Michael Tobias, Teun Timmers, Gill Wright.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tobias, Michael
• Timmers, Teun
• Wright, Gill

Description

vii, 171 p. : ports.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Science > Forecasting
• Twenty-first century > Forecasts
• Technological forecasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Michael Tobias -- The Scandal of Unsustainability / Crispin Tickell -- The Sixth Wave of Extinction / Robert May -- Protecting the Biosphere / Anthony C. Janetos -- Where Science and Policy Meet: The Search for a Common Language / Robert Watson -- Ecology: Modern Science and Traditional Wisdom / Madhav Gadgil -- The Eyes of the Universe / Federico Mayor -- Hope, Anxiety, and Doubt: The Public View of Science / John Durant -- The Role of the Citizen / Rita R. Colwell -- Particles and Poverty / Leon M. Lederman -- Only People Give Me Hope / Julia Marton-Lefevre -- The Biology of Making Peace / Frans B. M. de Waal -- A Life Devoted to Peace / Joseph Rotblat -- Science for Peace / Yechiel Becker -- The Cry of the Eight Hundred Million / Ismail Serageldin -- The Soul of Sustainability / M. S. Swaminathan -- Sharing Knowledge for Development / Bruce Alberts -- Let Our Children Bridge the Gap / Mohamed H. A. Hassan -- Doing Science in Ethics Time / Margaret Somerville.

ISBN

• 079145813X (acid-free paper)
• 0791458148 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002036480

OCLC

• ocm50730928
• SCSB-4835232

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries