Fiber : the coming tech revolution and why America might miss it

The Acid rain debate : scientific, economic and political dimensions

Westview special studies in science, technology, and public policy

Westview special studies in science, technology, and public policy.

Farm to table : the essential guide to sustainable food systems for students, professionals, and consumers

Human scale revisited : a new look at the classic case for a decentralist future

Power from the people : how to organize, finance, and launch local energy projects

A community resilience guide

Community resilience guide.

The community food forest handbook : how to plan, organize, and nurture edible gathering places

The road taken : the history and future of America's infrastructure

Clean meat : how growing meat without animals will revolutionize dinner and the world

Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism

Prologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around -- On contradiction -- The foundational contradictions. Use value and exchange value -- The social value of labor and its representation by money -- Private property and the capitalist state -- Private appropriation and common wealth -- Capital and labour -- Capital as process or thing? -- The contradictory unity of production and realization -- The moving contradictions. Technology, work, and human disposability -- Divisions of labor -- Monopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation -- Uneven geographical developments and the production of space -- Disparities of income and wealth -- Social reproduction -- Freedom and domination -- The dangerous contradictions. Endless compound growth -- Capital's relation to nature -- The revolt of human nature: universal alienation -- Prospects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism -- Ideas for political praxis.

OD : naloxone and the politics of overdose

Overdose

[Inside technology series]

Inside technology.

Introduction: making overdose matter : protagonists and antagonists in the social lives of naloxone -- Poison murders and natural accidents : antidotes and antagonists -- The "chemical superego" : police science, social antagonism, and artificial will -- Deaths from "narcotism" in the mid-twentieth century United States -- Bringing out the dead : naloxone's nine lives begin -- Unnatural accidents : the science and politics of "reanimatology" -- Adopting harm reduction : early democratizations of naloxone -- "Any positive change" : naloxone as a tool of harm reduction in the United States -- Harm reduction research and social justice : working naloxone into public health USA -- Resuscitating society : overdose in post-Thatcherite Britain -- "Growing arms and legs" : the Scottish national naloxone program -- Evidence from pillar to post : researching the varieties of overdose experience -- Overdose and the cultural politics of redemption -- Conclusion: Harm reduction infrastructure : we have hardly begun to be human.

A practical guide for policy analysis : the eightfold path to more effective problem solving

eightfold path -- Overview of the book -- eightfold path -- Step One : Define the problem -- Step two : Assemble some evidence -- Step three : Construct the alternatives -- Step four : Select the criteria -- Step five : Project the outcomes -- Step six : Confront the trade-offs -- Step seven : Decide! -- Step eight : Tell your story -- Assembling evidence -- Getting started -- Locating relevant sources -- Gaining access and engaging assistance -- Conducting a policy research interview -- Using language to characterize and calibrate -- Protecting credibility -- Strategic dilemmas of policy research -- "Smart (best) practices" research : understanding and making use of what look like good ideas from somewhere else -- Develop realistic expectations -- Analyze smart practices -- Observe the practice -- Describe generic vulnerabilities -- But will it work here? -- Back to the eightfold path --

Appendix A : Specimen of a real-world policy analysis -- Preface -- Summary -- Appendix B : Things governments do -- Taxes -- Regulation -- Subsidies and grants -- Service provision -- Agency budgets -- Information -- structure of private rights -- framework of economic activity -- Education and consultation -- Financing and contracting -- Bureaucratic and political reforms -- Appendix C : Understanding public and nonprofit institutions : asking the right questions -- Mission -- Environment -- Performance measurement -- Technology -- Production/delivery processes -- Front-line workers and co-producers -- Partners and other outsiders -- Centralization/decentralization -- Culture and communications -- Politics -- Leadership -- Change -- Appendix D : Strategic advice on the dynamics of political support -- References -- Index.

The politics of scientific advice : institutional design for quality assurance

Methodological Issues: Quality Control and Assurance in Scientific Policy Advice: Introduction: the quest for quality as a challenge to scientific policy advice: an overdue debate? / Quality control and peer review in advisory science / Reconciling representation with reality: unitisation as an example for science and public policy / Looking for quality in all the wrong places, or: the technological origins of quality in scientific policy advice / Collegial Science Advisory Bodies: Knowledge, advice and influence: the role of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-2009 / International Commission on Radiological Protection: policy and worldwide standards/ The European Commission and the collection and use of science and technology advice / Collegial Science Policy Advisory Bodies: RMNO and quality control of scientific advice to policy / Quality assurance through procedures: policy advice by the German Science Council / Research-Based Advisory Organizations: The industrial organisation of economic policy preparation in The Netherlands / Quality control for the leading institutes of economic research in Germany: promoting quality within and competition between the institutes / Quality control and the link between science and regulation from a national and EU administrator's perspective / Science into policy: the European Environment Agency / Reflective approaches to uncertainty assessment and communication / Looking through the telescope: quality assurance in scientific advice to politics / Scientific policy advice and foreign policymaking: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Academies of Science: Scientific advice for policy in the United States: lessons from the National Academies and the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment / Quality control in scientific policy advice: the experience of the Royal Society / European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) / Quality control in the advisory process: towards an institutional design for robust science advice