Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice
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“Science, even the physical sciences, is value-laden. This feminist insight epitomizes the approach to examining geoengineering discourse in this brief volume. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (S. E. Wiegand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)
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This book is the first to undertake a gendered analysis of geoengineering and alternative energy sources. Are either of these technologies sufficiently attendant to gender issues? Do they incorporate feminist values as articulated by the renowned social philosopher Helen Longino, such as empirical adequacy, novelty, heterogeneity, complexity and applicability to human needs? The overarching argument in this book contends that, while mitigation strategies like solar and wind energy go much further to meet feminist objectives and virtues, geoengineering is not consistent with the values of justice as articulated in Longino's feminist approach to science. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 155
- ISBN
- 9783030011468
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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“Science, even the physical sciences, is value-laden. This feminist insight epitomizes the approach to examining geoengineering discourse in this brief volume. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals.” (S. E. Wiegand, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)
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