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Controversies in Science & Technology Controversies in Science & Technology, Volume 4 From Sustainability to Surveillance Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Karen A. Cloud-Hansen, and Jo Handelsman 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress. ISBN 978–0–19–938377–1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: From Sustainability to Surveillance 1 Robert M. Chiles PART ONE: Infrastructure Development: Resilience, Privacy, and Well-Being 2. Our Fragile Infrastructure: Adapting to Global Warming 17 Matthys P. Levy 3. Critical Infrastructure in Extreme Events 33 Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement 4. Privacy Concerns for Ubiquitous Data Aggregation and Storage 47 Jarrod M. Rifkind and Seymour E. Goodman 5. Transitioning to Renewable Sources of Electricity: Motivations, Policy, and Potential 62 Chelsea Schelly 6. Infrastructure and Health 73 Ka man Lai PART TWO: Food Policy: Balancing Productivity, Conservation, and Social Justice 7. How to Feed Ourselves—Could This Be the Biggest Question of the 21st Century? 89 Frances Moore Lappé 8. Global Obesity and Global Hunger 111 Kelly Moore and Judith Wittner 9. Food Sovereignty, Food Security: Markets and Dispossession 124 Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jim Handy 10. Food Security and Gender 137 Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel PART THREE: Chemicals and Environmental Health: Defining Safety 11. Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment 153 Nancy Langston 12. C hemicals Policy in the United States—The Need for New Directions 166 Joel A. Tickner 13. P olitics in a Bottle: BPA, Children’s Health, and the Fight for Toxics Reform 183 Jody A. Roberts 14. O f Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A: Debates about the Safety of an Endocrine Disruptor 196 Sarah A. Vogel PART FOUR: Ecosystem Management: Protecting Nature and Livelihoods 15. Biological Invasions: Impacts, Management, and Controversies 211 Daniel Simberloff 16. The Aliens in Our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems 228 Banu Subramaniam 17. Controversies in Aquatic Sciences 241 Judith S. Weis 18. O n an Economic Treadmill of Agriculture: Efforts to Resolve Pollinator Decline 259 Sainath Suryanarayanan Contributors 269 Index 279 [ vi ] Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful for the contributions of our excellent collection of authors and the peer reviewers who provided careful comments, which made already valuable essays stronger. You would not be reading this fourth volume of Controversies in Science & Technology had Oxford University Press’s Jeremy Lewis not taken an interest in this type of collection. At Oxford, we have also benefitted from the guidance of Hallie Stebbins. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Robert Chiles served as our presubmission copy editor and managing editor, helping us get the manuscript out the door. Support received by Kleinman from the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin– Madison enabled us to get the volume ready for submission to Oxford in a timely fashion. The preparation of this volume was also supported by an award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor’s program to Handelsman. We very much appreciate earlier support from the University of Wisconsin Press and Mary Ann Leibert, Inc. Publishers, who produced Volumes 1 through 3 of Controversies in Science and Technology. Finally, all views expressed in this volume are those of the authors and do not represent official positions of the U.S. government or any other organization. Controversies in Science & Technology