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Adam Luedtke, L. Svedin
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insure against risk. Globalization and federalism are two forces that promote convergence between Europe and America, while culture and politics often push governments down different roads. This tension is explored in case studies dealing with four cutting-edge risk frontiers: immigration, flood control, food safety and voting technology.
Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union: Controlling Chaos
L. Svedin, Adam Luedtke
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Risk Nexus: What can be learned from the Columbia and Charleston floods 2015?
Sierra Gladfelter
A study published by ISET-International, a non-profit organization committed to building resilience, and Zurich Insurance Group, the global insurer takes a detailed look at the South Carolina floods. The study focuses not only on the impacts of the floods in the Columbia and Charleston metropolitan areas, but provides insights and lessons to better equip us to deal with these types of events in future. Based on interviews with households affected by the oods and people helping in risk-reduction and response and recovery at the city, county, state and federal levels, the study identi es key ndings. It provides recommendations for enhancing flood resilience. The lessons and recommendations can be applied not only to Columbia and Charleston, but to many other communities exposed to flood risk.
GM Labeling Regulation by Plebiscite: Analysis of Voting on Proposition 37 in California
2016 •
Julian Alston
Many U.S. states have been considering proposals to introduce mandatory labeling requirements for foods containing GMOs. This paper analyzes precinct-level voting patterns in the case of California's Proposition 37, which was narrowly defeated in the November 2012 ballot. Those voting patterns can be predicted primarily by support for Democrats, their platforms, and President Obama. Projections using our estimated model imply that a majority of voters in only three of fifty states (Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont) plus the District of Columbia would have passed Proposition 37 had it been on their ballots in 2012.
Cities, Nature, and Development
The Privilege of Staying Dry: The Impact of Flooding and Racism on the Emergence of the 'Mexican' Ghetto in Austin's Low-Eastside, 1880-1935
Eliot Tretter
Environmental racism often refers to ways in which non -white minorities are disproportionately exposed to human created hazards, and has often overlooked how the exposure to natural hazards is also uneven borne by members of society. Examining a case study of flooding in Austin, Texas, this paper will demonstrate how the valuation of land based on vulnerability to natural hazards was intertwined with policies of white supremacy. Flooding had a substantial role in shaping the changing historical geographies of ethnicity, race, and class in the city during the era of Jim Crow, when state policy actively promoted anti-black racism to disenfranchise non-whites. One the privileges that non-whites were denied was the right to stay dry. In Austin, however, it is important to note that Jim Crow also meant the subjugation, racialization and devaluation of Mexican and Mexican-American residents, as well as African Americans. In order to understand the ways in which non-white minorities were exposed to increased risk of flooding, it is crucial to understand the city’s tri-racial form of segregation and valuation. In Texas, and throughout the Southwest, limiting our understanding of the powerful effects of being on the wrong side of the color line to just African-Americans masks decades of injustices and ignores the crucial role of that the "darkening" of Hispanics had in leaving them more vulnerable to environmental risk.
Resilience Matters: Transformative Thinking in a Year of Crisis
Kyler Geoffroy
These are trying times for those who care about equity, sustainability, and climate change—the issues that will shape our common future. In 2017, the United States confronted the costliest year on record for weather disasters, as deadly wildfires and devastating hurricanes wreaked havoc against the backdrop of a presidential administration that denies the reality of climate change. And yet, even in these trying times, there are extraordinary people working to create a greener, fairer world. Over the past year, the Island Press Urban Resilience Project has collaborated with a diverse group of activists, academics, and practitioners to share ideas of how to better prepare for an uncertain tomorrow. Those ideas—originally published as op-eds, articles, and other short-form writing—have now been collected in a new e-book Resilience Matters: Transformative Thinking in a Year of Crisis, available online at no cost. The articles collected in the e-book address the economic, ecological and social dimensions of resilience. They report on a variety of threats, from the vulnerability of our infrastructure to political efforts to undermine the public’s right to clean, affordable drinking water. Importantly, they showcase solutions that are sustainable and equitable. From community groups that are growing local economies while reducing carbon emissions, to red-state cities that are taking the lead on climate action in the absence of federal leadership, these stories illuminate the path forward in tumultuous times.
Socio-economic impact of GMOs on African consumers
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European Perceptions of Climate Change (EPCC
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