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Author: Michael Bess Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226044170 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place.
Author: Michael Bess Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226044170 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob ISBN: 2738175082 Category : Languages : en Pages : 369
Author: GARBOLINO Emmanuel Publisher: Lavoisier ISBN: 2743060301 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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Le concept de défense en profondeur est la clé de voûte de la politique de sûreté des installations nucléaires en France et dans le monde depuis les années 1960. Les bons résultats du nucléaire en matière de sûreté et de sécurité ont intéressé les autres secteurs de l'industrie et des technologies. Depuis la fin des années 1990, le monde industriel a amorcé une réflexion sur l'apport de la sûreté nucléaire à la sécurité industrielle pour la formalisation d'une nouvelle politique de prévention des risques en France, en se focalisant sur la transposition du concept de défense en profondeur. Dans ce contexte il apparaît nécessaire d'évaluer la contribution et la transposabilité de ce concept à la prévention des risques industriels et technologiques. De caractère pédagogique, La défense en profondeur présente les aspects théoriques et méthodologiques de la défense en profondeur, en examinant son application dans le nucléaire, puis envisage les voies d'appropriation, de transposition et de contribution de ce concept dans le monde industriel. Afin d'illustrer la démarche de transposition, un exemple concret est traité dans le cadre d'un site industriel classé pour la protection de l'environnement.
Author: Alfredo Benso Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9781402075896 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 510
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Our society is faced with an increasing dependence on computing systems, not only in high tech consumer applications but also in areas (e.g., air and railway traffic control, nuclear plant control, aircraft and car control) where a failure can be critical for the safety of human beings. Unfortunately, it is accepted that large digital systems cannot be fault-free. Some faults may be attributed to inaccuracy during the development, while others can come from external causes such as environmental stress. Radiations, electromagnetic interference and power glitches are some of the most common causes of transient faults. As a consequence, the past years have seen a growing interest in methods for studying the behaviour of computer-based systems when faults occur, and several approaches have been proposed to evaluate the dependability properties of a computer-based system. Fault Injection, i.e., the artificial injection of faults into a computer system in order to study its behaviour, emerged as a viable solution, and has been deeply investigated by both academia and industry. Different techniques have been proposed and some of them practically experimented. Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation intends to be a comprehensive guide to Fault Injection techniques used to evaluate the dependability of a digital system. The description and the critical analysis of different Fault Injection techniques and tools will be authored by key scientists in the field of system dependability and fault tolerance.
Author: MARGUET Serge Publisher: Lavoisier ISBN: 2743064293 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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Le but de cet ouvrage est de faire partager des événements peu connus à un large public peu au fait de cette technologie tout en étant, scientifiquement et historiquement, rigoureusement exact. Une information scientifique de qualité est nécessaire dans un domaine aussi complexe que le nucléaire, au risque de produire des vérités creuses, voire même des contre-vérités. Les accidents de réacteurs nucléaires présente une analyse historique et scientifique objective des accidents de réacteurs significatifs depuis le début du nucléaire : l'incendie de Windscale et de Vandellos, l'excursion de puissance du SL-1, la fusion partielle des réacteurs Saint-Laurent et EBR-2, la perte du réacteur de TMI-2 et l'explosion de Tchernobyl pour finir par la récente affaire de Fukushima et ses développements les plus récents. Le déroulement des accidents et leurs conséquences à la fois techniques et humaines sont présentés objectivement, sans dédouaner le nucléaire de ses responsabilités. Le texte est rédigé de manière à ce qu'un non-spécialiste puisse aborder progressivement des aspects pourtant hautement techniques, habituellement réservés aux physiciens et présente des éléments rarement, voire jamais développés, dans la presse grand-public. Cet ouvrage est illustré de photographies et de schémas techniques qui agrémentent la lecture et aident activement à la compréhension de ces accidents.
Author: Vincent Laville Publisher: Vincent Laville ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 154
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Dear friends, this book is expensive because the photos make the file very heavy. In any case, the author is paid a pittance. In my country it says that a picture narrates more than a long speech. People need to see the reality to believe. Be sure that democracy exist only in dreams. This book is mainly about police cruelty, state crimes and about unacceptable times and events. Denouncing, protesting, vociferating, stamping your feet, assisting people, writing books or voting, is absolutely useless. If NGOs, charities or goodwill were a solution, there would no longer be beggars and poor every where on this planet. But this is not the case. So it doesn't work. So please, don't get slaughtered for demands anymore, with a song, signs and a slingshot to defend yourself. Fire is fought with fire. Infections with potions. Weeds with weedkiller. And evil is combated by doing evil. Everything is gangrenous. There is no democratic solution. Wake up. It is the harmful parasites or you.
Author: Benoît Pelopidas Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003836178 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 203
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This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces, technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs, uranium prospection, nuclear testing, its health effects and protests against it, as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France, the UK, the US, India, South Africa and Iran, on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data, open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds, as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this, as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover, French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War, and approximately 110,000 people, i.e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s, could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history, politics, international relations, military history, war studies, conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security.
Author: Hannah Holtzman Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438497857 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 289
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The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes formal and theoretical analysis, archival research, and interviews, Holtzman shows the emergence of a new kind of nuclear film, one that attends to the everyday effects of nuclear disaster and its impact on our experience of space and time. The focus on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema since the postwar period reveals a reorientation of the primarily aesthetic preoccupations in the tradition of Japonisme to center around technological and environmental concerns. The book demonstrates how French filmmakers, ever since Hiroshima mon amour, have looked to Japan in part to better understand nuclear uncertainty in France.
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