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Quicksilver Politics: Mercury Narratives and Environmental Governance.

机译:水银政治:水银叙事与环境治理。

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Environmental mercury poses a potentially serious health threat to human populations, particularly through bioaccumulation and biomagnification processes which can concentrate ambient mercury to dangerous levels in fish, a food source for a significant percentage of the earth's population. Emitted from both natural and anthropogenic sources, mass industrialization over the past few decades has significantly increased the amount of mercury in the environment, increasing health risks for humans and other organisms. A pollutant of both local and global concern, regulating environmental mercury risk has proven exceedingly difficult due to scientific uncertainty and numerous cultural, psychological, economic, and political factors.;This dissertation consists of a series of self-contained yet thematically related research projects that explore mercury and the human relationship with it, with a focus on environmental governance in the face of scientific uncertainty and conflicting values. Collectively it is simultaneously a cultural history of mercury and the human relation with it, a critical policy analysis of the failures and successes of environmental governance as it relates to it, and a philosophical and sociological exploration of the difficulties in regulating complex problems like it.
机译:环境汞对人类的健康构成潜在的严重威胁,特别是通过生物富集和生物放大过程,可以使环境汞在鱼类中的含量达到危险水平,而鱼类是地球上很大一部分人口的食物来源。在过去的几十年中,大规模工业化都是从自然和人为来源发出的,大大增加了环境中的汞含量,增加了人类和其他生物的健康风险。由于科学的不确定性以及众多的文化,心理,经济和政治因素,调节环境汞风险已成为一种既引起本地关注又涉及全球关注的污染物,这是极为困难的。本论文包括一系列自成一体但主题相关的研究项目,探索汞及其与人的关系,重点是面对科学不确定性和价值冲突的环境治理。集体同时是汞的文化历史以及与汞的人类关系,对与汞有关的环境治理的失败和成功进行了重要的政策分析,并对调节此类复杂问题的困难进行了哲学和社会学探讨。

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  • 作者

    Carter, Andrew Pearce.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Miami.;

  • 授予单位 University of Miami.;
  • 学科 Environmental studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2017
  • 页码 344 p.
  • 总页数 344
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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