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Books published by INES members

At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation? Paperback 316 pages by David Krieger (Author), Richard Falk (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 14, 2008) ISBN 978-023-060-904-4

David Krieger and Richard Falk

New Book - At the Nuclear Precipice:
Catastrophe or Transformation?

This book focuses on an even more urgent and "inconvenient truth" than global warming. At the nuclear precipice, humanity's choices are catastrophe or transformation. This book explores the present nuclear predicament, and how to step away from the precipice and assure humanity's future. It examines the intersections between international law and national policies; and between nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism and nuclear disarmament. The book offers a way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move in a new direction.

The book is edited by David Krieger and Richard Falk.

David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as President of the Foundation since 1982.  He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons.  He is a councilor of the World Future Council and chair of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility.

Richard Falk is Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University and for the last six years has been a visiting professor at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. He is Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and author of several books.

The contributing authors are leading scholars and activists in the nuclear disarmament movement, including Judge Christopher Weeramantry and Daniel Ellsberg.

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Energy, Resources, and the Long-Term Future Professor John Scales Avery (H C Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) World scientific, Jul 2007, ISBN 978-981-270-764-2

Professor John Scales Avery

Energy, Resources, and the Long-Term Future

The world is rapidly approaching the end of the fossil fuel era. This timely book reviews the historical background for this crisis and provides a comprehensive discussion of its important aspects. It contrasts the Utopian writings of Condorcet, Godwin and Adam Smith, with the more pessimistic views of Malthus and Ricardo. It then discusses the characteristics of mainstream industrialism, as well as the ecological counterculture. The final chapters of the book study the present position regarding both non-renewable and renewable resources, and the problem of reducing the economic trauma that will result from the depletion of fossil fuels, especially the future impact of high petroleum prices on agriculture in relation to global population growth. Readers will gain an understanding of the dangers and opportunities of future developments in science, as well as the steps that must be taken to achieve a stable, sustainable global society.

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Publications of INES member organisations

Engineers for Social Responsibility (ESR), New Zealand

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• Newsletter March 09
• Newsletter September 08
• Newsletter March 08
• Newsletter July 08
  

INESNET

Electronic Mail communication among INES members

by Johan Swahn
In order to develop the use of electronic communication within INES an e-mail discussion list with the name "INESNET" has been set up. There are almost 100 subscribers to the list which is used to distribute information about INES activities and as a discussion forum for INES members. An important function of the INESNET list is to distribute the "What?s new in INES?" electronic newsletter. To subscribe to the list go to the webpage: https://lists.chalmers.se/mailman/listinfo/inesnet

Contact:

Dr. Johan Swahn
Institute of Physical Resource Theory
Chalmers and Göteborg University
41296 Göteborg, Sweden
Phone- +46-31-7723130, Fax +46-31-77231
e-mail: frtjs@fy.chalmers.se

Publications of INES partner organisations

INESAP-Bulletin

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Ethics and Peace How to prepare students for a responsible use of science and engineering Dec 2008,

Teaching ethics to science and engineering students

University of Hamburg 15 - 17 October 2008

Documentation brochure: How to prepare students for a responsible use of science and enginering