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The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the effects of intermittent noise on target detection performance. Specifically, the present study was designed to test whether the effects of noise presented at a 70% on-off, "neutral" ratio are independent of the noise intensity level. Four levels of noise were used: no noise, and 80, 90, and 100 db. The results revealed that detection time was not significantly affected by the noise level. The total number of errors recorded for each noise condition showed that, in general, as intensity level increased, the total number of errors decreased. These findings are related to the concept of "flexibility of attention."

Humans live in social communities that are embedded ecologically within overlapping biophysical environments. This volume facilitates an ongoing dialogue between community sociologists and environmental sociologists about how humans interact with each other in social communities and with biophysical environments in an ecological community. The chapters in this volume contribute to three related areas of scholarship. First, chapters two through four deal with the ecological and social significance of place. The authors of these three chapters examine different theoretical and substantive dilemmas regarding place and ecology. Their scholarship investigates the significance of place across a range of natural, modified, and built environments. Second, chapters five through seven deal with the challenges of local sustainability. The authors of these three chapters perform scholarship on social, economic and ecological dimensions of local sustainability. Third, chapters eight through eleven deal with local environmental politics. The authors of these four chapters examine the various dynamics of local political processes in communities across three continents. These scholars explicitly examine how the structure of political opportunities in different localities affects the mobilization necessary to recognize and ameliorate environmental problems. We anticipate that this volume furthers the cross-pollination of ideas between community sociologists and environmental sociologists. Ultimately, the heightened and sustained communication between these two groups of scholars may lead to emergent theoretical, methodological, and substantive insights that may contribute to the discipline of sociology more generally. Different sections of the book address ecological and social significance of place, challenges of local sustainability, and local environmental politics. The book enhances the interplay of ideas between community sociologists and environmental sociologists, and stimulates thought that will contribute to the general field of sociology.

Finding the "Latin American" in Latin American environmental history / John Soluri, Claudia Leal, Jose Augusto Padua -- Mexico's ecological revolutions / Chris Boyer, Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera -- The greater Caribbean and the transformation of tropicality / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Indigenous imprints and remnants in the tropical Andes / Nicolás Cuvi -- The dilemma of the "splendid cradle" : nature and territory in the construction of Brazil / José Augusto Pádua -- From threatening to threatened jungles / Claudia Leal -- The wall and the ivy : environmental narratives from an urban continent / Lise Sedrez, Regina Horta Duarte -- Home cooking : campesinos, cuisine, and agrodiversity / John Soluri -- Hoofprints : cattle ranching and landscape transformation / Shawn Van Ausdal, Robert W. Wilcox -- Extraction stories : workers, nature, and communities in the mining and oil industries / Myrna I. Santiago -- Prodigality and sustainability : the environmental sciences and the quest for development / Stuart McCook -- A panorama of parks : deep nature, depopulation, and the cadence of conserving nature / Emily Wakild -- Latin American environmental history in global perspective / J.R. McNeill

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Globalization of Climate Science and Climate -- Politics 1 -- Clark A. Miller and Paul N. Edwards -- 2 Representing the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data, and -- Knowledge about Climate Change 31 -- Paul N. Edwards -- 3 Why Atmospheric Modeling Is Good Science 67 -- Stephen D. Norton and Frederick Suppe -- 4 Epistemic Lifestyles in Climate Change Modeling 107 -- Simon Shackley -- 5 The Rise and Fall of Weather Modification: Changes in American -- Attitudes Toward Technology, Nature, and Society 135 -- Chunglin Kwa -- 6 Scientific Internationalism in American Foreign Policy: The Case of -- Meteorology, 1947-1958 167 -- Clark A. Miller -- 7 Self-Governance and Peer Review in Science-for-Policy: The Case -- of the IPCC Second Assessment Report ,.,219 -- Paul N. Edwards and Stephen H. Schneider -- 8 Challenges in the Application of Science to Global Affairs: -- Contingency, Trust, and Moral Order 247 -- Clark A. Miller -- 9 Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice 287 -- Dale Jamieson -- 10 Image and Imagination: The Formation of Global Environmental -- Consciousness 309 -- Sheila Jasanoff References 339 -- Index 371

For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people - we live in nature and interact with it daily. In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with the growing inequality between the North and the South. The War Against Ourselves compels us to reexamine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. animals, economic growth vs. environmental protection, 'nature' vs. 'culture'. It demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary.

Die Umwelt als geschichtswissenschaftliche Grundkatagorie, d.h. die noch junge Umweltgeschichte in ihren unterschiedlichen Ansätzen und Forschungsfeldern (Ruhrgebiet, Westfälisches Industriemuseum, Landschaftsbewusstsein u.a.m.) zu zeigen, ist Ausgangspunkt dieses Sammelbandes ausgewiesener Umwelt-Historiker (z.B. Brüggemeier, Sieferle, Radkau). Der einführende Aufsatz der beiden Herausgeber gibt Auskunft über die Anfänge und schließlich Etablierung dieser Fachrichtung (vgl. dazu auch "Umwelt-Geschichte: Arbeitsfelder, Forschungsansätze, Perspektiven"; ID 45/02). Mit Literaturangaben und Adressenauswahl (Museen, Studium etc.), Schemazeichnungen, Schwarz-Weiß-Fotos. (2)