Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Policy - Science & Technology Policy

This SpringerBrief gives the reader a detailed account of how cybersecurity in Israel has evolved over the past two decades. The formation of the regions cybersecurity strategy is explored and an in-depth analysis of key developments in cybersecurity policy is provided.

The authors examine cybersecurity from an integrative national perspective and see it as a set of policies and actions with two interconnected goals: to mitigate security risks and increase resilience and leverage opportunities enabled by cyber-space.

Chapters include an insight into the planning and...

The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent stagnation, when the labor market is in decrepit shape, with declining wages, expanding poverty, and scorching inequality. Only the dramatic democratization of our economy can address the...

For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical of experts, and believe policy should represent their interests. How do policy analysts make sense of these competing views?

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Science, Risk and Policy" answers this question by examining how people evaluate evidence, how science is conducted, and how a multi-disciplinary framework to...

Epigenetics--the study of internal and environmental factors that affect how genes are turned on or off and how cells read those genes--is a rapidly emerging science akin to genetics that introduces a number of novel and unexpected biological explanations of human origins and development. It also poses fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions of the prevailing science of genetics. When science changes, how does public policy respond?

This book comprehensively considers the political implications of the emerging science of epigenetics in specific policy domains,...

If you are pro-nuclear, you have something important to add to the energy debate. You don't need to be silent This book will help you make your voice heard.

Nuclear power is the largest source of clean energy production in the United States and a major source world-wide. Advocates appreciate the importance of nuclear power for clean air and for our planet's future.

In this book, award-winning author Meredith Angwin guides you in your advocacy:

• How you can support nuclear energy simply sitting at your computer.

• How to support nuclear energy in...