World Science Report 1996
Contents
|
Introductory
Essay
The case for scientific literacy
Francisco J. Ayala |
1 |
|
Geoscience
and the environment: understanding human impacts on natural processes
Antony R. Berger |
225 |
| 1. STATUS OF WORLD SCIENCE |
7 |
Land
degradation
Herman Th. Verstappen |
236 |
Science
and technology systems: a global overview
Pierre Papon and Rémi Barré |
8 |
|
Biodiversity
Francesco di Castri |
242 |
North
America
Rodney W. Nichols and J. Thomas Ratchford |
23 |
|
Biotechnology
and development
Rita R. Colwell and Albert Sasson |
253 |
Latin
America
Guillermo Cardoza and Raimundo Villegas |
45 |
|
Information
technology
Georges Ferné |
269 |
Western
Europe
Ros Herman |
63 |
|
Materials
science and engineering
Lakis C. Kaounides |
281 |
Central
Europe
Antoni Kuklinski and Bogdan Kacprzynski |
81 |
|
3.
THE GENDER DIMENSION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
301 |
The
Commonwealth of Independent States
Leonid Gokhberg |
92 |
|
The
conceptual framework
Sandra Harding and Elizabeth McGregor |
303 |
THE
Arab States
Subhi Qasem |
120 |
|
Science
by whom?
Elizabeth McGregor and Sandra Harding |
305 |
Africa
Thomas R. Odhiambo |
135 |
|
Science
for whom?
Sandra Harding and Elizabeth McGregor |
320 |
South
Asia
A. R. Rajeswari |
149 |
|
The
potential to be realized
Elizabeth McGregor and Sandra Harding |
325 |
Iran
Cyrus Yeganeh |
164 |
|
Global
perspectives |
327 |
South-East
Asia and the Pacific Rim
Stephen Hill, Tim Turpin and Heather Spence |
169 |
|
Challenges
in interpreting data
Ann Hibner Koblitz |
327 |
China
Zhou Guangzhao |
190 |
|
Women
in science: the case of Africa
Lydia P. Makhubu |
329 |
| 2
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES |
203 |
|
Women
in science: the case of India
Radhika Ramasubban |
334 |
The
ethics of science: between humanism and modernity
Noelle Lenoir |
204 |
|
International
players and initiatives
Elizabeth McGregor and Sandra Harding |
336 |
Megascience
J. Thomas Ratchford and Umberto Colombo |
214 |
|
Women
in modern scientific research: A historical overview
Pnina G. Abir-Am |
348 |
Science Policy
