Garbage Politics

The Politics of Garbage in Oaxaca, Mexico

Just Garbage

up decisions in­ politics. Institu­ tional discrimination e . ts in every social arena, in­ cluding environmental de . . on making. Burdens and benefits are not randomly d ·buted. Reliance solely on "objectiVe" science for e 'ronmental decision making-in a world shaped larg by power politics and special interests-often mas . titurtonal rac­ ism. For example, the assignment of" ptable" risk and ...

SIGPLAN ACM Garbage In / Garbage Out March Möbius

Algorithms for extracting the roots of polynomials of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th degree are usually presented as cookbook recipes, with no insight about how such a recipe works or how it might have been discovered. This note shows how a clever high school student could use transformations (translation, scaling, rotation, inversion) of the complex plane to discover root-extraction methods for these po...

Manchester Papers in Politics: Epru Series 1/2002 Multi-level Governance: a View from the Garbage Can

Please note: Publication in this working paper series is intended to facilitate discussion only and so does not preclude publication elsewhere.

Leveled Garbage Collection

Generational garbage collection (GGC) is one of the most popular garbage collection techniques. GGC gains a performance advantage by performing minor collections on the younger objects in the heap, reducing the number of major collections of the whole heap. A promotion policy determines when an object moves from the younger generation to the older. The design of GGC has been justified by the pl...