Author: United States. Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Staff Report on Civil Defense and Urban Vulnerability, Submitted to the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Staff Report on Civil Defense and Urban Vulnerability, Submitted to the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2734
Book Description
Asbestos and Fire
Author: Rachel MainesPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813570239
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow the protections and benefits it provided. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans’ changing perceptions about risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is not only the most thoroughly researched and balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines urges that learning to accept and effectively address the unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing part of our collective responsibility.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
Staff Report on Replies from Federal Agencies to Questionnaire on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Staff Report on Replies from Federal Agencies to Questionnaire on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Civil Defense In The United States
Author: Thomas J. KerrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429725418
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book traces the endeavor in U.S. to develop a means of protecting the people from the effects of nuclear war. It shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology.
The Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Our Missing Shield
Author: Harry Beller YoshpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description