Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Environmental Studies Board. Committee on Principles of Decision Making for Regulation Chemicals in the EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Decision Making for Regulation Chemicals in the Environment
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Environmental Studies Board. Committee on Principles of Decision Making for Regulation Chemicals in the EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences' Report Decision-making for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic SubstancesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Decision Making for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Principles of Decision Making for Regulating Chemicals in the EnvironmentPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Characteristics of the regulatory process. The statutory basis of regulation. Advocacy and the regulatory process. The decision-making process. The uses and limits of benefit-cost analysis. Information on hazards and costs. Information on benefits.
Regulating Chemical Accumulation in the Environment
Author: Timothy M. SwansonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139429361
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The environment has become exposed to a range of damaging contaminants from a wide variety of sources. Regulation of and legislation against offending parties has frequently been hampered because of the difficulty of co-operation between disparate disciplines in the natural, social and political sciences. This volume forms the conclusion of five years' collaboration between toxicologists, economists and lawyers in the understanding and solution of the problem of accumulative chemicals. As well as a case study of the accumulation of pesticides in groundwater in one particular region (the European Union), the book forms a general study of the value of interdisciplinary approaches in environmental policy making. The volume will be a valuable resource for a broad group of academics and researchers in the area of environmental science and environmental policy. It will also form a useful supplementary reference text for courses in environmental policy, science, economics and toxicology.
Symposium. Decision Making for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment ; 1974
Author: Evaluating chemical regulation
Author: Nicholas Askounes AshfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Models in Environmental Regulatory Decision Making
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309110009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Many regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are based on the results of computer models. Models help EPA explain environmental phenomena in settings where direct observations are limited or unavailable, and anticipate the effects of agency policies on the environment, human health and the economy. Given the critical role played by models, the EPA asked the National Research Council to assess scientific issues related to the agency's selection and use of models in its decisions. The book recommends a series of guidelines and principles for improving agency models and decision-making processes. The centerpiece of the book's recommended vision is a life-cycle approach to model evaluation which includes peer review, corroboration of results, and other activities. This will enhance the agency's ability to respond to requirements from a 2001 law on information quality and improve policy development and implementation.
Regulating Chemical Risks
Author: Johan ErikssonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048194288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume presents research on current trends in chemical regulations – a fa- growing, complex, and increasingly internationalized field. The book grew out from a multidisciplinary research project entitled ‘Regulating Chemical Risks in the Baltic Sea Area: Science, Politics, and the Media’, led by Michael Gilek at Södertörn University, Sweden. This research project involved scholars and experts from natural as well as social sciences, based at Södertörn University, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Karolinska Institutet, and Umeå University. The project group organized a multidisciplinary research conference on chemical risk regulations, held in Stockholm, August 15–17, 2007. Most of the contributions published in this book were, in draft form, first presented at this conference. The conference, like the ensuing edited volume, expanded the geographical focus beyond the Baltic Sea area to include wider European, and to some extent also global trends. Many thanks to all project colleagues and conference participants! We are very grateful for the generous financial support received from The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen), The Swedish Research Council Formas, and from Södertörn University. Without this support the present book would not have been possible. Special thanks to all of our fellow contributors, all of whom have submitted to- cal papers based on high-quality research. Many thanks also to Tobias Evers, who assisted us with technical editing. Finally, we are grateful for the professionalism shown by our editors at Springer.
Policy Success in an Age of Gridlock
Author: Lawrence S. RothenbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108663494
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Since 1990, polarization hindered changing environmental policy statutorily. Yet, in mid-2016 the Lautenberg Act regulating toxics - chemicals employed in commerce - was passed, winning business and environmental support. What might explain this? Has the Trump administration undercut the law's effects? Does the Act's passage portend more progressive actions? We show that the Act was a function of the status quo changing due to regulatory efforts abroad and in the United States, and from outside pressures on business. These influences impacted implementation, with the Trump administration not targeting toxics regulation analogous to other programs. Further, the processes we observe for toxics may not be unique.
Regulation for Chemical Safety in Europe: Analysis, Comment and Criticism
Author: D.M. PughPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401153167
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Many European Union Directives seek to minimize the potential for harm to humans and the environment arising from the use of chemicals. This book takes an interdisciplinary, selective look at the effector mechanisms employed in such directives. It covers the pre-marketing use of toxicology to identify the hazardous properties of chemicals, acknowledging its shortcomings, while contrasting the scientific method with the precautionary principle in developing risk-management practices. The book then goes on to describe the use of bio-indicators, chemical analyses and mathematical modelling for prediction, or to determine the adequacy of chemical safety legislation. The environmental risk assessment of priority chemicals is described and the impact of pesticides on sustainability in agriculture is discussed from the differing standpoints of agronomy and economics. Audience: All professionals concerned with the safe management of chemicals and their use, including teachers, practitioners, policy makers or legislators.