Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Science Advisory BoardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428904050
Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Reevaluating dioxin Science Advisory Board's review of EPA's reassessment of dioxin and dioxinlike compounds.
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Science Advisory BoardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428904050
Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement
Author: Kate DaviesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442221380
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert Kate Davies describes the movement’s historical, ideological, and cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.
Communicating Uncertainty
Author: Sharon M. FriedmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135683425
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science journalists who have covered these issues; and that of scientists who have been actively involved in researching uncertain science and talking to reporters about it. In particular, Communicating Uncertainty examines how well the mass media convey to the public the complexities, ambiguities, and controversies that are part of scientific uncertainty. In addition to its new approach to scientific uncertainty and mass media interactions, this book distinguishes itself in the quality of work it assembles by some of the best known science communication scholars in the world. This volume continues the exploration of interactions between scientists and journalists that the three coeditors first documented in their highly successful volume, Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News, which was used for many years as a text in science journalism courses around the world.
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
Author: Dennis J. PaustenbachPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111974296X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1319
Book Description
Understand the fundamentals of human risk assessment with this introduction and reference Human risk assessments are a precondition for virtually all industrial action or environmental regulation, all the more essential in a world where chemical and environmental hazards are becoming more abundant. These documents catalog potential environmental, toxicological, ecological, or other harms resulting from a particular hazard, from chemical spills to construction projects to dangerous workplaces. They turn on a number of variables, of which the most significant is the degree of human exposure to the hazardous agent or process. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment combines the virtues of a textbook and reference work to introduce and analyze these vital documents. Beginning with the foundational theory of human health risk assessment, it then supplies case studies and detailed analysis illustrating the practice of producing risk assessment documents. Fully updated and authored by leading authorities in the field, the result is an indispensable work. Readers of the second edition of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment will also find: Over 40 entirely new case studies reflecting the latest in risk assessment practice Detailed discussion of hazards including air emissions, contaminated food and soil, hazardous waste sites, and many more Case studies from multiple countries to reflect diverse international standards Human and Ecological Risk Assessment is ideal for professionals and advanced graduate students in toxicology, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, environmental science, and all related subjects.
Disposal of Chemical Munitions at Pueblo Chemical Depot
Author: Umatilla Depot Activity, Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Author: Pine Bluff Arsenal, Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Author: Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309102588
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
Food Chemical Risk Analysis
Author: David R. TennantPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146131111X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Food Chemical Risk Analysis provides an introduction to the sciences of food chemistry and risk analysis and demonstrates how the potential hazards associated with food chemicals can be assessed and managed. Food scares are never far from the news and particular attention is therefore focused on the consumer perception of risk and risk communication. Leading international experts provide unique insights in the future of food chemical risk analysis. Chapters on alternatives to animal testing show how emerging methods offer the prospect of a more rational human-based approach to toxicity testing. Discussions about relative risks and protective factors highlight the possibility that risks from food can be over-estimated and approaches to avoid such risks are proposed. The science of risk management is presented as more than just a method for translating science into policy by demonstrating how social, psychological, economic ethical and other factors can, and should be taken into account. The book makes it clear that if risk communication is to be effective, an integrated approach to risk analysis must be adopted.
The Science of Risk Assessment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description