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Tragic Failures
A world awash in little understood chemicals tragically harms adults and children alike. Laws keep health agencies in the dark about toxicants, slow, well motivated research hampers protections, and strenuous vested opposition exacerbates the harm. How science is used in the tort law can facilitate or frustrate redress of harm. This book recommends better approaches.
Threats to Food Safety
Presents an overview of potential threats on food supplies, new techniques to insure food safety, a chronology of important food related events, and a complete annotated bibliography.
Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research
The first edition of Caroline Whitbeck's Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research focused on the difficult ethical problems engineers encounter in their practice and in research. In many ways, these problems are like design problems: they are complex, often ill defined; resolving them involves an iterative process of analysis and synthesis; and there can be more than one acceptable solution. In the second edition of this text, Dr Whitbeck goes above and beyond by featuring more real-life problems, stating recent scenarios and laying the foundation of ethical concepts and reasoning. This book offers a real-world, problem-centered approach to engineering ethics, using a rich collection of open-ended case studies to develop skill in recognizing and addressing ethical issues.
Toxic Torts
Toxic Torts, 2nd edition shows how the American justice system underserves the public in its treatment of scientific evidence.
Environmental Protection
"This book summarizes briefly a number of 'new approaches', grouped under th following categories: information - approaches to improve the quantity and quality of information to enhance the knowledge base underlying environmental descision (eg. risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis) ; public sector processes - approaches to restructure governmental processes for making environmental decisions (eg. devolution) ; incentives - approaches that emphasize incentives as opposed to regulatory or financial penalties for achieving environmental ends ; market mechanisms - approaches that rely on markets and common law for environmental decision to the extent possible ; and management principles - approaches to inculcate environmental values in public or private managerial decisions (eg. sustainability)." - page viii.
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics
The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate...
The Law of Environmental Justice
Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect their environment. This volume examines the sources of environmental justice law and how evolving regulations and court decisions impact projects around the country.
