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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 textbo...
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The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to ...
A national study of effective schools programs provides information on the extent and characteristics of these programs in the nation's school districts and schools. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 1,685 school district superintendents. Findings are representative of the approximately 16,000 local school districts in the nation. This report is divided into eight appendices: (1) selected characteristics of effective schools cited in research literature; (2) five school characteristics in the definition of effective schools programs included in Public Law 100-297; (3) Chapter 2 Block Grant Program (six authorized local targeted assistance programs); (4) estimates and confidence intervals for selected questionnaire responses; (5) effective schools programs in the 50 largest cities (school year 1987-88); (6) examples of SEA assistance to school districts and schools for effective schools programs; (7) tables supporting figures in report text and supplementary tables; and (8) major contributors to this report. Included are 15 tables and 28 figures.
The 2004 Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) created a legal regime for the restoration of environmental damage that was novel to all EU Member States. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive commentary on legal issues arising under the ELD as well as guidance on interpreting and applying the ELD.