Paradigms Lost - Learning From Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds

Informationen zum Autor Dan Vallero is an internationally recognized expert in the transport! chemical transformation and environmental fate of hazardous pollutants. His three decades of professional experience in hazardous waste engineering and management have included research! teaching and regulatory advice related to a wide range of human health risk and ecological issues! from global climate change to the release of hazardous products of incomplete combustion from waste incinerators to the assessment of the risks from exposures to environmental endocrine disruptors. Dr. Vallero recently established the Engineering Ethics program at Duke University. This innovative program introduces students to the complex relationships between science! technology and societal demands on the engineer. The lessons learned from the cases in this book are a fundamental part of Duke's preparation of its future engineers to address the ethical dilemmas likely to be encountered during the careers of the next generation engineers. Klappentext Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health. However! all too often! society and the scientific community do not realize the connections between environmental occurrences. In their haste to remedy a situation! they overlook lessons that could be learned to prevent future disasters. Paying attention to the past instructs us about the future. "Paradigms Lost" combines the historical case perspective with credible and sound scientific explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. The author sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal! New York to Bhopal! India to provide larger lessons that can be applied by scientists! engineers and public safety officials. The analysis of these events includes viable alternatives for future generations. * Includes alternative approaches to environmental issues from preventative measures to contingency plans * Richly annotated with sidebars! discussion boxes and generous examples from Exxon Valdez and Love Canal to Agent Orange and Bhopal * A usable tool for all professionals from lawyers to chemical engineers Zusammenfassung Combines the historical case perspective with credible scientific explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. This book sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal! New York to Bhopal! India to provide lessons that can be applied by scientists! engineers and public safety officials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: New Science and New Paradigms Lessons Learned: A Case Approach to Environmental Problems Pollution Revisited Part II: Key Environmental Events in Media Something in the Air Watershed Events Landmark Cases By Way of Introduction Environmental Swords and Damocles Part III: Other Paradigms Dropping Acid and Heavy Metal Reactions Spaceship Earth Myths and Ideology: Perception versus Reality Just Environmental Decisions! Please Part IV: What is Next? Bottom Lines and Top of the Head Guesses Appendix 1: Equilibrium Appendix 2: Government Reorganizations Creating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Appendix 3: Reliability in Environmental Decision Making Appendix 4: Principles of Environmental Persistence Appendix 5: Cancer Slope Factors Appendix 6: Equations for Calculating Lifetime Average Daily Exposure (LADD) for Various Routs of Exposure Appendix 7: Characterizing Environmental Risk Appendix 8: Risk-Based Contaminant Cleanup Example Appendix 9: Shannon Weiner Index Example Appendix 10: Useful Conversions in Atmospheric Chemistry INDEX ...

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• Autori: Daniel (Pratt School of Engineering Vallero
• Editore: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780750678889
• ISBN: 978-0-7506-7888-9
• Pagine: 600
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia