Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings

Herausgeber: Clements-Croome, Derek

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Produktbeschreibung

Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings brings together the work of an international group of specialists in this fragmented subject area. The book covers health effects of electromagnetic fields, emission standards and offers some

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781138381315
• ISBN-10: 1138381314
• Artikelnr.: 55102956

Autorenporträt

Professor Derek Clements-Croome Professor of Construction Engineering and director of research in the School of Construction Management & Engineering at the University of Reading. With industry set up an undergraduate course in Building Services Engineering Design and Management in 1989. Set up new MSc in Intelligent Buildings in 1996 funded by EPSRC. Past Chairman and founder of the South East Centre of the Built Environment in Construction. Chairman of European Intelligent Building Group. Visiting Professor at five universities in China. Member of EPSRC Innovative Construction Research Centre at Reading University. Author of several books: including Airconditioning and Ventilation of Buildings, Pergamon Press, 1981 (Second Edition), also published in Chinese and Russian; Noise, Buildings and People, Pergamon Press, 1977; Editor and part author of Naturally Ventilated Buildings Spon (1997) and Creating the Productive Workplace (2000) Spon; published over 200 papers on various aspects of his research and education projects.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Healthy Buildings. 2. Evidence for Non-thermal Electromagnetic
Bio-effects. 3. Effects of Electromagnetic Fields in the Living
Environment. 4. An Introduction the Naturally Occurring & the Man Made
Electromagnetic Environments. 5 Mobile Phone Masts - Planning Issues on
Siting. 6. Environmental Impact of Electrosmog. 7. Product Liability,
Product Safety and the Precautionary Principle; Questions and Discussions.
8. What are We Exposed To? The Most Significant Exposure in the Built
Environment. 9. Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. 10.
Biological Effects of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields. 11. Building of
Radio Frequencies and Microwaves in the Build Industry. 12. Are We
Measuring the Right Things? Windows, Viewpoints and Sensitivity; Questions
and Discussion. 13. Biological Effects of Neutralising Vaccines; The
Effects of Weak EM Fields and the Concordance Between the Two. 14.
Electroclinical Syndromes - Live Wires in your Office. 15. Health Effects
of High Voltage Powerlines. 16. Effects of 50Hz EMF Exposure on Mammalian
Cells in Culture. 17. Electromagnetic Fields - Interactions with the Human
Body. 18. Evidence to Support the Hypothesis that Electromagnetic Fields
and Radiation are a Ubiquitous Universal Genotoxic Carcinogen. 19. Static
Electricity in the Modern Human Environment. 20. Screen Dermatitis and
Electrosensitivity: Preliminary Observations in the Human Skin. 21.
Theoretical and Experimental Evidence Where Present Safety Standards
Conflict with Reality. 22. The Effect of Mobile Phones on the Human
Cognitive Functions; Questions and Discussion. 23. Electromagnetism and the
Insurance Industry. 24. Assessing and Responding to Pre and Post Telecom
Development Syndrome. 25. Electromagnetic Environments and Health in
Buildings, Questions and Discussion. 26. Exposure Guidelines to
Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation - Past, Present and Future. 27.
Research on Mobile Phones and Health. 28. New Site Sharing Technology for
3G and the City of Tomorrow. 29. Mobile Communications and Health. 30.
Moving Beyond EMF Public Policy Paralysis; Questions and Discussion