Leonard A Cole

Element of Risk

The Politics of Radon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As he carefully traces the development of the US indoor radon policy, Code illuminates the many scientific uncertainties that lie behind it, exposes the policies of those who stand to gain from radon policy decisions made in Washington, and challenges the EPA's risk-cost assessment of radon levels. Thoughtful and timely, ELEMENT OF RISK illuminates one of the most important public policyissues of our time.

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The Politics of Radon: The Danger of radon--an odorless, potentially cancer-causing gas--struck home in the 1980s when whole neighborhoods were deemed unsafe and homeowners were forced to relocate, sometimes at great expense.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780195093674
• ISBN-10: 0195093674
• Artikelnr.: 22329070

Autorenporträt

Teaches in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Rutgers University, Newark and is author of the widely acclaimed Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Ovr Populated Areas

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1: The Development of Radon Policy
* 2: The Science of Uncertainty
* 3: Leapers and Loopers
* 4: Lopers and Loppers
* 5: Federal Regulators and Congress
* 6: Radon in the States and the Case of New Jersey
* 7: Private and Public Interests
* 8: The Press, Science, and Radon
* 9: Radon Policies in Other Countries: Sweden and Finland
* 10: Democracy, Risk, and Reason
* Appendix A: Radioactive Decay Chain of Uranium-238
* Appendix B: Letters
* Appendix C: The Environmental Protection Agency/Advertising Council
Messages
* Appendix D: Differing Perspectives on Radon Policy by the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy
* Appendix E: Radon Policies of the American Medical Association and
the Health Physics Society
* Index