Management of Hazardous Agents

Volume 1: Industrial and Regulatory Approaches
Herausgeber: Levine, Duane G.; Upton, Arthur C.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, along with its companion volume, discusses the research needs, institutional modifications, and legislative changes that must be addressed to deal more effectively with the risks of hazardous materials. Prominent among the research needs is the necessity to assess the health effects of low-level exposure to toxicants. For none of these agents (lead, mercury, radiation, PCDDs, dioxins, PCBs, pesticides) is the existing toxicological data sufficient to define unambiguously the dose-effect relationship in the low-dose domain. Another uncertainty is our ignorance of how individuals within the human population may vary in susceptibility to the agents because of differences in genetic background, age, sex, diet, health status, and exposure to extraneous environmental influences. Also identified among the research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling. Institutional changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active, prevention-oriented objectives; institutional mechanisms to achieve better consistency and coordination among different agencies; improvement in the reliability, credibility, and effectiveness with which institutions communicate risk-assessments and risk-management policies; and provision for more adequate education and training of all who must be involved. Finally, the need for certain legislative changes is considered, including better use of incentives, such as taxation and price support mechanisms; better use of enforcement provisions; statutes that address cross-media patterns of human exposure; and greater federal-state-local coordination in risk-assessment and risk-management activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780275943226
• ISBN-10: 0275943224
• Artikelnr.: 25566038

Autorenporträt

Duane G. LeVine is Manager of Science and Strategy Development, Environment and Safety, Exxon Corporation. Arthur C. Upton, M.D., is a Professor of Environmental Medicine and Director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Maurice F. Strong Preface by Ruth A. and William R. Eblen
Introduction by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Heavy Metals
Assessment of the Health Hazards of Lead by Philip J. Landrigan Regulatory
Approaches to the Setting of Environmental Standards for Lead by Linda J.
Fisher Assessment of the Health Hazards of Mercury by Thomas W. Clarkson
Radiation Assessment of the Health Hazards of Radiation by Seymour Jablon
Industrial Approaches to the Limiting of Human Exposure to Radiation by
Robert J. Catlin Regulatory Approaches to the Setting of Exposure Standards
for, and for the Control of, Health Hazards from Nuclear Radiation by
Harold R. Denton PCBs, Dioxins, and Related Materials Health Hazards from
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) by Renate D. Kimbrough An Update on
PCB Scientific Information and a Rationale for a New Approach to PCB
Regulations by Stephen B. Hamilton, Jr. Pesticides Pesticides:
Risks/Benefits by Christopher F. Wilkinson Epidemiological Assessment of
the Health Hazards of Pesticides by Walter Rogan Regulatory Approaches to
the Control of Health and Environmental Hazards from Pesticides and Toxic
Substances by John A. Moore and Jane Hopkins Summary The Assessment of
Ecological Impacts of Hazardous Materials by Ralph K. Markarian Conclusion
by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Bibliography Index