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Risk reduction : chemicals and energy into the 21st century
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Bristol : Taylor & Francis, 1996
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9780748403981
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Concerned with the need to reduce chemical risks, this text also covers related biological and physical risks. Risk reduction has an important economic role, not least in developing countries. Many of the contributors are from develping countries and indicate the problems and some of the solutions their countries will need to adopt during their process of reconstruction, development and recovery. The text discusses the decision-making process involving the political, socioeconomic, engineering, and natural sciences so as to develop, analyze and compare regulatory options. It considers how such measured decision making enables the selection of optimal responses to achieve safety from perceived hazards.


Table of Contents

International overview: risk reduction of environmental pollution and water resources problems for sustainable development
Risk reduction through cleaner industriaL production
Risk reduction: a comparison of the problem of toxics wastes in development and developing countries
Factors to be considered for accomplishing risk reduction
Economics and the environment
Quality aspects in Lithuania
UNCOTOP agenda 21 and into 21st century: UNCOTOP and agenda 21 risk reduction strategies
The challenge of chapter 19, agenda 21: the European response
Pollutant release and transfer registers: a promising tool to promote risk reduction in developed and industrializing countries
Risk reduction in the 21st century. Energy considerations: safety and health hazards associated with energy sources and technology
Use of renewable energy: a risk reduction case study
Health considerations: individual susceptibility to inhaled pollutants
Identifications, mechanisms and public health policy implications
Chemical and biochemical screening tests for identification of high risk groups
Risk-source definition of air pollution by dustfall study in the Gulf area: an example from the United Arab Emirates
Persistent pesticide pollutants in crop protection
Risk reduction aspects of public health and the environment
New approaches: molecular modelling and lipophilicity in research of drugs and chemicals
Application of lifecycle analysis techniques for cotton textile products: from the cotton fields to final waste disposal
Gas cromatographic identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using retention indices calculated by cubic spline interpolation
Toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) with aquatic bottom sediments. Regulatory controls for risk management of chemicals
Disclosure of information of health, safety and environmental hazards in the chemical industry
Evaluation and control of chemical substances in the European Union