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Environmental health sourcebook
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Laura Larsen |
"Provides basic consumer health information about the health effects of environmental hazards and diseases linked to environmental causes, with facts about the impact on specific populations. Include… |
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Environmental health ethics
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David B. Resnik |
"Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on … |
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Pesticides
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Leo M. L. Nollet,Hamir Singh Rathore |
"The extent and seriousness of the potential hazards due to pesticides still remains to be fully defined. This handbook discusses all aspects of pesticides residues in the environment. It presents cu… |
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Poisoned for profit
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Philip Shabecoff |
Looks at the prevalence of toxic chemicals in the food supply, household cleaners, water systems, and other aspects of modern life, exposing the direct link between the chemical industry and the grow… |
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Deceit and denial
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Gerald E. Markowitz |
"This book explains the public relations campaign undertaken by the lead industry to persuade Americans to use its deadly product in painting walls, toys, furniture, and other objects in America's ho… |
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Herbicides in war
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Arthur H. Westing |
"This volume is the first product of the SIPRI/NEP programme on 'Military activities and the human environment'. The programme uses an environmental, rather than a geopolitical approach to the study … |
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Discord
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Mike Goldsmith |
Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable "soundscapes" in contexts such as industry, schools,… |
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The Future of Life
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Edward Osborne Wilson |
"In this book, Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever - in many cases animals, insects, and plants we have only just discovered, and whose potential to nour… |
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Minamata
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W. Eugene Smith,Aileen M. Smith |
"The story of the poisoning of a city, and of the people who choose to carry the burden of courage"--Jacket subtitle. |
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Dirty old London
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Lee Jackson |
"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpse… |
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Hazardous waste handbook for health and safety
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Martin, William F. |
Hazardous Waste Handbook 3E offers a straightforward approach to protecting workers who clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites and chemical spills. Supervisors and site inspectors will find this… |
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Paryāvaraṇa pradūshaṇa
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Indu Siṃha |
On hazardous effects of environmental pollution. |
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Dictionary of environmental terms
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Alan Gilpin |
Over 900 words and phrases pertinent to the environment. Explanatory definitions that vary in length. Cross references. Photographs, diagrams, and tables. Bibliography. |
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Thinking in systems
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Diana Wright,Donella H. Meadows |
A clear, thoughtful, and wide-reaching exploration of complex systems, in theory and in practice. Meadows was a masterful and elegant writer and researcher, and an early voice in systems analysis at … |
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