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  • Risk Assessment Methods

    Approaches for Assessing Health and Environmental Risks

    by M.W. Merkhoher, V.T. Covello ...
    Much has already been written about risk assessment. Epidemiologists write books on how risk assessment is used to explore the factors that influence the distribution of disease in populations of people. Toxicologists write books on how risk assess ment involves exposing animals to risk agents and concluding from the results what risks people might experience if similarly exposed. Engineers write ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Effective Risk Communication

    The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations

    Edited by David B. McCallum, V.T. Covello, Maria T. Pavlova ...
    Series Book 4 - Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis
    One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not to do our very best. The importance of this subject is what led the Task Force on Environmental ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Risk Evaluation and Management

    Edited by V.T. Covello, Joshua Menkes, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Benefits Assessment

    The State of the Art

    Edited by J.D. Bentkover, V.T. Covello, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk

    Essays on Risk Selection and Perception

    Edited by V.T. Covello, B.B. Johnson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies Vincent T. Covello and Branden B. Johnson Risks to health, safety, and the environment abound in the world and people cope as best they can. But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, decisions must be made about which risks are important and which risks can safely be ignored. The ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Scientific Uncertainty and Its Influence on the Public Communication Process

    Edited by Virginia H. Sublet, V.T. Covello, Tim L. Tinker ...
    Series Book 86 - NATO Science Series D
    Experts from academia and government who are actively engaged in research in the area of risk communication present a compendium of cases that give information and allow the development of strategies to improve the communication of scientific information to the public. The cases span Western, Central and Eastern Europe, covering such areas as nuclear waste, heavy metal contamination, landfill ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Stochastic Analysis in Production Process and Ecology Under Uncertainty

    by Bogusław Bieda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The monograph addresses a problem of stochastic analysis based on the uncertainty assessment by simulation and application of this method in ecology and steel industry under uncertainty. The first chapter defines the Monte Carlo (MC) method and random variables in stochastic models. Chapter two deals with the contamination transport in porous media. Stochastic approach for Municipal Solid Waste ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Drawdown

    The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

    Edited by Paul Hawken ...
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    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Swamp

    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

    by Michael Grunwald ...
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  • The Veterinarians' Guide to Natural Remedies for Dogs

    Safe and Effective Alternative Treatments and Healing Techniques from the Nations Top Holistic Veterinarians

    by Martin Zucker ...
    The world of veterinary medicine is changing. People are realizing that if alternative medicine is better for them, it's better for their pets, too. Dogs are visiting acupuncturists, chiropractic doctors, and homeopaths. Still, many dog owners are unaware that such simple measures as changing their pet's diet and using vitamins, herbs, and other natural cures can help prevent or heal ailments ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Science

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    Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of ... Read more

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