Controlling chemical hazards : fundamentals of the management of toxic chemicals

著者

    • Côté, Raymond
    • Wells, P. G.

書誌事項

Controlling chemical hazards : fundamentals of the management of toxic chemicals

edited by Raymond P. Côté & Peter G. Wells

Unwin Hyman, 1991

  • : hard

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Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book presents environmental protection managers and advanced students in environmental studies programs with an overview of the principles, facts, multidisciplinary approaches, and some of the complexities of the management of toxic substances. The text explores critical issues facing managers responsible for preventing and controlling problems associated with the manufacture, transport, storage, use and disposal of chemicals. It does this from two perspectives. The first is a disciplinary perspective, ie environmental chemistry, toxicology, engineering, economics, sociology and political science, all of which play a role in implementing comprehensive programs to manage chemicals. The second perspective is from the view of industry, government, academia and non-government organizations. For example, chapter 5 is authored by technical managers of a major chemical company, chapters 6 and 12 by government scientists and managers respectively, and chapter 10 by a respected member of the environmental lobby. An appreciation of these perspectives is very important for developing and running effective chemical management programs. This is not a book for scientific or legal experts unless someone wants to become more familiar with the different disciplines, considerations and components of a toxic substances management program. Nor is it a toxicology, or an environmental engineering text. Instead, the book covers a judicious combination of topics, disciplines and authors, to provide managers with guidance on the issues, management strategies and tools from a late 1980s perspective.

目次

  • Part 1 The nature and scope of the toxic chemicals issue: the scope of the issue
  • the nature of the issue
  • strategic elements, R.P.Cote. Part 2 The environmental fate of organic chemicals: transport and transformation in the environment
  • environmental distribution and fate analysis
  • physico-chemical data required for environmental distribution and fate analysis, C.J.M.Wolff and N.O.Crossland. Part 3 Basic toxicological considerations: toxicity, hazard and risk
  • factors which affect toxicity
  • types of effects
  • concentration (dose) - response relationships
  • toxicity testing, G.M.Rand. Part 4 Ecotoxicological considerations: some principles of ecotoxicology
  • distinguishing ecotoxic effects
  • environmental monitoring and assessment
  • community and ecosystem toxicity testing
  • ecological risk assessment, P.J.Sheehan. Part 5 Integrating effect and exposure information - an industrial viewpoint: history of risk assessment
  • risk assessment systems
  • risk assessment and risk management
  • distinctions between toxicity, hazard and risk
  • the integration of effects and exposure analyses
  • risk assessment and human health
  • risk assessment of chemicals in the environemnt
  • examples of risk assessment, S.l.Daniels and C.N.Park. Part 6 Control strategies and technologies: control strategies
  • control technologies, D.F.Bishop. Part 7 Occupational and environmental health linkages: from science to policy - accounting for historic inaction
  • the historic links between occupational and environmental hazards
  • two approaches to occupational health protection
  • conclusion - responsibility and the wider environemnt, R.C.Paehlke. Part 8 The economic perspective: economics and externalities
  • linkages between the economic system and the environment
  • economic valuation of the environment
  • trading off cost benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment, H.M.A.Jansen. Part 9 The legal perspective: toxic chemicals and common law
  • international initiatives, M.Rankin. Part 10 The social and political perspective - an environmentalist's viewpoint: a case study - the story of Canning, Nova Scotia
  • the context for citizens concerns about chemicals
  • the public perspective - a variety of interests
  • the moral dimension of values conflict
  • risk and risk analysis
  • developments in the decision-making processes concerning toxic chemicals, S.Hollz. Part 11 The comparative political economy of regulating chemicals: the regulatory cycle and contending views of regulatory speed and lag
  • markets and the political economy of interests seeking and resisting regulation
  • regulation and federalism
  • regulation and interdepartmental relations
  • ministers, symbolic politics, public opinion and the mass media
  • compliance and monitoring - the thin line of implementation
  • information and the regulatory process - concealing and revealing
  • science and technology in regulation, B.Doern. (part contents)

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