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Author: Philip Wexler Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1420084704 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 845
Book Description
The past 40 years have seen a phenomenal growth in globally oriented public and private initiatives related to chemical and environmental issues. The groundbreaking 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm was the event responsible for initiating framework for global environmental policies, including those addressing chemical safety. It gave rise to the first World Environment Day and the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme, leading the way to the acknowledgement that sustainable development is the most logical and viable pathway to preserve and enhance our environment for future generations. Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective presents an overview of the noteworthy conferences, organizations, and international treaties that focus on chemicals management and policy. It takes into account special challenges faced by developing countries regarding chemicals safety. From the Stockholm Conference to follow-ups in Rio and Johannesburg, it provides concise coverage of a vast swath of information. It highlights pivotal agreements such as the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions, the more expansive Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, as well as key regional agreements such as the European Union’s REACH legislation. The book includes invited essays in areas such as emergencies and financing instruments, and offers a clear look at future challenges and opportunities. Written by a team of authors from all continents, with backgrounds in international organizations, national governments, academia, industry, and NGOs, the book reflects a wide experience from a multitude of perspectives. A valuable guidebook to global chemicals management cooperation, this book reviews and analyzes multi-lateral efforts established to address the potential risks of chemicals on the world stage.
Author: Philip Wexler Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1420084704 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 845
Book Description
The past 40 years have seen a phenomenal growth in globally oriented public and private initiatives related to chemical and environmental issues. The groundbreaking 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm was the event responsible for initiating framework for global environmental policies, including those addressing chemical safety. It gave rise to the first World Environment Day and the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme, leading the way to the acknowledgement that sustainable development is the most logical and viable pathway to preserve and enhance our environment for future generations. Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective presents an overview of the noteworthy conferences, organizations, and international treaties that focus on chemicals management and policy. It takes into account special challenges faced by developing countries regarding chemicals safety. From the Stockholm Conference to follow-ups in Rio and Johannesburg, it provides concise coverage of a vast swath of information. It highlights pivotal agreements such as the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions, the more expansive Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, as well as key regional agreements such as the European Union’s REACH legislation. The book includes invited essays in areas such as emergencies and financing instruments, and offers a clear look at future challenges and opportunities. Written by a team of authors from all continents, with backgrounds in international organizations, national governments, academia, industry, and NGOs, the book reflects a wide experience from a multitude of perspectives. A valuable guidebook to global chemicals management cooperation, this book reviews and analyzes multi-lateral efforts established to address the potential risks of chemicals on the world stage.
Author: E. N. Ramsden Publisher: Nelson Thornes ISBN: 9780748724000 Category : Chemistry Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
Written for students undertaking Environmental Chemistry options.Concise, student-friendly and well illustrated with diagrams, tables and charts.Equally suitable for use as stand-alone texts or as ancillary texts to any core chemistry text.
Author: Y. Mido Publisher: Discovery Publishing House ISBN: 9788171412679 Category : Environmental chemistry Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
The teaching of Chemistry at the introductory stage becomes each day a more challenging task as the subject matter becomes more diverse and more complex. These challenges have evoked a series of responses the present set of introductory chemistry monographs is one such. The teaching of chemistry recognises a number of problems, that confront those who select text books. In order to overcome these problems, this volume Chemicals in the Environment one of about fifty in the Chemistry Monograph Series is introduced. Each volume is independent of the others deals with one of Chemistry topics and constitutes a complete entity. Each volume is more comprehensive than can be possible in a single volume text. It is intended to provide a range, of topics to cover most undergraduate and chemistry main courses of study. These volumes can be used to enrich the more conventional courses of study.
Author: Philip J. Landrigan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190662646 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
"Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects has increased substantially among children throughout the world. Not coincidentally, more than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during this same period. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know offers an authoritative yet accessible question-and-answer guide to the "silent spring" of environmental threats to children's health. As the burdens of environmental toxins and chronic disease continue to defy borders, this book will be an invaluable addition to the conspicuously sparse literature in this area"--
Author: Thomas G. Spiro Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental chemistry Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
This work identifies major environmental issues in the areas of energy, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, and then proceeds to analyze the chemical basis of those issues. The text connects basic chemical understanding to environmental issues and the links between socio-economic indicators and impacts on the environment. It also incorporates recent developments in environmental science.
Author: Lucjan Pawlowski Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9781461364436 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Over the last decade and a half, an environmental conference series has emerged to become one of the major international forums on the chemical aspects of environmental protection. The forum is called Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment CCPE). The sponsors of this CPE series have included the Chemical Societies of Poland, France, Belgium, Italy, and the U.S.A., the European Federation of Chemical Societies, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Testing and Materials, the International Ozone Association, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Ministries of the Environment of Poland, France, Belgium, and Italy, US Environmental Protection Agency, more than twenty universities and institutes of higher learning, and five academies of sciences. The first meeting in this series was organized in 1976 at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. The conference dealt with various physicochemical methodologies for water and wastewater treatment research projects that were jointly sponsored by US EPA and Poland.
Author: Alistair Boxall Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540882723 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
When a synthetic chemical is released into the environment it may be degraded by abiotic and biotic processes. These degradation processes usually involve a cascade of reactions resulting in the formation of a number of transformation products. While we usually know a great deal about the environmental properties, fate and effects of parent synthetic chemicals, our understanding of the impacts of transformation products is much less developed. As such, this volume brings together chapters from leading researchers in the field of transformation products in the environment and describes how these products are formed, how they move through the environment, and their environmental effects. The book also presents modelling and analytical approaches for understanding the occurrence, fate and effects of transformation products in the environment. It is of interest to scientists in academia, the chemicals industry and regulators, as well as graduate students in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology.
Author: Jerald L. Schnoor Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780471502326 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 478
Book Description
A result of important bilateral scientific agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the fate of chemicals and pesticides in the environment. Written by experts in both countries, it familiarizes the reader with recent state-of-the-art research being conducted in the areas of agricultural management and water pollution control. A number of models are provided to give the reader a concise grasp of exposure and ecological risk assessments involving these pollutants. Focuses on the necessity to improve our deteriorating standards of public health, environmental science and technology with a total systems approach through the pooled talents of scientists and engineers.
Author: Frank R. Spellman Publisher: Government Institutes ISBN: 1591919835 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 648
Book Description
Designed for both professional and student use, the new Second Edition includes recent improvements in the application of new technologies and materials on the environment. It also places greater emphasis on the three environmental media of air, water, and soil and discusses how technology can be used to mitigate contamination of all three.
Author: Philip Wexler
Author: Philip Wexler
Author: E. N. Ramsden
Author: Y. Mido
Author: Philip J. Landrigan
Author: Thomas G. Spiro
Author: Federation of European Chemical Societies
Author: Lucjan Pawlowski
Author: Alistair Boxall
Author: Jerald L. Schnoor
Author: Frank R. Spellman