How much risk? : a guide to understanding environmental health hazards /
An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental facto...
| Основен автор: | Goldstein, Inge F. |
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| Други автори: | Goldstein, Martin, 1919 November 18- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=121461 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
How much risk?. |
| Резюме: |
An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukaemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists assess these risks is illuminated. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0195139941 9780195139945 9780198032052 0198032056 1280481315 9781280481314 |