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Borrowed earth, borrowed time : healing America's chemical wounds / Glenn E. Schweitzer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Language of sciencePublication details: New York : Plenum Press, c1991.Description: xvi, 298 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 030643766X :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • TD180 .S39 1991
Contents:
[Pt.] 1. Toxic chemicals move to center stage -- [pt.] 2. Controlling 3000 chemicals: one by one -- [pt.] 3. The uncertainty of risk but the reality of cost -- [pt.] 4. Explaining the risks to an aroused public -- [pt.] 5. Cleaning up the wastes of an industrial economy -- [pt.] 6. The states begin to take charge -- [pt.] 7. The greening of industry -- [pt.] 8. Exceeding the absorptive limits of the global commons -- [pt.] 9. The power and limitation sof science and technology -- [pt.] 10. Living with toxic risks.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

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[Pt.] 1. Toxic chemicals move to center stage -- [pt.] 2. Controlling 3000 chemicals: one by one -- [pt.] 3. The uncertainty of risk but the reality of cost -- [pt.] 4. Explaining the risks to an aroused public -- [pt.] 5. Cleaning up the wastes of an industrial economy -- [pt.] 6. The states begin to take charge -- [pt.] 7. The greening of industry -- [pt.] 8. Exceeding the absorptive limits of the global commons -- [pt.] 9. The power and limitation sof science and technology -- [pt.] 10. Living with toxic risks.