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Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds
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By
Daniel Vallero, Dr. Vallero holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Duke University, a Masters in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Kansas,
a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Southern Illinois University, and a Bachelors in the Earth Sciences and Psychology from
SIU., Adjunct Professor of Engineering Ethics, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Durham, NC
Description
Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and
public health. However, all too often, society and the scientific community do not realize the connections between environmental occurrences.
In their haste to remedy a situation, they overlook lessons that could be learned to prevent future disasters. Paying attention to
the past instructs us about the future.
Paradigms Lost combines the historical case perspective with credible and sound scientific
explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. The author sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal,
New York to Bhopal, India to provide larger lessons that can be applied by scientists, engineers and public safety officials. The analysis
of these events includes viable alternatives for future generations.
Audience
Environmental Engineers, Civil Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Chemists, Plant Managers, Public Safety Administrators, Lawyers, Surveyors,
Petroleum Engineers, Waste Managers, Military Personnel,
Federal, State, and Local Environmental,
Emergency Response, and Public Health
Agencies
Contents
Part I: New Science and New Paradigms
Lessons Learned: A Case Approach to Environmental Problems
Pollution Revisited
Part II: Key Environmental Events in Media
Something in the Air
Watershed Events
Landmark Cases
By Way of Introduction
Environmental Swords and Damocles
Part III: Other Paradigms
Dropping Acid and Heavy Metal Reactions
Spaceship Earth
Myths and Ideology: Perception versus Reality
Just Environmental Decisions, Please
Part IV: What is Next?
Bottom Lines
and Top of the Head Guesses
Appendix 1: Equilibrium
Appendix 2: Government Reorganizations Creating the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Appendix 3: Reliability in Environmental
Decision Making
Appendix 4: Principles of Environmental Persistence
Appendix 5: Cancer Slope Factors
Appendix 6: Equations for Calculating Lifetime Average Daily Exposure (LADD) for Various Routs of Exposure
Appendix
7: Characterizing Environmental Risk
Appendix 8: Risk-Based Contaminant Cleanup Example
Appendix 9:
Shannon Weiner Index Example
Appendix 10: Useful Conversions in Atmospheric Chemistry
INDEX
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Hardbound, 600 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7888-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7888-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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