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Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety
Risks, Regulation, and Management
2nd Edition - June 11, 2014
Editors: Matthew Hull, Diana Bowman
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9781455731886
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eBook ISBN:9781455731909
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Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety, Second Edition focuses not only on the impact of nanotechnology and the discipline of nanotoxicity, but also explains each of these…Read more
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Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety, Second Edition focuses not only on the impact of nanotechnology and the discipline of nanotoxicity, but also explains each of these disciplines through in the context of management requirements and via risk scenarios — providing an overview of regulation, risk management, and exposure. Contributors thoroughly explain environmental health and safety (EHS) issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks (e.g., exposure, dose, hazards of nanomaterials), occupational hygiene, and consumer protection.Key new chapters have been included covering eco-toxicity, nanomedicine, informatics, and future threats. New case studies have also been added, including a chapter on the impact of nanosilver on the environment, as well as an assessment of how well lessons have been learned from the past, such as in the case of asbestos. The book also makes a business case for the importance of proactive EHS management - essential reading for existing or prospective producers of nanoscale products.
Practical guidance on risk management and mitigation across different legislative frameworks worldwide
Reviews toxicological studies and industrial initiatives, supported by numerous case studies
Includes extensive new material on the implications of nanotechnology for medicine, energy and food, as well as assessing future threats
Researchers in academic and national laboratories, Regulators at the state and federal levels, Business professionals involved in development, manufacturing, and commercialization of emerging nanotechnologies, Risk managers and insurance professionals
Foreword
List of Contributors
Section 1: Precaution
Chapter 1. Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety—What We’ve Learned and Where We’re (Potentially) Heading
References
Chapter 2. What Are the Warning Signs That We Should Be Looking For?
2.1 Early warning signs
2.2 Cautionary tales, but is anyone listening?
2.3 Two steps forward and one step back? Or one step forward and two steps back?
2.4 But have we done enough?
References
Chapter 3. Are We Willing to Heed the Lessons of the Past? Nanomaterials and Australia’s Asbestos Legacy
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Lessons of the past
3.3 Big problems with small materials
3.4 Controls and risk assessment
3.5 What needs to be done?
3.6 Answering the call for precaution?—SWA approach to ENMs post 2009
3.7 Emerging from the shadow: 2009 SWA report
3.8 A big shift: 2010–2012
3.9 A move toward higher levels of control
3.10 Conclusions
Acknowledgment
References
Section 2: Progress
Chapter 4. Characterization of Nanomaterials for NanoEHS Studies
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Morphology
4.3 Chemical composition
4.4 Standard reference materials and method standards
4.5 Incidental nanoparticles and nanoparticle cycles under relevant conditions
4.6 Advanced measurement techniques
4.7 Routine analysis
4.8 Reporting recommendations
4.9 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5. Toxicological Issues to Consider When Evaluating the Safety of Consumer Products Containing Nanomaterials
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types of consumer products that contain nanomaterials
5.3 Life cycle exposure to nanomaterials in consumer products
5.4 Nanotoxicology
5.5 Safety evaluations of consumer products containing nanomaterials
5.6 Characterizing nanomaterials for toxicological evaluation
5.7 Recommendations for companies developing nano-containing consumer products
5.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6. Nanomaterials Ecotoxicology: A Case Study with Nanosilver
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Importance of comprehensive assessment of in-use applications
6.3 General ecotoxicology
6.4 Environmental modifying factors
6.5 Dosimetry considerations
6.6 Ecotoxicology related to modeled environmental concentrations
6.7 Conclusions and applicability of nanosilver to general nanotoxicology
References
Chapter 7. A Nanomaterial Registry
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Registry concepts
7.3 Data curation
7.4 Leveraging initiatives in nanotechnology
7.5 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 8. Nanoinformatics: Data-Driven Materials Design for Health and Environmental Needs
8.1 Overview
8.2 Introduction—the information challenge
8.3 Quantifying information complexity in nanoscience
8.4 Harnessing nanoinformatics: case studies
8.5 Big data for nanotechnology policy
References
Section 3: Perspectives
Chapter 9. A Case Study of a Nanoscale-Research Facility: Safety Through Design and Operation
9.1 The BNC facility
9.2 Safety considerations
9.3 Designing in safety
9.4 Identification of hazard potentials in the BNC
9.5 Designing in safety—key examples
9.6 Gas hazard mitigation design
9.7 Summary
Chapter 10. Commercialization of Cellulose Nanocrystal (NCC™) Production: A Business Case Focusing on the Importance of Proactive EHS Management
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Regulatory framework in Canada
10.3 Physical–chemical characterization of NCC™
10.4 Ecotoxicological and toxicological test results for NCC™
10.5 Occupational and environmental testing at the NCC™ demonstration plant
10.6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 11. Nanotechnology Risk Management: An Insurance Industry Perspective
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Risk management strategies
11.3 Which strategy to choose?
11.4 Insurance exposure and tools for risk management
11.5 Potential risk management and regulatory issues for nanomaterials
11.6 Likely insurance scenarios
11.7 Conclusions
References
Chapter 12. A Nanotechnology Legal Framework
12.1 Nano-product legal life cycle
12.2 Legal issues
12.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Shaping the Nanotechnologies Landscape Through Regulatory Choice
13.1 Shaping behavior through regulation: subtle and not so subtle approaches
13.2 Key lessons and recommendations of regulatory reviews to date
13.3 Multilateral and multiparty initiatives: the story so far
13.4 Moving forward amidst uncertainty
References
Section 4: Sustainability
Chapter 14. Exploring Boundaries Around the Safe Use of Advanced Materials: A Prospective Product-Based Case Studies Approach
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Defining advanced materials
14.3 Advanced material risks and safe use—a prospective product-based case study approach
14.4 Testing the prospective product case study methodology—an example using a hypothetical dynamic food product label
14.5 A prospective product case study—a graphene-based dynamic labels for food products
14.6 Utility of the prospective product case study methodology
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 15. Nanomaterial Governance, Planetary Health, and the Sustainocene Transition
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Nanotechnology safety in global context
15.3 Regulatory uncertainty and nano-sunscreens
15.4 Regulatory uncertainty and nanosilver
15.5 Paths to greater nanoregulatory certainty
15.6 Reorienting global regulation so nanotechnology assists the Sustainocene
15.7 Reorienting the scientific quest toward nanotechnology’s role with the Sustainocene
15.8 Rethinking the ethics of corporate globalization
15.9 Reorienting international law to nanotechnology’s role with the Sustainocene
15.10 The moral culmination of nanoregulation in globalized artificial photosynthesis
References
Chapter 16. Sustainable Nanotechnology: A Regional Perspective
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Environmental considerations
16.3 Societal considerations
16.4 Economic considerations of nanotechnology and sustainability
16.5 Summary
Acknowledgments
References
Index
No. of pages: 464
Language: English
Edition: 2
Published: June 11, 2014
Imprint: William Andrew
Hardback ISBN: 9781455731886
eBook ISBN: 9781455731909
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Matthew Hull
Matthew Hull is Associate Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Virginia Tech’s National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NanoEarth). Hull is also president and owner of NanoSafe, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology human and environmental health and safety services he founded in 2007. He received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MS in Biology from Virginia Tech. He received his BSc In Environmental Science from Ferrum College.
Affiliations and expertise
President and Owner, NanoSafe, Inc.
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Diana Bowman
Diana M. Bowman is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Associate Professor in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she serves as the Associate Dean for International Engagement, and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she serves as the Associate Director for Students, at Arizona State University. She is also a visiting international scholar in the Faculty of Law at KU Leuven. Bowman’s research has primarily focused on the legal and policy issues associated with emerging technologies and public health law. Bowman earned her BSc (Physiology), a LLB, and a PhD in Law from Monash University. In August 2011, she was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Affiliations and expertise
Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Associate Professor in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she serves as the Associate Dean for International Engagement, and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she serves as the Associate Director for Students, at Arizona State University
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