Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health - Softcover

Wargo, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300167903 ISBN 13: 9780300167900

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

An environmental expert offers sound advice on the world's growing chemical dangers

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts a

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About the Author

John Wargo is Professor of Risk Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Political Science at Yale University and Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program. He holds appointments in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Political Science. He has been a member of EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel on Pesticides and advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, the Vice President's office, several EPA administrators and the U.N.'s World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization. Green Intelligence Creating Environments that Protect Human Health won the 2010 Independent Publishers Award in Environment, Ecology and Nature and the Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction. It was one of Scientific American's Favorite Science Books for 2009, a ForeWord 2009 Book of the Year Award finalist, and selected by CEO-READ as one of the Best Books of 2009 in the "Big Ideas" category. He was the recipient of the American Association of Publishers award for Best Scholarly & Professional Book in Government and Political Science in 1997 for Our Children's Toxic Legacy. 
      

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300167903
• ISBN 13: 9780300167900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394