Reducing Toxics: A New Approach To Policy And Industrial Decisionmaking - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559633360 ISBN 13: 9781559633369

Publisher: Island Press, 1995

Synopsis

In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for developing a prevention framework, and apply these principles in analyzing industry case studies. Among the topics considered are: the evolution of, and limits to, current environmental policy incorporating prevention into production planning and decisionmaking do voluntary programs lead to industry greening or greenwashing? case studies of the chemical, aerosols, radiator repair and electric vehicle industries opportunities for and barriers to pollution prevention Reducing Toxics offers an analytic framework for defining and understanding different approaches in the toxics area and describes the basis for a new policy and industrial decisionmaking construct.

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About the Author

Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban Environmental Policy Institute. He is the author and co-author of ten books, including: The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City with UEPI faculty and staff Mark Vallianatos, Regina Freer and Peter Dreier (UC Press forthcoming 2004); Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Island Press, 1993); and Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (MIT Press, 2001). He is also the editor of the MIT Press series, "Urban and Industrial Environments." Professor Gottlieb was the 1996 University of California Distinguished Wellness Lecturer and has received the award on two occasions for supervising the most outstanding student project from the American Institute for Collegiate Planners.

Edition details

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559633360
• ISBN 13: 9781559633369
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Gottlieb Robert