ISBN: 9780801435331 - Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some edgewear. A nice, bright copy. ; 9.0 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches; 168 pages.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0801435331. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780801435331.…

Condition: as new. Ithaca :Cornell University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 192 pp. - Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters? Uncertain Hazards takes neither path. In exploring the all-too-common problem of scientific uncertainty about links between pollution and public health, Sylvia Noble Tesh shows that much of the problem can be traced to the newness of the environmental movement. The inability of scientists to find data corroborating citizens' claims stems partly from the "pre-environmentalist" assumptions still influencing the environmental health sciences, Tesh says. On the other hand, the conviction of activists that industrial pollutants threaten their health results from the environmental movement's success in promoting new ideas about nature. Tesh points to ways that environmentalist ideas have begun to affect science, thus making more likely the discovery of links between exposure to industrial pollutants and a community's health problems. Those ways include the expansion of diseases construed as environmental in cause, the study of society's most vulnerable citizens in determining safe levels of pollution, and a new focus on the effects of exposure to chemical mixtures. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780801435331. Keywords : Environment, Environmentalism -- Social aspects.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Gebunden. Condition: New. Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters? Uncertain.

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