Eco-facts & eco-fiction: understanding the environmental debate
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Routledge
1996
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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 264 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0415130204 0415130212 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures x
List of tables xi
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction 1
How it started 1
Where we are going 7
2 The Three Es: earth, ecology, and environment 9
A global picture 9
Human endeavours 15
Is the sky the limit? 20
3 Science and the scientists 25
Science and technology 25
People in science 29
The methods of science and the scientific method 33
The information trade 37
4 Chemistry, chemicals, and the chemists 42
Chemistry 42
Chemicals 47
Chemical factoids 53
Living better with chemistry 58
Contents
5 How toxic is toxic? 62
Toxic agents 62
Measurements 67
Making sense of it 74
The philosopher s pet 81
6 Cancer everywhere? 87
The double helix 88
Agents of cancer 92
Prospect and retrospect 99
7 Energy and the laws of nature 105
Foray into physics 105
Resources 110
Options and alternatives 118
8 Air for breathing 124
The great outdoors 125
The safe indoors 134
9 Water for drinking 143
Plenty of water... 143
... And not a drop to drink? 151
10 Food for eating 161
Okr daily bread 162
Of vegetables and medicines 173
11 Waste not, want not 180
Waste management 180
Rs and myths 186
12 Organochlorines killer chemicals? 199
Chlorine 200
The unuHDited 207
Organoclilorine behaviour 212
Health effects 215
viii
Contents
13 Conclusion 224
Notes 232
Name index 256
Subject index 259
ix
Figures
2.1 Exponential human population growth 19
2.2 Time space perspective of environmental concerns 22
4.1 A molecular model of vitamin C natural or synthetic, who can tell? 51
5.1 A dose response curve showing the LD50, the NOEL, and a linear 69
extrapolation to zero threshold
5.2 A complete dose response curve showing hormesis and a high dose 72
NOEL
7.1 Preventable air pollution in the city carcinogenic PAHs in diesel 116
exhaust
11.1 Depot collection of recyclables avoiding the environmental insult of 188
curbside collection
12.1 Where there is fire, there is smoke but what s in the smoke? 211
13.1 Modern instrumentation a millionfold more sensitive than in the 230
1950s, but it cannot measure zero
Tables
4.1 Some common chemicals from the medicine cabinet 59
4.2 Synthetic fibres and other polymers 60
10.1 Some examples of natural toxins in food plants 175
12.1 Comparative toxicity of TCDD and some other well known toxic 221
agents
12.2 Relative toxicity of TCDD in different species 221
12.3 Industrial accidents involving dioxins 222
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