Unraveling Environmental Disasters (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vallero, Daniel A.; Letcher, Trevor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future. - Named a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication - Treats disasters as complex systems - Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will happen if current transoceanic crude oil transport continues - Considers the impact of human systems on environmental disasters

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780123973177
• Artikelnr.: 38014362

Autorenporträt

Professor Daniel A. Vallero is a renowned environmental scientist and engineer with four decades of experience. He has advised U.S. government agencies on critical issues like PBTs, climate change, acid rain, and chemical risks. At Duke University, he led the Engineering Ethics program and taught courses on air pollution, sustainable design, and ethics. Vallero has served on the National Academy of Engineering's Online Ethics Committee and the National Institute of Engineering Ethics. An expert in emerging technologies, he focuses on societal, ethical, and public health challenges related to nanotechnology and environmental biotechnology. His work also encompasses emergency response and homeland security, making him a leading voice in environmental risk and ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Failures
2. Science
3. Explosions
4. Plumes
5. Leaks
6. Spills
7. Fires
8. Climate
9. Nature
10. Minerals
11. Recalcitrance
12. Radiation
13. Invasions
14. Products
15. Unsustainability
16. Society
17. Future
Glossary of Terms

Rezensionen

"This important, clearly written, well-organized book addresses a confluence of significant global issues and brings them into focus. Vallero.and Letcher.examine engineering failures within the context of generating environmental disasters.The book addresses related issues of sustainability, anthropogenic global warming, pesticide use and its impact on the food chain, vinyl chloride production, etc.Summing Up: Essential." --CHOICE Reviews Online, January 2014