Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals - New Ethical and Scientific Concepts for Risk Assessment

Hardcover  XIV, 294 Pages  ISBN 3527305270      £90.00

Chemical risk assessment for the thousands of chemicals currently in use is a near-impossible task with the methodology used so far. This book provides the first coherent introduction to a new concept based on the criteria of persistence and spatial range. The concept makes chemical risk assessment manageable while still providing a meaningful evaluation of each chemical. Essential reading for everybody needing to stay in touch with the progress in scientific research on environmental chemicals or the current debate on chemicals regulation.

From the contents

Preface
Connecting environmental chemistry and ethics
Unresolved problems in environmental risk assessment of chemicals
Overcomplexity and normative indeterminacy of environmental systems
Environmental chemicals: persistence, spatial range and ecological ethics
Persistence and spatial range as measures of environmental threat
Quantifying persistence and spatial range
Model calculations of persistence and spatial range
Implications for chemicals assessment
Mathematics of multimedia transport models
Glossary
Index
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