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  title info:
    title: Paradigms lost
    sub title: learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds
  name:
    name part: Vallero, Daniel A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: dissertations.
  genre: History
  genre: Academic theses.
  genre: Thèses et écrits académiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Burlington
    publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
    date issued: c 2006
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxii, 563 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health. However, all too often, society and the scientific community do not realize the connections between environmental occurrences. In their haste to remedy a situation, they overlook lessons that could be learned to prevent future disasters. Paying attention to the past instructs us about the future. Paradigms Lost combines the historical case perspective with credible and sound scientific explanations of key environmental disasters and problems. The author sorts through natural disasters and human mistakes from Love Canal, New York to Bhopal, India to provide larger lessons that can be applied by scientists, engineers and public safety officials. The analysis of these events includes viable alternatives for future generations. * Includes alternative approaches to environmental issues from preventative measures to contingency plans * Richly annotated with sidebars, discussion boxes and generous examples from Exxon Valdez and Love Canal to Agent Orange and Bhopal * A usable tool for all professionals from lawyers to chemical engineers.
  table of contents: Lessons learned : a case approach to environmental problems -- pollution revisited -- Something in the air -- Watershed events -- Landmark cases -- By way of introduction -- Environmental swords of damocles -- Dropping acid and heavy metal reactions -- Spaceship Earth -- Myths and ideology : perception versus reality -- Just environmental decisions, please -- Bottom lines and top of the head guesses.
  note: Daniel A. Vallero.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental education
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
  subject:
    topic: Éducation environnementale
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Évaluation des effets cumulatifs (Environnement)
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry
    topic: Environmental)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
  subject:
    topic: Environmental education
  subject:
    topic: Miljöfrågor
  classification: GE70 .V35 2006eb
  classification: 363.7
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    title info:
      title: Paradigms lost
    name:
      name part: Vallero, Daniel A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2006
    identifier: (DLC) 2005024537
    identifier: (OCoLC)61456533
  identifier: 0080457967
  identifier: 9780080457963
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  identifier: 9781280642609
  identifier: 9786610642601
  identifier: 6610642605
  identifier: 9780750678889
  identifier: 0750678887
  identifier: 109802:109850 Elsevier Science & Technology
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070806
    record change date: 20260326152231.5
    record identifier: in00005733495
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng