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Paradigms lost : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds /

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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 reme...

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Main Author: Vallero, Daniel A.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Burlington : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006.
Subjects:
Environmental education > History.
Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
Éducation environnementale > Histoire.
Évaluation des effets cumulatifs (Environnement)
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Environmental education
Miljöfrågor.
Electronic books.
dissertations.
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.