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Author | : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781722314255 |
US EPA Agency Peer Review Handbook 4th Edition
Author | : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-07-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781722281601 |
Science Policy Council Peer Review Handbook 3rd Edition
Author | : United States. Office of Environmental Information |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Environmental sciences |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drinking water |
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Chemistry, Analytic |
ISBN | : 9780948926129 |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309212553 |
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency. To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making. This framework, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs.
Author | : Kerry L. Dearfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Peer review |
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Environmental risk assessment |
ISBN | : 1428904816 |
Author | : Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2017-05-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0190668962 |
The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing media environment in which misinformation can elicit belief without corrective context and likeminded individuals are prone to seek ideologically comforting information within their own self-constructed media enclaves. Drawing on the expertise of leading science communication scholars from six countries, The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication not only charts the media landscape - from news and entertainment to blogs and films - but also examines the powers and perils of human biases - from the disposition to seek confirming evidence to the inclination to overweight endpoints in a trend line. In the process, it draws together the best available social science on ways to communicate science while also minimizing the pernicious effects of human bias. The Handbook adds case studies exploring instances in which communication undercut or facilitated the access to scientific evidence. The range of topics addressed is wide, from genetically engineered organisms and nanotechnology to vaccination controversies and climate change. Also unique to this book is a focus on the complexities of involving the public in decision making about the uses of science, the regulations that should govern its application, and the ethical boundaries within which science should operate. The Handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers in the communication fields, particularly in science and health communication, as well as to scholars involved in research on scientific topics susceptible to distortion in partisan debate.
Author | : Paolo F. Ricci |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2020-07-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3030480666 |
Public health policy prospectively and retrospectively addresses the consequences of events ranging from the commonplace to the catastrophic. Informing policymakers and stakeholders by enhancing their understanding of complex causation to justify remedial or precautionary actions is a critical science-policy task. In this book, the key aspects of catastrophes (regardless of their nature) and routine events are identified through a common framework for their analyses, and the analyses of the consequences associated with the potential occurrence of these events also are discussed. The book is not about disaster planning; instead, it is focused on analysis and causation in the context of informing – rather than formulating – public health policy. The author aggregates and fuses scientific information and knowledge in public health policy-science using alternative but complementary methods. The book first focuses on the analysis of catastrophes and commonplace events; the focus then shifts to causal models of multifactorial diseases, particularly at low doses or dose-rates, associated with these events. Topics explored among the chapters include: Policy and Legal Aspects of Precautionary Choices Catastrophes, Disasters, and Calamities: Concepts for Their Assessment Uncertainty: Probabilistic and Statistical Aspects Aggregating Judgments to Inform Precautionary Decision-making The aim of the book is to show that the analyses of events are fundamentally similar, regardless of whether the concern is a global catastrophe or commonplace. Analysis of Catastrophes and Their Public Health Consequences is a text that should engage students, instructors, and researchers in public health, science policy, and preparedness research, as well as serve as a useful resource for policy analysts, practitioners, and risk managers.