Pollution Prevention Research Program (EPA)

Pollution Prevention Research Program (EPA)
Author: Gregory Ondich
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1996-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788129575

A comprehensive overview of pollution prevention in the U.S. Begins by explaining what pollution prevention is, the EPA's strategies and research programs, and research priorities. Identifies priority environmental problems and discusses problem-specific research on such subjects as indoor air pollutants, pesticides, ozone depleting substances, and more. Covers the importance of research programs and the tools used to implement them. Many diagrams. Extensive bibliography.

Priorities and Key Activities of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics' Pollution Prevention Division

Priorities and Key Activities of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics' Pollution Prevention Division
Author: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289191979

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

Worst Things First

Worst Things First
Author: Adam M. Finkel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1135890269

For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7)

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7)
Author: Charles N. Mock
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1464805237

The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these settings. The volume's contributors demonstrate that implementation of a range of prevention strategies-presented in an essential package of interventions and policies-could achieve a convergence in death and disability rates that would avert more than 7.5 million deaths a year.