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Beyond Risk: An Ecological Paradigm to Prevent Global Chemical Pollution
Publication Date:
June 15, 2000Abstract:
Describes how the "risk assessment" approach to chemical regulation has created a fully-contaminated world, and suggests alternative policies that might actually protect the environment and human health from industrial poisons....Read/download:
Beyond Risk: An Ecological Paradigm to Prevent Global Chemical Pollution, (PDF, 110 KB)