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Biomedical ethics for engineers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Biomedical ethics for engineers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Collana | The biomedical engineering series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biomedical engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Bioethics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-04896-8
9786611048969 0-08-047610-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Biomedical Ethics for Engineers: Ethics and Decision Making in Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; DONE IS GOOD; STRUCTURE AND PEDAGOGY; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Acknowledgments; Bioethics Questions Posed in Text; Prologue: Bioethics - Discovery through Design; A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BIOETHICS; ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST CASE ANALYSIS; DRIVER'S EDUCATION ANALOGY; EXAMPLE CASE: PRIMING THE PUMP; CASE ANALYSIS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 1 Bioethics: A Creative Approach; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; Teachable Moment: Trust
THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT Teachable Moment: The Engineer as Agent versus Judge; Amy the Engineer; Teachable Moment: Who Was Van Rensselaer Potter?; CREDAT EMPTOR; Teachable Moment: Capital Punishment, Abortion, and the Definition of Human Life; THE GOOD ENGINEER; FEEDBACK AND ENHANCEMENT OF DESIGN; Teachable Moment: The Good Engineer; The Profession of Engineering; ENGINEERING BIOETHICS AND MORALITY; Discussion Box: Ethics and the Butterfly Effect; "SMALL" ERROR AND DEVASTATING OUTCOMES; TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND ECONOMICS Teachable Moment: The Dismal Scientist versus the Technological Optimist ENGINEERING COMPETENCE; ENGINEERING: BOTH INTEGRATED AND SPECIALIZED; WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL?; WHAT IS TECHNICAL?; SYSTEMATICS: INCORPORATING ETHICS INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 2 Bioethics and the Engineer; MAJOR BIOETHICAL AREAS; CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH; Teachable Moment: Nanog; HUMAN ENHANCEMENT; PATENTING LIFE; Teachable Moment: Patenting Germplasm; NEUROETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF HUMAN RESEARCH; ANIMAL TESTING; Is the Research Worth It? Systematic Reality Check GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS; Transgenic Species; Food; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE ETHICS OF SCALE AND THE SCALE OF ETHICS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF BIOETHICAL DECISIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDIES; Agent Orange; Japanese Metal Industries; Minamata Mercury Case; Cadmium and Itai Itai Disease; SCALE IS MORE THAN SIZE; Love Canal; Times Beach; Teachable Moment: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts; ACTIVE ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORIES: A PRIMER; Truth; Psychological Aspects of Ethics Teachable Moment: The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health Fairness; Value as a Bioethical and Engineering Concept; Technical Optimism versus Dismal Science; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 3 An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement; PROFESSIONAL ZEITGEIST: HOW ENGINEERS THINK; IMPROVEMENT VERSUS ENHANCEMENT; Engineering Intuition; Engineers versus Economists; Intuiting Value; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Precursors to Intuition; Creativity; MORAL COHERENCE; CREATIVITY AND BIOETHICS; THE ETHICAL QUANDARY OF ENHANCEMENT; SCIENTIFIC DISSENT; NOTES AND COMMENTARY Chapter 4 The Bioethical Engineer |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457957803321 |
Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biomedical ethics for engineers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Biomedical ethics for engineers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Collana | The biomedical engineering series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biomedical engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Bioethics |
| ISBN |
1-281-04896-8
9786611048969 0-08-047610-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Biomedical Ethics for Engineers: Ethics and Decision Making in Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; DONE IS GOOD; STRUCTURE AND PEDAGOGY; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Acknowledgments; Bioethics Questions Posed in Text; Prologue: Bioethics - Discovery through Design; A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BIOETHICS; ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST CASE ANALYSIS; DRIVER'S EDUCATION ANALOGY; EXAMPLE CASE: PRIMING THE PUMP; CASE ANALYSIS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 1 Bioethics: A Creative Approach; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; Teachable Moment: Trust
THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT Teachable Moment: The Engineer as Agent versus Judge; Amy the Engineer; Teachable Moment: Who Was Van Rensselaer Potter?; CREDAT EMPTOR; Teachable Moment: Capital Punishment, Abortion, and the Definition of Human Life; THE GOOD ENGINEER; FEEDBACK AND ENHANCEMENT OF DESIGN; Teachable Moment: The Good Engineer; The Profession of Engineering; ENGINEERING BIOETHICS AND MORALITY; Discussion Box: Ethics and the Butterfly Effect; "SMALL" ERROR AND DEVASTATING OUTCOMES; TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND ECONOMICS Teachable Moment: The Dismal Scientist versus the Technological Optimist ENGINEERING COMPETENCE; ENGINEERING: BOTH INTEGRATED AND SPECIALIZED; WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL?; WHAT IS TECHNICAL?; SYSTEMATICS: INCORPORATING ETHICS INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 2 Bioethics and the Engineer; MAJOR BIOETHICAL AREAS; CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH; Teachable Moment: Nanog; HUMAN ENHANCEMENT; PATENTING LIFE; Teachable Moment: Patenting Germplasm; NEUROETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF HUMAN RESEARCH; ANIMAL TESTING; Is the Research Worth It? Systematic Reality Check GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS; Transgenic Species; Food; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE ETHICS OF SCALE AND THE SCALE OF ETHICS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF BIOETHICAL DECISIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDIES; Agent Orange; Japanese Metal Industries; Minamata Mercury Case; Cadmium and Itai Itai Disease; SCALE IS MORE THAN SIZE; Love Canal; Times Beach; Teachable Moment: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts; ACTIVE ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORIES: A PRIMER; Truth; Psychological Aspects of Ethics Teachable Moment: The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health Fairness; Value as a Bioethical and Engineering Concept; Technical Optimism versus Dismal Science; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 3 An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement; PROFESSIONAL ZEITGEIST: HOW ENGINEERS THINK; IMPROVEMENT VERSUS ENHANCEMENT; Engineering Intuition; Engineers versus Economists; Intuiting Value; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Precursors to Intuition; Creativity; MORAL COHERENCE; CREATIVITY AND BIOETHICS; THE ETHICAL QUANDARY OF ENHANCEMENT; SCIENTIFIC DISSENT; NOTES AND COMMENTARY Chapter 4 The Bioethical Engineer |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784350103321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biomedical ethics for engineers : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Biomedical ethics for engineers : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Collana | The biomedical engineering series |
| Soggetto topico |
Biomedical engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics Bioethics |
| ISBN |
1-281-04896-8
9786611048969 0-08-047610-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Biomedical Ethics for Engineers: Ethics and Decision Making in Biomedical and Biosystem Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; DONE IS GOOD; STRUCTURE AND PEDAGOGY; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Acknowledgments; Bioethics Questions Posed in Text; Prologue: Bioethics - Discovery through Design; A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BIOETHICS; ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST CASE ANALYSIS; DRIVER'S EDUCATION ANALOGY; EXAMPLE CASE: PRIMING THE PUMP; CASE ANALYSIS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 1 Bioethics: A Creative Approach; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; Teachable Moment: Trust
THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT Teachable Moment: The Engineer as Agent versus Judge; Amy the Engineer; Teachable Moment: Who Was Van Rensselaer Potter?; CREDAT EMPTOR; Teachable Moment: Capital Punishment, Abortion, and the Definition of Human Life; THE GOOD ENGINEER; FEEDBACK AND ENHANCEMENT OF DESIGN; Teachable Moment: The Good Engineer; The Profession of Engineering; ENGINEERING BIOETHICS AND MORALITY; Discussion Box: Ethics and the Butterfly Effect; "SMALL" ERROR AND DEVASTATING OUTCOMES; TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND ECONOMICS Teachable Moment: The Dismal Scientist versus the Technological Optimist ENGINEERING COMPETENCE; ENGINEERING: BOTH INTEGRATED AND SPECIALIZED; WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL?; WHAT IS TECHNICAL?; SYSTEMATICS: INCORPORATING ETHICS INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 2 Bioethics and the Engineer; MAJOR BIOETHICAL AREAS; CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH; Teachable Moment: Nanog; HUMAN ENHANCEMENT; PATENTING LIFE; Teachable Moment: Patenting Germplasm; NEUROETHICS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF HUMAN RESEARCH; ANIMAL TESTING; Is the Research Worth It? Systematic Reality Check GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS; Transgenic Species; Food; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE ETHICS OF SCALE AND THE SCALE OF ETHICS; TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF BIOETHICAL DECISIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDIES; Agent Orange; Japanese Metal Industries; Minamata Mercury Case; Cadmium and Itai Itai Disease; SCALE IS MORE THAN SIZE; Love Canal; Times Beach; Teachable Moment: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts; ACTIVE ENGINEERING; ETHICAL THEORIES: A PRIMER; Truth; Psychological Aspects of Ethics Teachable Moment: The Physiome Project: The Macroethics of Engineering toward Health Fairness; Value as a Bioethical and Engineering Concept; Technical Optimism versus Dismal Science; NOTES AND COMMENTARY; Chapter 3 An Engineered Future: Human Enhancement; PROFESSIONAL ZEITGEIST: HOW ENGINEERS THINK; IMPROVEMENT VERSUS ENHANCEMENT; Engineering Intuition; Engineers versus Economists; Intuiting Value; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Precursors to Intuition; Creativity; MORAL COHERENCE; CREATIVITY AND BIOETHICS; THE ETHICAL QUANDARY OF ENHANCEMENT; SCIENTIFIC DISSENT; NOTES AND COMMENTARY Chapter 4 The Bioethical Engineer |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828428703321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environmental contaminants [[electronic resource] ] : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Environmental contaminants [[electronic resource] ] : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (841 p.) |
| Disciplina | 628.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection
Environmental risk assessment |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-96151-1
9786610961511 0-08-047035-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Front matter; Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer; Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering; Part III: Contaminant Risk; Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination; Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; APPENDIX 1: Information Needed to Prepare Environmental Impact Statements; APPENDIX 2: Safe Drinking Water Act Contaminants and Maximum Contaminant Levels; APPENDIX 3: Toxic Compounds Listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments; APPENDIX 4: Physical Constants; APPENDIX 5: Universal Constants
APPENDIX 6: Constants Frequently Applied in the Physical Sciences APPENDIX 7: Periodic Table of Elements; APPENDIX 8: Minimum Risk Levels for Chemicals; APPENDIX 9: Physical Contaminants; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458520703321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environmental contaminants : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Environmental contaminants : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxix, 801 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 628.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection
Environmental risk assessment |
| ISBN |
1-280-96151-1
9786610961511 0-08-047035-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Front matter; Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer; Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering; Part III: Contaminant Risk; Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination; Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; APPENDIX 1: Information Needed to Prepare Environmental Impact Statements; APPENDIX 2: Safe Drinking Water Act Contaminants and Maximum Contaminant Levels; APPENDIX 3: Toxic Compounds Listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments; APPENDIX 4: Physical Constants; APPENDIX 5: Universal Constants; APPENDIX 6: Constants Frequently Applied in the Physical Sciences APPENDIX 7: Periodic Table of Elements; APPENDIX 8: Minimum Risk Levels for Chemicals; APPENDIX 9: Physical Contaminants; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784567003321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Environmental contaminants : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Environmental contaminants : assessment and control / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxix, 801 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 628.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection
Environmental risk assessment |
| ISBN |
1-280-96151-1
9786610961511 0-08-047035-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Front matter; Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer; Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering; Part III: Contaminant Risk; Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination; Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; APPENDIX 1: Information Needed to Prepare Environmental Impact Statements; APPENDIX 2: Safe Drinking Water Act Contaminants and Maximum Contaminant Levels; APPENDIX 3: Toxic Compounds Listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments; APPENDIX 4: Physical Constants; APPENDIX 5: Universal Constants; APPENDIX 6: Constants Frequently Applied in the Physical Sciences APPENDIX 7: Periodic Table of Elements; APPENDIX 8: Minimum Risk Levels for Chemicals; APPENDIX 9: Physical Contaminants; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817549503321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Amsterdam ; ; London, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Paradigms lost [[electronic resource] ] : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Paradigms lost [[electronic resource] ] : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental education - History
Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-64260-2
9786610642601 0-08-045796-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Table of Contents; Preface and Introduction; Structure and Emphasis; Quality Control; Acknowledgments; Notes and Commentary; Part I: New Science and New Paradigms; CHAPTER 1: Lessons Learned: A Case Approach to Environmental Problems; MTBE and Cross-Media Transfer; The Incremental Effect; Failure and Blame; A Lesson from the Medical Community; Professional Accountability; Villain and Victim Status; Other Lessons: Risk and Reliability; Environmental Ethics and a New Environmental Ethic; Sensitivity; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 2: Pollution Revisited; DDT versus Eco-Colonialism: Trading Risks
ReliabilityCharacterizing Pollutants; Partitioning to Solids-Sorption; Partitioning to the Liquid Phase-Dissolution; Partitioning to the Gas Phase-Volatilization; Solubility as a Physical and Chemical Phenomenon; Partitioning to Organic Tissue; Emissions, Effluents, Releases, Leaks, and Spills; Notes and Commentary; Part II: Key Environmental Events by Media; Fluids in the Environment: A Brief Introduction; Three Major Media; CHAPTER 3: Something in the Air; London Air Pollution and the Industrial Revolution; Contaminants of Concern: Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds Notorious Air Pollution Cases of the Twentieth CenturyThe Meuse Valley Acid Fog; Contaminants of Concern: Particulate Matter; Donora, Pennsylvania; Poza Rica, Mexico; Contaminant of Concern: Hydrogen Sulfide; London, England; New York City; Toxic Clouds; The Bhopal Tragedy; Preparing for Intentional Toxic Clouds; Airshed in the Developing World: Mexico City; Lessons Learned; Contaminant of Concern: Photochemical Oxidant Smog; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 4: Watershed Events; The Death of Lake Erie: The Price of Progress?; Eutrophication; Cuyahoga River Fire Lesson Learned: The Need for Regional Environmental PlanningSpills: Immediate Problem with Long-Term Consequences; Solubility; Torrey Canyon Tanker Spill; Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Exxon Valdez Spill: Disaster Experienced and Disaster Avoided; Prestige Oil Spill; Lessons Learned: Two-Edged Swords; Pfiesteria piscicida: Nature Out of Sync; Lesson Being Learned; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 5: Landmark Cases; Love Canal, New York; Hazardous Waste Cleanup; A Fire That Sparked Controversy: Chester, Pennsylvania; Dioxin Contamination of Times Beach; A Terrifying Discovery: Valley of the Drums Stringfellow Acid PitsThe March Continues; Lessons Learned; Failure to Grasp the Land Ethic; Disasters: Real and Perceived; "Cancer Alley" and Vinyl Chloride; Bioaccumulation and Its Influence on Risk; The Kepone Tragedy; Biological Response; Organic versus Inorganic Toxicants; Pesticides and Sterility; Jersey City Chromium; Radioisotopes; Radiation Poisoning in Goiania, Brazil; Factors of Safety; Small Numbers and Rare Events; Exposure Estimation; Risk-Based Cleanup Standards; The Drake Chemical Company Superfund Site: A Risk-Based Case; Risk Assessment: The First Step; Notes and Commentary CHAPTER 6: By Way of Introduction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457302703321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Paradigms lost [[electronic resource] ] : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Paradigms lost [[electronic resource] ] : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental education - History
Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment) |
| ISBN |
1-280-64260-2
9786610642601 0-08-045796-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Table of Contents; Preface and Introduction; Structure and Emphasis; Quality Control; Acknowledgments; Notes and Commentary; Part I: New Science and New Paradigms; CHAPTER 1: Lessons Learned: A Case Approach to Environmental Problems; MTBE and Cross-Media Transfer; The Incremental Effect; Failure and Blame; A Lesson from the Medical Community; Professional Accountability; Villain and Victim Status; Other Lessons: Risk and Reliability; Environmental Ethics and a New Environmental Ethic; Sensitivity; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 2: Pollution Revisited; DDT versus Eco-Colonialism: Trading Risks
ReliabilityCharacterizing Pollutants; Partitioning to Solids-Sorption; Partitioning to the Liquid Phase-Dissolution; Partitioning to the Gas Phase-Volatilization; Solubility as a Physical and Chemical Phenomenon; Partitioning to Organic Tissue; Emissions, Effluents, Releases, Leaks, and Spills; Notes and Commentary; Part II: Key Environmental Events by Media; Fluids in the Environment: A Brief Introduction; Three Major Media; CHAPTER 3: Something in the Air; London Air Pollution and the Industrial Revolution; Contaminants of Concern: Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds Notorious Air Pollution Cases of the Twentieth CenturyThe Meuse Valley Acid Fog; Contaminants of Concern: Particulate Matter; Donora, Pennsylvania; Poza Rica, Mexico; Contaminant of Concern: Hydrogen Sulfide; London, England; New York City; Toxic Clouds; The Bhopal Tragedy; Preparing for Intentional Toxic Clouds; Airshed in the Developing World: Mexico City; Lessons Learned; Contaminant of Concern: Photochemical Oxidant Smog; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 4: Watershed Events; The Death of Lake Erie: The Price of Progress?; Eutrophication; Cuyahoga River Fire Lesson Learned: The Need for Regional Environmental PlanningSpills: Immediate Problem with Long-Term Consequences; Solubility; Torrey Canyon Tanker Spill; Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Exxon Valdez Spill: Disaster Experienced and Disaster Avoided; Prestige Oil Spill; Lessons Learned: Two-Edged Swords; Pfiesteria piscicida: Nature Out of Sync; Lesson Being Learned; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 5: Landmark Cases; Love Canal, New York; Hazardous Waste Cleanup; A Fire That Sparked Controversy: Chester, Pennsylvania; Dioxin Contamination of Times Beach; A Terrifying Discovery: Valley of the Drums Stringfellow Acid PitsThe March Continues; Lessons Learned; Failure to Grasp the Land Ethic; Disasters: Real and Perceived; "Cancer Alley" and Vinyl Chloride; Bioaccumulation and Its Influence on Risk; The Kepone Tragedy; Biological Response; Organic versus Inorganic Toxicants; Pesticides and Sterility; Jersey City Chromium; Radioisotopes; Radiation Poisoning in Goiania, Brazil; Factors of Safety; Small Numbers and Rare Events; Exposure Estimation; Risk-Based Cleanup Standards; The Drake Chemical Company Superfund Site: A Risk-Based Case; Risk Assessment: The First Step; Notes and Commentary CHAPTER 6: By Way of Introduction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784363103321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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| Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Paradigms lost : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero
| Paradigms lost : learning from environmental mistakes, mishaps, and misdeeds / / Daniel A. Vallero |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, c 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (595 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental education - History
Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment) |
| ISBN |
1-280-64260-2
9786610642601 0-08-045796-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Table of Contents; Preface and Introduction; Structure and Emphasis; Quality Control; Acknowledgments; Notes and Commentary; Part I: New Science and New Paradigms; CHAPTER 1: Lessons Learned: A Case Approach to Environmental Problems; MTBE and Cross-Media Transfer; The Incremental Effect; Failure and Blame; A Lesson from the Medical Community; Professional Accountability; Villain and Victim Status; Other Lessons: Risk and Reliability; Environmental Ethics and a New Environmental Ethic; Sensitivity; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 2: Pollution Revisited; DDT versus Eco-Colonialism: Trading Risks
ReliabilityCharacterizing Pollutants; Partitioning to Solids-Sorption; Partitioning to the Liquid Phase-Dissolution; Partitioning to the Gas Phase-Volatilization; Solubility as a Physical and Chemical Phenomenon; Partitioning to Organic Tissue; Emissions, Effluents, Releases, Leaks, and Spills; Notes and Commentary; Part II: Key Environmental Events by Media; Fluids in the Environment: A Brief Introduction; Three Major Media; CHAPTER 3: Something in the Air; London Air Pollution and the Industrial Revolution; Contaminants of Concern: Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds Notorious Air Pollution Cases of the Twentieth CenturyThe Meuse Valley Acid Fog; Contaminants of Concern: Particulate Matter; Donora, Pennsylvania; Poza Rica, Mexico; Contaminant of Concern: Hydrogen Sulfide; London, England; New York City; Toxic Clouds; The Bhopal Tragedy; Preparing for Intentional Toxic Clouds; Airshed in the Developing World: Mexico City; Lessons Learned; Contaminant of Concern: Photochemical Oxidant Smog; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 4: Watershed Events; The Death of Lake Erie: The Price of Progress?; Eutrophication; Cuyahoga River Fire Lesson Learned: The Need for Regional Environmental PlanningSpills: Immediate Problem with Long-Term Consequences; Solubility; Torrey Canyon Tanker Spill; Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Exxon Valdez Spill: Disaster Experienced and Disaster Avoided; Prestige Oil Spill; Lessons Learned: Two-Edged Swords; Pfiesteria piscicida: Nature Out of Sync; Lesson Being Learned; Notes and Commentary; CHAPTER 5: Landmark Cases; Love Canal, New York; Hazardous Waste Cleanup; A Fire That Sparked Controversy: Chester, Pennsylvania; Dioxin Contamination of Times Beach; A Terrifying Discovery: Valley of the Drums Stringfellow Acid PitsThe March Continues; Lessons Learned; Failure to Grasp the Land Ethic; Disasters: Real and Perceived; "Cancer Alley" and Vinyl Chloride; Bioaccumulation and Its Influence on Risk; The Kepone Tragedy; Biological Response; Organic versus Inorganic Toxicants; Pesticides and Sterility; Jersey City Chromium; Radioisotopes; Radiation Poisoning in Goiania, Brazil; Factors of Safety; Small Numbers and Rare Events; Exposure Estimation; Risk-Based Cleanup Standards; The Drake Chemical Company Superfund Site: A Risk-Based Case; Risk Assessment: The First Step; Notes and Commentary CHAPTER 6: By Way of Introduction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815973903321 |
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Vallero Daniel A
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Socially responsible engineering : justice in risk management
| Socially responsible engineering : justice in risk management |
| Autore | Vallero Daniel A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley, 2007 |
| Disciplina | 174/.9628 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental ethics Engineering ethics Environmental Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering Engineering & Applied Sciences |
| ISBN |
0-470-12143-2
0-470-36420-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910144592403321 |
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| [Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley, 2007 | ||
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