Nanotechnology
Subtitle: health and environmental risks
By: Jo Anne Shatkin.
Series: Perspectives in nanotechnology
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420053630
Subjects: Nanotechnology -- Risk assessment; Nanotechnology -- Health aspects; Nanotechnology -- Environmental aspects; Nanotechnology; Risk Assessment; Environmental Pollutants -- toxicity; Occupational Exposure -- adverse effects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: assessing nanotechnology health and environmental risks; title: Defining risk assessment and how it is used for environmental protection, and its potential role for managing nanotechnology risks; title: Sustainable nanotechnology development using risk assessment and applying life cycle thinking; title: The state of the science: human health, toxicology, and nano-technological risk / Brenda E. Barry; title: The state of the science: environmental risks; title: NANO LCRA an adaptive screening-level life cycle risk assessment framework for nanotechnology; title: Alternative approaches for life cycle risk assessment for nanotechnology and comprehensive environmental assessment / Jo Anne Shatkin and J. Michael Davis; title: Current and proposed approaches for managing risks in occupational environments / Brenda E. Barry; title: Ongoing international efforts to address risk issues for nanotechnology.