Living In A Contaminated World
Subtitle: Community Structures, Environmental Risks, And Decision Frameworks (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780754642992
Subjects: Nature/Ecology; Environmental risk assessment; Environmental Science; Nature; Environmental Studies; United States; Pollution & threats to the environment; USA; Ecology; Case studies; Citizen participation; Environmental policy
First sentence: As the intimate connections between humans and their physical environments grow increasingly complex in the present 'era of mega risks' and technological obsessions (Beck, 1992), communities struggle to balance economic interests, development desires and survival needs.