Technological Risk: What Are the Real Dangers, If Any, of Toxic Chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, Microwave Radiation, Nuclear Power, Air - Softcover

Lewis, H. W.

 
9780393308297: Technological Risk: What Are the Real Dangers, If Any, of Toxic Chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, Microwave Radiation, Nuclear Power, Air
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393308294 ISBN 13: 9780393308297
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Risks seem to abound in our everyday lives, especially the risks flowing from the explosion of our modern technology, with its pesticides, pollution, nuclear power, microwave radiation and chemical trace elements in food of all kinds. Two questions face all of us: how real are these risks and, if real, how do we manage our lives in order to avoid personal damage from them? The book examines these questions, delving into the nature and true seriousness of risk (as opposed to how bad the risk seems to be), into how we measure risk and how we regulate it. Lewis includes the latest scientific information on carcinogens and the greenhouse effect as well as detailed discussion of road safety, the risk of air travel, nuclear power and acid rain.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

H. W. Lewis is a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has chaired numerous government risk-assessment committees on defense, nuclear power, and other matters.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393308294
ISBN 13 
9780393308297
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
372
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