Regulation of Science and Technology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-11-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:516 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Regulation
Antal sidor:274
Upplaga:2002
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333790458

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Folkrätt inom Juridik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

HELEN LAWTON SMITH is Research Fellow in the Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry University and Director of Science Policy Studies of the Regulatory Policy Research Centre at Hertford College, Oxford University. She is currently a partner in an EU TSER Network on Networks, Collective Learning and RTD in Regionally-Clustered, High-Technology SMEs.

Innehållsförteckning

The Devil's Water A Natural Disaster Fool's Gold The Verdant Assassin Healing Arsenic To Frustrate The Aim Of Justice Nothing Green Met The Eye The Extraordinarily Protracted Process Fighting Arsenic