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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frank Dunnivant , Kari NorgaardPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780231179195ISBN 10: 0231179197 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 21 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Securing Safe, Inexpensive Drinking Water 2. Effective Treatment of Our Wastewaters 3. The Removal of Anthropogenic Lead, and Soon Mercury, from Our Environment 4. Elimination of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons from Our Environment 5. The Safety of Chemicals in Our Food and Water: Risk Assessment 6. Saving Our Atmosphere for Our Children 7. Legislating Industry: The Need and the Success 8. The Rapid Advancement of Technology: Our Best Hope 9. Humans' Greatest Challenge: Climate Change 10. Conclusion and Transition to a Bright Future Afterword: Imagination, Imagination, Responsibility, and Climate Change, by Kari Marie Norgaard Bibliography IndexReviewsWalking the narrow line between technological optimist and doom-and-gloom environmentalist by presenting cases where society has solved major ecological challenges, Dunnivant shows how advances in environmental science and regulation have helped to solve some of humanity's biggest problems. Providing excellent background to those who are interested in environmental issues and their solutions, Environmental Success Stories shows how science, in concert with social movements, can affect real change. -- Walter Dodds, author of Humanity's Footprint Author InformationFrank M. Dunnivant is professor of chemistry at Whitman College. He has worked at two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories. For the past twenty years he has taught an environmental science course to nonscience majors that seeks to inform and inspire action to save the environment. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |