Chemicals without harm : policies for a sustainable world / Ken Geiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geiser, Ken, author.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Green chemistry.

Chemicals--Safety measures.

Chemicals.

Chemical industry--Waste minimization.

Chemical industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even our children's toys. Many of these chemicals help us live longer and more comfortable lives, but some of these highly useful chemicals are also persistent, toxic, and dangerous to our health and the environment. For fifty years, the conventional approach to hazardous chemicals has focused on regulation, barriers, and protection. In Chemicals without Harm, Ken Geiser proposes a different strategy, based on developing and adopting safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.

Contents:

I The Problem with Chemicals 1

1 Chemical Control Policies 15

2 Regulating Hazardous Chemicals 17

3 Reassessing Chemical Control Policies 37

II Refraining Chemical Policies 59

4 Considering New Initiatives 61

5 Refraining the Chemicals Problem 83

6 Understanding the Chemical Economy 105

III A Chemical Conversion Strategy 127

7 Driving the Chemical Market 129

8 Transforming the Chemical Industry 155

9 Designing Greener Chemistry 181

IV Safer Chemical Policies 201

10 Characterizing and Prioritizing Chemicals 203

11 Generating Chemical Information 225

12 Substituting Safer Chemicals 247

13 Developing Safer Alternatives 271

14 Drafting Safer Chemical Policies 291

V Chemicals without Harm 313

15 Reconstructing Government Capacity 315

16 Solving the Chemicals Problem 339.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262327015

0262327015

OCLC:

910623001

Access Restriction:

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