Regulating Chemical Accumulation in the Environment: The Integration of Toxicology and Economics in Environmental Policy-Making

Book Overview

The environment has become exposed to a range of damaging contaminants from a wide variety of sources. Regulation of and legislation against offending parties has frequently been hampered because of the difficulty of co-operation between disparate disciplines in the natural, social and political sciences. This volume forms the conclusion of five years' collaboration between toxicologists, economists and lawyers in the understanding and solution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088569
• ISBN13: 9780521088565
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"