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One of every six children suffers from a neurodevelopmental abnormality of unknown cause. Environmental pollutants such as lead, mercury, and pesticides interfere with brain development, yet we do not test industrial chemicals for brain toxicity.

Explores the connection between technological risk and basic concepts of liberal political theory and practice. The author argues that modern risks are emergent and therefore not reducible to individual actors or events, and that risks challenge basic concepts of liberal political theory.

Extrapolation consists of generalizing causal conclusions from one context to others that may differ in relevant aspects. In Across the Boundaries, Steel argues that previous accounts of extrapolation are inadequate and proposes a better approach that is able to answer methodological critiques of extrapolation from animal models to humans.

In this contributed volume, issues of what counts as evidence of risk are discussed. The authors show that value judgements enter into expert and non-expert characterization of evidence of risk, but they deny that this means that no choice about risk management is better than another, and demonstrate the possibility and importance of objectively grounded risk assessment.

This work critically examines the thesis that public lands would be more productive if they were private, or, failing that, managed as if they were private. The discussion includes background chapters on US federal lands, management agencies, economics and ethics.

A criticism of the view that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric ideals are antithetical to sound environmental policy in the ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND SCIENCE POLICY series. The author defends a biocentric individualist stance, claiming that this view can also support the goals on the environmentalist agenda.

Offers a philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation, this title shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population.

Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise - a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of hormesis (beneficial or stimulatory effects caused by low-dose exposure to toxic substances) claim that that this may be the case.s A Little Pollution Good For You? critically examines the current evidence for hormesis.

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.

Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming disaster. In The Perfect Moral Storm, Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure.

This is the first book on practical philosophy of science and how to practically evaluate scientific findings that have life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws - typically used by special interests who try to justify their deadly pollution - this book aims to liberate the many potential victims of environmentally-induced disease and death.