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Poisoned for pennies : the economics of toxics and precaution / by Frank Ackerman

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2008]Description: xxvii, 317 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781597264013
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
DDC classification:
  • 363.7384
Contents:
Pricing the priceless
Was environment protection ever a good idea?
The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs
Precaution, uncertainty, and dioxin
The economics of Atrazine
Ignoring the benefits of pesticides regulation
Mad cows and computer models
Costs of preventable childhood illness
Phasing out a problem plastic
The costs of REACH
Impacts of REACH on developing countries
How should the United States responds to REACH?
Economics and precautionary Policies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.

Pricing the priceless

Was environment protection ever a good idea?

The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs

Precaution, uncertainty, and dioxin

The economics of Atrazine

Ignoring the benefits of pesticides regulation

Mad cows and computer models

Costs of preventable childhood illness

Phasing out a problem plastic

The costs of REACH

Impacts of REACH on developing countries

How should the United States responds to REACH?

Economics and precautionary Policies

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