Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Chemistry - Environmental (see also Environmental Science)

'RIG, RAD, RUN: Radiation Monitoring, Fukushima, and Our Nuclear Dystopia' by Andrew Kishner chronicles the investigative and personal journey of the author, a U.S. anti-nuclear researcher and activist, in the years following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The book compiles the author's independent research on the manipulations and shortcomings in the radiation monitoring response by U.S. federal agencies to Fukushima in 2011 through 2014. The reader will learn about scenarios in which the U.S. EPA's sampling and testing plans for Fukushima radiation in air, milk and rainwater were driven...

Everything physical is made up of the elements and the infinite variety of molecules they form when they combine with each other. In Molecules, Theodore Gray takes the next step in the grand story that began with the periodic table in his best-selling book, The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe. Here, he explores through fascinating stories and trademark...

In addition to presenting the basic chemical and environmental science underlying problems like providing clean drinking water, removing DDT and lead from agriculture and our homes, and curtailing industrial pollution, this book also discusses the political actors, agency regulators, and...

Bridging the gap between theory and practice in health today, this comprehensive volume applies existing theories of intersectionality to concrete cases, exploring implications for health research, practice, and policy.

There is a growing recognition that existing theories on, and approaches to, health inequities are limited in their ability to capture how they are produced through changing, co-constituted, and intersecting effects of multiple forms of oppression. Intersectionality considers the interactions and combined impacts of social locations and structural processes on the...