Nanotechnology : health and environmental risks
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jo Anne Shatkin
- ناشر : Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9781420053630
Description
List of figures and tables -- Series foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Assessing nanotechnology health and environmental risks / Jo Anne Shatkin -- 2: Defining risk assessment and how it is used for environmental protection, and its potential role for managing nanotechnology risks / Jo Anne Shatkin -- 3: Sustainable nanotechnology development using risk assessment and applying life cycle thinking / Jo Anne Shatkin -- 4: State of the science: Human health, toxicology, and nanotechnological risk / Brenda E Barry -- 5: State of the science: Environmental risks / Jo Anne Shatkin -- 6: NANO LCRA: Adaptive screening-level life cycle risk assessment framework for nanotechnology / Jo Anne Shatkin -- 7: Alternative approaches for life cycle risk assessment for nanotechnology and comprehensive environmental assessment / Jo Anne Shatkin and J Michael Davis -- 8: Current and proposed approaches for managing risks in occupational environments / Brenda E Barry -- 9: Ongoing international efforts to address risk issues for nanotechnology / Jo Anne Shatkin -- Index.
From the Publisher: Interested in Nanotechnology but Can't Bear to Wade through Detailed Technical Reports? While reports on nanotechnology by research and marketing firms as well as governmental agencies are comprehensive and insightful, they can often be tedious to read, expensive to procure, and generally unknown to nonexperts interested in this technology. Offering a reader-friendly and affordable alternative to these options, Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks introduces risk analysis as a tool for responsible environmental decision making in nanotechnology development and provides examples of past, present, and future technologies that demonstrate the need for and benefits of evaluating the risks of nanotechnology. The Most Up-to-Date and Relevant Information on the Impact of Nanotechnology on Our Health and Surroundings. After outlining the steps of risk analysis, the book examines the opportunity costs inherent in current nanotechnology development. It then introduces life cycle analysis, the toxicology of nanoscale materials, and the known impacts of specific nanoscale materials on people. The text also covers environmental impacts and exposure, followed by chapters on the state-of-the-art tools that adapt life cycle thinking into risk analysis for nanotechnology. The final chapters describe current practices for managing the hazards and risks of nanoscale materials and explore the numerous international efforts that address the risks, science, and policies of nanotechnology. Recognize and Overcome the Risks Involving Nanotechnology. With full-color images and insights into key health and environmental aspects of nanotechnology, this resource shows how the risk analysis of nanotechnology can play an important role in creating a sustainable future.
