Technological Risk: What Are the Real Dangers, If Any, of Toxic Chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, Microwave Radiation, Nuclear Power, Air - Brossura

Lewis, H. W.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393308294 ISBN 13: 9780393308297

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Riassunto

Risks seem to abound in our everyday lives, especially the risks flowing from the explosion of our modern technology, with its pesticides, pollution, nuclear power, microwave radiation and chemical trace elements in food of all kinds. Two questions face all of us: how real are these risks and, if real, how do we manage our lives in order to avoid personal damage from them? The book examines these questions, delving into the nature and true seriousness of risk (as opposed to how bad the risk seems to be), into how we measure risk and how we regulate it. Lewis includes the latest scientific information on carcinogens and the greenhouse effect as well as detailed discussion of road safety, the risk of air travel, nuclear power and acid rain.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0393308294
• ISBN 13: 9780393308297
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 372